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Papers of John Franklin Calbreath, an Oregon physician and state senator, including family letters of Sidney and Mianda Smith, John U. Smith, and Irene Smith Calbreath; political letters from John H. Mitchell and George W. McBride; a copy of an 1839 overland journal of Sidney Smith; accounts and notebooks of John Franklin Calbreath; and biographical and genealogical materials.

Abstract Collection includes manuscript correspondence between Benton Killin and family, the Oregon State Horticultural Society, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Thomas M. Gatch, C. E. Dentler of Oregon State University, and John H. Mitchell, 1894-1910, regarding Benton Killin's work in agriculture in Oregon and Alaska. Also included are speeches, circa 1900-1901; manuscript notes on Kodiak, Alaska, partially in Russian; medical diary of Dr. Frank B. Kistner, 1902; and marriage and other...

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Speeches and three items of correspondence of U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell (1935-1905). Mitchell was a U.S. senator for Oregon who servered at various points from the 1870s to the 1900s. In 1905, he was convicted of having accepted bribes, and he died while awaiting an appeal for his conviction.

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Henry Moorhead Montgomery (1863-1932) was a contractor and insurance agent in Portland, Oregon. Papers include business correspondence, 1888-1927, regarding a suit for timber lands, construction of Heceta Head Light Station at Florence, Oregon, appointment as a civil servant, and the location of the federal Customs House in Portland, Oregon. Also included is manuscript personal correspondence, 1891-1893, with John H. Mitchell and George W. McBride.

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Typescript correspondence between John Dolan and the Library of Congress, Oregon Senator John Mitchell, and the Ohio Historical Society, 1901-1908, regarding the price and sale of a manuscript orderly book kept by Winthrop Sargent while he was secretary of the Northwest Territory and adjutant general of the Indian Expedition of 1791 under General St. Clair.

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Charles Wolverton was a lawyer in Albany, Oregon, a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court, and a judge on U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, 1894-1926, regarding state and national politics, Wolverton's judicial career, personal and business matters with John H. Mitchell, Reuben P. Boise, and Benjamin F. Mulkey; speeches regarding initiative and referendum; and ephemera.