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McLoughlin, John, 1784-1857. Letters and deed, 1841-1865.

Title: Letters and deed, 1841-1865.

The 1841 letter to A. C. Anderson directs him to extend assistance to the United States Exploring Expedition and to Dr. Richmond of the Nisqually Mission (WA MSS 319). The 1850 letter to Peter Ogden inquires about the possibility of building a sawmill at Port Discovery (WA MSS 320). The 1850 deed is for land in Oregon City which John McLoughlin sold to James Winston. Annotations on the deed record the transfer of the property to other owners, such as Noyes Smith (WA MSS 321).

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702127748 View

Waller, Alvan F., b. 1808. Alvan F. Waller papers, 1839-1873.

Title: Alvan F. Waller papers, 1839-1873.

Papers include: Correspondence (1840-1873), diary (1839-1841), diary extracts (1839-1845), and miscellaneous documents including public note on land dispute with Dr. John McLoughlin and essay "General Instructions to Missionaries." Topics include criticism of Catholic missionaries, religion and the government, teaching school, organization of Provisional government, Waller's land claims, and Willamette University; diary describes voyage to Oregon on the ship Lausanne. Correspondents include George Abernethy, Henry Bridgman Brewer, Jason Lee, Daniel Lee, John McLoughlin, Ira Leonard Babcock, George Gary, Marcus Whitman, and Henry Harmon Spalding.

ArchivalResource: .50 cubic feet (1 document case, 1 oversize folder)

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George Abernethy Papers, 1833-1905

Title: George Abernethy Papers 1833-1905

Papers of a provisional governor of the Oregon Territory, churchman, and merchant. Includes letterpress copybook, 1847-1850; additional correspondence, including correspondence with Neil M. Howison, captain of the schooner , wrecked on the bar of the Columbia River; papers of the Brig Henry Association, ca. 1850; papers of George's son William Abernethy; legal, military, and business papers; receipts, biographical data, clippings and ephemera. Shark

ArchivalResource: 0.6 cubic feet; 2 document boxes; 1 oversize folder

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv34207 View

Schnebly, David J., 1818-1901. Letters to the editor of the Oregon Spectator [manuscripts], 1850-1851.

Title: Letters to the editor of the Oregon Spectator [manuscripts], 1850-1851.

Collection includes: Manuscript letter from Samuel R. Thurston, 1 p, December 9, 1850 and January 16, 1851, the latter also containing a manuscript copy of a letter from William P. Bryant to William J. Brown, concerning the hand bill of John McLoughlin; Manuscript copy of a letter from Jesse Applegate, 4 pp, March 14, 1851.

ArchivalResource: .02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Applegate, Jesse. Jesse Applegate letters to Elwood Evans [manuscript], 1867 July 26, Oct. 13.

Title: Jesse Applegate letters to Elwood Evans [manuscript], 1867 July 26, Oct. 13.

Acknowledges letter of 16th; criticizes Evan's intentions in to write his History of Oregon; postscript to Deady concerning Hudson's Bay Company; sub-agency of Dr.White; character of John McLoughlin; Oregon boundary legislature of 1845; S.R. Thurston; Marcus Whitman; Mrs. Victor's claim against U.S. Yoncalla.

ArchivalResource: 14 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/668421928 View

Oregon. Clackamas County. Deed idexes 1850-1859.

Title: Deed idexes 1850-1859.

Series used to provide direct and indirect access to the deed record. Indexes show grantor's name; grantee's name; township, range, and section numbers; desxription of property; and deed book letter/number and page number.

ArchivalResource: .50 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122462590 View

Hudson's Bay Company. Selected Hudson's Bay Company records, 1679-1970.

Title: Selected Hudson's Bay Company records, 1679-1970.

Microfilm, photocopies, and transcripts of miscellaneous documents relating to the Hudson's Bay Company, collected at various times by the Minnesota Historical Society.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cu. ft. (1 box) and 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313842180 View

Couch Family Papers, 1839-1948, 1870-1890

Title: Couch Family Papers 1839-1948 1870-1890

Papers of the family of John Heard Couch, one of the original developers of the townsite of Portland, Oregon, and his descendents, including members of the Glisan and Robertson families. Papers include correspondence, legal papers, land ownership records, clippings, family Bibles, journals of John Heard Couch, and papers concerning Couch's wife Caroline and their descendants Caroline Wilson, Clementine Lewis, and Elizabeth and Rodney Glisan. Of special note is John Heard Couch's logbook, 1853-1858, for voyages on the ships and ; and the travel diary of Nan Robertson, 1911-1912, written during a trip to San Francisco and Southern Asia. Chenamus Madonna

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cu. ft.; 2 document boxes, 1 card file box, 1 flat box, and 1 oversize folder

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Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies, 1852-1927. Papers, 1907-1927.

Title: Papers, 1907-1927.

