French and Company records 1868-1878

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French and Company records 1868-1878

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Records of a mercantile business and banking firm headed by Daniel M. French in The Dalles, Oregon. Includes correspondence (1876-1878) from Breyman & Summerville, French & Gilman, Heppner & Maddock, Ladd & Tilton, Marshall Johnson Kinney, Henry R. Sels, and others relating to cattle, wool and hide trade, and banking. Also includes records of shipments to Camps Harney, Logan, and Watson in 1868.

.7 cubic feet (2 document cases)

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6371189

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Ladd & Tilton Bank (Portland, Or.)

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Sels, Henry R.

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French, Daniel M., 1828-1902

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French & Gilman (firm)

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Breyman & Summerville (Firm)

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French, Joshua W.

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Kinney, Marshall Johnson

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Heppner & Maddock (Firm)

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French and Company (The Dalles, Or.)

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French and Company began as a mercantile business in the mid-1860s in The Dalles, Oregon. Its founder was Daniel M. French (1828-1902), a native of Holland, Vermont. He lived in Massachusetts and Louisiana and came to California via Panama during the gold rush. After working at various trades he traveled to The Dalles in 1862, and there he opened a general merchandise business in partnership with Granville B. Gilman -- a firm known as Gilman, French & Company. After Daniel French's brother J...