Licenses for marriages performed by John Handsaker

Collection

Identifier: Coll 912

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 58 licenses for marriages that John Handsaker officiated in the 1870s and 1880s. These licenses are the copies that were made for Handsaker. All but three of these licenses are for marriages officiated in Lane County, Oregon; the other three licenses are for marriages officiated in Jackson County, Oregon.

Dates

1876-1888

Creator

Handsaker, John, 1821-1908 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

The Oregon Historical Society owns the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners.

Biographical Note

John Handsaker was born in 1821 in Derbyshire, England, and immigrated to the United States in 1843. After living in Illinois for three decades, in 1874 he moved to Goshen, Oregon, where he worked in merchandising, as an agent for the Oregon and California Railroad, as a postmaster, and as an express agent. He moved to Tacoma, Washington, in 1888. Handsaker was an ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died in 1908.

Source: Obituary in the Oregonian, March 20, 1908.

Extent

0.1 Cubic Feet (2 folders in shared box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Fifty-eight licenses for marriages performed by John Handsaker (1821-1908) in the 1870s and 1880s. Handsaker was an English American who lived in Lane County, Oregon, from 1874 to 1888, and was an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church.