Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 1808-1847
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Converting the West: a biography of Narcissa Whitman
Collection
Identifier: Mss2934
Abstract
Typescript biography of Narcissa Whitman.
Dates:
1992
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1203
Abstract
Papers of and relating to Presbyterian missionaries Marcus Whitman (1802-1847) and Narcissa Whitman (1808-1847), including their correspondence, documents and recollections relating to their murder and the aftermath, and ephemera related to their memorialization. The Whitmans established a mission in 1836 at Waiilatpu near Walla Walla in the part of the Oregon Territory that would later become Washington state, with the goal of converting the local Cayuse people. The Whitmans' relations with...
Dates:
1834-1947; Majority of material found within 1834-1850
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