Papers include: letters (1926-1927), special committee report (1927), and notes describing and protesting the errors contained in the proposed elementary school textbook, "History of Oregon," prepared by Robert Carlton Clark, Robert Horace Down, and George Verne Blue; copy of the "Oregon Voter" (August 28, 1926) concerning the history textbook, as well as Clark's response to the criticism in an Oregonian article; Oregon Historical Society board resolution (1927) disapproving of the textbook; addresses (1907-1926) given by Holman regarding Lewis and Clark, Fort Clatsop, discovery and exploration of the Fraser River, and Joseph L. Meek, among other topics.

ArchivalResource: .10 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36557700 View

Harvey, Eliosa McLoughlin Rae, 1817-1884. Life of John McLoughlin : Portland, Oregon, 1878.

Title: Life of John McLoughlin : Portland, Oregon, 1878.

Interview with H.H. Bancroft, June 20, 1878, recorded by Amos Bowman. Chiefly concerning her father's association with the Hudson's Bay Company and Americans in Oregon. Brief account of her own life as the wife of William G. Rae, in Alaska and California, 1840-1846. Letter of J.W. McL. Harvey to H.H. Bancroft, Oct. 20, 1878, enclosing specimen of Dr. McLoughlin's handwriting and signature, pasted in.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 39 leaves ; 32 cm.Paper copies from microfilm: 1 volume.Microfilm copy : partial microfilm reel (41 exposures) : negative (Rich. 107:4) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25771506 View

Oregon. Clackamas County. Judgement docket 1846-1859.

Title: Judgement docket 1846-1859.

Series documents judgements entered in county, circuit, and U.S. District courts. Docket entries show date of judgement, debtor's name, creditor's name, court name, court journal volume and page number, amount of judgement, date entered, date satisfied, and remarks.

ArchivalResource: .10 cu. ft. (14+ pages)

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Cushing, William, fl. 1843-1870. William Cushing journal of a voyage to the Columbia River and related papers, 1843-[1870]

Title: William Cushing journal of a voyage to the Columbia River and related papers, 1843-[1870]

Fair copy of Cushing's journal kept during his voyage aboard the brig Chenamus and subsequent travels in Oregon. Cushing describes Honolulu, and in detail his 16 months in Oregon: trading at Fort George (Astoria), Fort Clatsop, the settlement of Portland, visiting Dr. John McLoughlin of the Hudson's Bay Company, traveling up and down the Columbia River. At the end of his journal, Cushing summarizes his impressions of Oregon. The journal is accompanied by a photocopy of a later typed transcript. Also accompanied by two watercolors of the Chenamus, drawn by Cushing, an albumen photograph of the Cushing mansion in Newburyport with William and his family standing around it, taken ca. 1870, and a seamen's certificate for a voyage to the Columbia River on the Brig Smith Tuttle, captained by Avery Sylvester, a friend of Cushing, and captain of the Chenamus on the return trip to Hawaii and New England from the Columbia River.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84225971 View

Walker, Courtney Meade, 1812-1887. Papers, 1851-1878.

Title: Papers, 1851-1878.

Papers include: Photocopies of letters (1856-1857) written by Courtney M. Walker, local Indian agent, to Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Joel Palmer, regarding conditions and operations at the "coast reservation"; two letters (1877) from Walker to his niece in Texas; copies of documents related to Walker's claim of damages to his property near the Rogue River; Walker's statement (1878) to the Oregon Pioneer Association concerning the character of John McLoughlin (4 p.); miscellaneous materials describing Walker's genealogy and papers.

ArchivalResource: .10 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33089644 View

Bulger, Andrew H., 1789-1858. Andrew H. Bulger papers, 1814-1823.

Title: Andrew H. Bulger papers, 1814-1823.

Photocopied autobiography and official correspondence between Captain Bulger and Lt. Col. Robert McDouall, and other British military and government personnel, relating to military actions during the War of 1812.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313838708 View

Matthew Paul Deady Papers, 1850-1923

Title: Matthew Paul Deady Papers 1850-1923

Papers of Matthew Deady, U.S. District Judge for Oregon and prominent figure in territorial and early state affairs. The collection consists of letters written to Deady from friends and political correspondents, including many of Oregon's leading state and national politicians in the late nineteenth century. Influential forces in the state such as Jesse Applegate and Asahel Bush are voluminously represented, as are U.S. senators Joseph Lane, James W. Nesmith, Henry W. Corbett, George Williams, Lafayette Grover and Cyrus Dolph. Complementing these is a small collection of letters written by Deady to several of the same persons. Also included are Deady's personal journals and family materials.

ArchivalResource: 13 document cases; 1 volume

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv65329 View

McLoughlin, John, 1784-1857. Letter: to William F. Tolmie /by John McLoughlin, 1845 Jul 4.

Title: Letter: to William F. Tolmie /by John McLoughlin, 1845 Jul 4.

Related to affairs of the Hudson's Bay Co. in California.

ArchivalResource: 4 p.; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702127663 View

McLoughlin House postcards, not yet dated

Title: McLoughlin House postcards not yet dated

Dr. John McLoughlin (1784-1857) was a prominent figure in early Oregon history. The collection consists of seven postcards and an engraving of the McLoughlin House in Oregon City, constructed in 1846 and relocated in 1909. The house was declared the first Western National Historic Site in 1947, and is managed by the National Parks.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear feet, 1 container

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv64313 View