Arvazena A. Cooper papers 1845-1900

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Arvazena A. Cooper papers 1845-1900

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv52684

Arvazena A. Cooper (1845-1929) traveled the Oregon Trail with her family in 1863 and settled in the Willamette Valley. The collection contains her reminiscences of that journey and biographical information about her life in Oregon.

0.25 linear feet, 1 folder

eng,

University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6373571

University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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Cooper, Arvazena A., 1845-1929.

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Born in Kentucky, Arvazena A. Cooper (1845-1929) spent her formative years in southwestern Missouri. At sixteen, she married Daniel Jackson Cooper. In 1863, Cooper, her husband, father-in-law, and infant set out by wagon for the state of Oregon and settled in the Willamette Valley. Cooper settled near Corvallis, Oregon, and performed the duties expected of mid-nineteenth-century wives and mothers. She bore thirteen children in Oregon (and one en route). Cooper's commitment to child rearing exten...