Edward Dickinson Baker papers [manuscript], 1846-1951 (bulk 1846-1862).

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Edward Dickinson Baker papers [manuscript], 1846-1951 (bulk 1846-1862).

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Papers of Edward Dickinson Baker, Oregon Senator, including a copy of his speech on "The Oregon Question" in 1846, while a Representative from Illinois; copy print of his parents' wedding certificate; correspondence, 1860-1861; various handwritten notes, possibly for speeches; printed copies of Baker's speeches at the Virginia Peace Convention and "Upon the Secession Question," 1861; and two documents regarding the addition of a "suitable plaque" to the statue of Baker at the United States Capitol, 1951.

.04 cubic feet (1 folder)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Born in London in 1811 to schoolteacher Edward Baker and Lucy Dickinson Baker, poor but educated Quakers, the boy Edward Baker and his family left England and emigrated to the United States in 1816, arriving in Philadelphia, where Baker's father established a school. Ed attended his father's school before quitting to apprentice as a loom operator in a weaving factory. In 1825, the family left Philadelphia and traveled to New Harmony, Indiana, a utopian community on the Ohio River led by Robert O...

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