George H. Atkinson papers, 1814-1953 (bulk 1847-1878).

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George H. Atkinson papers, 1814-1953 (bulk 1847-1878).

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Atkinson was a missionary, educator, scientist, and publicist, and is considered the father of Oregon's public school system. He founded the Clackamas Female Seminary, and was pastor of the First Congregational Church in Portland, Oregon from 1865-1872. He married Nancy Bates in 1846. This collection includes correspondence, miscellaneous speeches, journals, pamphlets, expense books, ministerial manuals, and a biography of Reverend Atkinson. This collection gives insight into life on the Oregon frontier for missionary families and documents the growth of the Oregon public education system. Included are two printed items: "Possession, settlement, climate and resources of Oregon and the Northwest coast, including some remarks upon Alaska," an address delivered before the Chamber of Commerce of New York state, N.Y., 1868, 17 pages; and "The Northwest Coast, including Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, a series of articles upon the N.P.R.R. in its relations to the basins of the Columbia and of Puget's Sound," Portland, 1878, 56 pages. Also included is a set of letters from Mrs. Atkinson's sister, Lydia Bates Grout, written when a missionary to the Zulus in Natal, South Africa, in the late 1840s and 1850s.

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Atkinson, G. H. (George Henry), 1819-1889

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George H. Atkinson, a Congregational minister in the Pacific Northwest, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1843 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1846. Unable to accept an appointment to a mission in Africa because he had not yet been ordained, he sailed to Oregon by way of Hawaii with his wife, arriving in 1848. Atkinson originally settled in Oregon City. He prepared the first public school law in Oregon and helped plan for the forming of Pacific University. In 1963, he became pastor of...

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Atkinson, Nancy Bates, 1815-1895

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Grout, Lydia Bates.

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