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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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