. Marcus Whitman, pathfinder and patriot. r. Grayand family followed him, thus leaving three stations, with fourmen and their wives to manage them. Two missionaries, how-ever, had been sent from the East by the Board to join themission in November, 1840, Rev. J. D. Paris and Mr. W. , with their wives. These started by water and reached theSandwich Islands in May, 1841. The Methodist missions in the Willamette received threereinforcements by way of Cape Horn. The first arrived inMay, 1837, and consisted of Dr. E. White, A. Beers, and theirwives, W. H. Wilson, Miss Susan Downing, Miss Elvi
. Marcus Whitman, pathfinder and patriot. r. Grayand family followed him, thus leaving three stations, with fourmen and their wives to manage them. Two missionaries, how-ever, had been sent from the East by the Board to join themission in November, 1840, Rev. J. D. Paris and Mr. W. , with their wives. These started by water and reached theSandwich Islands in May, 1841. The Methodist missions in the Willamette received threereinforcements by way of Cape Horn. The first arrived inMay, 1837, and consisted of Dr. E. White, A. Beers, and theirwives, W. H. Wilson, Miss Susan Downing, Miss Elvira John-son and Miss Ann M. Pitman. Of these Miss Pitman was mar-ried to Rev. Jason Lee and Miss Downing to Cyrus ShepherdJuly 16th, 1837, the first white marriages on the Pacific Lee died July 16th, 1838. Dr. White remained in con-nection with the mission until 1841, when he resigned and re-turned East, whereupon he was appointed Sub-Indian Agentfor Oregon, the first United States officer for the Pacific Coast. <v . -I ^. ?«?*^.**L* ? l-fc - N ? ? Mission Work 125 He continued in this capacity until 1845, when he returnedEast to remain. The second reinforcement arrived in Septem-ber, 1837, and consisted of Rev. Mr. Leslie and family, K. W. Perkins and wife, and Miss Margaret Smith. Thethird reinforcement arrived in May, 1840, because of the per-sonal work of Rev. J. Lee, whose return East in 1838 has al-readv been mentioned. This consisted of thirtv-six adultsand seventeen children. Among them were Reverends A. , G. Hines, J. L. Parrish, L. H. Judson and J. Olley,Dr. L. H. Bagcock, and Mr. (afterwards Governor) GeorgeAbernethy. With this assistance missions were begun amongthe Indians at Clatsop under Mr. Parrish, at Nisqually underMr. Richmond, and at The Dalles under Messrs. D. Lee andPerkins, while others labored among the whites. Of other settlers in Oregon in 1840, nearly all of whom werein the Willamette Valley, there were, outside of the Hu
Size: 966px × 2587px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidmarcuswhitmanpat00eell
