Papers, 1851-1878.

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Papers, 1851-1878.

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Papers include: Photocopies of letters (1856-1857) written by Courtney M. Walker, local Indian agent, to Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Joel Palmer, regarding conditions and operations at the "coast reservation"; two letters (1877) from Walker to his niece in Texas; copies of documents related to Walker's claim of damages to his property near the Rogue River; Walker's statement (1878) to the Oregon Pioneer Association concerning the character of John McLoughlin (4 p.); miscellaneous materials describing Walker's genealogy and papers.

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Oregon Superintendency

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McLoughlin, John, 1784-1857

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Elwood Evans (1828-1898), born in Philadelphia, went to Oregon Territory in 1851 as deputy collector of customs at Nisqually. From 1859 to 1861, he served as mayor of the newly incorporated town of Olympia, Washington. In addition to his historical work, A History of the Pacific Northwest, he contributed many historical articles to local papers. From the guide to the Elwood Evans notebook, 1859-1882, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries) ...

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...

Walker, Courtney Meade, 1812-1887.

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Courtney Meade Walker, fur trapper and missionary worker, was born on April 14, 1812 in Nicholasville, Kentucky. He journeyed to Oregon in 1834 with Methodist missionary Jason Lee and assisted with the establishment of the Willamette Mission. The following year he entered the fur trade as an employee of Nathaniel Wyeth's Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company, serving as the clerk at Fort William on Sauvie Island. Following the collapse of Wyeth's operation, Walker entered the service of the...