Alice Mullaly
As It Was ContributorAlice Mullaly was raised in the same Central Point home where she lives today with her husband, Larry. A graduate of Crater High School, Oregon State, and Stanford universities, she taught mathematics for 42 years in high schools in Nyack, New York.; Mill Valley, California, and at Hedrick Junior High School in Medford. She retired from Southern Oregon University where she trained new mathematics teachers. Mullaly鈥檚 husband was also a teacher as are her two daughters. Her husband is a Southern Pacific Railroad historian, and both of them enjoy hunting for 鈥渢he story鈥� in primary sources. Alice鈥檚 mother was an early member of the Southern Oregon Historical Society, and Alice has been an SOHS volunteer for nearly 30 years. She enjoys the puzzles people bring to the Research Library, the source of many of her 鈥淎s It Was鈥� stories.
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Pioneers of Southern Oregon joined together in 1876 to form a Pioneer Association for preserving their historical settling of a new land. Hundreds of鈥�
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Native American warriors were attacking the Warner Valley of Southeastern Oregon in 1878 when the William Jones family packed their wagon and fled for鈥�
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On April 29, 1898, thirty-nine members of Company D, Oregon National Guard, left Ashland, Oregon for Cuba and the Spanish-American War. The night before,鈥�
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The Rogue Valley population more than doubled between 1942 and 1945, mainly due to construction and opening of the Camp White army training base east of鈥�
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A missionary, the Rev. Moses Allen Williams, came to the gold-mining town of Jacksonville, Ore., in 1857 to establish the first Jackson County鈥�
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Beginning in the 1940s, postal workers Boyd Kline and Lawrence Crocker of Medford, Ore., hiked almost every weekend in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern鈥�
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Southern Oregon native Marjorie O鈥橦arra was appointed Jackson County鈥檚 first female commissioner in 1973, where she pushed for the establishment of the鈥�
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William Hoffman celebrated his 72nd birthday with a companion near Fort Klamath, Ore., on Sept. 7, 1873, after making a memorable trip to Crater Lake.鈥�
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A stagecoach driver who eventually settled in the Applegate Valley routinely drove between Roseburg and Jacksonville for two years in the early 1880s.The鈥�
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Sentiments for sitting presidents are often mixed. In 1935, a presidential supporter, Jennie Taylor of Ashland, Ore., was so appreciative of President鈥�
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To the people in a two-horse hack in August 1902, the forest fire off to their left seemed a safe distance away.The travelers, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Jones,鈥�
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Gold mining in Southern Oregon that began in the 19th century has never completely come to an end. On a pond off Pleasant Creek Road near Wimer, Ore., a鈥