Lower Chinook, Kathlamet, Tillamook, and Clatsop Indians, Alive in 1906
Post-office address of the Lower Chinook, Kathlamet, Tillamook, and Clatsop Indians (and their heirs) who made treaties with the United States in August 1851.
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Ancestors of William P. Whitman of Brockton, MA
WILLIAM P. WHITMAN, president and treasurer of the well-known shoe manufacturing concern of the Whitman & Keith Company, of Brockton, and one of that city’s successful and progressive business men, as was his father before him, is a descendant of distinguished and historic New England ancestry. Mr. Whitman is a direct descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, of the “Mayflower,” 1620; of Rev. James Keith, the first ordained minister of Bridgewater; and of John Whitman, who settled in Weymouth, Mass., as early as 1638, from whom descended many persons eminent in professional life and otherwise, among them Dr. Marcus Whitman, who saved the vast territory of Oregon to the United States; Hon. Ezekiel Whitman, for many years chief justice of the Superior and Supreme courts of the State of Maine; and Hon. William E. Russell, twice governor of Massachusetts.
Biography of Jean Francois Millet
Jean Francois Millet, Painter. There is no part of France so singularly like England, both in the aspect of the country itself and in the features and character of the inhabitants, as Normandy. The wooded hills and dales, the frequent copses and apple orchards, the numerous thriving towns and villages, the towers and steeples half hidden among the trees, recall at every step the very similar scenery of our own beautiful and fruitful Devonshire. And as the land is, so are the people. Ages ago, about the same time that the Anglo-Saxon invaders first settled down in England, a band … Read more
Wahmaskie, A Lower Chinook Indian Genealogy
This provides the descendants of Wahmaskie, a Lower Chinook Indian who married James Huckquist, a white man. Using census and vital records, as well as Native American specific records, this research provides several generations of her descendants through her son, Dixie James, who was the only surviving heir.
Statement No. 10 – Samuel Mallet of Bay Center
This document is a communication from the acting commissioner of Indian Affairs that details the rolls of certain Indian Tribes in Oregon and Washington, specifically in reference to an agreement made in August 1851. This particular statement, No. 10, is given by Samuel Mallet of Bay Center, a 76-year-old member of the Waukikum tribe of Chinook Indians, to Charles E. McChesney, supervisor of Indian schools, in 1906. In his sworn statement, Mallet provides a detailed account of various Lower Chinook Indians who signed the 1851 treaty, including their descendants and their fates.
Muster Roll of Captain James Clark’s Company
Muster Roll of Captain James Clark’s Company of Light Infantry in the Detachment of drafted Militia of Maine, called into actual service “by the State, for the protection of its Northeastern Frontier, from the twentieth day of February, 1839, the time of its rendezvous at Bangor, Maine, to the eleventh day of May, 1839, when discharged or mustered.