Butler Family Papers 1835 1848-1863 bulk 1853-1859

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Butler Family Papers 1835 1848-1863 bulk 1853-1859

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The Butler Family Papers is a collection of 70 original letters written by some of the pioneers who settled in Polk County, Oregon, and founded Monmouth University in 1856 (now Western Oregon University).

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Western Oregon University Archives

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Butler, John Murphy

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Butler, Ira Frances Marion

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Hutchinson, Elizabeth Hannah Butler

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Peter Butler was born in 1789 in Polaski County, Kentucky, and later moved to Barren County, Kentucky. He served in the War of 1812 and the Black Hawk War of 1831. He helped survey and founded Monmouth, Illinois, where he served as sheriff, surveyor, mayor, county commissioner, and served in the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate. He came to Oregon in 1853 at the age of 64 as the head of the Butler Wagon Train along with wife Rachael Cook Murphy Butler and some of his chil...

Butler, Peter

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Disciples of Christ

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