Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1908
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Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1908
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Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1908
Apperson, John T., 1834-1917.
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Apperson, John T., 1834-1917.
Apperson, John T.
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John Thomas Apperson, Oregon pioneer, was born in Kentucky in 1834 and the family moved to Missouri the following year. His family crossed the plains with a Mormon wagon train in 1847, but John's father died on the trip and the family moved to Portland. Apperson enlisted in the Rogue River War in 1856. He was a steamboat captain on the Willamette in 1859 and enlisted in the Oregon cavalry in 1861. He resumed steam boating after the war until 1872 and then and then settled on a farm near Oregon City. He served on the Oregon Legislature and on the Oregon State College board of regents. He also served two terms as Sheriff of Clackamas County. A building on the campus of Oregon State University is named after him.
Army officer, steamboat captain.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/73049001
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n92046867
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Business, Industry, and Labor
Indians of North America
Pacific Coast Indians, Wars with, 1847-1865
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Steamboats
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Clackamas County (Or.)
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Northwest, Pacific
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California--San Francisco
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Oregon City (Or.)
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Oregon
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