Soap Creek Valley · Person

William A. Davies

William A. Davies— narrator, mentioned in the Soap Creek Valley oral history series.

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Provenance

Dates: 1908-01-22 – 1985
Work: Professor and Head of Forest Engineering, Oregon State University (1946-1973); Manager, OSU Research Forests (1959-1973)
Home site: Corvallis, Oregon
Interview focus: Forest management
Where this comes from: #13 WILLIAM A. DAVIES, p. 54, narrator profile; the 1999 thesis, p. 39, Table 4 (informant profile); the 1999 thesis, p. 39, died (from Table 4 lifetime); SCARC OH 006 finding aid: interview dates and cassette counts; #13 WILLIAM A. DAVIES, p. 4, p. 5, p. 38, p. 51, 54-58, 60-62, p. 64, 66-71, p. 73, p. 78, p. 79, printed back index; #15 Marvin Rowley, i, p. 11, p. 12, p. 19, p. 22, p. 23, p. 27, p. 33, p. 40, p. 41, p. 45, p. 46, p. 47, p. 48, p. 49, p. 50, p. 62, p. 72, p. 76, p. 98, p. 103, p. 105, printed back index; the 1999 thesis, p. 5, p. 17, p. 21, p. 39, p. 40, p. 41, p. 42, p. 45, p. 48, p. 49, p. 50, p. 51, p. 59, p. 61, p. 63, p. 88, p. 89, p. 97, p. 106, p. 116, p. 124, p. 130, p. 133, p. 135, p. 144, p. 154, p. 180, p. 190, p. 199, p. 214, p. 220, p. 237, p. 238, people mentioned in the thesis; the 1999 thesis, p. 5, Table 1 citation rule: cited as (Davies 1997), referenced as (Jackson and Lee 1997), #13; 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 Oregon State University, as on Map 9 of the 1999 thesis.

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Sessions

February 19, 1979 — Peavy Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Interviewers: Royal G. Jackson, Jennifer Lee · interview
September 18, 1979 — Peavy Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Interviewer: Royal G. Jackson · interview

Where others mention them

#13 WILLIAM A. DAVIES Narrator: William A. Davies p. 4, p. 5, p. 38, p. 51, p. 64, p. 73, p. 78, p. 79
#15 Marvin Rowley Narrator: Marvin Rowley p. 11, p. 12, p. 19, p. 22, p. 23, p. 27, p. 40, p. 41, p. 45, p. 46, p. 47, p. 48, p. 49, p. 50, p. 62, p. 72, p. 76, p. 98, p. 103, p. 105

Dates they give

1908 — That was 1920; I was 14, I remember; born in 1908. source · 1891–1920
1922 — Well, I worked on one in 1922, O I know it started before then. source · 1921–1940
1923 — The history of logging says truck logging first began in 1923. source · 1921–1940
1930s/1940s — She was elderly when he talked to her; that must have been in the thirties or forties. source · 1921–1940
1940s/1950s — It was while Nettleton was still manager, maybe in the late forties or early fifties. source · 1921–1940
1945 — Yes, he was on the facully, but he was on leave for quite a few years; and he left a year before I came here too, in 1945. source · 1941–1950
1946 — When I came here in 1946, it had been set up. source · 1941–1950
1946 — No, I came here, from working for Weyerhaeuser, as an Associate Professor of Forest Engineering in 1946. source · 1941–1950
1947/1948 — That must have been in about 1947 or 1948, or something like that. source · 1941–1950
1950s — Well, I talked to a man named Blake in the 1950's. source · 1941–1950
1950s — Early 1950's we bought some land from him up there. source · 1941–1950
1950s — Yes, well, he was in his eighties or maybe nineties at the time in 1950, early 1950's when I talked to him, so he was born probably in the 1860's or 1870's. source · 1941–1950
1950s — The one off to the west was a larger one with big, thick doors and special locks where you need two keys, all that sort of thing, and nobody ever got into it until that era of the fifties when the vandals decided they could get into anything. source · 1941–1950
1950 — So it was probably around 1950. source · 1941–1950
1951 — In 1951 I was promoted to full professor and head of the department. source · 1951–1970
1957 — There was nothing really commercial until the first commercial thinning that we did when Nettleton and I set it up in 1957 and hired Marv Rowley, who had a small operation, to come and do it. source · 1951–1970
1957 — Then he came over and started that first cutting in 1957. source · 1951–1970
1959 — Anyway, they hired Nettleton as the manager; and he was manager until 1959. source · 1951–1970
1959 — That was back in 1959 that we set those priorities up, because there was some conflict between certain types of recreation, and our instruction and research. source · 1951–1970
1959 — In 1959 the chore of forest manager was added, and in 1973 I was retired. source · 1951–1970
1959 — It was before I became manager of the forest, and I think I became manager in 1959. source · 1951–1970

In the Series Index

Davies, William A. 13:4, 13:5, 13:38, 13:51, 13:54, 13:55, 13:56, 13:57, 13:58, 13:60, 13:61, 13:62, 13:64, 13:66, 13:67, 13:68, 13:69, 13:70, 13:71, 13:73, 13:78, 13:79, 15:11, 15:12, 15:19, 15:22, 15:23, 15:27, 15:40, 15:41, 15:45, 15:46, 15:47, 15:48, 15:49, 15:50, 15:62, 15:72, 15:76, 15:98, 15:103, 15:105, 15:i

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