Soap Creek Valley · Person
Donald M. Dickey
Donald M. Dickey— narrator, mentioned in the Soap Creek Valley oral history series.
narratormentioned
Provenance
- Dates
- 1914-10-20 – 1990
- Work
- Fish and Game Management graduate, Oregon State College (1942); Oregon Game Commission; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 35 years in rodent control; developed and sold Ortho Rodent Bait
- Interview focus
- Wildlife populations
- Where this comes from
- #3 Donald Dickey, p. 1, narrator profile; the 1999 thesis, p. 39, Table 4 (informant profile); SCARC OH 006 finding aid: interview dates and cassette counts; #3 Donald Dickey, p. 1, printed back index; #8 Neil Vanderburg, p. 47, p. 51, p. 69, p. 71, p. 89, p. 121, p. 33, p. 58, p. 71, p. 79, p. 94, p. 151, printed back index; #14 Charles and Norman Hindes, p. 3, printed back index; the 1999 thesis, p. 5, p. 21, p. 39, p. 41, p. 42, p. 45, p. 46, p. 61, p. 84, p. 91, p. 95, p. 106, p. 112, p. 120, p. 124, p. 129, p. 130, p. 198, p. 199, p. 232, p. 237, people mentioned in the thesis; the 1999 thesis, p. 5, Table 1 citation rule: cited as (Dickey 1995), referenced as (Zybach and Vanderburg 1995), #03; the 1999 thesis, p. 235, p. 236, p. 237, Appendix A, Table A.1 (monograph numbers and titles) and Table A.2 (page counts)
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Home site
Plotted at The Dickey Farm, as on Map 9 of the 1999 thesis.
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Sessions
- August 18, 1990 — Green Valley Care Center, Eugene, Oregon
Where others mention them
Family named in the transcripts
Dates they give
- 1853 — Well they came in 1853.
- 1853 — they wanted wood and water." There was still good land out here in the valley, I'm sure, in 1853.
- 1872 — No, because my dad wasn't born untill 1872.
- 1893 — And they moved out in 1893 to Salem.
- 1900 — They lived there a year or two and then they moved over by Sheridan on Mill Creek, and they, I don't know, they were there for several years I guess, then about 1900 or 1901 or 2 her folks moved over in Tillamook County near Hemlock.
- 1903 — Then dad married my mother in 1903 and they lived there on the 40 acres for a while then they sold it and moved down to Yamhill.
- 1903 — And she and Dad got married in 1903 and came back to live on the 40 acres that was part of his dad's old homestead.
- 1914-10-20 — Born, October 20, 1914 at Yamhill.
- 1919 — They had one in [the winter of] 1919- 1920 that snowed every day for 30 days.
- 1926 — And besides, he started in '26 and by '29 things was getting a little rough.
- 1928 — And in 1928 we moved from Yamhill up to Berry Creek, and one of the reasons for it was they wanted to get closer to Oregon State [University].
- 1929 — The first was 1929 or '30 I think.
- 1929 — Well, '29 or '30.
- 1929 — Oh, that would have been 1929 or sometime like that.
- 1930 — Yeah, they improved it a lot about 1930 [1938: NV] or something.
- 1930 — I may be off a year, but I think they both had them in about 1930.
- 1930 — I think Forest had owned the 60 acres for quite a while but I suppose they moved there in 1930 or something like that.
- 1930s — They knew that well this was in the '30's.
- 1930s — And Coote and Cornutt and Cooper came in about the same time, and Bennett Brothers about the mid '30's.
- 1933 — 1933 or sometime about then.
- 1935 — Then along about '35 Bennett Brothers built a sawmill up there.
- 1937 — Then we went to Airlie to high school, and I went to Oregon State and I graduated high school in '37, or '33, and didn't get started at Oregon State till '37, on account of there weren't any money trees growing in the back yard in those days.
- 1937 — Probably about '37 or sometime about then, and wages had begun to increase a little bit.
- 1937 — I started in '37 and got through to the spring of '38 and then I had to lay out '38 and '39.
- 1938 — Then, in '38 I worked in the sawmill and I got a job when they slowed it down at Weinert, I got a job for Cooper bucking logs, short logs.
- 1938 — Then in the summer of '38 another fellow that was working for Hap at the time and I decided that we could make more money up west of Dallas and so we went up and got a job, he got a job falling and I got a job bucking.
- 1939 — Started again in '39 and graduated in '42.
- 1940s — Back in the '40's, why, we went out to help people and show them how to get rid of moles.
- 1942 — There was when we moved there untill '42 when we moved away, there were still pheasants there.
- 1942 — Yeah, in 1942.
- 1942 — well, my father died in 1942.
- 1942 — We lived there until the [U.S.] Army took over in '42.
- 1945 — Anyway, about '45 they wanted me to come down to Deadwood Creek.
- 1945 — '45 and got it to where I was willing to register it in '52.
- 1952 — And the wind blew down through that gap there from Kings Valley in the wintertime, and my brother was working hard and he had trouble with his lungs or something, so he decided he had better get out of there so he moved to Arizona, and well, they had given him in 1952 ten years to live because he'd had
- 1957 — Interesting sidelight to this, is that in 1957 after the College had a bunch of this timber land up there, they called me up one day and says "Hey, what do you know about doing wood rat control?" This was a bushy footed wood rat, I think.
- 1969 — In 1969 down here it was that bad.
- 1980 — And retired in 1980 and sold the bait business to a young fellow by the name of Doug Freeman.
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