Leslie, David, 1787-1869.

Reverend David Leslie was born in Washington, New Hampshire in 1797. He left New York in 1837 and traveled to Oregon via Cape Horn, arriving in September 1837. In Oregon he served in Jason Lee's Willamette Methodist Episcopal mission, and in 1839 he was appointed as one of two magistrates of the country south of the Columbia River. He went to the Hawaiian Islands in 1842 and returned to Oregon to open a church in Oregon City in 1843. He had six children with his first wife, Mary A. Kinney, who died in 1841. He then married Adelia Judson Olley in 1844. She had had two previous marriages: first, in April 1835, to Robert Turkington, who died on September 15, 1837; and then on October 2, 1839 to James Olley, who drowned in the Willamette on December 10, 1842. David Leslie remained a prominent figure in the Willamette Valley until his death on May 1, 1869, in Salem.

From the guide to the David Leslie Papers, 1829-1886, (Oregon Historical Society)

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