Joel Palmer papers, 1848-1869.

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Joel Palmer papers, 1848-1869.

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Papers include: Correspondence (1848-1869) of Joel Palmer concerning the conduct of Indian affairs in Oregon, enlistment of a state militia, and efforts to establish a Union League Council; diary (1857) kept by Palmer while on a voyage from Oregon City to Washington, D.C. via Panama; typescript copies of diaries (1854, 1856, 1860-1861) recording his travels throughout the Pacific Northwest; handscript copy of an agreement (1854) between the United States, represented by the Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Joel Palmer, and the Calipooia Indian tribe; articles of incorporation (1862) of the Columbia River Railroad Company.

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Oregon Superintendency

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Palmer, Joel, 1810-1881

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Joel Palmer was born October 4, 1810 in Elizabethtown, Ontario, Canada to Ephraim and Anna Palmer. When Joel was two his family fled the ravages of the War of 1812 and settled in the frontier village of Lowville in northern New York. At the age of twelve Joel was "bound out" (a form of indentured servitude) to the Haworth family in the Catskill Mountains. At age 16 he left the Catskills for Philadelphia where he married Catherine Caffee in 1830, who later died in childbirth. In 1836 Joel married...