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21. Doc Rohner House Photograph

21. Doc Rohner House Photograph of John Jacob & Wilma Rohner — printed p. 93 — 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. 93
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. 93

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: else. I think they moved in with Uncle Oswald for a while then.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Yeah, they lived with Uncle Oswald for ever after then. And then when they moved over to, remember over there, Les' s mom lived over there at Millersburg with them.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] That's right, when Camp Adair came in Uncle Oswald moved over there and so did his brother-in-law.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] See Albert had to get killed just right about the time they left Kansas or somewhere in there.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Who got killed?

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Albert.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Oh, yeah. Oh yes.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] So that's when they moved in there. Right after Albert got out of there, or died.

21. Doc Rohner House Photograph

Bob Zybach: There's two more pictures left here.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Oh, that's the Doe and Marge's town house.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Oh, that's my uncle Doe, the veterinarian, Dad's brother, and that's his house in town.

Bob Zybach: When did he move to Corvallis, or move to Oregon?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] I think he was here a little bit before Dad. That's how come Dad came to Oregon.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Oh, I remember Dad and them saying it had to be better out west, they could make shingles, remember them talldng about that when they was in Kansas? Yeah, I remember, oh Mom would tell about Dad and Doe always talking about coming out west. They could at least make shingles out here. They couldn't make nothing back there. I mean they heard there was timber and all this kind of stuff.

Bob Zybach: So they came out because of the trees, kind of

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Yeah, my Mom said it couldn't be any worse out here, it had to be better than worse, because no place could be any worse than Kansas. She 'bout blowed away. Well you know coming from Switzerland that's quite a drastic change to hit

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. 21. Doc Rohner House Photograph, p. 93. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/21-doc-rohner-house-photograph/ (accessed 2026).
Cite this passage: Rohner 1993, p. 93 — Monograph #05:93
https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/21-doc-rohner-house-photograph/#p93 Swap 93 for whichever printed page you are quoting: every page number in the margin is its own address.
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