William Sargent Ladd letter to James Ewing 1907 January 5

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William Sargent Ladd letter to James Ewing 1907 January 5

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Letter from William Sargent Ladd to James Ewing, 5 pp, 5 January 1907, regarding life at Amherst College and fellow Portlanders at college, including John Silas Reed.

.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6380653

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Amherst College

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Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams survived, Amherst was formed and diverged into its own institution....

Ladd, William Sargent, 1826-1893.

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William Sargent Ladd was born in Holland, Vermont in 1826. He arrived in Portland, Oregon in 1851 and took a job as a clerk in a mercantile store (which he later purchased). In 1854, after serving one term on the city council, Ladd was elected mayor of Portland. With his business partner Charles E. Tilton, Ladd later established the first bank in Oregon (1859), the Ladd & Tilton Bank. Over the course of his business career, he acquired extensive property holdings and a number of profitable c...

Ladd, William Sargent,

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Reed, John,

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Ewing, James R.,

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