Angus McDonald correspondence [manuscript], 1877 Apr. 13, 1879 May 4.

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Angus McDonald correspondence [manuscript], 1877 Apr. 13, 1879 May 4.

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Collection includes two letters. The first is a typescript copy of a letter from Matthew P. Deady to Angus McDonald, commenting on McDonald's descriptions of the Oregon Country and its history. The second letter is a handwritten letter from Angus McDonald to Napoleon McGilvray, with envelope, 1879 May 4, encouraging him to contact the Hudson's Bay Company and advising him on sending mail to his brother in Saskatchewan.

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Deady, Matthew P. (Matthew Paul), 1824-1893

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Matthew Paul Deady, son of Daniel and Mary Ann (McSweeny) Deady, was born near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland on May 12, 1824. The Deady family worked a farm first in Maryland and, after 1828, in Wheeling, Virginia. Deady received his early education from his father and later at Wheeling's Lancasterian Academy. In 1837, three years after Mary Ann Deady's death, the family moved to Ohio. From 1841 to 1845 Deady was apprenticed to a blacksmith and, at the same time, attended Barnes...

Hudson's Bay Company

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The Hudson's Bay Company began in 1670, and by the 1820s it had expanded to the Pacific Northwest. John McLoughlin served as the head of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia district. In this position, which McLoughlin held for twenty-one years, he oversaw the company's operations throughout the entire Pacific Northwest. Researching the role Dr. McLoughlin played in the history of the Hudson's Bay Company were Robert C. Clark and Burt B. Barker. Both were historians at the University of Oregon wh...

McGilvray, Napoleon.

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McDonald, Angus, 1816-1889

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Angus McDonald was born in Scotland in 1816, and came to Fort Colville in what is now the state of Washington in the fall of 1839 as a trader for the Hudson's Bay Company. He went to Fort Hall in what is now Idaho in 1840. In 1842, he married a Nez PerceĢ woman, Catherine, at Fort Hall; their marriage was solemnized by a Jesuit missionary in 1854. They had twelve children between 1845 and 1871: Duncan, John Christina, Donald, Anne, Margaret, Thomas, Alexander, Archibald, Joseph, Angus Colville, ...