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    Marcus Whitman (September 4, 1802 – November 29, 1847) was an American physician and missionary. He is most well-known for leading settlers across the...
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    The Whitman massacre (also known as the Whitman killings and the Tragedy at Waiilatpu) refers to the killing of American missionaries Marcus and Narcissa...
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  • died and left their seven children orphaned. Later adopted by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, missionaries in what is now Washington, they were orphaned a...
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    of Washington. On their way to found the Protestant Whitman Mission in 1836 with her husband, Marcus, near modern-day Walla Walla, Washington, she and Eliza...
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    The Marcus Whitman Hotel and Conference Center is a hotel and historic building located in downtown Walla Walla, Washington. The hotel, colloquially referred...
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    Congregationalist missionaries Marcus Whitman and Narcissa Whitman, along with 12 others were killed by a group of Cayuse Indians during the Whitman Massacre. While...
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    at the site of the former Whitman Mission at Waiilatpu. On November 29, 1847, Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa Whitman, and 11 others were slain...
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  • The Marcus Whitman Central School District is a school district in Rushville, New York, United States, and serves Rushville, Middlesex, and Gorham. The...
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    named after Marcus Whitman, a Presbyterian missionary who, with his wife Narcissa, was killed in 1847 by members of the Cayuse tribe. Whitman County comprises...
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    of the Waiilatpu region, Calvinist missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman established the Whitman Mission. A deep distrust of the settlers was cultivated...
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  • Marcus Whitman High School is a middle/high-school located in Rushville, New York. It is part of the Marcus Whitman Central School District. The school...
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  • varies. They were charged with murdering the Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman. The trial began on May 21, 1850. In 1824, John McLoughlin and his wife...
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    Columbia River. In 1836, Henry H. Spalding and Marcus Whitman traveled west to establish the Whitman Mission near modern-day Walla Walla, Washington...
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    of Idaho and Washington. Their missionary party of five, including Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa and William H. Gray, joined with a group of fur...
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    Hampshire Joseph Wheeler, Alabama Edward Douglass White, Louisiana Marcus Whitman, Washington Frances E. Willard, Illinois Roger Williams, Rhode Island...
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  • of Indian reservations. In 1836, two missionaries—Marcus and Narcissa Whitman—founded the Whitman Mission among the Cayuse Native Americans at Waiilatpu...
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    Marcus Whitman in Buckskins is a 4/3 life-size bronze sculpture by Avard Fairbanks that depicts the American physician, missionary and frontiersman Dr...
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    the settlement of western North America, including depictions of the Marcus Whitman expedition rafting the lower Columbia River and portraits of many early...
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  • In 1835, Dr. Marcus Whitman made his initial journey west from New York, past the Rocky Mountains and into California. 1836, Marcus Whitman made the same...
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    they held "medicine man" Marcus Whitman personally responsible, and murdered Whitman and twelve other white settlers in the Whitman massacre in 1847. This...
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  • American politician Mae Whitman (born 1988), American actress Malcolm Whitman (1877–1932), American tennis player Marcus Whitman (1802–1847), American physician...
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  • Oregon and the long suppressed evidence about Marcus Whitman" . Oregon Historical Quarterly. 12. "Marcus Whitman (1802–1847)". Marcy (1859) List of Itineraries:...
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    1847, some Cayuse and Umatilla Indians killed Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 12 others at the Whitman Mission. Among the dead was Meek’s daughter...
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    1932 for Marcus Whitman (1802–1847), an early pioneer and physician. The Whitman Glacier on Little Tahoma also honors him. Access to Marcus Peak is limited...
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    or misunderstood native practices. When missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman and Narcissa Whitman refused to leave their mission as racial tensions mounted...
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  • left their part of the region unorganized for two years until news of the Whitman massacre reached the United States Congress and helped to facilitate the...
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    Massachusetts, to the Whitman Mission in Waiilatpu in present-day Washington. They and others joined missionary Marcus Whitman. While in the Sandwich...
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    1836 in a meeting with Marcus Whitman, and received the nickname "Lawyer" for his eloquence. He served as a guide for Whitman. After a group of missionaries...
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    among the first to be Christianized, friend to Henry H. Spalding and Marcus Whitman, often associated to the Nimiipu band of Hollolsotetote), were the leaders...
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    (1911), Acquisition of Oregon and the Long Suppressed Evidence about Marcus Whitman, vol. 1, Seattle: Lowman & Hanford Co. Meany, Edmond S. (1914), "Three...
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