Pioneers -- Oregon
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John Smith Griffin Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-103
Summary
Reverend John Smith Griffin was a missionary who emigrated to Oregon with the Whitman-Spalding group in 1839. In the 1840s, he participated in the Champoeg Meetings, founded the Congregationalist Church of Tualatin Plains, and published a newspaper. This collection of original letters and documents includes material related to the early settlement of Oregon, to the Whitman Massacre, to the Griffin Family, to the Congregationalist Church in Tualatin Plains, and to his newspaper, The Oregon...
Dates:
1839-1890
Found in:
Pacific University Archives
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John Smith Griffin Papers
Henry Harmon Spalding Notebook
Collection — Folder MS File Box 2
Identifier: MS-77
Summary
Henry H. Spalding was a Presbyterian missionary who arrived in the Oregon Territory in 1836. This notebook, which he compiled during the 1850s-1860s, contains writings relating to his daily life as a missionary, farmer and Indian agent.
Dates:
1850-1870