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also recorded living in Iowa with both parents
United States Census, 1930
Name Martha A West Event Place Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States Age 5 Relationship to Head of Household Niece Birth Year (Estimated) 1925 Birthplace Texas
Father's Birthplace Iowa Mother's Birthplace Texas Sheet Letter B Sheet Number 25
Role Sex Age Birthplace
Charlie B Yale Head M 31 Texas
Carrie R Yale Mother F 64 Iowa
Mattie R West Sister F 33 Texas
Martha A West Niece F 5 Texas
F H Hayden Roomer M 24 Texas
1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Martha A West Birth: abt 1925 Residence: 1935 - Reno, Kansas Residence: Tarrant, Texas
United States Census, 1940
Name Martha A West Event Place Ward 8, Fort Worth, Justice Precinct 1, Tarrant, Texas Age 15 Relationship to Head of Household Granddaughter Birthplace Texas Birth Year (Estimated) 1925
Last Place of Residence Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas
Role Sex Age Birthplace
Carrie R Yale Head F 73 Iowa
Mattie R West Daughter F 43 Texas daughter-in-law
Martha A West Granddaughter F 15 Texas
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Note N1427
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Iowa, County Births
Name Merle Scott West Event Date 04 Jan 1886 Event Place Mount Vernon, Linn, Iowa, United States Gender Male Father's Name Isaac Newton West Mother's Name Eva Jane Scott
1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Eva J. Scott Age: 21 Birth Date: Abt 1859 Birthplace: Iowa Home in 1880: Greenfield, Jones, Iowa Dwelling Number: 107
Father's Name: Henry H. Scott Father's Birthplace: Indiana Mother's Name: Mariah Scott Mother's Birthplace: Ohio Occupation: Teaching School Attended School: Yes
Household Members Age Relationship
Henry H. Scott 47 Self (Head)
Mariah Scott 47 Wife
Eva J. Scott 21 Daughter
Francis Scott 17 Son
Olive B. Scott 13 Daughter
Henry W. Scott 11 Son
Blanch Scott 8 Daughter
Bertha Scott 7 Daughter
Iowa State Census, 1905
Name: Merle S West Birth Year: abt 1886 Birth Place: Iowa Age: 19 Marital status: Single Residence Year: 1905 Residence Place: Linn, Iowa
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1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Meale S West Age in 1910: 24 Birth Date: 1886 Birthplace: Iowa Home in 1910: Oakland, Douglas, Oregon Father's Birthplace: Ohio Mother's Birthplace: Iowa
Native Tongue: English Occupation: Surveyer Industry: General Practice Employer, Employee or Other: Wage Earner Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Out of Work: N Number of Weeks Out of Work: 0
Household Members Age Relationship
Viola Dulton 22 Head
Tilly Smith 21 Partner
Leslie G Or Lester G Hecks 28 Roomer
William B Laham 27 Boarder
Vernon Gilky 26 Boarder
Ralph W Worstell 27 Boarder
Peber E Stinger 33 Boarder
Frank E Manning 28 Boarder
Meale S West 24 Boarder
Harvey D May 28 Boarder
United States Census, 1940
Name Merle S West Event Place Ward 1, Klamath Falls, Klamath Falls Election Precinct 5, Klamath, Oregon Age 54 Birthplace Iowa Birth Year (Estimated) 1886 Last Place of Residence Same Place
Role Sex Age Birthplace
Merle S West Head M 54 Iowa
Emma J West Wife F 56 Wisconsin
Harold West Nephew M 21 South Dakota = son of HH Snr
The couple had no children
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Merle West Birth Date: 4 Jan 1886 Issue Year: Before 1951 Issue State: Oregon Last Residence: 97208, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon Death Date: Dec 1983
Posted 15 Apr 2011 by kevin coppess Merle's Biography has it appears on Cornell College's Website http://www.merlewestscholarship.com/bio.html
Merle Scott West was a member of one of Mt. Vernon, Iowa's early pioneer families. He was born January 4, 1886 to Isaac and Eva Scott West. Isaac West was one of ten children of Wesley and Polly Ann McKay West, who came to Iowa from Ohio in 1859.
