Oregon City lot purcahse register 1850.
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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....
Adair, John 1808-1888.
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John Adair and his family came to Oregon via Panama after President Polk appointed him the first Collector of Customs for Oregon in 1848. From the description of Adair Family reminiscences, 1848-1852. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51533029 ...
Thornton, J. Quinn (Jessy Quinn), 1810-1888
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Born in Mason County, Virginia in 1810, Jessy Quinn Thornton was educated at the University of Virginia where he studied law. He later practiced law in Palmyra and Hannibal Missouri, and in Quincy, Illinois. In 1838 he married Nancy M. Logue at Hannibal. In 1846 he traveled overland to Oregon with his family. He became a judge of the Oregon Provisional Government's Supreme Court and was sent to Washington to lobby for the establishment of a territorial government. His works include Oregon and Ca...
Gaines, John Pollard, 1795-1857
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Lawyer, soldier, aide-de-camp to General Winfield Scott, territorial governor of the Oregon territory. Gaines was born in Augusta Co. Va. and moved with his family to Boone Co. Ky. shortly thereafter. He served in the War of 1812 and the Mexican War. In 1850 President Taylor appointed him governor of the Oregon Territory. He died in Oregon in 1857. From the description of Papers, 1832-1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536766 John Pollard Gaines was born (September 22, ...
McLoughlin, John, 1784-1857
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Elwood Evans (1828-1898), born in Philadelphia, went to Oregon Territory in 1851 as deputy collector of customs at Nisqually. From 1859 to 1861, he served as mayor of the newly incorporated town of Olympia, Washington. In addition to his historical work, A History of the Pacific Northwest, he contributed many historical articles to local papers. From the guide to the Elwood Evans notebook, 1859-1882, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries) ...
