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Article: Joel Palmer and Isaac Ingalls Stevens.
- Article from:
- Oregon Historical Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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JOEL PALMER was born on October 4, 1810, to Quaker parents in Ontario, Canada, and grew up in New York's Catskill Mountains. Indentured to a nearby family for four years, he received only three months of formal schooling before moving to Philadelphia at age sixteen. Four years later, he married Catherine Caffee, who died after childbirth. Palmer married his second wife, Sarah Ann Derbyshire, in 1836. Shortly thereafter, the family moved to the Whitewater Valley in Indiana, where Palmer oversaw a canal construction project and served as a Democratic representative in the state legislature in 1843,1844, and 1845.
Palmer traveled overland to Oregon in the spring of ...
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