Business enterprises -- Oregon -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Philip Foster papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 996
Abstract
Papers of and relating to Philip Foster (1805-1884), an early emigrant to Oregon. The papers include correspondence; records of businesses that Foster was involved with; legal documents, including records for the case Magruder v. Vanderpool; land records; records of the Clackamas School District No. 17 and the Eagle Creek Post Office; and histories about Foster, Oregon, and Maine. The papers are a mix of original documents and copies. Foster emigrated to Oregon from Maine, and was involved...
Dates:
1832-1975; Majority of material found within 1832-1887
French and Company records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 999
Abstract
Records of a mercantile business and banking firm headed by Daniel M. French in The Dalles, Oregon. Includes correspondence (1876-1878) from Breyman & Summerville, French & Gilman, Heppner & Maddock, Ladd & Tilton, Marshall Johnson Kinney, Henry R. Sels, and others relating to cattle, the wool and hide trade, and banking. Also includes records of shipments to Camps Harney, Logan, and Watson in 1868.
Dates:
1868-1878
Alexander Lattie papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 540
Abstract
Reproductions of papers of Alexander Lattie (1802-1849), including a journal he kept while stationed at Fort George (also known as Fort Astoria) in the Oregon Territory. Lattie was a Scot who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company.
Dates:
1846-1851