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Applegate, Jesse A., 1811-1888

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Bethenia Owens-Adair papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 503
Abstract

Papers of Bethenia Owens-Adair (1840-1926), including letters from Jesse Applegate, a speech by Owens-Adair in support of women's suffrage, a pro-eugenics booklet by Owens-Adair, and a letter from Owens-Adair to Fred Lockley. Owens-Adair was one of the first women working as doctors in Oregon to hold a medical degree, and was active in the temperance, women's suffrage, and eugenics movements.

Dates: 1869-1921

Frances Fuller Victor papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1199
Abstract

A small collection of papers of the Oregon historian and author Frances Fuller Victor, including: correspondence with early emigrants to Oregon Jesse Applegate and Jessy Q. Thornton; typescript of a poem; a copy of her work "The Women's War with Whisky"; and a scrapbook of reviews of Victor's works.

Dates: 1874-1899

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Eugenics -- Oregon 1
Involuntary sterilization -- Oregon 1
Medicine and Health 1
Oregon Territory -- History 1
Temperance -- Oregon -- Portland -- History 1