CAMPBELL COUSINS CORRESPONDENCE
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Photo of
(From Left to Right)
Nellie Horton Kimball
Z. Clark Kimball
Faith Jean Kimball
Taken Summer 1923
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Independence, Oregon,
October 7, 1923.
Dear Cousins:-
To the Cousins on the Pacific
Coast I am sure your plan for an exchange of family
letters is most welcome.
The book reached us safely and
Frank,
Arthur
and I have read the letters with much pleasure. Already
we are looking forward to the next installment and the
added pleasure of having pictures of all. We found on
reading the letters that while we were fairly well
informed, many changes had taken place that we were not
aware of and to us the letters will mean so much in the
way of keeping you closer to us.
As I found that the most
interesting letters to me were those containing news of
the individual members of the different families, I will
tell you of our immediate family. Clark and I, and our
daughter Faith Jean, fifteen years old, comprise our
family and we live in a very pretty town on the banks of
the Willamette River, which was used for transportation
before the general use of the railroads and flivvers.
Portland is seventy miles north
of us, with wonderfully paved roads in every direction.
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Faith
was graduated from high school last June, as
valedictorian of her class, and this fall entered
the University of Oregon for a four year course. She is
her daddy's own daughter and aspires to become a writer.
We have unusually good schools
in Oregon and many of them. Within a two hours' drive of
Independence, and not including Portland or the
University of Oregon, which is at Eugene, sixty
miles‑from here, we have four denominational schools,‑
Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Christian,‑
all prosperous and growing; two Catholic schools; the
only Normal in the state is two miles from us, and the
splendid Oregon Agricultural College with 4,000 students
enrolled is twenty miles from here, while in Portland
there are several private schools and colleges.
We have owned and published the
Independence Enterprise for the past four years and
enjoy our work and the friends we have made here. I made
a desperate attempt to turn Clark into a fruit farmer
four years ago but found it hopeless,‑ once a newspaper
man, always a newspaper man, so no doubt we will
continue here for some time.
Arthur and family live only a
few blocks from us and we all enjoy being together. He
has a nice family and is a prosperous hardware merchant.
Aside from his own affairs he fills a prominent place in
our little city, being at present, President of the
Retail Merchants' Association, City Engineer and School
Director.
Frank and wife are visiting us
just now, having driven down from their home in
Portland. He tells me he has already written his
Cousins' letter.
Faith and I visited Harry
and family in Baker, Ore. during the summer. He is a
busy man and interested in all of the city projects for
the advancement of Baker, where he has practised his
profession of dentistry for seventeen years.
Will close now with kindest
regards to the Cousins and keen anticipation of the
pleasure in store for us on receipt of your letters and
pictures.
Your Cousin,
COUSIN NELLIE
HORTON KIMBALL
- Report No. 2 - Page 40 -
(William Campbell
Family)
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