Henry Hart Spalding Scrapbook 1853-1870

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Henry Hart Spalding Scrapbook 1853-1870

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Henry Hart Spalding, the son of missionaries Henry Harmon and Eliza Hart Spalding, was one of the first children born to two white parents in the Oregon Territory. This scrapbook was probably his notebook when he was a high school student in the 1850s; news clippings from the 1860s-1870 are pasted over some earlier text.

1.0 folder; 1 volume in folder

eng,

Pacific University Archives

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Spalding, Henry Hart, 1839-1898

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Henry Hart Spalding was born in Lapwai, Oregon Territory, on November 24, 1839. The son of missionaries Henry Harmon and Eliza Hart Spalding, he was one of the first children of two white parents born in the Oregon Territory. The Spaldings lived in Lapwai, where they attempted to convert the Nez Perce to Christianity, through much of the younger Henry's childood. After the family's friends the Whitmans were killed by Cayuse Indians in 1847, the Spaldings withdrew to the Willamette Valley of Oreg...