Oral Histories
Below is a list of Oral History interviews on file with the Metuchen Edison Historical Society. The interviews of residents of Edison & Metuchen were done in the 1970's by the CETA Program, in the 1990's and 2000's by MEHS with funding from the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission.
Disclaimer: Please note that all oral histories presented by the Metuchen-Edison Historical Society are unaltered. The language, comments, and thoughts contained therein are solely those of the individuals interviewed. Our goal in presenting them is to make the personal recollections of these individuals available, to be considered within both their historical context and during the time the comments were made, as part of the historical record. The content and language of these interviews should not in anyway be attributed to any of the past, current, or future members of the Metuchen-Edison Historical Society Board of Directors, or to the Metuchen-Edison Historical Society membership as a whole.
The Oral History Tapes were originally recorded on cassette tapes. In 2019 the tapes were digitized to save them to more advanced media (MP3) for future listening availability.
Oral History Interview Finding Guide
List of Digitized Oral History Tapes 12/2019
To view the transcript, click on the interviewee name:
Biggs, Myra (2004) Transcribed [30 pages]
Biggs, Myra (2000) Notes
Biggs, Myra (2004) Obituary
Bloomfield, Eleanor (1978) Transcribed [8 pages]
Boyd, Horace & Mildred (1978) Transcribed [8 [ages]
Breen Sr., Harold (1978) Transcribed [5 pages]
Buchanan, Dolly (1976) Transcribed [24 pages]
Buchanan, W. Franklin (1977) Transcribed [13 pages]
Butler, Charles (1997) Transcribed [29 pages]
Carman, Charles (1973) Transcribed [14 pages]
Cornell, Anna (1998) Transcribed[11 pages]
Costa, Gregory (2006) No transcript
Dorf, Paul (1978) Transcribed [ 21 pages]
Drews, Mr. & Mrs. Otto (1977) No transcript
Eby, Ruth (1977) Transcribed [14 pages]
Emanuel, Gardena (1978) Transcribed [29 pages]
Fater, Joseph (1993) Transcribed [28 pages]
Fater, Joseph (1996) Transcribed [16 pages]
Fenton, Paul (1974) No transcript
Grimstead, J. Lloyd (1975) Transcribed [14 pages]
Gross, Nathan (1978) Transcribed [16 pages]
Haas, Ted (1993) No transcript
Halsey, Grace (1976) Transcribed [22 pages]
Halsey, Grace (1993) No transcript
Hansen, Frances (1992) No transcript
Harris, Murial & Audrey Dana (2002) No Transcript
Jessen, Martin (1978) Transcribed [15 pages]
Jessen, Martin (1996) No transcript
Johnson, James (2007) No transcript
Johnson, Roger (1995) Transcribed [20 pages]
Kramer, Mary (1978) Transcribed [14 pages]
Kramer, Pete Harry (1995) Transcribed [8 pages]
Leis, Edward (1978) No transcript
Leis, Edward (1993) No transcript
Letsinger, Perry (1977) Transcribed [16 pages]
Letsinger, Perry (1978) No transcript
Litterst, Lou & Elsie (1976) Transcribed [40 pages]
Lowman, Jr. Paul Harry (2017) Transcribed [26 pages]
Madison, Emily (1978) No transcript
Molineaux, Harriet (1978) No transcript
Monek, Ange (no date) No transcript
Mook, Ruth (1974) No transcript
Mundy, Sherwood (1977) Incomplete
Peck, Dorothea (1978) Transcribed (16 pages]
Perrino, Joseph & Charles Reeder (1977) No transcript
Peters, Chester (1996) No transcript
Potter, Elsie Burroughs (1977) Transcribed [22 pages]
Practcher, Marie Bruno (no date) No transcript
Qualls, Walter (1978) No transcript
Rice, Barbara Moss (1992) No transcript
Robinson, Gershon (1978) No transcript
Rolfe, Grace (1978) No transcript
Ross, Alberta (1978) No transcript
Salaki, Elsie (1976) No transcript
Sortore, Jadwin (1999) No transcript
Schveninger, Katherine (1978) No transcript
Stahl, Beulah (1978) No transcript
Stuart, Ray (1994) No transcript
Terwilliger, Ruth (no date) No transcript
Thornall, Jay Worthington, & Blanche (1978) No transcript
Verbel, George (1995) No transcript
Wallace, James (1977) No transcript
Wernick, Donald (1978) No transcript
Wernick, Donald (1996) No transcript
Woerner, Myrtle (1978) No transcript
Wright, Giles (no date) No transcript
Ziegler, Richard (1993) No transcript
Zuts, Morris (1995) No Transcript
Other sources for oral histories of Metuchen & Edison residents.
017 Rutgers Oral History Project. Transcripts of Edison
and Metuchen residents. Lewis Bloom, Richard Hale,
Lloyd Kornbaltt, David Robinson, Roland Winter. 3/2010
Transcripts from the 1970's CETA Program MEHS in the 1990s
016 List of Oral History Tapes 2/2011
17F2 Ruth Eby II 1977 2/2011
17H Paul Fenton 1974 3/2011