This collection was largely pulled together by Robert Moulton Gatke during his tenure at Willamette University. Gatke began attending Willamette Academy in 1914. He then attended both undergraduate and graduate school at Willamette, receiving his Master of Arts in 1920. He was also ordained as a minister of the Methodist Church in 1920. Gatke then joined the Willamette faculty as a history instructor. He later founded the political science department at Willamette. In 1935, he was promoted to professor of political science and history.
Gatke was particularly interested in the history of the Northwest. While gathering research for Chronicles of Willamette, he compiled letters, documents, and other historical materials to help document the history of Willamette University and the Northwest. More materials have been added throughout the years by those interested in growing the collection.
The Willamette University and Northwest collection contains a wide range of materials documenting the history of Willamette University and the Northwest. Included are maps, photographs, letters, newspaper articles, and manuscripts by and about significant members of the area. Individuals featured throughout the collection are Ketturah Belknap, Lucy Anna Lee Grubbs, Jason Lee, and William Wallace Youngson. Maps include reproductions of the Lewis and Clark route, the Willamette Valley, and the Hudson's Bay Company. Also included in the collection is a history of the Philodosian Literary Society of Willamette.
The bulk of the collection was compiled by Robert Moulton Gatke in an effort to create a Northwest Collection. Also included are materials gathered by Francis H. Grubbs about Jason Lee. Notes and letters throughout the collection reveal items added in subsequent years in an effort to grow the collection.
This collection has been organized into four series: I. Subject Files; II. Francis H. Grubbs collection on Jason Lee; III. Manuscripts; and IV. Newspapers.
The collection is loosely alphabetical.
This collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Willamette University and Northwest collection, Archives and Special Collections, Mark O. Hatfield Library, Willamette University.
Publication materials such as student yearbooks, Alumnus magazines, and catalogs were added to the University Publications collection.
For more Willamette University and Northwest history, see the Robert M. Gatke "Chronicles of Willamette" research collection, the Reuben P. Boise family papers, the Sybil Westenhouse Research papers on Oregon and the City of Salem, and the Willamette University publications collection.
Gatke, Robert M. Chronicles of Willamette :The Pioneer University of the West (Portland, Or.: Binfords and Mort, 1943).
This series contains three sets of loosely alphabetical subject files. A wide range of topics are covered including Willamette University history, the Oregon Territory and the Pacific Northwest. Included are programs from University events, catalogs from Northwest institutions such as Columbia College and Portland University, and material written by and about members of the Willamette University and northwest community. Also included are a section of Katturah Belknap's memoirs, and copied diaries of Oregon pioneers.
Materials retain original order.
Includes writing by Arthur S. Miller, J. A. Fleming, Chester Luther, and Cecil Monk.
Ketturah Belknap came to Willamette University in 1935. Her remembrances largely pertain to the Methodist church, her family's experiences living in Oregon, and the Ebenezer School House.
Largely comprised of Ketturah Belknap materials compiled by Robert Moulton Gatke.
Ketturah Belknap's Chronicle of a Pioneer Settlement edited by Robert Moulton Gatke.
Inventory.
Catalogs
Catalogs
Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.
Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.
Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.
Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.
Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.
Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.
Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.
Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.
Programs
Letter of sympathy regarding Hobson's recent illness.
Programs and pamphlets.
Class schedules, University and Salem history, open house, and exhibition labels.
Photographs
Calendars
Tributes
Materials regarding President Roger J. Fritz. Includes taped interview with former Salem mayor Al Loucks regarding support for Fritz and Loucks' Physical Education and Recreation Center.
Regarding President Roger J. Fritz.
News clippings and 1861 salary notice.
A photocopy.
Brochures and pamphlets.
An Oregon Pioneer.
Prideaux was educated at Willamette University and Pacific University. He taught and was principal of the Woodstock School in Portland, Oregon, and was a long-time member of the YMCA.
Copies of articles and clippings describing Waller Hall.
Materials of Christian Wilhelm Brütt of Cadenberge, Germany.
Photocopy of original material. Includes a letter with some context.
Tribute program during the building of Baxter Hall, along with photograph of President Carl Gregg Doney.
From the Salem Fire Department.
Clements (1868-1941) taught at the Willamette medical school from 1908 to 1910. Campbell, his nephew, was a 1932 Willamette graduate and worked at the Salem Hospital from the 1930s to the 1980s.
From the State of Oregon Department of Public Instruction.
Photograph
Self support questionnaire, letter of interest in Willamette, and "Paths of Life" poem by Adelaide Lacey.
Includes commencement information letter and letter of thanks to Paul Wallace.
Copy of map
Copy of map
Sketch contained in an inspection report of various forts in the Pacific Department made in 1854 by Inspector General Joseph K. F. Mansfield and submitted to Major General Winfield Scott, Commander of the U.S. Army and Waller.
Copy of map
Copy of map
Copy of map
Includes photograph of the Marion County courthouse.
Submitted by President Doney.
Assorted photographs including Willamette University presidents, faculty, and Paul Doney wedding party.
Photographs no longer with certificate.
Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.
Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.
Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.
Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.
Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.
Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.
Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.
Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.
Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.
Excuses from Chapel and classes.
Photocopy of original materials held at the New York Public Library. Charlotte Lambert Whipple and her family travelled the Oregon Trail in 1852. They established a home in Portland in 1853. Her 1852 diary is available via the Internet Archive.
