Diaries, 1820-1887.

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Diaries, 1820-1887.

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Original diaries (1820-1887) of Alvin Thompson Smith. Subjects include: an account of Smith's overland trek from Quincy, Illinois (February 9, 1840) to the Whitman mission, Walla Walla, Washington (August 14, 1840); a description of missionary life at H.H. Spalding's Lapwai mission, as well as other events in early Oregon.

Original: .25 cu. ft.Typescript: 125 p.Microfilm: 1 reel.

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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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...