John T. Apperson papers, [1865].

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John T. Apperson papers, [1865].

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Letter from Ladd & Tilton to Apperson at Oregon City, and a copy of a contract with the Hinckley Company of San Francisco, 1865, for building a steamboat.

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Hinckley Company, San Francisco.

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Ladd & Tilton.

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Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1908

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John Thomas Apperson, Oregon pioneer, was born in Kentucky in 1834 and the family moved to Missouri the following year. His family crossed the plains with a Mormon wagon train in 1847, but John's father died on the trip and the family moved to Portland. Apperson enlisted in the Rogue River War in 1856. He was a steamboat captain on the Willamette in 1859 and enlisted in the Oregon cavalry in 1861. He resumed steam boating after the war until 1872 and then and then settled on a farm near Oregon C...