Photocopy of original materials held at the New York Public Library. Charlotte Lambert Whipple and her family travelled the Oregon Trail in 1852. They established a home in Portland in 1853. Her 1852 diary is available via the Internet Archive.
Copies
Papers gathered by Willamette University alumnus and professor Francis H. Grubbs about his father-in-law Jason Lee.
Grubbs' compilation of newspapers and newspaper clippings pertaining to Oregon history, Portland, Oregon, and Jason Lee. Also includes the Pacific Christian Advocate of March 23, 1882; November 4, 1891; February 13, 1907; and April 22, 1908.
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and letters compiled by Francis Grubbs. Includes Confederate bills and letters from Jason and Daniel Lee to family.
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and letters compiled by Francis Grubbs.
Adopted daughter of Gustavus and Lydia Hines.
This series contains copies and transcriptions of diaries, letters, and manuscripts on Oregon history related topics. Topics largely center around the Oregon Territory, the Oregon Trail, and the fur trade. This collection of transcriptions appears to be gathered together by Robert Gatke. Many of the originals were collected by H. H. Bancroft in order to write his History of Oregon.
Materials are arranged alphabetically, per original order.
Bancroft Library University of California. Pacific Manuscripts R3 C3 D4 Ore.
John Commingers Ainsworth (1822-1893) was a pioneer businessman and piloted a steamboat on the Willamette River in Oregon. He was the founder of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company in 1860. This manuscript is an autobiography by Ainsworth, transcribed in Berkeley, California in 1938.
Compilation of items written by Jesse A. Applegate including Settlement in Polk County, Views of Oregon History, Notes Upon Oregon History, and Organic Law of 1843.
Ross, Alexander: Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River: Being a Narrative of the Expedition Fitted out by John Jacob Astor to establish the Pacific Fur Company. (London: 1849).
Excerpt from Workshops at Oregon City
Narrative of Bacon's recollections while traveling on the Oregon Trail, as well as working in the Willamette Valley. Excerpt from Mercantile Life at Oregon City.
Copy of a speech given by Edith Field Bagley to the Philodosian Literary Society. Her address includes a short history of the society, its members, and what a few of the members have been doing after graduation from Willamette.
Letters written from Jesse Applegate to historians, H. H. Bancroft and Mrs. F. F. Victor regarding the History of Oregon and updates on contemporary matters.
Oregon and California in 1849.
Article from the Pacific Christian Advocate.
Excerpt from The Catholic Missionaries of Oregon.
A New Log of the Columbia, 1790-1792. Pages document Boit's voyage from Boston to the northwest coast of America on the Columbia. Copy is missing pages one and two.
Autobiography of J. Henry Brown of Salem, Oregon. Autobiography includes Brown's travels on the Oregon Trail, the condition of the United States, and his time as a soldier in Oregon during the Civil War.
Dictation of J. W. Brazee, telling of work on the Oregon railroad.
E. L. Bristow's narrative Encounters, with Indians, Highwaymen, and Outlaws.
Enterprises at Oregon City by William Buck.
Short notes regarding Peter Burnett.
Cardwell's Emigrant Company.
A Young Woman's Sights on the Emigrant Trail
Ross Cox emigrated from Dublin, Ireland to America in 1811, becoming a clerk in the American Fur Company and the North West Company. This is an unpublished version of his Adventures on the Columbia River.
Typed copies with edits.
Typed copies with edits.
Extracts from an American reprint in "Smith's Weekly Volume."
Biography of George Ebbert including an account of his trip across the plains in winter.
Two letters written between Jesse Applegate and William Gray regarding politics and writing the history of Oregon.
Diary written by Mrs. Hanna, of her travels from Pennsylvania to Oregon.
Autobiography of Henry Clay Huston of Lane County, Oregon.
Account of Longworth's travel to Benton County, Oregon with company of preachers in 1853. Transcribed by the Historical Records Survey division of Women's and Professional Projects Works Progress Administration.
Typed copy with edits, from "A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and in Quest of a North-West Passage, between Asia and America; Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779."
Excerpt from "Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean." Includes newspaper clippings about finding Lewis and Clark's field notes in an attic in Minnesota and dispute over their ownership.
Excerpt from "Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the direction of the American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions, in the years 1835, '36, and '37."
Copied from Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California.
Excerpt from Oregon and its Institutions: Comprising a full history of the Willamette University, the First Established on the Pacific Coast by Reverend Gustavus Hines. Excerpt from Voyages from Montreal through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 with an account of the rise and state of the fur trade by Alexander Mackenzie.
An account of Radcliff's life in Oregon and California.
Account of Radcliff's life in Oregon and California.
Constitutional review for the Northeast Salem Lions Club.
Simeon Gannett Reed (1830-1895) was co-founder of the Oregon Steam Navigation company and namesake of Reed College. This is an autobiography copied from Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California.
Excerpt from the Journal of George Simpson.
Account of travel from Wellsville, Ohio to Portland, Oregon.
Article written for the Sunday Journal Magazine.
Excerpts from Townsend's Early Western Travels and Townsend's Original Journal - The Call of the Columbia.
Excerpt from A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World. Includes newspaper clippings about Fort Vancouver.
The letter addresses "Dear children" but the "envelope" addressee is Reverend Gustavus Hines.
Found among the papers of John Parsons
This series contains a compilation of newspaper clippings about Willamette University related topics such as alumni, buildings, and events.
Materials arranged in alphabetical order.