Winch family papers [manuscript], circa 1840-2000.

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Winch family papers [manuscript], circa 1840-2000.

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Photographs and papers of the Winch family of Portland, Oregon, including materials relating to Martin Winch, his wife Nellie Amelia Wygant Winch, their son Simeon Reed Winch, and Simeon's second wife Margaret (Mary) Tobin Winch. Additional materials pertain to related families, including the Passmore, Rae, Reed, Whidden, Wood and Wygant families, and Dr. John McLoughlin. Materials include financial records, correspondence, house inventories, correspondence, diaries, photographs, daguerreotypes, and drawings. Included is: Theodore Wygant's 1850 overland diary; correspondence of Simeon Gannett Reed and letters to Reed from William S. Ladd; Maria Louisa Wygant's diaries of trips to the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 and the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915; photographs of Amanda Reed's house in Pasadena, California; photographs and a scrapbook relating to Simeon Reed Winch's years at Princeton University, 1908-1911; materials relating to Reed College; and materials relating to Mary Winch's work at the Oregon Journal.

8 cubic feet (13 document cases, 4 flat boxes, 2 card file boxes, 1 oversize folder).

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8335160

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Rae family.

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Whidden family.

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Princeton University

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Wood family.

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