Papers, 1850-1896.

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Papers, 1850-1896.

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Chiefly correspondence covering the years of Flett's residence in Washington Terrirtory and State, chiefly focused on the years 1875-1892 and addressing subjects including family matters, his interaction with Native Americans and other Indian agents, Puyallup Indian Reservation, involvement in education, daily economic affairs, and interest in his personal historical account of the Indian Wars of 1855-1857; together with legal documents, clippings, publication, personal notes, and recollections. Family correspondents include his mother Margaret Flett, brothers Robert and William George Flett, sister Mary Flett, Rev. George Atkinson, and William Harvey Flett. Other correspondents include John Banfield, Thomas Condon, Eva Dye, W.P. Gibson, Augustus Kautz, A.L. Lindsley, Gen. R.H. Milroy, Fred Minnick, and Gen. Joel Palmer.

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Flett, William Harvey

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Palmer, Joel, 1810-1881

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Joel Palmer was born October 4, 1810 in Elizabethtown, Ontario, Canada to Ephraim and Anna Palmer. When Joel was two his family fled the ravages of the War of 1812 and settled in the frontier village of Lowville in northern New York. At the age of twelve Joel was "bound out" (a form of indentured servitude) to the Haworth family in the Catskill Mountains. At age 16 he left the Catskills for Philadelphia where he married Catherine Caffee in 1830, who later died in childbirth. In 1836 Joel married...

Flett, Mary

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Kautz, August V. (August Valentine), 1828-1895

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August Valentine Kautz was a United States (U.S.) Army officer. He was a private, 1st Ohio Infantry Regiment (Mexican War); lieutenant, 4th U.S. Infantry Regiment; captain, 6th (3rd) U.S. Cavalry Regiment; colonel, 2nd Ohio Cavalry Regiment; commander, Camp Chase; 1st Cavalry Brigade, District of Central Kentucky; 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, XXIII (23rd) Corps; Chief of Cavalry and temporary Chief of Staff, XXIII Corps; Assistant Chief, Cavalry Bureau; brigadier general, Cavalry Division, Departm...

Flett, Margaret Whilford

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Milroy, Robert Huston, 1816-1890

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Milroy was born on a farm near the hamlet of Canton, five miles east of Salem, Indiana, but the family moved to Carroll County in 1826. He graduated from Norwich Academy in Vermont in 1843. He moved to Texas in 1845, returning to Indiana in 1847. He was a captain in the 1st Indiana Volunteers during the Mexican War, but did not see any combat action. He graduated from Indiana University Law School in 1850 and became a lawyer and judge in Rensselaer, Indiana. Just before Abraham Lincoln was in...

Dye, Eva Emery, 1855-1947

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Eva Emery Dye (1855-1947), Oregon author and historian, was born in Prophetstown, illinois. She was educated at Oberlin College (B.A. 1882, M.A. 1887) and married a classmate Charles Henry Dye in 1882. They moved to Oregon City, Oregon, in 1890, where Charles Dye practiced law and the couple raised four children. Eva Dye published numerous books and articles relating to the history of Oregon and the western United States, many of them works of historical fiction. She was closely associated with ...

Flett, William George

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Flett, Robert

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Condon, Thomas, 1822-1907

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Flett, John, 1815-1892

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John Flett emigrated from the Selkirk settlement on the Red River in 1841 under the auspices of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company. Appointed in 1854 as Indian interpreter, and later subagent, under Gen. Joel Palmer, he attended all the Indian councils with Superintendent Palmer. He returned to farming in Washington Territory in 1859 and settled at Lakeview. From the description of Indian religions notes, 1890 Jul 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127577 Indian agent a...

Lindsley, A. L. (Aaron Ladner), 1817-1891

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Minnick, Fred

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Atkinson, G. H. (George Henry), 1819-1889

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George H. Atkinson, a Congregational minister in the Pacific Northwest, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1843 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1846. Unable to accept an appointment to a mission in Africa because he had not yet been ordained, he sailed to Oregon by way of Hawaii with his wife, arriving in 1848. Atkinson originally settled in Oregon City. He prepared the first public school law in Oregon and helped plan for the forming of Pacific University. In 1963, he became pastor of...

Banfield, John, active 1894

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Gibson, W. P

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