Nancy Osborne Jacobs Speech (transcript) 1912

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Nancy Osborne Jacobs Speech (transcript) 1912

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This collection consists of a single item, an undated typescript (14 leaves) with the text of Nancy Jacobs' 1912 paper and a brief introduction written at some point after her death.

.05 linear feet of shelf space; 1 folder

Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)

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Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)

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Osborne family

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Jacobs, Nancy Osborne

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Nancy Osborne Jacobs was a survivor of the 1847 killings at the Whitman Mission, generally referred to as the "Whitman Massacre." She was nine years old at the time. On May 29, 1912, she read a paper at the Pioneer Reunion at Walla Walla, first relating memories of her family's overland journey in 1845 from Henderson County, Illinois to several different settlements in present-day Washington and Oregon, and then her recollections of the events at the Whitman Mission at Waiilatpu on ...