Pioneers
Found in 128 Collections and/or Records:
A. J. Doak & Company ledger
Manuscript ledger for A. J. Doak & Co., a general mercantile store in St. Louis, Oregon, operated by Alexander Jackson Doak.
George Abernethy ledgers
Three ledgers kept by George Abernethy from 1859 until his death in 1877. Abernethy was a businessman and served as provisional governor of Oregon from 1845 to 1849.
William P. Abrams collection
Collection includes photocopied genealogical information, letters, and diary extracts regarding the discovery of Yosemite in 1849. William Penn Abrams (1820-1873) came to Portland, Oregon, in 1851 on a ship with his family. He started a sawmill and was Oregon's first highway contractor; he also traveled extensively.
Henry Allyn diary and cartes-de-visite
Original and typescript copy of a diary that Henry Allyn (1794-1880) wrote during his overland journey to Oregon, and three cartes-de-visite photographs of Allyn and his family. Allyn emigrated to Oregon in 1853.
Angell family letters
Susan Pinney Yeomans Angell (1832-1928) and Thomas Angell married in 1846 and came to Oregon from Iowa in a covered wagon in 1852. Collection includes correspondence to Thomas Angell and Susan Angell from family in Iowa, regarding life in Iowa and pleas for the Angells to return.
Answer to objections against discharge in bankruptcy proceedings
Manuscript document regarding Pacific Northwest land holdings and other property of Charles M. Carter, who was, per note with the manuscript, a pioneer of 1848.
John Ball papers
Papers of John Ball (1794-1884), including ones relating to his meteorological and geological observations of the Northwest, and correspondence of his daughters with others about Ball and his papers. Ball accompanied Nathaniel J. Wyeth's 1832 expedition to Oregon, worked as a teacher for John McLoughlin, and briefly farmed in French Prairie before returning to the eastern United States in late 1833.
Bancroft, Nunn, and Trevett family papers
Papers and photographs of the related Bancroft, Nunn, and Trevett families. Theodore Brooks Trevett (1832-1901) came to Oregon in 1850, and in 1865 married Mary Melissa "Lissie" Bancroft (1837-1933), who had previously lived at Fort Simcoe, Washington Territory. Their daughter Emily Bancroft Trevett (1867-1958) married English-born oculist Richard K. Nunn (1859-1920) in 1901.
John C. Bell papers
Letter, biographical information, certificates, and receipts relating to John C. Bell (1814-1906). Bell emigrated to Oregon in 1850, brought his family to Oregon in 1854, operated a general merchandise store in Salem, Oregon, and was appointed postmaster of Astoria, Oregon, in 1886.
Peter Bilyeu journal
Journal with accounts and notes on Peter Bilyeu's work as justice of the peace and continued by his son, John L. Bilyeu, with genealogical information of the Dyer and Bilyeu families. Explanatory notes added by his great granddaughter, Gloria Sumpter.