# Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 21/Index

INDEX
INDEX TO VOLUME XXI
Atkinson, Dr. George H., sent to Ore- gon by the American Home Mission- ary Society, 4; becomes authority on matters of education in the territory, 4-5; with Harvey Clark founds Tual- atin Academy, 5; for forty years is secretary of the board of trustees of Tualatin Academy and Pacific Uni- versity, 6; secures an endowment for Pacific University and persuades Sidney Harper Marsh to come from Vermont to be its president, 6-7.
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Brown, Mrs. Tabitha, career of, in Con- necticut, arduous trip to Oregon when nearly seventy, 3; her school at West Tualatin, now Forest Grove, 1846-8, 4; her school of orphans taken over by Tualatin Academy, 5; when 72 years old has 40 in her family of pupils and mixes with her own hands 3423 pounds of flour in five months, 6; her home is bequeathed to the Uni- versity, 8.
CARVER, JONATHAN, THE STRANGE CASE
OF, AND THE NAME OREGON, 341-68;
William Cullen Bryant and Thomas Jefferson give vogue to the word Oregon, originated by Carver, 341; genealogy of Carver, 341-2; the dif- ferent possible sources of the name Oregon, 342; the region to which in- quiry into the origin of the name leads, 342-3; early life, accomplish- ments and marital relations, 343-6; military career, 346; route of travels traced, 346-7; the regions described had long been visited by white men and his suggestions as to locality of sources of four principal rivers of continent ridiculous, 348-9; Indians could hardly have given him word used as name of the Columbia, 349-50; white men among the Sioux earlier and later than Carver did not report such name as current among them, 350-1 ; facilities for a French or Spanish origin of Oregon, 350-4; a river of the west proiected and mapped long before Carver's time, 355-7; Carver's projected enterprise to cross the continent absurd for his resources, 357-8; his environment at Mackinac, 358-60; his connection with Major Robert Rogers, 361-2; life in London befriended by Dr. John Fothergill and Dr. John Coakley Lettsom, 363: the Carver MS., 364-5; the Pequot Wau-
regon and Major Robert Rogers' Ouragon as possible sources of Ore- gon, 365.
Clark, Reverend Harvey, espouses pur- pose to found Pacific University, 3; with Dr. George H. Atkinson organ- izes Tualatin Academy, 5 ; teaches in Mission School at Champoeg, 6; most generous in endowing Pacific University, 6.
EDUCATIONAL PLANS AND EFFORTS BY METHODISTS IN OREGON TO 1860, 63-94-
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Fothergill, Dr. John, as benefactor of Jonathan Carver, 366-7
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IDAHO, DAVID THOMPSON AND BEGIN- NINGS IN, 49-61 ; first trader located in, 54-55; first shipment of furs from,
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Lettsom, Dr. John Coakley, publisher of 3rd edition of Carver's Travels and writer of biographical sketch of au- thor, 363-4; letter by, bearing on search for certificate of Carver grant, 368.
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McLoughlin, Dr. John, statement of. relative to policy of refusal to sell cattle to settlers, 177.
Marsh, Sidney Harper, comes to Ore- gon to become head of school at Tualatin Plains, 6-7; develops it into Tualatin Academy and Pacific Uni- versity, 7; secures endowment and library, 7-8.
Martinez, Estevan Joseph, account by, of seizures of British vessels at Noot- ka Sound in 1789, 21-30.
METHODISTS, EDUCATIONAL PLANS AND EFFORTS BY IN OREGON TO 1860, 63-94; essential educational program of every religious denomination, 63-4; educa- tional before 1860 under religious auspices, 64-5; the work of the mis- sion schools, 65-71; elementary term
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schools, 72-7; Oregon Institute and Willamette University, 77-83; Clacka- mas County Female Seminary, 83-4; Portland Academy and Female Semi- nary, 84-5; Santiam Academy, 85-6; Corvallis Academy, 86; Rainier Semi- nary, 87; Oregon City Seminary, 87; Umpqua Academy, 87-91; bibliogra- phy, 92-4.
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OREGON ITS MEANING, ORIGIN AND APPLICATION, 317-331; Indian origin and meaning of the word, 318-20; conveyed east to the Sioux by the Shoshonis, 321-2; Jonathan Carver gets it from the Sioux and uses it in his book of "Travels," 322-5; the tradition of a western river, 325-6; William Cullen Bryant, Thomas Jef- ferson use the name Oregon, 326-7; Lewis and Clark and John Jacob Astor through exploration and occupa- tion and Dr. John Floyd through agi- tation bring the region into public no- tice so that settlement and jurisdic- tion are extended to include it, 327-31.
