reminiscences
Found in 74 Collections and/or Records:
Michael McCarthy reminiscences
Photocopies and typescript transcriptions of manuscript accounts by Michael McCarthy regarding his experiences in the Modoc War.
James H. McMillen reminiscences
James H. McMillen (1823-1913) was an Oregon pioneer of 1845, volunteer in the Cayuse Indian war, and resident of Washington County, Oregon. Collection consists of McMillen's manuscript reminiscences, 1910-1911, in the form of a letter to George Himes, regarding his journey to Oregon in 1845; his acquaintance with John McLoughlin and Peter Skene Ogden; and his recollections of the Whitman killings, Cayuse Indian War, and early Portland, Oregon.
Edward Everett Mingus reminiscences
Typescript reminiscences of Edward Everett Mingus's life and experiences as a physician in many Oregon cities, his service in the U. S. Army Medical Officers' Reserve Corps during World War I, etc.
J. C. Moe reminiscences
Typescript carbon copy of an autobiography, "Memoirs," by J. C. Moe, 1957, regarding his family's arrival in America from Norway in the 1880s, as well as logging and steamboating in Kitsap County, Washington.
Morse family diary
Typescript diary, "The Red Book," of Add (Addison) and Nellie (Ellen) Morse. It includes the family's move from the Midwest to Portland, Oregon (1888-89); family genealogy; notes of Rex L. Morse; and a eulogy for Percy Mulford Morse.
Robert Newell papers
Papers of Robert Newell (1807-1869), a trapper, emigrant to Oregon, and Indian agent. Includes a typescript copy of Newell's diary of an 1868 voyage from Portland, Oregon, to Washington, D.C., with Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) leaders; handwritten copies of letters regarding William Gray's "History of Oregon"; and Newell's account of the 1843 meeting at Champoeg, which formed the provisional government of the Oregon Territory. Only a small number of the items are original documents.
An octogenarian's childhood on the western frontier
Collection consists of Elizabeth Reed Brent's reminiscences of her childhood in Picard, California, now called Dorris, from the late 1890s to 1906. Brent's family moved from Iowa to Keno, Oregon, in 1891, and she was born in Keno in 1895. From there, the family moved to Picard and later to Chico, California.
Mary Packard reminiscences of Reverend Jason Lee
Manuscript reminiscences of Mary Packard, circa 1900, describing her memories of Reverend Jason Lee when she met him in Stanstead, Canada, circa 1835.
George Anson Pease papers
Collection consists of a steamboat pilot's license for George Anson Pease, July 3, 1862, allowing him to pilot steam vessels in the First District on the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Vancouver to Eugene to St. Helens; manuscript reminiscences of Pease, 18 pages, circa 1861-1870, about his experiences steamboating on the lower Willamette from 1850-1861.
Pioneer women on the high desert
Typescript photocopy first and second drafts of a fictionalized reminiscence of Mabel O. Riisberg's experiences as a homesteader in the Imperial Valley. Riisberg was a waitress from Portland, Oregon, who, along with her older sister, decided to homestead in the high desert country east of Bend, Oregon.