Henry H. Woodward papers, circa 1885-1905.

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Henry H. Woodward papers, circa 1885-1905.

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The collection contains: poems, published and unpublished; ephemera, including newspaper clippings on various historical personages; and notes on a theory of electricity (electric fluid generated in the Milky Way). Also includes an autograph letter, signed, from Horace Greeley, commiserating with Woodward on his inability to write poetry.

.25 cubic feet (1 document case)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Woodward, Henry H., 1826 or 1827-1915

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Henry H. Woodward was an Oregon pioneer. After five years as a seaman's apprentice (1843-1848), he came to Oregon (1850) as part of the Umpqua Company. Shareholders did business under name Winchester Payne and Company. Their intention was to acquire, subdivide and exploit lands along Umpqua River in central Oregon. Woodward was a volunteer soldier in Indian War of 1855-1856. It was supposedly on Woodward's initiative that Indians along Coquille River were persuaded to cease hostilities and retur...