Orlando Brown diary [manuscript], 1852.

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Orlando Brown diary [manuscript], 1852.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767874980

Photocopy diary of Orlando Brown, 3 pp, 5 September-18 October 1852, regarding his journey overland from Wisconsin to Oregon and then by boat to San Francisco. With index, 1 p.

.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Brown, Orlando, 1987-

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Orlando Brown was born September 26, 1801, in Frankfort, Kentucky, to John and Margaretta Brown. He is a descendent of John Preston of Londonderry (now Northern Ireland) through his father's mother, Margaret Preston. He received an A.B. from Princeton and a law degree from Transylvania University. Brown practiced law in Alabama, but returned to Kentucky and became joint proprietor and editor of the FRANKFORT COMMONWEALTH. He was the first corresponding secretary of the Kentucky Historical Societ...