Correspondence regarding the Fort Colville mill [manuscript], 1920.

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Correspondence regarding the Fort Colville mill [manuscript], 1920.

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Letters between Jacob A. Meyers of Meyers Falls, Wash., and George H. Himes of the Oregon Historical Society, attempting to establishing the veracity of a statement asserting that the first mill north of California was established at Fort Colville in 1826. Himes asserts the first mills were instead established by Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver.

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Meyers, Jacob

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Brooklyn businessman, president of Electric Printing Company. From the description of Scrapbook, 1860-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155450881 ...

Himes, George H., 1844-1940

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George H. Himes was the curator of the Oregon Historical Society. From the description of History of immigration to Oregon, undated. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 64446580 Historian, curator, and printer George Henry Himes was born on May 18, 1844 in Troy, Pennsylvania, and he came overland to the Oregon Territory with his family in 1853. They settled near Olympia, Washington, where Himes's father Tyrus took up farming. George...

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...