Joel Palmer papers 1783-1982 1848-1880

Applegate, Jesse A., 1811-1888

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Oregon pioneer, legislator, and writer. From the description of Letter, 1864 Oct. 31. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 22390872 Elwood Evans (1828-1898), born in Philadelphia, went to Oregon Territory in 1851 as deputy collector of customs at Nisqually. From 1859 to 1861, he served as mayor of the newly incorporated town of Olympia, Washington. In addition to his historical work, A History of the Pacific Northwest, he contributed many historical articles...

Mitchell, John H. (John Hipple), 1835-1905

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John Hipple Mitchell (1835-1905) was a senator from Oregon. From the description of John H. Mitchell telegram to James Lotan [manuscript], 1890 May 8. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 708374022 From the description of John H. Mitchell letter to Thomas Guinean [manuscript], 1891 May 8. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 708362955 From the description of John H. Mitchell correspondence and speeches [manus...

Maypenny, George Washington, 1809-1893

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Palmer, Joel, 1810-1881

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Joel Palmer was born October 4, 1810 in Elizabethtown, Ontario, Canada to Ephraim and Anna Palmer. When Joel was two his family fled the ravages of the War of 1812 and settled in the frontier village of Lowville in northern New York. At the age of twelve Joel was "bound out" (a form of indentured servitude) to the Haworth family in the Catskill Mountains. At age 16 he left the Catskills for Philadelphia where he married Catherine Caffee in 1830, who later died in childbirth. In 1836 Joel married...

Lane, Joseph, 1801-1881

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Joseph Lane was born in North Carolina December 14, 1801, and moved to Kentucky when he was three years old. At age fourteen Lane moved away from his family to Indiana. At the age of twenty-one Lane married Mary Hart Polly. The couple had eight children. From 1822 to 1846, Lane served in the Indiana State Legislature. After serving in the war against Mexico, where he became a major-general in 1847, he accepted the position as Territorial Governor of Oregon. Lane was sworn in as Governor on March...

Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de, 1796-1878.

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French-born U.S. Army engineer and frontiersman. From the description of Letter : Fort Clark, Texas, to Major W.W.H. Davis, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1860 Nov 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82956058 From the description of Letter : Fort Clark, Texas, to Major W.W.H. Davis, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1860 Nov 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702150286 Army officer and explorer. From the description of Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville corresponden...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Oregon Superintendency

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Bonney, W. B.

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Raymond, W. W. (William Wakeman), 1815-1894

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W .W. Raymond arrived at the Oregon Country on the sailing ship "Lausanne" on May 20, 1840 as a farmer for the Oregon Mission. As a member of the Mission, he served as a farmer, school teacher, and following its disbandment became Sub-Indian Agent at Grand Ronde and Clatsop Indian Reservations. From the description of W. W. Raymond papers [manuscript], 1849-1888. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 667627189 ...

Wool, John Ellis, 1784-1869

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Wool, a New York native, was a career U. S. army officer who began his service during the War of 1812, led victorious troops at the Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican War, and commanded several departments in the eastern United States until he retired on August 1, 1863. From the description of Orders No. 302, May 28, 1847. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 301369825 John Ellis Wool (1784-1869) was an American military officer who fought in the...