Papers of Dr. William Henry Gray (1810-1889), a physician and lay missionary for the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions who was active in the Oregon Territory. Includes typescript and original letters and other documents regarding missionary activities; typescript of the diary of Gray's wife, Mary Augusta Dix Gray; original of William Henry Gray's diary for 1836-1837, and original documents concerning a land claim dispute that Gray had with Josiah L. Parrish.

Papers of Alvin T. Smith (1802-1888), including his diaries, and records and correspondence relating to his tenure as postmaster at Tualatin, Oregon Territory (later Forest Grove, Oregon). Smith emigrated to the Oregon Territory in 1840 as a lay missionary, and moved to what would become Forest Grove in 1841. He served as postmaster in the 1850s, and was one of the founders of Tualatin Academy (later Pacific University).