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Box 1

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Contains 9 Results:

Joseph Henry Brown autobiography (typescript, 2 versions), 1878

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers of Joseph Henry Brown, an emigrant to Oregon and later a historian. The collection includes typescripts of an autobiography detailing Brown's overland journey and military service; correspondence, including letters from William C. McKay and Jesse Applegate; notes, drafts, and research materials used in the writing of Brown's "Political History of Oregon"; scrapbooks; and clippings. Also included is a transcription of a journal by Medorem Crawford regarding his journey from New York to...
Dates: 1878

Indian Council of the Walla Walla Valley--Account of Lieutenant Lawrence Kipp, 4th Artillery, U.S.A. (handwritten copy), 1855

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers of Joseph Henry Brown, an emigrant to Oregon and later a historian. The collection includes typescripts of an autobiography detailing Brown's overland journey and military service; correspondence, including letters from William C. McKay and Jesse Applegate; notes, drafts, and research materials used in the writing of Brown's "Political History of Oregon"; scrapbooks; and clippings. Also included is a transcription of a journal by Medorem Crawford regarding his journey from New York to...
Dates: 1855

Letters from Jesse Applegate, William C. McKay, and others (5 items), 1887-1892, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers of Joseph Henry Brown, an emigrant to Oregon and later a historian. The collection includes typescripts of an autobiography detailing Brown's overland journey and military service; correspondence, including letters from William C. McKay and Jesse Applegate; notes, drafts, and research materials used in the writing of Brown's "Political History of Oregon"; scrapbooks; and clippings. Also included is a transcription of a journal by Medorem Crawford regarding his journey from New York to...
Dates: 1887-1892; undated

Medorem Crawford journal of trip from Havanna [sic], New York to the Willamette Valley, Oregon (typescript transcription), 1842

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers of Joseph Henry Brown, an emigrant to Oregon and later a historian. The collection includes typescripts of an autobiography detailing Brown's overland journey and military service; correspondence, including letters from William C. McKay and Jesse Applegate; notes, drafts, and research materials used in the writing of Brown's "Political History of Oregon"; scrapbooks; and clippings. Also included is a transcription of a journal by Medorem Crawford regarding his journey from New York to...
Dates: 1842

Record book of Oregon Farmers' Union conventions and 1870s transcripts of correspondence dated 1846-1848, primarily to George Abernethy, 1873-circa 1874

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers of Joseph Henry Brown, an emigrant to Oregon and later a historian. The collection includes typescripts of an autobiography detailing Brown's overland journey and military service; correspondence, including letters from William C. McKay and Jesse Applegate; notes, drafts, and research materials used in the writing of Brown's "Political History of Oregon"; scrapbooks; and clippings. Also included is a transcription of a journal by Medorem Crawford regarding his journey from New York to...
Dates: 1873-circa 1874

Notes, general, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers of Joseph Henry Brown, an emigrant to Oregon and later a historian. The collection includes typescripts of an autobiography detailing Brown's overland journey and military service; correspondence, including letters from William C. McKay and Jesse Applegate; notes, drafts, and research materials used in the writing of Brown's "Political History of Oregon"; scrapbooks; and clippings. Also included is a transcription of a journal by Medorem Crawford regarding his journey from New York to...
Dates: undated

Notes, general, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Includes history of Oregon City, history of the Oregon Milling Company, and "Rules for making a horoscope."

Dates: undated

Scrapbook (old designation: "Part II #1."), circa 1866-1923

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

May have been started by Joseph H. Brown and later continued by a relative. Includes letterhead for Joseph Henry Brown.

Dates: circa 1866-1923

School history papers, 1924

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

School compositions on early Oregon history, many on the town of Elkton. The connection between these papers and the present collection is unclear.

Dates: 1924