Right: Edmund Baker, the West Coast's antislavery US Senator, and friend of Abe Lincoln. from Oregon, killed in the Civil War
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Left: Joseph Lane. First US
Governor of Oregon; first US Senator from Oregon, last candidate of the
pro-slavery Democrats for Vice-President
Right: Edmund Baker, the West Coast's antislavery US Senator, and friend of Abe Lincoln. from Oregon, killed in the Civil War |
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Biographies of early Oregon pioneers and to share stories of the early settlement of the Oregon Territory, including early Donation Land Claim holders
| "Coffin Butte, just west of Wells, was so-named because of its fancied resemblance to a coffin, and because, according to Hudson Bay Co. employees, an Indian had been buried on its summit." |
| Angeline Beleau Carter |
WPA Interviews with pioneers
Separate listings of immigrants arriving in the Valley
Benton County Pioneer Documents
Series Descriptions for Benton County
Diary of 1837 Cattle Drive from CA to OR
Diary of Philip Leget Edwards
Breen Diary 1847
Coon Diary on the Oregon Trail 1847
From Mercer Illinois
A
SHORT HISTORY OF
An explanation of all the early Census data referring to 'Insane', or 'Lunatic', assigned to Hawthorne, as well as an explanation of the origin of the town name, John Day, one of the state's first documented mentally ill.