Pioneers
Found in 128 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Skinner family papers
Alvin T. Smith papers
Papers of Alvin T. Smith (1802-1888), including his diaries, and records and correspondence relating to his tenure as postmaster at Tualatin, Oregon Territory (later Forest Grove, Oregon). Smith emigrated to the Oregon Territory in 1840 as a lay missionary, and moved to what would become Forest Grove in 1841. He served as postmaster in the 1850s, and was one of the founders of Tualatin Academy (later Pacific University).
Earl R. Smith collection
Collection includes typescript photocopies of two documents by Earl R. Smith: one titled "The Days of My Years," 1968, an autobiography; and an incomplete copy of one titled "The Westfall Country," 1962.
Emory E. Smith papers
Collection consists of correspondence and notes for a report to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company concerning the opportunities offered to settlers in Oregon, September-November, 1898.
Harold Cramer Smith collection
Seven pen and ink illustrations by Harold Cramer Smith, drawn to accompany the text of Fannie Adams Copper's "My Life as a Homesteader" in Oregon Historical Quarterly in 1981, and depicting scenes from the text.
Joelle Smith portraits of Oregon pioneers
Ink portraits of famous Oregon pioneers, including George Abernathy, Jonathan Bourne, Robert Gray, Joseph Lane, John McLoughlin, Joe Meek, Peter Skene Ogden, Oswald West, John Whiteaker, Narcissa Whitman, W. S. U'Ren and Jason Lee, and Oregon pioneer archetypes, such as a trapper and farmer.
Thomas Smith letters
Collection includes a manuscript letter from Thomas Smith to George H. Himes, 1908, naming the first settlers in the Umpqua River Valley; and a manuscript letter to Harry L. Wells, a historian, 1884, providing a detailed description, including dates and places, of his journey to Oregon in 1847 from Fort Hall to Eugene Skinner's cabin by way of the Southern Route to Oregon (now known as the Applegate Trail).
Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers records
Records include correspondence, constitution and bylaws, financial records, membership programs, and memorabilia, 1945-1978.
Emma Bell Stadden collection on Coos County
Collection includes a typescript term paper, "Settlement of Coos County," by Emma Bell Stadden; photographs of Chief Coos and Battle Rock, Port Orford, Oregon; and photocopy newspaper clippings relating to Coos County pioneers and history.