Joel Palmer papers, 1851-1879.

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Joel Palmer papers, 1851-1879.

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Collection consists of correspondence, official records of the Oregon Superintendency, U.S. Office of Indian Affairs, documents relating to the Siletz Indian Reservation, and miscellaneous papers. The collection includes a notebook documenting the 1847 publication of Palmer's Journal of travels over the Rocky Mountains, his account of his 1845 journey to Oregon.

11.5 linear ft. (23 containers)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7649255

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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...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Oregon Superintendency

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