Henry J. Biddle (1862-1928) was an engineer and an amateur botanist. The collection consists of diaries, trip logs, account books, correspondence, manuscripts, sketch and survey maps, and photograph prints and albums.
Ax 645
The William W. Lloyd Papers comprise a single manuscript detailing Lloyd’s trip from Missouri to Idaho in 1876 and his life in Pine Valley, now Pine (Baker County), Oregon.
Call number: SFM 133
The Julia Holt papers consist of correspondence between Julia Holt and her sister Adella Holt describing Julia’s journey to Oregon in 1866.
Call number: SFM 113
H. Johnson journal from the 1860s discusses trips through Oregon and local Methodist churches.
Call number: SFM 067
The George Bond papers comprise a photocopy of a published typescript in which a segment of George Bond’s diary in transcribed. The segment concerns the Bond family’s 1853 overland journey to Oregon.
Call number: SFM 023
Guide to the George Bond’s journal of the family’s immigration to Oregon in 1853
Collection comprises a single manuscript that is W.A. Hockett’s personal account of his journey across the Oregon Trail. The manuscript was typed by Hockett in 1914 and discusses events occurring in 1846-1847.
Call number: CB H659
Guide to the The experiences of W.A. Hockett on the Oregon Trail, 1847
W. Harry Hembree was a ship captain and master ship builder in Oregon. His family, and the Kellogg family, owned and built ships and created a freight transportation company in the Willamette Valley. The W. Harry Hembree Papers consist of the retelling of Hembree’s grandfather’s 1843 overland journey, a 1947 interview in which Hembree reminisces about his family and his life, and Hembree’s 1912 log of the Althea voyage from Portland, Oregon to Alaska.
Call number: CB H371
Wyona Eliza Surfus Gordon was an Oregon pioneer and school teacher. The collection consists of a detailed typewritten memoir of an overland wagon trip from Kansas to Oregon in 1883.
Call number: CB G659
The collection consists of Della M. Baker’s reminiscences of a trip from Portland, Oregon to Dawson, Yukon Territory in 1898. Her reminiscences are from her home in Garden Home, Oregon in 1938.
Call number: CB B172
Collection comprises photocopied typescripts of reminiscences by and about Mary Ann Dickinson Adair and John Adair. John Adair and his family traveled to Oregon via Panama and California after President Polk appointed him Collector of Customs in Astoria. The texts concern life in Kentucky and Oregon and include family information and transcriptions of archival records. Texts of letters written by Mrs. Adair during the journey are also included.
Call number: CB Ad11
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