This Week in Odessa History

Perhaps the most colorful and at the same time poignant events throughout history of Odessa was the coming and going of “Odessa University,” largely a product of the imagination of Henry Clough.

Clough and “Odessa University” made news not only in The Odessa Record but throughout the Pacific Northwest in 1909. The following article in The Odessa Record of April 2, 1910, tells of his travails:

Henry Clough, the aged gentleman who looks after the destinies of the “Odessa University,” which at present consists of a rocky butte three miles east of Odessa, on which a couple of small shacks stand, w...