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Images William C. Scribner Family Group Biographies of William C. Scribner Family Group Biography of Grace Beatrice Scribner Biography of Charles Nathaniel Scribner Biography of Aaron Thomas Scribner Biography of Hazel M. Scribner Biography of William H. Scribner Biography of Thomas Jefferson Scribner Biography of Philetus Scribner Images Richard J. Steele Family Group Biographies of Richard J. Steele Family Group Biography of Richard J. Steele Biography of Alvina Harrington |
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Biographies of William C. Scribner Family Group:
Biography of Grace Beatrice Scribner
Grace died suddenly in New York City after being hit by an automobile. At that time, she was the Assistant Secretary for the Methodist Federation for Social Service.
Biography of Charles Nathaniel Scribner
Charles lived in Dalton Mills, Ontario, Canada, and was known by family
members as "Uncle Charlie". Later, he moved to Portland, Oregon.
Served in WWI in the Canadian Expeditionary Force for Canada, Regimental
number 1013000. Charles made a bobsled with bandsaw blades. During his
service, he worked in a sawmill in France, assigned to a Scottish unit
[Canada was part of the British Empire]. Charlie had to wear kilts during
this work, so he had to shave his legs for inspection.
He had the champion bobsled for his area. From years of hand setting on a
shotgun carriage [e.g., he set logs on the saw), he developed strength of
unbelievable proportions. He could chin up himself 10 times with either
arm (one arm) -- strong as an ox. This was in the days before he became a
sawyer and before they made automatic loaders. Charlie also became a
hot-shot sawyer and for years he held the record for the number of logs
sawed in a single 10-hour shift (2650).
He was happy-go-lucky, good-time Charlie. He would get drunk -- often to
excess. In Bend Oregon one time he was heaving in the street, and a guy
came up and asked if he had a weak stomach, and he replied that he could
puke as far as the next guy. He would get so loaded, he would walk up to a
cop, grab him, and try to show him how he could walk a straight line, and
the cop would tell him they had his cell all dusted out for him.
Six years before his death -- when he was 86 years old -- Tom Scribner
[his yonger brother] came to visit him in a rest home in Seattle,
Washington where he was staying. His memory was spotty, he would remember
Tom and then not remember him.
Biography of Aaron Thomas Scribner
Aaron lived in Winnipeg or Norman, Ontario, Canada. He worked on the Canadian Pacific Railroad. He served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during WWI.
Biography of Hazel M. Scribner
Hazel lived in Duluth, Minnesota. She died before 1942.
Biography of William H. Scribner
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Biography of Thomas Jefferson Scribner
Tom was born in Michigan, where his father worked for lumber mills.
Times were very tight. Tom moved to west coast from MN as a young man. His
sister Grace sent him to Washington because he was scrawny, and she was
afraid he would get tuberculosis. After he arrived on the west coast, Tom
moved up and down the coast to find work in the lumber business. In 1920
he was a boarder in Tacoma, Washington. Tom worked as a "pondmonkey" (or
"river pig") in the lumber business. Later, he served in U.S. Army, and
was assigned at one point to the 35th U.S. Infantry. He was stationed in
Honolulu, Hawaii, and in 1922 was a sergeant. He spent 1 year in
Leavenworth for desertion from the army. After he left prison, he came out
an avowed communist.
After Tom & Dixie were married, they lived in Battleground with Clinton
Steele (where TJ was born), and then they moved to Seattle, where the
other three kids were born (Grace in 1935). After this, they lived in
Auburn, Washington, then Pacific City, then moved to Methow, Okanagen
County, Washington, in 1936. After Dixie died in 1938, the kids were split
up. Ben was sent to an orthopedic hospital in Seattle. Bob & TJ went to
Washington Children's home in Seattle. Grace was left with a relative for
a little over a year. Tom moved from job to job and eventually ended up in
Sisters, Oregon. Tom met Mary Martin in White Salmon, Washington, and Mary
became Tom's live-in housekeeper; they married in 1940 in Portland or
Madras, Oregon. In Sisters in the spring of 1940, he sent for his kids.
Tom's employer (a sawmill) moved to Redmond in 1943 and Tom moved his
family to Redmond with the sawmill. At the end of World War II in 1946, TJ
went out on his own. He worked with Tom with a portable sawmill in LaPine,
Oregon.
After he retired, he became a traveling musical saw player of note and a
full-time labor movement activist. Because he had been active in the IWW
movement, Tom was featured in the film "The Wobblies." Because of his
skill as a saw player, he also appeared on recordings with Neil Young and
George Harrison. He was a celebrity on several TV documentaries about his
saw, including "On the Road" with Charles Kurault. A bronze
statue of Tom playing the musical saw sits in downtown Santa Cruz,
California.
See also, Santa Cruz Public Libraries Page about Tom & his statue.
A much more extensive biography of Tom Scribner in Adobe Acrobat appears here.
Biography of Philetus Scribner
Phil came to central Oregon in 1923 from Minnesota and took on photography as a hobby in about 1957. He became renowned for central Oregon scenes. One of his photographs (Smith Rocks) hung in Oregon Governor Tom McCall's outer office in Salem, and one was held by Mark Hatfield, the son of the former senator Mark Hatfield from Oregon (another Smith Rocks photo), in Washington, D.C.
Richard J. Steele, Father of Caroline & Peter Steele, Reference A07.CEAFCA1:
Images Related to the Family Group of Richard J. Steel & Alvina Harrington.
[Note: these Steele family members in the 1800s both used and dropped the (e) at the end of their names. Today, the "e" is consistently used; but back then, it was random.
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Biographies of Richard J. Steele Family Group:
Biography of Richard J. Steele:
Biography of Alvina Harrington:
Biography of Catherine Eleanor Steele:
Biography of Richard J. Steele, Jr.:
This site was last updated 12/12/11. Copyright 2003 by Laura Cooper Fenimore. All rights reserved.
