entity in the region among European descendants. The Methodists were active participants in the Oregon boundary dispute. Members of the mission were part...
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Site, Methodist Mission in Oregon, which is listed by the National Register of Historic Places. The park is the site of the Willamette Mission, established...
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George Abernethy (category Methodist Mission in Oregon)
trade. In 1830, Abernethy married Anne Pope. Missionary Jason Lee recruited Abernethy in 1839 to join him at the Methodist Mission in Oregon Country...
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59556; -121.18944 The Wascopam Mission or Dalles Mission was a branch of the Methodist Mission opened at Celilo Falls in 1838. Among the tribes proselytized...
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in what became the state of Oregon. A native of New Hampshire, he joined Jason Lee as a missionary at the Methodist Mission in the Oregon Country in 1836...
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Jason Lee (missionary) (redirect from Jason Lee (Oregon missionary))
in Richland, Washington, and Portland, Oregon and a middle school in Vancouver, Washington are named after him. John McLoughlin Methodist Mission in Oregon...
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Elijah White (category Methodist Mission in Oregon)
in Oregon Country during the mid-19th century. A trained physician from New York State, he first traveled to Oregon as part of the Methodist Mission in...
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Alanson Beers (category Methodist Mission in Oregon)
politician in the early days of the settlement of the Oregon Country. A blacksmith by trade, he was a reinforcement for the Methodist Mission in what would...
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Gustavus Hines (category Methodist Mission in Oregon)
missionary in Oregon Country. Working for the Methodist Mission in what became the state of Oregon, the New York native became involved in early attempts...
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Ira Babcock (category Methodist Mission in Oregon)
the unorganized Oregon Country from New York while working for the Methodist Mission run by Jason Lee. Babcock arrived in Oregon in 1840 aboard the ship...
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Alvin F. Waller (category Methodist Mission in Oregon)
Waller sailed for Oregon in October 1839 aboard the Lausanne and arrived in Oregon in May 1840 as part of the Methodist Mission's "Great Reinforcement"...
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Harvey L. Clark (redirect from Harvey Clark (Oregon missionary))
also worked for the Methodist Mission and was a chaplain for the Provisional Legislature of Oregon in 1845. Harvey L. Clarke was born in Chester, Vermont...
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William H. Willson (category Methodist Mission in Oregon)
of Oregon and the founder of its capital city, Salem. A native of New Hampshire, he immigrated to the Oregon Country in 1837 to work at the Methodist Mission...
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The Clatsop Mission was an outpost of the Methodist Mission near modern Astoria, Oregon, United States. Joseph H. Frost and his family was sent to the...
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Margaret Jewett Bailey (category Methodist Mission in Oregon)
teacher among the Native Americans. Smith came to the Oregon Country to join the Methodist Mission in September 1837 with the Reverend David Leslie, his...
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mission, and recounted many of his experiences along with Joseph H. Frost. He married Maria T. Ware, a teacher. Methodist reports published in Oregon...
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Joseph H. Frost (category Methodist Mission in Oregon)
appointed as a "Missionary to Oregon". He and his wife Sarah joined other Methodist members under Jason Lee on board the Lausanne in 1840 and later arrived at...
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the Oregon Territory. Oregon missionaries played a political role, as well as a religious one, as their missions established US political power in an area...
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Willamette Heritage Center (redirect from Methodist Mission Parsonage)
Jason Lee House features a special exhibit about early Oregon during the time of the Methodist Mission. The museum includes a water power interpretive exhibit...
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The Nisqually Mission was a branch of the Methodist Mission, the only one established north of the Columbia River. The station was opened in 1840 and used...
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The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism. In the 19th...
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Felix Hathaway (category Methodist Mission in Oregon)
Hathaway then moved to Oregon City where he was hired by the Methodist Mission to build a house on Abernathy Island at Willamette Falls in 1841. He soon had...
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Josiah Lamberson Parrish (category Methodist Mission in Oregon)
to the Columbia River and on to Oregon City in what has been called the Great Reinforcement of the Methodist Mission. They set sail on October 9, 1839...
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John P. Richmond (category Methodist Mission in Oregon)
(August 7, 1811 – August 28, 1895) was an American Methodist Episcopalian priest and politician who served in New York, Illinois, Mississippi, the Pacific Northwest...
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Marcus Whitman (category Physicians from Oregon)
settlers across the Oregon Trail. These new settlers encroached on the Cayuse Indians living near the Whitman Mission and were unsuccessful in their efforts...
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of them the previous year from Samuel Parker. The Mission became an important stop along the Oregon Trail from 1843 to 1847, and passing immigrants added...
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Shawnee Methodist Mission, also known as the Shawnee Mission, which later became the Shawnee Indian Manual Labor School, is located in Fairway, Kansas...
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Narcissa Whitman (category Oregon Country)
outposts in the territory including Fort Vancouver, Jason Lee's Methodist Mission near present-day Salem, Oregon, and another mission near Astoria, Oregon. Marcus...
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Lee Mission Cemetery is a pioneer cemetery in Salem, Oregon, United States. Lee Mission Cemetery was established in 1842 with the burial of Lucy Thompson...
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Marion County. It is in the Pacific Time Zone. Willamette Mission State Park, across the river from Wheatland Methodist Mission in Oregon, former settlement...
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