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The Oregon Lyceum or Pioneer Lyceum and Literary Club was founded in Oregon City, Oregon Country around 1840. The forum was a prominent fixture for the leading pioneer settlers during its brief existence. It would begin publishing the first American newspaper west of the Rocky Mountains in 1846 and had several names during its existence. Nickname: End of the Oregon Trail, OC Motto: Urbs civitatis nostrae prima et mater Location in Oregon Coordinates: Country United States State Oregon County Clackamas Founded 1829 Incorporated 1844 Government - Mayor Alice Norris Area - City 8. ...
Landscape in Oregon Country, by Charles Marion Russell Map of Oregon Country Oregon Country was a region of western North America that originally consisted of the land north of 42°N latitude, south of 54°40N latitude, and west of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. ...
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A family of Russian settlers in the Caucasus region, ca. ...
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Founding One source lists the founding of the institution as 1844,[1] but this is unlikely as there are many references to debates regarding forming a government in 1842.[2] The forum was likely started in 1842,[2] and was founded in an attempt to start a newspaper in the region.[1] That paper, the Oregon Spectator, began publishing in 1846.[1] The Lyceum’s first meeting was held at the home of Sidney Moss who had purchased his land in Oregon City from Dr. John McLoughlin of the Hudson's Bay Company.[2] Frederick Prigg was another member of the Lyceum that assisted in building the organization.[3] So was Portland co-founder Francis Pettygrove.[4] In addition to debates on government and the creation of a press, the group discussed literary items, scientific pursuits, and other local issues.[4] Literary works of the group were published in the Oregon Spectator.[5] Other names of the group included The Falls Debating Society, The Falls Association, and the Pioneer Lyceum and Literary Club.[5] Other members included Henry A. G. Lee, William H. Gray, Lansford W. Hastings, and Elisha Applegate.[5] John McLoughlin (NSHC statue) Dr. John McLoughlin (pronounced mc-lock-lin, October 19, 1784 – September 3, 1857), the Father of Oregon, was a fur trader and early settler in the Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest. ...
Hudsons Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie dHudson in French) is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and is one of the oldest in the world. ...
Francis Pettygrove (center) and others Francis William Pettygrove (born 1812 in Maine, died 1887 in Port Townsend, Washington), commonly known as William Pettygrove, was a pioneer and one of the founders of the cities of Portland, Oregon and Port Townsend, Washington. ...
Henry A. G. Lee (c. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with William H. Gray, III. (Discuss) William Herbert Gray III (August 20, 1941-) is the president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund. ...
Government debate Beginning in the fall and winter of 1840-1841 the members of the Lyceum debated the future of the region.[2] At the time neither the United States nor Great Britain could claim the Oregon Country under the terms of the Treaty of 1818 signed at the conclusion of the War of 1812. During these debates in Oregon City the European settlers argued about whether an independent country should be formed, or if a provisional government should be formed.[6] The Convention respecting fisheries, boundary, and the restoration of slaves between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, also known as the London Convention, Anglo-American Convention of 1818, Convention of 1818, or simply the Treaty of 1818, was a treaty signed in 1818 between...
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The group advocating an independent country tended to be British, including Dr. McLoughlin and the his HBC employees.[6] The Catholic block that consisted of mainly former French-Canadian trappers also sided with McLoughlin on this issue.[6] Their goal was to prevent the territory from becoming a part of the United States by forming a new country.[6] McLoughlin’s attorney , introduced a resolution on his behalf to the Lyceum as follows: - “Resolved, That it is expedient for the settlers of the coast to organize an independent government.”[6]
That resolution was adopted by the Oregon Lyceum.[6] George Abernethy of the Methodist Mission then introduced a topic to be discussed the following week.[6] This new topic was to wait for the United States to annex the territory instead: George Abernethy (1807 - 1877) was a U.S. businessman. ...
The Methodist Mission was founded in Oregon Country in 1834 by the Reverend Jason Lee. ...
- “Resolved, That if the United States extends its jurisdiction over this country during the next four years it will not be expedient to form an independent government.”[6]
After debate by both sides of the issue, this resolution was passed.[6] Where ultimately the side advocating no independent nation prevailed.[2]
Later years It is not known when the Oregon Lyceum disbanded, but the Lyceum movement in the United States died out around the turn of the Twentieth Century. The lyceum movement in the United States was a early form of organized adult education based on Aristotles Lyceum in Ancient Greece. ...
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| | Topics | American Fur Company · Columbian Exchange · Executive Committee · Ferries · Hudson's Bay Company · Oregon and California Railroad · Oregon boundary dispute · Oregon Country · Oregon Lyceum · Oregon missionaries · Oregon Spectator · Oregon Territory · Oregon Trail · Oregon Treaty · Organic Laws of Oregon · Pacific Fur Company · Provisional Government Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The American Fur Company was founded by John Jacob Astor in 1808. ...
Inca-era terraces on Taquile are used to grow traditional Andean staples, such as quinua and potatoes, alongside wheat, a European import. ...
An Executive Committee was the title of a three-person committee which served as the executive Branch of the Provisional Government of Oregon in the disputed Oregon Country. ...
