Papers of Henry and Eliza Spalding, 1836-[ca. 1968].

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Papers of Henry and Eliza Spalding, 1836-[ca. 1968].

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Correspondence, diaries, clippings, photographs, transcripts, photocopies, and other papers related to the Spaldings' missionary work among the Nez Percé; account books of Henry Hart Spalding, an Almota, Washington, merchant; photoprints of the second Mrs. Spalding and Rev. and Mrs. J.S. Griffin; correspondence of the Spaldings with A.T. Smith, General O.F. Marshall, and Chief Spokan Garry. Much of this material was procured by C.M. Drury from scattered sources for his biographies of Pacific Northwest missionaries.

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Washington State University, Holland and Terrell Libraries

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Washington State University, Holland and Terrell Libraries

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Spalding, Henry Hart, 1839-1898

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Henry Hart Spalding was born in Lapwai, Oregon Territory, on November 24, 1839. The son of missionaries Henry Harmon and Eliza Hart Spalding, he was one of the first children of two white parents born in the Oregon Territory. The Spaldings lived in Lapwai, where they attempted to convert the Nez Perce to Christianity, through much of the younger Henry's childood. After the family's friends the Whitmans were killed by Cayuse Indians in 1847, the Spaldings withdrew to the Willamette Valley of Oreg...

Griffin, John Smith.

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Marshall, O. F., 1791-1891.

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Spalding, Rachel Jahonnet Smith, 1808-

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Spokane Garry, 1811?-1892

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Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874

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Reverend Henry Harmon Spalding, pioneer Presbyterian missionary in the Oregon Territory, was born on November 26, 1803 in New York. In 1836, after successfully applying for an appointment under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Spalding traveled overland to Oregon with his first wife, Eliza Hart Spalding, and Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Later that year he founded the Nez Percé Indian mission at Lapwai, where he remained until the Whitman Massacre in 1847...

Smith, Alvin Thompson, 1802-1888

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Alvin Thompson Smith, lay missionary and pioneer, was born November 17, 1802 in Brantford, Connecticut. He moved to Indiana in the 1830s and came overland to Oregon in 1840. He spent his first Oregon winter at Henry Spalding's mission, where he helped build grist and saw mills for the missionary. He settled on a land claim at present-day Forest Grove, where he donated money to the Congregational church and to the Tabitha Brown school. He was elected one of three magistrates at the Champoeg meeti...

Griffin, Desire C. Smith, d. 1884.

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Spalding, Eliza Hart, 1807-1851

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Eliza Spalding and Narcissa Whitman were the first white women to cross the continent overland. From the description of Diary, 1836-1840. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 31760037 ...