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M. Studack Farm

M. Studack Farm of John Jacob & Wilma Rohner — printed p. 49 — recorded September 30, 1990 at Automobile tour of the Coffin Butte area, Benton County, Oregon. 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.

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Provenance

From: #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner
Narrator: John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner
Recorded: September 30, 1990 · Automobile tour of the Coffin Butte area, Benton County, Oregon
Interviewer: Bob Zybach
Printed pages: p. 49
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 II. Printed session note: "The following transcript was made from a recorded interview with Jake Rohner that took place during an automobile tour of the Coffin Butte area on September 30, 1990. Stopping points along the tour route are noted on the map at the front of this book with alphabetized letters. The same alphabetic system is used in the following text to coordinate discussions with speqfic [specific] locations." Fifteen lettered stops, A-O.

p. 49

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: and when he got his done, he'd do custom work for other farmers. And her name was Agnes. She was a nice gal, nice looking gal, hard working gal. Now, you can shut it off. [Tells storyj

M. Studack Farm

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: This ash swale belonged to the Glenders. Fact is, I think.

Bob Zybach: Now, I've got this going again here.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: I think the largest part did. And..

Bob Zybach: Were there trees in here in those days?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Yes, there was ash trees in there. Now right in here. I don't think Studack owned any of the ash swale. Yeah, that must have been their line fence right here. Yeah, that was there. Then Glenders started in. And all this farm land here was Studacks.

Bob Zybach: What would they do with this land?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Oh, they had some cows. They raised hay on it and grass, and things like that.

Bob Zybach: Now Studacks bought this land from

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: From Wiles.

Bob Zybach: Now there's some trees in there?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: That was the building area.

Bob Zybach: So, there's a plum orchard in there or something. Did Studack plant that?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: It could have been somebody after Studack planted the plums. I really don't know. See Studack originally bought it and then he was killed in 1928, later Albert Zundt bought it. And I think that might have been the driveway right there, goes back in and the house. No, wait a minute, the house was on that side. Right back in here is where the house was somewhere. Yeah, the house was right back in here, because we're pretty close to the creek, there's the creek.

Bob Zybach: Did they have any trouble with flooding?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: No.

Bob Zybach: Can you remember anything about the creek in through here. Like an old swimming hole or anything like that?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Oh, we've waded all through and up that way quite a ways, and down below Starnbaughs and back at Mackeys. And over in here was a big old barn. And we

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

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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. M. Studack Farm, p. 49. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/m-studack-farm/ (accessed 2026).
Cite this passage: Rohner 1993, p. 49 — Monograph #05:49
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