Letters, 1848-1857.

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Letters, 1848-1857.

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Typescript copies of letters (1848-1857) written by Wilson Blain from the Oregon Territory and sent to leaders of the Associated Reformed Church in the East. Subjects include: Blain's overland passage to Oregon in 1848; social, political, and economic conditions in Oregon during the 1850s; and the cooperation and eventual unification of the Associated Reformed and United Presbytery churches in Oregon; letters edited by J. Orin Oliphant.

180 p.

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Oliphant, J. Orin

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Historian. From the description of Papers, 1914-1978. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29853384 From the description of Papers, 1910-1972. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852622 A convenient biographical sketch of James Orin Oliphant is found the Ye Galleon Press reprint of William Emsley Jackson's Diary of a Cattle Drive from LaGrande, Oregon, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, published in 1983. That sketch is quoted here: ...

Blain, Wilson, 1813-1861

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Wilson Blain was a minister of the "Covenanting" branch of the Presbyterian church and editor of the Oregon Spectator newspaper. He was also a member of the first Oregon Territorial legislature, representing Tualatin County. From the description of Letters, 1848-1857. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 32041602 ...