Soap Creek Valley · Person
Eugene Glender
Eugene Glender— narrator, mentioned in the Soap Creek Valley oral history series.
narratormentioned
Provenance
- Dates
- 1923 – unknown
- Work
- Farmer
- Home site
- Glender Brothers farm, corner of Tampico and Soap Creek roads, Tampico, Benton County, Oregon
- Interview focus
- Hunting and fishing
- Where this comes from
- #9 Eugene Glender, title page, narrator profile; the 1999 thesis, p. 39, Table 4 (informant profile); SCARC OH 006 finding aid: interview dates and cassette counts; #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner, p. 28, printed back index; #6 James Hanish, p. 32, printed back index; #7 Charlie Olson, p. 94, printed back index; #8 Neil Vanderburg, p. 15, p. 27, printed back index; #9 Eugene Glender, p. 3, p. 108, p. 111, p. 113, p. 115, p. 117, printed back index; #10 Velma Carter Rawie, p. 39, printed back index; #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, p. 4, printed back index; #14 Charles and Norman Hindes, p. 3, p. 21, p. 23, printed back index; the 1999 thesis, p. 5, p. 19, p. 20, p. 22, p. 23, p. 36, p. 37, p. 39, p. 46, p. 49, p. 50, p. 59, p. 61, p. 62, p. 73, p. 84, p. 92, p. 93, p. 95, p. 98, p. 99, p. 100, p. 101, p. 102, p. 106, p. 121, p. 123, p. 124, p. 127, p. 135, p. 140, p. 143, p. 144, p. 148, p. 154, p. 169, p. 192, p. 198, p. 199, p. 226, p. 231, p. 237, p. 253, p. 259, people mentioned in the thesis; the 1999 thesis, p. 5, Table 1 citation rule: cited as (Glender 1994), referenced as (Zybach and Meranda 1994), #09; the 1989 Auto Tour, p. 2, p. 18, people named in the Auto Tour; 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 Tampico, as on Map 9 of the 1999 thesis.
The map could not load. The list below carries the same places.
Sessions
- January 6, 1990 — Tampico area, Soap Creek Valley, Benton County, Oregon
- 1994-07
Where others mention them
Family named in the transcripts
Dates they give
- 1905 — Both Olson (1994) and Murphy (1995) claimed the “coming of the automobile” was the biggest change they had witnessed in their lives, while Rohner (1993), Glender (1994), and Cook (1995) emphasized the dramatic changes the use of internal combustion engines brought to farming.
- 1908 — 1908 or '09 or something like that or '04, I don't
- 1911 — Oh, I don't know, 1911 or something like that. Yeah, it would have been in 1911 or something like that, '10 or '11 or '08.
- 1919/1941 — Gene Glender stands at the site of the spring in which elephant fossils were recovered between 1919 and 1941.
- 1920s — When I was just a little kid it was.
- 1923 — No, the 1920's was when I was born. In 1923.
- 1927 — Well, you figure when I was about probably four years old, so that would be sixty- two years ago [about 1927].
- 1928 — Gene Glender stands between uncle Wifi and Stub (the dog) in front of family's new red barn, c. 1928.
- 1930s — Then the red fox. The first one I seen of them was in the, oh, late '30's.
- 1930s — Yeah, '20's, '30's.
- 1934 — What Gene [Eugene Glender] says that about 1934 or '35 they started getting rainbows in here.
- 1937-01-01 — Might have been '37 [According to Eugene Glender, the snowstorm began on January 1, 1937 and continued for 2 or 3 weeks], but it was while we lived there.
- 1938 — I think I was going to high school then, '38, something like that, '38 or '39.
- 1938 — Just that Hildebrand bought it from Brown and then when it burned up, it burned three people up in it.
- 1940s — Oh, that was in '40's.
- 1940 — Bottom Right. Gene Glender (Glender 1994) at family farm, 1940. Note old-growth savannah oak and barn (Zybach et al., 1990; Sardell, Sears, & Watson 1999) in the background (see Map 9).
- 1941 — stand in front of the Glender home for the first time since leaving nearly 50 years earlier, in 1941. A few months later the house was sold and moved.
- 1941 — Well, when everybody had to leave, it would have been '41, I think.
- 1989 — Gene Glender and Jan Meranda stand in front of a depression to the north of the Glender house. As a child, Gene was told that the depression was the site of an early day Tampico tavern.
- 1990 — Attempts to relocate and return the tooth in 1990 resulted in an inability to locate it by the Museum's director.
- 1990-01-06 — January 6, 1990 Tour
- 1994-07 — In July 1994, Gene and his sister, Elvera remembered four other teachers that taught in the Tampico School District during the 1920s and '30s: Mrs. Lois Vanderpool, Lottie Blake, Eula Montgomery, Florence MacFihane.
- 1994-07 — Probably. [Still couldn't recall in July 1994]
In the Series Index
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- The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Eugene Glender (person record).
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