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Pioneers

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 131 Collections and/or Records:

Katherine Livingston photographic collection on the dedication of the Oregon Trail Monument

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 733
Abstract

Three black and white photographs, 1906, of the dedication of the Oregon Trail monument at the courthouse in Malheur County, with Ezra Meeker and John E. Johnson.

Dates: 1906

Fred Lockley reminiscences and letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2168
Abstract

Fred Lockley (1871-1958) was a well-known columnist for the Oregon Journal. Collection consists of reminiscences, notes and stories, circa 1920-1940, regarding Oregon pioneers, including the Lane family, and steamboating in the Pacific Northwest.

Dates: 1913-1940

Leslie M. Lowell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 899
Abstract

Typescript articles, typed by Leslie M. Lowell, on Robert Newell, James Sinclair, Umpqua Valley geology and early settlement, and "A trip from Washoe, Nevada, to Douglas County, Oregon, 1863."

Dates: circa 1890-1960

William M. Macy: guide for the 1854 wagon train

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 6007
Abstract

Photocopy printed biography of William M. Macy, an Oregon pioneer.

Dates: circa 1990-1993

Mary E. Marsh reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 863
Abstract

Manuscript reminiscences of Mary E. Marsh, who came to Oregon with her family as a child, about the Whitman killings and her subsequent imprisonment by a group of Liksiyu (Cayuse) people for one month.

Dates: circa 1900

Mary Gay Cogswell Cemetery collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2911
Abstract

Collection includes typescript extract from the diary of Martha Ann Gay Masterson, 1851, regarding the overland journey of the Gay family and the establishment of the Mary Gay Cogswell Cemetery outside Eugene, Oregon; and biographies of pioneers buried in the cemetery, including Martin Baker Gay, Mary Gay Cogswell, and members of the Campbell family.

Dates: circa 1850-1955

F. X. Matthieu papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1091
Abstract

Ledgers from a store that F. X. Matthieu (1818-1914) ran in Butteville, Oregon. The collection also includes other papers of and relating to Matthieu, who was a French-Canadian migrant to Oregon and the longest-surviving participant of the 1843 Champoeg Meetings.

Dates: 1850-1914

C. C. McClendon letter to siblings

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 914
Abstract

Letter from C. C. McClendon (1832-1922) to his siblings in Arkansas. The letter discusses McClendon's recent purchase of land and the Oregon Constitutional Convention.

Dates: 1857 August 24

James F. McClure diary

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1033
Abstract

Bound manuscript diary, August 31-October 16, 1853, and account book, 1853-1857, kept by James F. McClure, describing the crossing of the Malheur River 15 miles beyond Fort Boise.

Dates: 1853-1857

James H. McMillen reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2242
Abstract

James H. McMillen (1823-1913) was an Oregon pioneer of 1845, volunteer in the Cayuse Indian war, and resident of Washington County, Oregon. Collection consists of McMillen's manuscript reminiscences, 1910-1911, in the form of a letter to George Himes, regarding his journey to Oregon in 1845; his acquaintance with John McLoughlin and Peter Skene Ogden; and his recollections of the Whitman killings, Cayuse Indian War, and early Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1910-1911