OREGON COUNTRY, THE EARLY EX- PLORATIONS AND THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF THE, 332-346; progress of Spanish, Russian and English dis- covery and exploration in the Pacific Northwest, 332-5; evidence of the presence of Spaniards in the Oregon Country, 335-6; divers modes for ac- counting for the word Oregon, 336-8; early settlers as Spaniards would nat- urally transfer name of ancestral home to region, 338-9; transforma- tion of Aragon into Oregon, 339-40.
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PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, 1-12; had its origin in a missionary enterprise, 3; schools of Reverend Harvey Clark and wife and of Mrs. Tabitha Brown its nu- cleus, 3; Harvey Clark and George H. Atkinson organize it as an academy, 5; through labors of President Sid- ney Harper Marsh developed into university, 6-8; its successive presi- dents, 8-9; teachers that served the Academy and University, 9-10; its alumni, 10; standards, 10; its aspira- tions and outlook, 11-12.
PRINCESA, THE LOG OF THE, by ESTEVAN MARTINEZ, 21-31; corrects Bancroft's account of this voyage, 22; fails to refer to Meares' house, 22; gives rea- son for releasing the Iphigenia, 23; the reception accorded to the North- west America, 24; comparison of Log account with letter to Florez, 24; seizures of English vessels, 25-9; rea- sons for favoring Gray and Kendrick, 30; adequacy of the diary for deter- mining what really did happen at Nootka Sound in 1789, 31.
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ROBERTS, WILLIAM M., LETTERS OF, AS THIRD SUPERINTENDENT OP OREGON MISSION, 33-48; description of per- sonality and characterization of work m Oregon, 34-5; account of Whit- man massacre and of the conditions before and after, 34-8; the immigra- tion of 1847, 38; the salary and sun- dry needs ot the mission, 39-43; glory of Oregon in temperance departed, 45; the war and the legislature of the winter of 1847-8, 47; wants of the church, 48.
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Schools, Pioneer elementary term, 72-7; organized institutions, 1854-60, 77-91. SCHOOLS, HISTORY OF OREGON NORMAL, 95-169; Oregon Normal School sys- tem less developed than those of neighboring states, 95-7; preparation of Oregoh teachers, 97-8; the early school conditions and the demand for Normals, 98-103; first state normals evolved from denominational institu- tions, 105-13; beginning of financial aid from state, 113-7; their troubles begin and criticism becomes fierce, 117-19; vicissitudes suffered at hands of governors, legislatures, the press and at the polls, 120-32; the normal schools cut off, 132-4; the work of the normal schools evaluated, 134-55; summary of causes of failure, 155-6; their appeals to the people and result, 156-68; bibliography, 168-9. Slacum, William A., mission of, in Ore- gon, 1836-7, and what he accom- plished, 171-9.
SPAIN AND ENGLAND'S QUARREL OVER THE OREGON COUNTRY, 13-20; the Nootka Sound affair, the first of three dramatic crises in the clash of international interests in the Oregon Country, 13-4; the progress of Span- ish and English discovery and trade expansion toward a point of collision in the Pacific Northwest, 14-6; the preparation from 1785 to 1789 in Nootka Sound for the explosion, 16-20.
THOMPSON, DAVID, AND BEGINNINGS IN IDAHO, 49-61; fur traders of Canada early plan to cross the Rocky Moun- tains, 49-50; David Thompson and Fin an McDonald first penetrate to tributaries of the Upper Columbia in present Idaho, 50-1; accuracy of ob- servations taken by Thompson, 52-3; site of first trading post selected, Kullyspell House, 54-6;, David Thompson's birth, education and career, 56-61.
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YOUNG, EWING, AND His ESTATE, 171- 315; the formation of the Willamette Cattle Company at the suggestion of William A. Slacum, 171-2; the Ore- gon settlement in the winter, 1836-7, 172-5; Slacum's mediation removes the two impediments to progress, 176- 9; diplomacy, daring and sagacity in getting first cattle from California, 179-80; play of economic forces in the making of early Oregon revealed in the Ewing documents, 180-4; unity in economic interests and activities im- pel to political organization, i84 : 6; the western world of adventure in the twenties that lured Ewing Young, 186- 8; his movements in the Southwest,
189-90; in California, 190-3; the ac- cusation made against him by the governor of California threatens ruin to Young and to the American settle- ment on the Willamette, 193-5; the domesday book of record of early Oregon, 195-7; documentary records relating to Young at Taos, New Mexico, and the claimants to his es- tate, 197-205; records of the Willam- ette Cattle Company, 205-9; "day- book" record of saw mill operations and employees' supply account, 209-43 ; record of live stock interests and farm accounts during summer following his decease, 243-70; account with Fort Vancouver sale shop, 270-6; inventory and auction accounts, 276-92; separate personal accounts, 292-308; adminis- trator's accounts, 308-11; jail built with part of proceeds of estate, 312- 3; petition praying that proceeds of estate should not be used as the peo- ple of the territory would thereby be- come too deeply involved in debt, 3I3-S.