Spalding family papers, 1877-circa 1920s.

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Spalding family papers, 1877-circa 1920s.

This collection consists of records related to Spalding family businesses in Almota, WA. They include account books and banking and real estate documents. The account books reflect transactions in products and services including grain, produce, wood, general merchandise, blacksmithing, and shipping.

.25 linear feet.

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Spalding family

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Spalding, Marcus Whitman

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Spalding, Henry Hart, 1839-1898

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Henry Hart Spalding was born in Lapwai, Oregon Territory, on November 24, 1839. The son of missionaries Henry Harmon and Eliza Hart Spalding, he was one of the first children of two white parents born in the Oregon Territory. The Spaldings lived in Lapwai, where they attempted to convert the Nez Perce to Christianity, through much of the younger Henry's childood. After the family's friends the Whitmans were killed by Cayuse Indians in 1847, the Spaldings withdrew to the Willamette Valley of Oreg...