Diary by Ella Stoughton of a voyage around the world, a residence in New England, and of life at home in Vancouver, W.T.
Series: Women's lives
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1881
Place of publication: [s.l.]
Language: eng
Format: [microform],
Subjects: Diaries
Notes: Cite as: Stoughton, Ella. Diary by Ella Stoughton of a voyage around the world, a residence in New England, and of life at home in Vancouver, W.T., A. 119, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Or.

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Ella A. Stoughton (1857 1944) was the daughter of Joseph Hibbard Stoughton, Washington State pioneer from New England. In 1887, she married Doran Harding Stearns of LaCamas, Washington, who later founded the Portland Bee. She was active in Portland civic affairs, and wrote occasional articles for the Portland Oregonian. In 1881 she left Portland, Oregon, on the Hubert Black, a wheat ship bound for Liverpool and Belfast. From Liverpool the ship sailed to Singapore, Shanghai, Nagasaki, and Hong Kong, thence to New York, arriving July 20, 1883. Stoughton visited relatives in New England, took a trip to Montreal and Toronto and, in May 1884, returned by railroad to her home in Vancouver. In December 1885, the Washington Territorial Legislature appointed her its enrolling clerk of the House. Later, she worked in Olympia-area law offices. The final diary entries contain repeated references to Doran H. Stearns, who eventually would become Stoughton s spouse. Stoughton- Stearns made her home in La Camas (or LaCamas), Washington.