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Receipt for payment on a donation land claim, Washington County, Oregon, 1855.

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Collection includes correspondence with Isabella Barclay, Peter Skene Ogden and others; deeds; receipts; and documents relating to the Oregon City School.

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Papers of George E. Chamberlain (1854-1928), who was attorney general for and then governor of Oregon, and then a U.S. senator for Oregon. The collection consists primarily of correspondence written during Chamberlain's time as governor.

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Accounts, receipts, and other documents, 1874-1875, related to the Columbia River Transportation Co. and the steamers Otter and Teaser.

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James J. Driscoll was a lawyer in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, receipts, and miscellaneous legal documents. Also included are papers relating to the estate of David Downie, for which James J. Driscoll was the administrator, and war insurance papers for Mrs. Mary Driscoll.

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Records include ledgers, day books, journals, job books, trial balance book, city subscription book, account books, letterpress copy book, receipts, and correspondence.

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Collection includes receipts, tickets, programs and ephemera from the Annual Exhibit, September 18-24, 1899, held in Baker City, Oregon; "Around the World for an Arkansaw Girl," 8 pages, 1897; "Torch of Reason Song Book," 30 pages, 1899; and "Wolfard & Mount's Improved Hop Dryer and Curer," 1901.

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Collection includes receipts, 1813-1819, with typed transcript, and 5 notarized burial certificates, 1923, signed by attendees of Jeremiah Jack's funeral. Jack fought in the war of 1812 and moved to Silverton, Oregon in 1847.

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Papers of and relating to Berryman Jennings (1807-1888), primarily correspondence relating to his role as quartermaster during the Cayuse War. Jennings emigrated to Oregon in 1847, helped build the steamer Lot Whitcomb, and was the first grand master of the Oregon Masonic Lodge. The town Jennings Lodge, Oregon, is named for him.

Abstract William McMillen (1824-1869) was Multnomah County Sheriff in the 1850s, delegate to the National Democratic Committee in 1864, and owned the Hallock & McMillen Building with A. B. Hallock. Collection includes tax and financial records; deeds; legal documents regarding his estate, 1870-1874; certificates and papers relating to his service as Multnomah County sheriff, 1850-1860; correspondence relating to his service as delegate to the National Democratic Committee; and genealogical...