Letters, 1838-1844.

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

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The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was among the first American Christian missionary organizations. It was created in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College. In the 19th century it was the largest and most important of American missionary organizations and consisted of participants from Protestant Reformed traditions such as Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and German Reformed churches. Before 1870, the ABCFM consisted of Protestants of several denominati...

Hatch, Peter Holt, 1810-1898.

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Peter Holt Hatch was born in 1810 in Parsonfield, Maine. Originally trained as a blacksmith, he joined a whaling expedition and travelled to the Hawaiian Islands, where he worked for a time as a missionary. In 1843 he came to Oregon with his first wife, Charlotte Colcord Hatch, and his son David, settling at first in Oregon City. With Osborne Russell and Robert Moore, Hatch organized the First Presbyterian Church of Willamette Falls, and was later ordained an elder or deacon. After running a fla...

Smith, Lowell V.

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Also known as Lody Smith; government official with the Nevada Division of Foresty. From the description of Lowell V. Smith papers, 1963-1991. (Nevada State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 166428886 ...

Babcock, Ira Leonard, 1806-1888.

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Rogers, Cornelius, 1815-1843

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Walker, Elkanah, 1805-1877

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Missionaries to the Spokane Indians for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. From the description of Papers of Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker, 1821-1938. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852997 Reverend Elkanah Walker, pioneer Congregational missionary, was born on August 7, 1805 in North Yarmouth, Maine. Following his ordination in 1838, Walker and his new bride, Mary Richardson, journeyed overland to the Oregon Country in order ...

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...

Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847

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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman served as missionaries to the Cayuse Indians at Waiilatpu (near Walla Walla, Washington) from 1836 until they were murdered in 1847. They operated under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. From the description of Letters, 1834-1847. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 31911271 Marcus Whitman was born on September 4, 1802 in Rushville, New York. His father's early death necessitate...

Gray, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1889

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Dr. William Henry Gray, a physician and lay missionary for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, was born on May 10, 1810. In 1836, he joined Marcus Whitman and Henry H. Spalding to travel overland and establish a mission for the Indians of the Oregon Country. In 1837, Gray traveled east in order to obtain more recruits for the missions and returned the following year with his new bride, Mary Augusta Dix Gray. William Gray was also instrumental in the formation of Oregon's Pr...

Leslie, David, 1787-1869.

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Reverend David Leslie was born in Washington, New Hampshire in 1797. He left New York in 1837 and traveled to Oregon via Cape Horn, arriving in September 1837. In Oregon he served in Jason Lee's Willamette Methodist Episcopal mission, and in 1839 he was appointed as one of two magistrates of the country south of the Columbia River. He went to the Hawaiian Islands in 1842 and returned to Oregon to open a church in Oregon City in 1843. He had six children with his first wife, Mary A. Kinney, who d...

Chamberlain, Levi

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