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Largely unknown today, Aimee Semple McPherson, born Aimee Kennedy in 1890, was the most widely known evangelist between 1915 and her death in 1944. Founder of the Four-Square Gospel Church, she was a complex individual. While her views were markedly progressive on religion, she was strictly conservative in her worldview, something her personal life fell short of. Regardless, her notoriety helped earn women pastorships in American churches.

Clark County History: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson

Largely unknown today, Aimee Semple McPherson, born Aimee Kennedy in 1890, was the most widely known evangelist between 1915 and her death in 1944. Founder of the Four-Square Gospel Church, she was a complex individual. While her views were markedly progressive on religion, she was strictly conservative in her worldview, something her personal life fell short of. Regardless, her notoriety helped earn women pastorships in American churches.

January 22, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life

Famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson rode through Vancouver streets on the city’s reddest firetruck along with the mayor and a reporter. Mayor J.P. Kiggins dubbed her honorary fire chief to one-up Los Angeles making McPherson an honorary fireman. McPherson had traveled from the Angelus Temple she founded in 1918 to… Read story

This Week in Clark County History

January 20, 2023, 6:05am Clark County Life

A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story

Margaret Eldred, left, stands next to an unidentified girl and boy at the entrance of a milking barn. There’s a cow in the left side background and milk containers on the right. During the Depression, dairy farming was the most prominent business in Clark County, boosting the local economy by $4 million to $5 million a year. When distributors reduced payments for raw milk to increase profits, the farmers rebelled by blacklisting them, starting a milk war that turned violent in 1931.

Clark County History: 1931 Milk War

Margaret Eldred, left, stands next to an unidentified girl and boy at the entrance of a milking barn. There’s a cow in the left side background and milk containers on the right. During the Depression, dairy farming was the most prominent business in Clark County, boosting the local economy by $4 million to $5 million a year. When distributors reduced payments for raw milk to increase profits, the farmers rebelled by blacklisting them, starting a milk war that turned violent in 1931.

January 15, 2023, 6:00am Clark County Life

In the late summer of 1931, Clark County farmers poured milk on the roads, most of it confiscated from boycotted distributors’ trucks. Vancouver-Portland milk distributors dropped milk prices low enough it threatened farmers’ businesses. Read story

This week in Clark County history

January 13, 2023, 6:00am Clark County Life

A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story

Gerda Mattson's recipe for Finnish coffee bread yields three to five slightly sweet loaves. Cardamom seeds give the bread its distinctive flavor.

Reader shares memories, Finnish Coffee Bread recipe from ‘Grandma Hockinson’

Gerda Mattson's recipe for Finnish coffee bread yields three to five slightly sweet loaves. Cardamom seeds give the bread its distinctive flavor.

January 11, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life

Gerda J. Mattson knew how to bake. Born in 1900 in Kronoby, Finland, she later emigrated to the United States in 1906, catching sight of the Statue of Liberty rising out of the mists on Ellis Island. She lived in Astoria, Ore., for a few years before moving with her… Read story

This week in Clark County history

January 6, 2023, 5:10am Clark County Life

A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story

Bridge workers pose for a photo during the construction of Burnt Bridge Creek rail bridge in 1904. The stream's namesake seems to derive from two bridges that burned about 40 years apart. Both were about 2 1/2 miles north of Fort Vancouver. Hudson Bay Company built the first one to move livestock and agricultural goods across the creek, separating pastures and agricultural land from Fort Vancouver.

Clark County History: Burnt Bridge Creek

Bridge workers pose for a photo during the construction of Burnt Bridge Creek rail bridge in 1904. The stream's namesake seems to derive from two bridges that burned about 40 years apart. Both were about 2 1/2 miles north of Fort Vancouver. Hudson Bay Company built the first one to move livestock and agricultural goods across the creek, separating pastures and agricultural land from Fort Vancouver.

January 1, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life

A fire raging westward from Camas toward Fort Vancouver in 1844 troubled James Douglas. It hungrily gobbled timber, pasture and farmland from Camas to Lake Vancouver for four days. It also burned a Hudson Bay Company bridge. Douglas wrote to Dr. John McLoughlin about how the blaze alarmed him. Read story

Blue skies hang above Marshall House on Officers Row at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. The Queen Anne home stands out from the other buildings lining the street. Holly Chamberlain, historic preservation director, said the Marshall House deviated from standard Army buildings with its additional flair.

Majestic Marshall House: Officers Row building, its namesake have played important role in history of Vancouver – and the world

Blue skies hang above Marshall House on Officers Row at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. The Queen Anne home stands out from the other buildings lining the street. Holly Chamberlain, historic preservation director, said the Marshall House deviated from standard Army buildings with its additional flair.

December 25, 2022, 6:05am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

Among the 21 buildings lining Officers Row, one is far more noticeable due to the facade’s grandiosity. Its interior unveils an equally rich past. Read story

Maud Johnson, the queen of fake accidents, appears in her 1910 Walla Walla prison mug shot. She slid into criminality while a youthful vaudeville performer in Oregon. The police in the state's larger cities all knew of her. She moved from petty crimes to bilking railroads of thousands of dollars for fake injuries.

Clark County history: Maud Johnson trial

Maud Johnson, the queen of fake accidents, appears in her 1910 Walla Walla prison mug shot. She slid into criminality while a youthful vaudeville performer in Oregon. The police in the state's larger cities all knew of her. She moved from petty crimes to bilking railroads of thousands of dollars for fake injuries.

December 25, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life

Judge A. L. Miller opened a 1910 fraud trial with three hours of excruciating legal commentary. He was trying to unwind the knotty skein of facts involving multiple fraudulent actions perpetrated by Maud Johnson involving a chain of shakedown offenses. Between 1907 and 1909, she repeatedly fleeced most of the… Read story

This week in Clark County history

December 23, 2022, 6:05am Clark County Life

A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story