Laura C. Do you know anything about the Methodist Episcopal Circuit Riders and the requirements, training and assignments of the men from The Dalles area? Because of a remark that my brother made, I am specifically looking to see if the brother of my Grandfather could have gone in to the ministry -- after all, their father was certified lay preacher for the Methodist Episcopal Church in Woodbine, Harrison County, IA. http://www.historysavers.com/orwasco/queries4.htm#MOORE MOORE Family of Nansene (on Tygh Ridge) near Dufur, OR I see that you are from Seattle. Have you ever been to The Dalles, OR and seen Pulpit Rock? Thanks :-) Violet Moore Guy Formerly of Wasco County, OR mailto:[email protected] 07/16/2000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura C" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 11:55 PM Subject: METHODIST ROOTS > > History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Dalles area of Oregon. > > Laura in Seattle > > > http://www.historysavers.com/orwasco/stories4.htm > > Doctor Whitman was murdered at Waiilatpu, November 29, 1847, and the mission > was abandoned because of the indian hostilities, but the American Board > retransferred the property to the Missionary Society of the Methodist > Episcopal Church. The latter subsequently asserted title, made surveys and, > after much litigation in the Department, obtained a patent. In the meantime > a military reservation had occupied a part of the site, and for this and for > mission property destroyed, the Government paid to the Society $24,000 > damages. Walter D. Bigelow took up a donation claim of 320 acres and > cultivated it until 1860. In 1852 a town was in existence on part of the > land formerly claimed by the Methodist Mission, and this town, under > directions of Wasco County, was surveyed and laid out in lots, blocks and > streets; the town was incorporated as Dalles City in 1857, and subsequently > entered at the United States Land Office at Oregon City a townsite claim > under the Townsite Act of May 23, 1844, in trust for the occupants. Suits > brought by various plaintiffs resulted ultimately in holding that the > Missionary Society had no title, and the title of various claimants was > settled, whereupon the Missionary Society refunded some $23,000 to persons > who had made payments in the settlement of titles to lots. The name Dalles > City was afterward changed to The Dalles. >