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
- Women -- Suffrage -- Oregon 1
- Women authors -- Oregon 1
- Women physicians -- Oregon -- 19th century 1
- booklets 1
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