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Oral history interview with Frederick Clausen [Session 02, Recording 01]
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- 1981-10-29 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:29:07
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Frederick Clausen was born in Ryd, Sweden, in 1889. In 1903, he came to the United States and worked on his uncle's farm in the Pomme de Terre River Valley in Minnesota. A few years later, he moved to another relative's dairy farm in Silvana, Washington. Around 1906, he came to Portland, Oregon, and began working in the grocery trade. He served in the U.S. Army from 1917 to 1919. In 1920, he became a U.S. citizen. In 1921, he and Dorothy A. Lamon were married; they later had one child. During World War II, he owned a grocery store in Southeast Portland. He died in 1985.
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Tape 2, Side 1. In the second interview session, conducted on October 29, 1981, Clausen continues to discuss how rationing during World War II affected the grocery trade. He then talks about his service in the U.S. Army in France during World War I, and also about becoming a U.S. citizen in 1920. He shares his reasons for leaving the grocery business after the end of World War II, and talks about his activities since. He closes the interview by discussing his photography hobby.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- English
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- Dodds, Linda S. (Contributor)