Judgement docket 1846-1859.

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....

Lovejoy, Asa L. 1808-1882.

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Harvey, Daniel 1812-1868.

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Abernathy, George 1807-1877.

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Steamship Fenix.

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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...

Burns, Hugh 1807-1870.

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Hugh Burns was an English Catholic immigrant to French Prairie, Oregon. From the description of Hugh Burns papers, 1845-1871. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 54359568 ...

Isaashelucas

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Taylor, James

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Cherokee Indian representative to the U.S. government, from Valley Town (Cherokee Co.), N.C. From the description of Taylor, James papers, 1831-1932 ; (bulk 1843-1908) [microform]. (Fort Worth Library). WorldCat record id: 260090342 From the description of Papers, 1851-1960. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 41546385 From the description of Papers, 1831-1932; (bulk 1843-1908). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20188586 Harness make...

Lane, Joseph, 1801-1881

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Joseph Lane was born in North Carolina December 14, 1801, and moved to Kentucky when he was three years old. At age fourteen Lane moved away from his family to Indiana. At the age of twenty-one Lane married Mary Hart Polly. The couple had eight children. From 1822 to 1846, Lane served in the Indiana State Legislature. After serving in the war against Mexico, where he became a major-general in 1847, he accepted the position as Territorial Governor of Oregon. Lane was sworn in as Governor on March...

Dart, Anson

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Holbrook, Amory, 1820-1866

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Willamette Falls Company.

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Telokite Chief

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Shortess, Robert, 1797-1878.

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In 1839, Robert Shortess traveled to Oregon from Illinois and was soon converted to Christianity at the Willamette Mission. Later, he served as a member of the general committee in Oregon's Provisional Government and eventually settled near Astoria. Shortess served as Clatsop County Indian sub-agent and clerk of School District No. 4. From the description of Papers, 1843-1877. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 34302320 ...

Steamship Minnie Holmes.

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Clokomas

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Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847

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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman served as missionaries to the Cayuse Indians at Waiilatpu (near Walla Walla, Washington) from 1836 until they were murdered in 1847. They operated under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. From the description of Letters, 1834-1847. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 31911271 Marcus Whitman was born on September 4, 1802 in Rushville, New York. His father's early death necessitate...

Kiamasumkin

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Babcock, Ira L. 1808-1888.

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Steamship Enterprise.

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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...

Whitman, Narcissa 1808-1847.

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Boon, John D. 1817-1864.

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Steamship Suprise.

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Foster, Philip, 1805-1884

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Philip Foster, a native of Maine who came to Oregon in the 1840s, established businesses and farms in the Willamette Valley. He served as treasurer of the Oregon provisional government, school board official in Clackamas County, farmer in Eagle River, Oregon, and he helped to build and maintain the Barlow Road. He was the brother-in-law and business partner of Francis W. Pettygrove, one of the founders of Portland, Oregon. From the description of Philip Foster papers, 1834-967 (bulk ...

Tomahas

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Buck, William W.

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Steamship Elk.

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Meek, Joseph Lafayette, 1810-1875

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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...

Portland and Valley Plank road Company.

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T'Vault, William 1806-1869.

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Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman), 1807-1895

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Burnett was Governor when California was admitted into the U.S. in 1850. From the description of ALS, 1851 January 3 : San Jose, to Thomas Fox Taylor. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 16951352 Peter Hardeman Burnett, the first American Governor of the state of California, was born in Tennessee in 1807. He was admitted to the bar in 1839. In 1843, he and his family moved to Oregon where he helped form the territorial government. In 1848, Burnett moved t...

Escaloom, Frank

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Steamship Gazelle.

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Stanfield, Jospeh.

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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 ...

Magruder, Theophilus.

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Gray, W. H. 1810-1889.

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Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886

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Florida legislator and Confederate brigadier general. From the description of Papers, 1861-1862. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903019 Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on December 4, 1818. Member of the Florida legislature. Member of the Mount Rifles, 1846-1848. Colonel in U. S. Army 1856-1861. Resigned from U. S. Army in 1861. Commanded First Division Department of Norfolk, Confederate States of America, 1862, and the Department of Southwestern Virginia...

Lamb, Charity.

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Stickas

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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) ...

Hedges, Absalom F. 1818-1890.

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