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10. Baldy and Prince Photograph

10. Baldy and Prince Photograph of John Jacob & Wilma Rohner — printed p. 68 — recorded September 30, 1990 at Jake Rohner's home, Benton County, Oregon (afternoon). Every printed page has its own permanent link.

Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.

p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.

Provenance

From: #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner
Narrator: John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner
Recorded: September 30, 1990 · Jake Rohner's home, Benton County, Oregon (afternoon)
Interviewer: Bob Zybach
Printed pages: p. 68
Original: http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/05_Rohner/Zybach_1993.pdf
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Part III. Printed session note: "The following transcnpt [transcript] was made from an interview with fake [Jake] and Willie at fake's [Jake's] home, during the afternoon of September 30, 1990. After reviewing the initial transcripts, fake [Jake] and Willie provided written corrections and additions. These com,nents [comments] appear throughout the manuscript enclosed in [brackets] and include the initials of the person that has provided the information." Both narrators present; speakers are marked in the printed text as [JAKE] and [WILMA]. A note "Pause in Recording" appears at p.64.

p. 68

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] There was a Dr. Ball, but I don't know if it was him.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] I don't know either.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] More likely it was Johnson.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Yes, I've heard of Johnson. Dr. Tartar [a fine doctor and person] came out when you got your fingers cut off. Or was it Johnson?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] He was the Doctor, Johnson, that did it, but Dr. Tartar was in medical school and he came out with Dr. Johnson; he was home and he came out with Dr. Johnson.

10. Baldy and Prince Photograph

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] That's mom and dad there on the right. That's dad, and then Baldy and Prince. What he did, he had a sled. He used that sled to haul corn or potatoes, or junk up from the field. An old home made sled. It did have steel runners on it I think.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Yes, nairow wagon tire steel runners on it. Liners.

Bob Zybach: Now you said "Baldy" but Jake, you said 'Rally."

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Well, dad always said "Bally" but it was supposed to be "Baldy".

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] But mom and dad was Swiss and when they talked they didn't talk real plain.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] They pronounced a little different.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] They pronounced a lot of things different. Prunes were Prunz, remember?

Bob Zybach: Did you grow up speaking the Swiss language too?

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Oh, I could. . .never did talk it much but I can understand it, yeah. The way mom talked anyway.

Bob Zybach: Can you recognize the details along the hill there? There's a strange design in there?

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Well, that's a fence. Up there, the fence row. Separating our place and the Butte.

Bob Zybach: Well, that draw there it looks like there's some odd vegetation. It almost looks like something's planted above it.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] That I wouldn't know. Far as I ever knew there was just pasture grass

Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.

How to cite this item

The first line is the citation as it is printed in the original. Use it when you cite the work itself. Use the second when you cite this page.

As printed: Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.
This page: Rohner 1993. 10. Baldy and Prince Photograph, p. 68. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/10-baldy-and-prince-photograph/ (accessed 2026).
Cite this passage: Rohner 1993, p. 68 — Monograph #05:68
https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/10-baldy-and-prince-photograph/#p68 Swap 68 for whichever printed page you are quoting: every page number in the margin is its own address.
Permalink: https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/10-baldy-and-prince-photograph/
Original PDF: http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/05_Rohner/Zybach_1993.pdf

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