Howell family papers [manuscript], 1816-1956.

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Howell family papers [manuscript], 1816-1956.

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Papers of the family of Thomas Jefferson Howell, who lived on Sauvie Island, near Portland, Oregon. Contains correspondence, documents, records and ephemera, mostly related to the ownership and operation of the Howell farm (now the Bybee-Howell House restoration), including deeds, leases, contracts, receipts (mostly from Portland businesses), and a copy of the original donation land claim of James F. Bybee. Also included are two account books, land survey, and miscellaneous notebooks of Benjamin Howell, father of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph Howell; a book of animal sketches found on the Howell property in 1922; and copies letters from Thomas Howell to Edward Lee Greene regarding botanical observations, 1890-1902.

1 cubic foot (2 document cases, 1 custom box)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Bybee, James R.

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Howell family.

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Greene, Edward Lee, 1843-1915

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Professor of Botany at the University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Letters, 1891-1895, to Samuel Bonsall Parish. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122289356 Episcopal cleryman, convert to Catholicism, and botanist who taught at the University of California (Berkeley) and the Catholic University of America (1885-1904) and served as an associate in botany at the Smithsonian Institution (1904-1909); LL.D., University of Notre Dame (1895). From the d...

Howell, Thomas, 1842-1912

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Thomas Jefferson Howell (b. October 8, 1842 – d. December 3, 1912), American botanist from Oregon.[1]:118–119[2] Howell is considered one of the top three self-taught botanists of his era for the Pacific Northwest; the other two being Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf and William Conklin Cusick....

Howell, Benjamin, Jr., active 1817-1852

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Benjamin Howell, Jr. was born on June 29, 1786, the son of John Howell (1759-1834) and Phebe Farrand (1760-1813). He was a well-known attorney in addition to being a surveyor and merchant. On November 19, 1809 when Benjamin was 23, he married Elizabeth Cobb (1789-1869), daughter of Colonel Lemuel Cobb and Mary Smith, in Parsippany, New Jersey. They eventually had seven children, five of which lived past infancy. Their youngest son, Lemuel Cobb Howell, went on to practice law in New Jersey after ...