Kelly family papers 1831-1982

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Kelly family papers 1831-1982

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv36606

Papers of the Kelly family of Oregon, primarily Clinton Kelly (1808-1875), Albert Kelly (1814-1873), Plympton Kelly (1828-1906), Penumbra Kelly (1845-1928), and Silas Gilby Kelly (1848-1920), and the related Plummer, Niblin, and Povey families. Included is family correspondence, genealogical materials, land records, Plympton Kelly's Yakima war diary, extensive diaries of Silas Gilby Kelly of Hillsdale, Oregon, and documents relating to the Willamette Steam Ferry Company, 1854-1868.

2 cubic feet; (3 document cases, 2 card file boxes, 1 oversize folder)

eng,

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6370564

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Niblin family.

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Willamette Steam Ferry Company.

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Kelly, Silas Gilby.

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Kelly, Plympton J., -1906

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Kelly, Laura (Laura C.)

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Kelly, Penumbra.

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Plummer family.

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Kelly family

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The present collection is related primarily to the descendents of Samuel Kelly (1776-1834) and his wife Nancy Kennedy Kelly (1781-1841) who lived in Virginia and Kentucky. Their son Clinton Kelly (1808-1875) was a Methodist preacher and an anti-slavery advocate. A native of Kentucky, he came overland to Oregon with his family in 1847 and took a donation land claim on the east side of the Willamette River, opposite Portland. He platted the land in 1872, and the area was eventually an...

Kelly, Nira Bingham.

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Kelly, Albert, 1814-1874.

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Kelly, Clinton

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Bingham family.

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Plummer, O. P. S. (Orlando Pleasant Sheilds), 1836-1913

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Povey family.

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Burns, Agnes Plummer, 1877-1975.

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