Seminar essays on Oregon history, 1949-1951.

Oregon. Legislative Assembly

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Baker, Edward Dickinson, 1811-1861

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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...

Spaid, Stanley S.

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Lauc, John A.

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American Party

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One of the most famous incidents of anti-Catholic sentiment expression occurred August 11, 1834; non-Catholic rioters looted and burned the Ursuline Convent of Mount Benedict in Charlestown, MA. Anti-Catholic violence also erupted in Philadelphia when 13 people were killed in riots in 1835. Activities by the American Nativist Party in Kensington, Pennsylvania, in 1844 also sparked anti-Catholic riots. In the 1850s, the American Party, also known as the Know-Nothing Party, was partly founded on a...

Bird, Eugene

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Five seminar papers written for history courses at the University of Oregon, focusing on Oregon history. Essays include "Colonel Edward Dickinson Baker and the Oregon Legislature, 1860" by Eugene H. Bird; "The Whig Party in Oregon" by Richard S. Cramer;" Know Nothingism in Oregon" by Stephen P. Dotur; "The Early Chinese Labor Question in Oregon" and "The Early History of the Portland Federated Trades Assembly, 1883-1891", both by John A. Lauc; and Jonathan Bourne, Jr. and "Oregon Politics, 1895-...

Whig Party (U.S.)

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Pike, A. H. (Athol Henry)

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Bourne, Jonathan, 1855-1940

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Jonathan Bourne was a native of New Bedford, Massachusetts and was educated at Harvard University. He came to Portland, Oregon in 1878 and practiced law for eight years. He became active in mine and real estate speculation and Republican politics. In 1885 and 1887 he was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from Multnomah County, and from 1888 to 1892 a member of the Republican National Committee. He favored direct election of senators and was elected U.S. Senator in 1906 but was not ...

Cramer, Richard P.

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Dotur, Stephen P.

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