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OREGON FOLKLORE - WORK PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION: Surnames: Estes, Fraley, Shearer, Tate
Title: Folkways, and Social Customs in the Willamette Valley, from 1865 to
1900.

Here's part of a much longer WPA interview:

1. Elijah T. and Susan Estes.
2. Born 4-1/2 miles north of present town of Drain, Oregon, Douglas County,
January 11, 1861.
3. Wife, Maud Estes, deceased. Daughter, Bertha E. Estes (Mrs. E. L. Fraley).
4. Place of birth, (Near Drain), Roseburg, Portland. Dates not available.
5. Was educated in Douglas County public schools and at the Yoncalla Academy,
Yoncalla, Oregon. Graduated from Y. M. C. A., College Preparatory in Portland
and from the Law Department of University of Oregon. Dates not available.
6. Telegraph operator for eighteen years, concurrently serving as train
dispatcher and train master. (Dates not immediately available). Practice of
law thereafter.
7. Accomplished writer, author of seven published volumes. Skilled linguist,
fluent in Scandinavian languages, Chinese, and several Indian tongues, notably
Chinook and Calapooia. Keenly interested in natural sciences.
8. None.
9. Short, stocky, gray hair. Gesticulates freely in dramatically recounting
incidents of his past life. Convincing and eloquent speaker. Frankly and
without restraint evaluates himself and his accomplishments in glowing terms
which, in a younger man, would be set down as bragging or self-praise. He
does, however, speak in equally laudatory manner of the accomplishments of his
contemporaries.

10. Informant seems to have vivid memories of life and times in Oregon in the
eighties and nineties.