Historic ferries in Oregon are water transport ferries that operated in Oregon Country, Oregon Territory, and the state of Oregon, United States. ...
Hudsons Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie dHudson in French) is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and is one of the oldest in the world. ...
The Oregon and California Railroad was formed from the Oregon Central Rail Road when it was the first to operate a 20 mile stretch south of Portland in 1869. ...
The Oregon Country/Columbia District Disputed Area is the main area of dispute, although the whole region was disputed The Oregon boundary dispute (often called the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American claims to the Oregon Country, a region of northwestern North America known also...
Landscape in Oregon Country, by Charles Marion Russell Map of Oregon Country Oregon Country was a region of western North America that originally consisted of the land north of 42°N latitude, south of 54°40N latitude, and west of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. ...
Jason Lee The Oregon missionaries were collectively the religious-minded pioneers who settled in the Oregon Country of North America starting in the 1830s with the intent of coverting local Native Americans to Christianity. ...
The Oregon Territory is the name applied both to the unorganized Oregon Country claimed by both the United States and Britain, as well as to the organized U.S. territory formed from it that existed between 1848 and 1859. ...
The Ox Team or the Old Oregon Trail 1852-1906 by Ezra Meeker. ...
Map of the lands in dispute The Treaty with Great Britain, in Regard to Limits Westward of the Rocky Mountains, also known as the Oregon Treaty or Treaty of Washington, is a bilateral treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States that was signed...
The Pacific Fur Company was founded June 23, 1810, in New York City. ...
The Provisional Government of Oregon was a popularly elected government created in the Oregon Country that was in effect from May 2, 1843 until March 3, 1849. ...
| | Events | Astor Expedition · Treaty of 1818 · Russo-American Treaty · Willamette Cattle Company · Champoeg Meetings · Star of Oregon · Whitman massacre · Cayuse War · Donation Land Claim Act · Holmes v. Ford · Rogue River Wars · Oregon Constitutional Convention· Modoc War Great Gale of 1880 The Astor Expedition in 1810-1812 was the first overland expedition from St. ...
The Convention respecting fisheries, boundary, and the restoration of slaves between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, also known as the London Convention, Anglo-American Convention of 1818, Convention of 1818, or simply the Treaty of 1818, was a treaty signed in 1818 between...
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The Willamette Cattle Company was formed in 1837 by pioneers in the Willamette Valley of present day Oregon. ...
The Champoeg Meetings in Oregon Country were the first attempts at governing in the Pacific Northwest by United States European-American pioneers. ...
Marcus Whitman The Whitman massacre (also known as the Walla Walla massacre and the Whitman Incident) was the murder in the Oregon Country on November 29, 1847 of U.S. missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa Whitman, along with twelve others, by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians. ...
The Cayuse War was an armed conflict that took place in the northwestern United States between 1848 and 1855 between the Cayuse people of the region and the United States Government and local white settlers. ...
The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, sometimes known just as the Donation Land Act, was a historic law passed by the Congress of the United States intended to promote homestead settlement in the Oregon Territory in the Pacific Northwest (comprising the present-day states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho). ...
Holmes v. ...
The Rogue River Wars was an armed conflict between the US Army, local militias and volunteers, and the Native American tribes commonly grouped under the designation of Rogue River Indians, in the Rogue River Valley area of what today is southern Oregon in 1855â56. ...
The Oregon Constitutional Convention in 1857 drafted the Oregon Constitution in preparation for the Oregon Territory to become a U.S. state. ...
The Modoc War, or Modoc Campaign (also known as the Lava Beds War), was an armed conflict between the Native American Modoc tribe and the United States Army in southern Oregon and northern California from 1872â1873 . ...
“Not even among the traditions of the native Indian inhabitants of the country is there record of a tempest so wild and furious in its aspect or so disastrous and terrible in its results. ...
| | Places | Applegate Trail · Barlow Road · Champoeg · Fort Astoria · Fort Dalles · Fort Vancouver · Fort William · French Prairie · Meek Cutoff · Methodist Mission · Oregon City · Oregon Institute · Whitman Mission · Willamette Trading Post The Applegate Trail was a north-south wilderness trail through Oregon Territory. ...
The Barlow Road was the last overland segment of the Oregon Trail before reaching the Willamette Valley. ...
Champoeg, Oregon Champoeg, pronounced sham_POO_ee (SAMPA /ʃæm. ...
Fort Astoria was the Pacific Fur Companys primary fur trading post in the Northwest, and was the first permanent U.S. settlement on the Pacific coast. ...
Fort Dalles was a United States Army outpost located on the Columbia River at the present site of The Dalles, Oregon, in the United States. ...
Fort Vancouver Fort Vancouver was a 19th century fur trading outpost along the Columbia River that served as the headquarters of the Hudsons Bay Company in the companys Columbia District (known to Americans as the Oregon Country). ...
Fort William was a fur trading outpost built by American Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth in 1834. ...
French Prairie is a prairie located in Marion County, Oregon, United States, in the Willamette Valley between the Willamette River and the Pudding River, north of Salem. ...