Merle West was brought up in Mt. Vernon, and upon graduation from high school, enrolled at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon. He majored in civil engineering and was a member of the College Adelphian Literary Society. He also was a member of the college varsity football team, lettering in 1906, 1907 and 1908. In that era five points were still awarded for a touchdown. Merle West graduated from Cornell College with a Bachelor of Science degree on June 17, 1909. Soon after graduation he moved from Mt. Vernon to Douglas County, Oregon, where he was involved in surveying and timber cruising.
While in Douglas County, Merle S. West and Emma Jane Osterman were married at Sutherlin, March 1, 1911. Emma Jane Osterman was a native of Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Later in the same year, Mr. and Mrs. West moved to the little town of Klamath Falls, Oregon, where he was employed by Long Bell Lumber Company at its Klamath Falls retail yard. Very shortly, Merle was promoted to manager and remained six years with the Long Bell operation.
In early 1917 Merle and partners organized a new company which bought a milling yard for manufacturing box shook, i.e., the wooden parts used in making wooden boxes. In a short time, the firm Big Lakes Box Company outgrew its small space, and a new plant was built. The expanded operation included both a box factory and a sawmill. The box factory and office stood very near where the City of Klamath Falls Street Department's maintenance building is now located.
For several years Big Lakes also operated a sawmill at Canby, California. Later the firm expanded further into the finish lumber business, supplying pine lumber for furniture, sash and door manufacture, coffin stock, and common and select lumber for building construction. Big Lakes lumber was shipped to all points across the United States as well as into Mexico and Israel.
Merle West was one of 15 charter members of the Klamath Falls Rotary Club at its organization in early Spring of 1922 and was its president in 1928-1929. He served many years as a director of the Klamath Union High School District after having served nine years on the high school budget committee. Merle served two terms on the City Council and many years as a director and officer of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce.
By 1949 cardboard boxes were replacing wooden boxes and pine stumpage was in short supply. The Big Lakes Box Company was liquidated. About 10 or 12 years later, Merle became sole owner of the Winema Hotel. By 1958 the Winema Hotel had been expanded and remodeled in a major operation that added a ballroom for major community and social functions.
Following a lengthy illness, Emma West passed away on March 1, 1971, the couple's sixtieth anniversary. Mrs. West's estate, no small sum, was given to the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children. The West's philanthropies continued. By October, 1976, Mr. West's arthritic condition had deteriorated to where he did not venture far from home. He dispatched his friend and advisor, R.H. Lung, then Vice President and Trust Officer of the United States National Bank of Oregon, with a $1 million packet of blue chip securities, to Cornell College, his alma mater. The contribution was used to help build a new science building on the campus, a building which became known as The Merle S. West Science Center for Biology and Chemistry. Later, just prior to April 18, 1979, the West Trust donated $1 million, this time to the Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Klamath Falls. As a gesture of appreciation, not just for his monetary contribution but for his lifelong devotion and concern for Klamath County and its people, the hospital complex was renamed the Merle West Medical Center, even though Merle directed that the contribution was in honor of his mother, Eva Scott West.
Merle's death came on December 20, 1983, just two weeks and a day before his 98th birthday. On the Friday following Merle's death, December 23, 1983, Ray Lung came to Merle's Rotary Club friends to announce that Merle had left another $300,000 to the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children and several minor bequests. Because Merle believed that every person should have the opportunity for education beyond the high school level, the residue and remainder of his estate, which totaled $3,041,285, formed the corpus of a new scholarship fund to be known as the Merle S. and Emma J. West Scholarship Fund. This fund, in perpetuity, provides renewable scholarships to graduates of Klamath County High Schools. U.S. Bank was named as Trustee.
In accordance with Mr. and Mrs. West's wishes, the selection of scholarship recipients was delegated to a Scholarship Committee. The five member committee is comprised of four residents of Klamath County and an officer of US Bank who are appointed by the trustee.
