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Box 1

 Container

Contains 27 Results:

Autobiographical sketch (preservation copy), circa 1870

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the collection consists of handwritten essays and speeches by Jessy Quinn Thornton, a lawyer in 19th-century Oregon known in his life as J. Quinn Thornton. These writings cover a variety of topics, such as the legal profession, education, Oregon history, the Oregon Bible Society, temperance, and Thornton's own autobiography. Some of these works have words or lines crossed out, indicating that they may have been drafts. The collection also includes a bound volume with typescript...
Dates: circa 1870

Essay on temperance societies (manuscript), undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the collection consists of handwritten essays and speeches by Jessy Quinn Thornton, a lawyer in 19th-century Oregon known in his life as J. Quinn Thornton. These writings cover a variety of topics, such as the legal profession, education, Oregon history, the Oregon Bible Society, temperance, and Thornton's own autobiography. Some of these works have words or lines crossed out, indicating that they may have been drafts. The collection also includes a bound volume with typescript...
Dates: undated

Essay on prohibition liquor law (manuscript), undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the collection consists of handwritten essays and speeches by Jessy Quinn Thornton, a lawyer in 19th-century Oregon known in his life as J. Quinn Thornton. These writings cover a variety of topics, such as the legal profession, education, Oregon history, the Oregon Bible Society, temperance, and Thornton's own autobiography. Some of these works have words or lines crossed out, indicating that they may have been drafts. The collection also includes a bound volume with typescript...
Dates: undated

Letter to the editor of the Evangelist (manuscript), undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the collection consists of handwritten essays and speeches by Jessy Quinn Thornton, a lawyer in 19th-century Oregon known in his life as J. Quinn Thornton. These writings cover a variety of topics, such as the legal profession, education, Oregon history, the Oregon Bible Society, temperance, and Thornton's own autobiography. Some of these works have words or lines crossed out, indicating that they may have been drafts. The collection also includes a bound volume with typescript...
Dates: undated

"Infidelity" (manuscript), undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the collection consists of handwritten essays and speeches by Jessy Quinn Thornton, a lawyer in 19th-century Oregon known in his life as J. Quinn Thornton. These writings cover a variety of topics, such as the legal profession, education, Oregon history, the Oregon Bible Society, temperance, and Thornton's own autobiography. Some of these works have words or lines crossed out, indicating that they may have been drafts. The collection also includes a bound volume with typescript...
Dates: undated

"The Oregon Bible Society" (manuscript), undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the collection consists of handwritten essays and speeches by Jessy Quinn Thornton, a lawyer in 19th-century Oregon known in his life as J. Quinn Thornton. These writings cover a variety of topics, such as the legal profession, education, Oregon history, the Oregon Bible Society, temperance, and Thornton's own autobiography. Some of these works have words or lines crossed out, indicating that they may have been drafts. The collection also includes a bound volume with typescript...
Dates: undated

"Titles to real estate in Salem" (manuscript and typescript), 1874

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the collection consists of handwritten essays and speeches by Jessy Quinn Thornton, a lawyer in 19th-century Oregon known in his life as J. Quinn Thornton. These writings cover a variety of topics, such as the legal profession, education, Oregon history, the Oregon Bible Society, temperance, and Thornton's own autobiography. Some of these works have words or lines crossed out, indicating that they may have been drafts. The collection also includes a bound volume with typescript...
Dates: 1874