Spalding Papers, 1833-1891.

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Spalding Papers, 1833-1891.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/740535447

Correspondence, transcripts and articles relating to both Spalding's career as a missionary and his personal life. Contains information about the Spaldings' journey to Oregon Territory, Life Among the Nez Perce and his reports to the American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). Much of the material in this collection is copied from other sources.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

Spokane Public Library, Downtown Branch

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SNAC Resource ID: 8112413

Spokane Public Library, Downtown Branch

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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 PerceĢ Indian mission at Lapwai, where he remained until the Whitman Massacre in 1847...

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 ...