Oregon Mission Papers, 1837-1872.

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

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Organized 1810; incorporated 1812; consists of members of National Council of Congregational Churches in the U.S., and 150 additional members elected by the board in biennial meetings; the foreign missionary arm of Congregational Christian Churches of the U.S.; headquartered in Boston, Mass.; also known as ABCFM. From the description of Records, 1804-1964 (bulk 1900-1960). (American Congregational Association). WorldCat record id: 70927016 Organized 1810; incorporated in 181...

Walker, Elkanah, 1805-1877

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Missionaries to the Spokane Indians for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. From the description of Papers of Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker, 1821-1938. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852997 Reverend Elkanah Walker, pioneer Congregational missionary, was born on August 7, 1805 in North Yarmouth, Maine. Following his ordination in 1838, Walker and his new bride, Mary Richardson, journeyed overland to the Oregon Country in order ...

Eells, Cushing, 1810-1893

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Reverend Cushing Eells, pioneer missionary and teacher, came west in 1838 with the American Fur Company and served in Spokane. After the Whitman Massacre (1847), he moved to Salem, Oregon where he taught in Oregon until 1860. He eventually returned to Walla Walla to promote the Whitman Seminary. From the description of Letters, 1843-1859. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 31370814 Reverend Cushing Eells (1810-1893), crossed the Plains in 1838 ...

Spalding, Eliza Hart, 1807-1851

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Eliza Spalding and Narcissa Whitman were the first white women to cross the continent overland. From the description of Diary, 1836-1840. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 31760037 ...

Ogden, Peter Skene, 1790-1854

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Walker, Mary Richardson, 1811-1897

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Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker, pioneer missionaries, were sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the Oregon Mission. The Walkers and one other couple, Cushing and Myra Eells, established the mission at Tshimakain in 1838, to work with the Spokane Indians. Mary was born and educated in Maine, and married Elkanah because the Board wanted to send married couples. The Board closed the mission in 1848 after the Whitmans were killed. The Walkers eventually settled nea...

Eells, Myra Fairbanks, 1805-1878

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Myra Fairbanks Eells was the wife of Cushing Eells, a pioneer missionary and teacher. From the description of Journal, 1838. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 31371068 ...

Gray, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1889

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Dr. William Henry Gray, a physician and lay missionary for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, was born on May 10, 1810. In 1836, he joined Marcus Whitman and Henry H. Spalding to travel overland and establish a mission for the Indians of the Oregon Country. In 1837, Gray traveled east in order to obtain more recruits for the missions and returned the following year with his new bride, Mary Augusta Dix Gray. William Gray was also instrumental in the formation of Oregon's Pr...

Perkins, H. K. W. (Henry Kirk White), 1812-1884

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Gray, Mary Augusta Dix, 1810-1881

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Wife of William Henry Gray, lay assistant to several Pacific Northwest Indian missions. From the description of Diary, 1840-1842. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 31413427 ...

Perkins, Elvira Johnson.

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Smith, Asa Bowen, 1809-1886

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Smith was a missionary in Oregon and Hawaii. He was sent in 1838 to Oregon by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. In 1842 he became a missionary in Hawaii. He returned to the Northeast in 1846, and became a pastor of the Buckland Congregational church. From the description of Asa Bowen Smith correspondence, 1832-1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702138474 Asa Bowen Smith, Congregational missionary, was born July 16, 1809 in Williamstown, Vermont. Sho...

Smith, Sarah Gilbert White, 1813-1855

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Daughter of Alfred and Sarah (Gilbert) White of West Brookfield Mass. Wife of Rev. Asa B. Smith. Rev. and Mrs. Smith were pioneer Oregon missionaries to the Indians, under appointment of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. From the description of Diary, 1838 Mar. 10-1839 Sept. 14. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 56349716 From the description of Diary, 1838 Mar. 10-1839 Sept. 14. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 13368522 ...

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...

Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874

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Reverend Henry Harmon Spalding, pioneer Presbyterian missionary in the Oregon Territory, was born on November 26, 1803 in New York. In 1836, after successfully applying for an appointment under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Spalding traveled overland to Oregon with his first wife, Eliza Hart Spalding, and Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Later that year he founded the Nez Percé Indian mission at Lapwai, where he remained until the Whitman Massacre in 1847...