Joel Palmer papers, 1784-1911 (bulk 1848-1857).

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Joel Palmer papers, 1784-1911 (bulk 1848-1857).

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Contains: manuscript poem, Bristol, England, 1784 Feb. 21; letter (ALs) to Colonel B. Jennings, The Dalles, from Joel Palmer; manuscript copy of report to the U.S. Secretary of War or the Commissioner of Indian Affairs from General Joseph Lane, ca. 1849; Letter (ALs) from W.B. Bonney to Joel Palmer, 1850 Jan. 17; letter (ALs) to Joel Palmer from Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Bonneville, 1855 Mar. 27; printed copy of the treaty between the United States and the Rogue River Indians, 1855; manuscript, signed by Joel Palmer, titled "Abstract of disbursements," 1856 Feb.; manuscript extracts from "Articles of treatry made at Port Orford," 1857 Sept. 20; letter (Als) from Senator John H. Mitchell to Joel Palmer, 1876 Jan. 9; hand drawn map of the Columbia River and its tributaries, titled "Map of Walker's Trail to Dalles," undated; fragment of a letter, ca. 1800; and pamphlet titled "History of the Grand Ronde Military Block House," 1911.

12 folders.

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Bonney, W. B.

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Lane, Joseph, 1801-1881

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Mitchell, John H. (John Hipple), 1835-1905

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Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de, 1796-1878.

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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...