John T. Apperson daybook 1872-1892

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John T. Apperson daybook 1872-1892

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv06314

John T. Apperson was in the 1st Oregon Calvery during the Civil War. Collection consists of 1 volume, a day book by John T. Apperson, 1872-1892.

0.1 linear feet, 1 volume

eng,

University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6364975

University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1908

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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 C...