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Temperance -- Oregon -- Societies, etc.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Oregon Washingtonian Society records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 932
Abstract

Bound record book of the Oregon Washingtonian Society, containing constitution, minutes, and a list of members.

Dates: 1847-1857

Sons of Temperance of North America Multnomah Division, No. 1 records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 969
Abstract

Records include minutes of meetings, accounts, and member recommendation slips; bound account ledgers; and an 1857 manuscript letter from W. H. Gray, Astoria, Oregon, proposing to give temperance lectures.

Dates: 1856-1858

Sons of Temperance of North America Table Rock Division, No. 1 records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 970
Abstract

Miscellaneous records, 1855, including pledges and member lists.

Dates: 1855

Fones Wilbur diary

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 408
Abstract

Manuscript diary of Fones Wilbur, who was born in New York in 1807 and later emigrated to Oregon, where he was a farmer, carpenter, businessman, schoolteacher, and temperance activist in the Silverton, Oregon, area. Entries document his activities, trips to nearby communities, purchases, prices, and weather details, as well as information about the lives of his neighbors, and provide insight into the interdependence of early emigrants to Oregon.

Dates: 1855-1866