Vancouver Barracks (Wash.)
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander L. Coffey papers
Collection consists of honorable discharge papers from Washington Mounted Rifles, Fort Vancouver, Washington, December 29, 1855 and September 13, 1856; manuscript reminiscences, 3 pages, May 3, 1905, regarding the killing of Klikitat Chief Umtuch on Strong's Battleground, now Battle Ground, Washington.
Theodore J. Eckerson papers
Papers of Theodore J. Eckerson (1820-1906), primarily relating to his military career, but also including letters from Benjamin L. E. Bonneville (1796-1898) and Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885). Eckerson, who emigrated to Oregon in 1849, was in the U.S. Army for most of his adult life. He fought in the Mexican-American War and, in the 1850s, supplied Euro-American volunteers who were fighting Native peoples in the Pacific Northwest.
Grace Howard Gray scrapbook
A scrapbook kept by Grace Howard Gray (1857-1949) to document family history and historic events, including mementos, drawings and ephemera collected during her lifetime. The scrapbook contains items related to the life of General O. O. Howard (1830-1909), Gray's father, and drawings by Guy Howard (1855-1899), her brother, and Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944). Additional materials were added to the scrapbook by other family members.
Martin Luther Kimmel papers
Papers of Martin Luther Kimmel consist of a manuscript diary, September-December 1917, of his enlistment at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, and training at various Army posts in the U.S., with typescript transcript; and correspondence regarding Kimmel's book "The Torchbearers," 1966-1967.
Paul J. F. Schumacher archaeological papers
Collection includes reports, blueprints, field notes, etc. regarding archaeological digs that Paul J. F. Schumacher participated in, including several in Alaska, Fort Clatsop, and Fort Vancouver.
John Work papers
Typescript copies of journals and correspondence of John Work, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company who explored the Pacific Northwest in the 1820s and 1830s. The materials were collected by Isaac Burpee in the 1940s for use in a publication. Also included are Burpee's research notes and microfilm containing copies of John Work's original journals of 1823-1835 and a transcription made in 1945.