The Meek Cutoff was a wagon trail that branched off from the Oregon Trail in what is now the U.S. state of Oregon in 1845. ...
The Methodist Mission was founded in Oregon Country in 1834 by the Reverend Jason Lee. ...
Nickname: End of the Oregon Trail, OC Motto: Urbs civitatis nostrae prima et mater Location in Oregon Coordinates: Country United States State Oregon County Clackamas Founded 1829 Incorporated 1844 Government - Mayor Alice Norris Area - City 8. ...
The Oregon Institute was the first school built for European-Americans west of Missouri. ...
Whitman Mission National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located just west of Walla Walla, Washington, at the site of the massacre of the family of Dr. Marcus Whitman by the Cayuse on November 29, 1847. ...
| | People | George Abernethy · Jesse Applegate · Ira L. Babcock · Sam Barlow · François Norbert Blanchet · Tabitha Brown · Abigail Scott Duniway · Philip Foster · Peter French · Joseph Gale · Cornelius Gilliam · William Gilpin David Hill · H.A.G. Lee · Jason Lee · Asa Lovejoy · John McLoughlin · Joseph Meek · Ezra Meeker · John Minto · Robert Newell · Joel Palmer · Sager orphans · Levi Scott · Henry H. Spalding · Marcus Whitman · Narcissa Whitman · Ewing Young George Abernethy (1807 - 1877) was a U.S. businessman. ...
Jesse Applegate (1811-1888) was an American pioneer who led a large group of settlers along the Oregon Trail to the Oregon Country. ...
Doctor Ira L. Babcock (c. ...
Samuel Kimbrough Barlow (b. ...
François Norbert Blanchet, (30 September 1795 â 18 June 1883), was a missionary and the first Archbishop of the present-day Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland. ...
Tabitha Moffatt Brown (May 1, 1780 â May 4, 1858) was a pioneer emigrant that traveled the Oregon Trail, and assisted in the founding of Tualatin Academy that would grow to become Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. ...
Abigail Scott Duniway (October 22, 1834 _ October 11, 1915) was born Abigail Jane Scott near Groveland, Illinois, to John Tucker Scott and Anne Roelofson. ...
Philip Foster (January 29, 1805âMarch 17, 1884) was one of the first settlers in Oregon, United States. ...
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Joseph Gale (1807-1881) was an American pioneer, trapper, and politican who contributed to the early settlment of the Oregon Country. ...
Cornelius Gilliam (1798 - 1848) was a pioneer of the U.S. state of Oregon who was best known as the commander of the volunteer forces against the Cayuse in the Cayuse War. ...
William Gilpin William Gilpin (October 4, 1813–1894) was a 19th century U.S. explorer, politician, land speculator, and futurist writer about the American West. ...
David Hill (1809 â May 9, 1850), was a pioneer and settler of what became Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. ...
Henry A. G. Lee (c. ...
Jason Lee (NSHC statue) Jason Lee (June 28, 1803 â March 12, 1845) an American missionary and pioneer, was born on a farm near Stanstead, Quebec. ...
Asa Lawrence Lovejoy (born 1808 in Massachusetts, died 1882) was an Oregon pioneer and one of the founders of the city of Portland, Oregon. ...
John McLoughlin (NSHC statue) Dr. John McLoughlin (pronounced mc-lock-lin, October 19, 1784 – September 3, 1857), the Father of Oregon, was a fur trader and early settler in the Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest. ...
Joseph Lafayette Meek (1810–1875) was born in Washington County, Virginia, near the Cumberland Gap. ...
Meeker in Kearney, Nebraska, ca. ...
John Minto IV (October 10, 1822 - February 25, 1915) was an American pioneer born in Wylam, England. ...
General Joel Palmer, October 4, 1810 (Ontario, Canada) â June 9, 1881 (Dayton, Oregon), was an Oregon pioneer, author of a popular immigrant guidebook, co-founder of Dayton, Oregon, a controversial Indian Affairs administrator, and a popular Oregon politician. ...
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Levi Scott (1797 â 1890) was a politician in the Oregon Territory of the United States in the 1850s. ...
Henry Harmon Spalding (1803 - 1874), and his wife Eliza Hart Spalding were prominent Presbyterian missionaries and educators working primarily with the Nez Perce in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. ...
Marcus Whitman (September 4, 1802âNovember 29, 1847) was an American physician and missionary in the Oregon Country. ...
Narcissa Whitman (March 14, 1808 â November 29, 1847), born Narcissa Prentiss in Prattsburgh, New York in the Genesee Valley. ...
Ewing Young expeditions to American West Ewing Young (1799 - February 9, 1841) was an American trapper from Tennessee who traveled the western United States before settling in Oregon Country. ...
| | Oregon History | Native Peoples History · History to 1806 · Pioneer History · Modern History Official language(s) None Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area Ranked 9th - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²) - Width 260 miles (420 km) - Length 360 miles (580 km) - % water 2. ...
Oregon Pioneer History (1806 to 1890) is the time in the European History of Oregon when pioneers and mountain men traveled west to explore and settle the lands west of the Rocky Mountains and north of California. ...
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