Mortgage record index 1850-1859.

Oregon. Clackamas County.

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Clackamas County was named for the resident Clackamas Indinas and was one of the four original Oregon counties. Oregon City, the county seat, was the first incorporated city west of the Rockies, the first capital of the Territorial Government in 1848, and the site of the first legislative session. As capital of the Oregon Territory, Oregon City was also the site of the only federal and district court west of the Rockies in 1849 when the city of San Francisco was platted....

Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888

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Sheridan claimed he was born in Albany in the State of New York, the third child of six of John and Mary Meenagh Sheridan, Irish Catholic immigrants from the parish of Killinkere in County Cavan, Ireland. He grew up in Somerset, Ohio. Fully grown, he reached only 165 cm (5 feet 5 inches) tall, a stature that led to the nickname, "Little Phil." Abraham Lincoln described his appearance in a famous anecdote: "A brown, chunky little chap, with a long body, short legs, not enough neck to hang him, an...

Burns, Hugh 1808-1888.

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Kelly, James K. 1819-1903.

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Born on February 16, 1819 in Center County, Pennsylvania, James Kerr Kelly sailed to Oregon and settled in Oregon City in 1851. A lawyer, Kelly was very involved in Oregon politics, serving in the Council of the Oregon Territorial Legislature (1853-57), in Oregon's constitutional convention (1857), as a state senator (1860-64), U.S. Senator (1871-77), and chief justice of Oregon's Supreme Court (1878-80). He was a captain and lieutenant-colonel for Company C of the Oregon Volunteers in the Yakim...

Harvey, Daniel 1812-1868.

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Methodist Missionary Society

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Related to the Methodist Church of Great Britain and Ireland. Represents work formerly done by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society and the United Methodist Foreign Missions Auxiliary; these bodies united in 1932. From the description of Records of the Methodist Missionary Society, 1937-1960 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152486 A collection of manuscript and printed material, including Parliamentary Pa...

Hedges, Absalom 1818-1890.

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Waldo, Daniel 1800-1880.

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Daniel Waldo (1800-1880) emigrated from Virginia to Missouri in 1819 and was a neighbor of the Applegates. He moved to Oregon in 1843. From the description of Critiques. Narrative and remarks /dictated by Daniel Waldo. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702689113 ...

Wait(e), Aaron E. 1813-1898.

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Pratt, Orville C. (Orville Charles), 1819-1891

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Pratt, a lawyer of Rochester, New York, and Galena, Illinois, was appointed associate justice of the Second District, Oregon Territory. In 1856 he moved to San Francisco, where he was later elected judge of the Twelfth District. From the description of Overland journey from Fort Leavenworth to Los Angeles /by Orville C. Pratt, 1848-1849. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702126351 ...

Buck, William R., 1950-....

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McCraken, John, 1826-1915.

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Colonel John McCraken (1826-1915) came to California in 1849 and co-founded the Greenwich & California Mining & Trading Company. From the guide to the John McCracken papers, 1886-1945, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Colonel John McCraken (1826-1915) came to California in 1849 and co-founded the Greenwich & California Mining & Trading Company. The following year, he came to Oregon, where he became involved in the flour mi...

Barclay, Forbes 1812-1873.

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Forbes Barclay (1812-1873) was a physician with the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, Wash. and later mayor of Oregon City, Or. From the description of Forbes Barclay family correspondence, 1840-1873. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 505248967 ...

Abernathy, George 1807-1877.

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Bush, Asahel, 1824-1913

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Asahel Bush was the publisher of the Oregon Statesman. From the description of Asahel Bush letter to John Colgate Bell [manuscript], 1893 Mar. 7. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 664125845 Asahel Bush Jr. (1824-1913) was a publisher, banker and Democratic political leader. From the guide to the Asahel Bush letter to Hugh D. O'Bryant, 1850 April 27, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) From the guide to the Asahel ...

Palmer, Joel, 1810-1881

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Joel Palmer was born October 4, 1810 in Elizabethtown, Ontario, Canada to Ephraim and Anna Palmer. When Joel was two his family fled the ravages of the War of 1812 and settled in the frontier village of Lowville in northern New York. At the age of twelve Joel was "bound out" (a form of indentured servitude) to the Haworth family in the Catskill Mountains. At age 16 he left the Catskills for Philadelphia where he married Catherine Caffee in 1830, who later died in childbirth. In 1836 Joel married...

Holbrook, Amory, 1820-1866

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Willamette Falls Company.

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Lovejoy, Asa L. 1808-1882.

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