Adam McNemee letter to Ada Morden [manuscript], 1920 July 7.

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Adam McNemee letter to Ada Morden [manuscript], 1920 July 7.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/669983068

Letter from Adam J. McNemee to his niece Ada Morden of Langley Island County, Washington, 3 pp, 1920, primarily about the surveying of Portland, Oregon, by Lovejoy and Pettygrove, Benjamin Stark and McNemee family genealogy.

.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7963456

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McNemee, Job.

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McNemee family.

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Morden, Ada F., b. 1858.

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McNemee, Adam.

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Stark, Benjamin, 1820-1898

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Benjamin Stark was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 26, 1820, and attended school in New London, Connecticut. In 1845 he sailed for Oregon, where he purchased an interest in a Portland land claim. Later he entered a New York business partnership to ship merchandise to California during the gold rush. When the New York parent company went bankrupt, Stark was only able to salvage his Portland property. In 1850 he moved to Portland and married Elizabeth Molthrop in 1854. He was appointed to c...