diaries
Found in 165 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander Ross diary of the Snake Country expedition
Typescript photocopy of journal entries made by Alexander Ross from March 11, 1824, to April 22, 1824, during an expedition in the Pacific Northwest. Ross (1783-1856) was born in Scotland and became known as a pioneer and fur trader in Canada and the Pacific Northwest. He worked for the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company.
Kirby Ross papers
Kirby Stewart Ross, also known as Kirby G. Ross, served in the U.S. Army in France and Germany during World War I, and was awarded a Silver Star. Collection includes two diaries regarding his military training in Oregon and his combat experiences in France; certificates from the French government for his military service; and correspondence regarding his awards.
Royal family papers
Royal family papers
Papers of the Royal family of Oregon. Brothers Charles Royal (1798-1878) and William Royal (1796-1870) emigrated to Oregon in 1852 and 1853, respectively. William Royal was a Methodist minister who founded the Centenary Methodist Church (later Centenary-Wilbur Methodist Church) in East Portland; his sons Thomas Fletcher Royal (1821-1911) and James Henry Bascom Royal (1830-1910) were also Methodist ministers.
William Royal diary and bible census
Diary of William Royal (1796-1870), and notebook he used to record information about bible ownership in Portland, Oregon. Royal was a Methodist minister who came to Oregon in 1853, and who lived in Portland in the 1860s.
Charles Seymour diary
Copies of the diary of Charles Seymour in the form of letters home, 1898-1899, regarding a gold prospecting trip from San Francisco, California, to Alaska.
John M. Shively papers
Papers of John M. Shively (1804-1893), an emigrant to Oregon and first postmaster of Astoria. Papers include correspondence, legal documents related to land sales, an 1853 diary, historical essays and other writings, genealogical materials, information on the U.S-British controversy over the Oregon Territory, and papers of Shively's son, Charles W. Shively.
C. H. Sholes diary of a trip to Mt. Shasta
Typescript diary, August 1904, of a Mazamas outing to Mount Shasta, California.
Robert Valentine Short papers
Robert Valentine Short (1823-1908) was a pioneer of 1847. He was a member of the 1851 Constitutional Convention and in 1888 was elected to the Oregon Legislature from Clackamas County. He also studied surveying and was responsible for surveying the town of Portland in 1850. Collection includes diaries, correspondence, scrapbook, survey and field notes; and papers relating to donation land claims and property in Yamhill, Clackamas, and Multnomah counties.
Lebbus Smith Shumaker papers
Collection includes diaries, 1893-1954, and miscellaneous letters, ephemera, and clippings. Lebbus Smith Shumaker (1871-1954) was a Baptist minister and teacher in New York, the Midwest and at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, where he was a professor of psychology and philosophy.