Charles Walker papers

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Papers of Charles Walker, including his diaries from about 1906-1926 and 1940-1946, financial records, correspondence, negatives, clippings, postcards and other ephemera. Charles Walker grew up in Forest Grove, Oregon. He graduated from Tualatin Academy in 1902 and then attended one year of college at Pacific University. After a few years as a piano and violin teacher, he went on to become an insurance agent in Hillsboro. Charles had a side job as a musician in a band that played at dances across the county. In this, he was following in the footsteps of his father Samuel A. T. Walker, a fiddler in the Walker Old Time Orchestra band. His wife, Blanche Winnette Sears Walker, was also musical: she was a piano teacher who graduated from McMinnville College (later known as Linfield). One section of financial records is of James Knox Sears, Winette's father. Most of the material relates to life near Forest Grove, Oregon circa 1900-1930. The diaries give good insight into the dances that took places around the county in the early 1900s.

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