Asa Lawrence Lovejoy papers [manuscript], 1856-1878.

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Asa Lawrence Lovejoy papers [manuscript], 1856-1878.

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Collection includes a proclamation certifying Lovejoy's election to the House of Representatives of Oregon; various official, handwritten proclamations, including one which appears to incorporate Oregon City; letter from Cornelius H. Dofendorff, including an account of the battle with the "Des Chutes" (Wyam) Indians and the state of affairs near The Dalles, Oregon; typescript copy of a letter to Rev. George Henry Atkinson, relating details of a winter trip across the Rocky Mountains with Marcus Whitman in 1843-1843, dated 1876 February 14; and a Photostat of "Founding of Portland: Whitman's expedition to Washington in the winter of 1842-3," Oregon City, 1878.

0.04 cubic feet (3 folders)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Lovejoy, Asa Lawrence, 1808-1882.

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Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847

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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman served as missionaries to the Cayuse Indians at Waiilatpu (near Walla Walla, Washington) from 1836 until they were murdered in 1847. They operated under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. From the description of Letters, 1834-1847. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 31911271 Marcus Whitman was born on September 4, 1802 in Rushville, New York. His father's early death necessitate...

Dofendorff, Cornelius H.

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Atkinson, G. H. (George Henry), 1819-1889

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George H. Atkinson, a Congregational minister in the Pacific Northwest, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1843 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1846. Unable to accept an appointment to a mission in Africa because he had not yet been ordained, he sailed to Oregon by way of Hawaii with his wife, arriving in 1848. Atkinson originally settled in Oregon City. He prepared the first public school law in Oregon and helped plan for the forming of Pacific University. In 1963, he became pastor of...