John Smith Griffin papers December 26, 1842
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Smith, Alvin Thompson, 1802-1888
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Alvin Thompson Smith, lay missionary and pioneer, was born November 17, 1802 in Brantford, Connecticut. He moved to Indiana in the 1830s and came overland to Oregon in 1840. He spent his first Oregon winter at Henry Spalding's mission, where he helped build grist and saw mills for the missionary. He settled on a land claim at present-day Forest Grove, where he donated money to the Congregational church and to the Tabitha Brown school. He was elected one of three magistrates at the Champoeg meeti...
Griffin, John Smith, 1807-1899.
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John Smith Griffin was sent as a missionary to Oregon in 1839 by the North Litchfield Association of Connecticut and he became pastor of the First Connecticut Church in Oregon. He married in St. Louis and spent time in Lapwai, Washington Territory, Snake River country, and Vancouver. He settled on the Tualatin Plains as a farmer and in 1848 bought the Lapwai press from H. H. Spalding and published The Oregon American and Evangelical Unionist. From the description of History of Tualat...
Clark, Harvey
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Harvey Clark (1807-1858) was a missionary, settler, and educator who, along with his wife, Emeline and Tabitha Moffat Brown, founded the Tualatin Academy in Forest Grove, Oregon Territory. The Academy later became Pacific University. Source: http://www.pacificu.edu/about/history/full.cfm From the guide to the Harvey Clark indenture, July 13, 1855, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries) ...
