Scope and Contents Original is a handscript leatherbound diary of Justin Chenoweth, which also includes financial accounts. It commences with a narrative account of a trading trip from Darwin, Clark County, Illinois, down the Wabash, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers with brothers Robert and Charles and continues with a very brief account of travel from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (June 4, 1849) with the U.S. Mounted Rifles, to Oregon City, Oregon (November 15, 1849). The diary concludes with Chenoweth's early...

Scope and Contents

Original is a blue-green print wallpaper-covered compilation of handscript letters. Follows Justin Chenoweth's journey from to Oregon. Correspondents include Wilson P. Blain, C. M. Chenoweth, John Chenoweth, Maria Drake, Virginia Drake, James Durham, W. B. Hudson, A. L. Lovejoy, B. C. Pratt, Major R. B. Reynolds, Albert Shaw, and Thomas Smith. Ends with poem, "Hail! all hail! the plow!" by Justin Chenoweth, July 1850.

Scope and Contents

Original is a brown paper-covered handscript letterbook on blue paper. Correspondents include M. H. Barnhart, Nathan Benson, D. P. Bradford, Emily Chenoweth, John Chenoweth, L. P. Chenoweth, Nathaniel Coe, C. B. Culver, John Ferguson, Mary A. Friar, G. G. Johnson, W. S. Ladd, Sarah Perry, D. J. Schuebely, Albert Shaw, S. R. Thurston, Captain J. O. VanBergen, William Welch, W. B. Wells, and Angeline White. Includes several sonnets to Mary [Friar], 1851, and letters to the editor.

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include M. R. Hathaway, G. W. Johnson, A. Lee Lewes, Dan F. Radford, and J. Quinn Thornton on topics ranging from surveying to matters relating to Chenoweth's civil duties.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection includes a diary and early Oregon correspondence (originals and typed transcripts) of Justin Chenoweth, pioneer and surveyor, and chronicles his work and family life during the years 1848-1862. The collection also includes accounts and receipts, some recorded in his diary, and some separately. Legal documents feature Chenoweth's work as a justice of the peace, as well as family land claims and transactions. The collection also includes two reels of microfilm, one of Wasco...

Scope and Contents

Docket of cases handled by Justin Chenoweth as justice of the peace, Territory of Oregon, Clackamas County. Includes case of the alleged murder of a Native person at The Dalles by George Mace.

Scope and Contents

Documentation submitted by Justin Chenoweth regarding his land claim in The Dalles, Oregon (1860) and his father's (John Chenoweth) Bounty Land Claim for service in the War of 1812. Typescript, typescript copies, and photocopies of documents from the National Archives.

Scope and Contents

Memorandum of agreement between F. A. Chenoweth and Cornelius J. Palmer, and other papers relating to property in Cascades, Washington Territory, "destroyed by Indians."

Scope and Contents

Given by Justin Chenoweth as superintendent of schools, Skamania County, Washington Territory, for School District Number 3.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection includes a diary and early Oregon correspondence (originals and typed transcripts) of Justin Chenoweth, pioneer and surveyor, and chronicles his work and family life during the years 1848-1862. The collection also includes accounts and receipts, some recorded in his diary, and some separately. Legal documents feature Chenoweth's work as a justice of the peace, as well as family land claims and transactions. The collection also includes two reels of microfilm, one of Wasco...