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EWING YOUNG AND His ESTATE

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Legend has it that Miranda Bailey, then the sweetheart, later the wife of Sidney Smith, an employee of Ewing Young's, planted an acorn on his grave so that now a sturdy oak marks his resting place. Such a symbol of vigorous growth ever transforming the elements of natural wealth of Oregon into means ministering to a more abundant life here is a befitting token of Ewing Young. Would that it could become duly cele- brated as a historic attraction, so that in its shade there would well up in the hearts of multitudes a full stream of civic inspiration.

APPENDIX

Documentary Record of Ewing Young and His Estate.

I.

Papers refer to: (1) The young mother left behind by Ewing Young at Taos, New Mexico, in 1831. (2) The claim by his heir, Joaquin Young, of the proceeds of the estate and the collection of them by him from the Territory of Oregon in /#55. (3) The claim as creditor of David Waldo associated with Ewing Young while he had his headquarters at Taos in 1831-2.

To the Honorable, the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of

Oregon :

Your petitioner Joaquin Young a citizen of New Mexico but at present temporarily staying in California, represents that he is the legitimate and only son, as he is informed and believes, of Ewing Young who died without will, in Oregon, in the year 1843 [sic] ; that the said Ewing Young was pos- sessed of and owned, at the time of his death, a large amount of personal property and that the same was afterwards con- , verted into money and the said money appropriated by the