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Oral history interview with Erskine Wood
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- 1974-07-11 (Creation)
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0.1 cubic feet; 1 audiocassette (57 min., 53 sec.)
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Erskine B. Wood was born in the Vancouver Barracks in Vancouver, Washington, in 1879. He was the son of Portland, Oregon, lawyer Charles Erskine Scott Wood, whose biography he authored. In 1901, he earned a law degree from Harvard University. In 1903, he and Rebecca Baird Biddle were married; they later had four children. He joined his father's law firm in Portland and specialized in admiralty law. He also served as admiralty counsel to the United States Shipping Board in 1920. Rebecca Baird Biddle died in 1951. In 1953, Wood and Louise Pippel Cunningham were married. He retired from his law practice in 1982, and died in 1983 at the age of 104.
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This oral history interview with Erskine Wood was conducted by Pierre Kolisch and Marian Wood Kolisch on July 11, 1974. The interview was part of a series conducted by Kolisch to accompany portraits of Oregon artists, businesspeople, and politicians. Louise Wood was also present and occasionally contributed to the interview.
In this interview, Erskine Wood discusses spending summers with Chief Joseph and the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) people in the Wallowa Valley, Oregon. He describes daily life, discusses living conditions on reservations, and talks about recreational activities, including horse races and games. Pierre Kolisch discusses his plan to visit members of the tribe in Idaho. Wood talks about photographs he took on glass plates while visiting Chief Joseph. He closes the interview by briefly discussing some of the artists that were acquainted with his father, C. E. S. Wood.
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Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and the estate of Erskine Wood. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/
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- English
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The Erskine Wood papers, Mss 2445, and additional oral history interviews with Erskine Wood, SR 1096 and SR 9512, are also held at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
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Preferred citation: Oral history interview with Erskine Wood, by Pierre Kolisch and Marian W. Kolisch, SR 441, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
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A handwritten index (4 pages) is available for in-person use at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
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Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition.
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Sarah Stroman
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- Kolisch, E. Pierre, 1953- (Contributor)
- Kolisch, Marian W. (Contributor)
- Joseph (Nez Percé Chief), 1840-1904 (Subject)
- Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944 (Subject)