A Geographical Sketch Of Oregon: Containing An Account Of The Indian Title, Nature Of A Right Of Sovereignty, Climate And Seasons 1830
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A Narrative of Events and Difficulties in the Colonization of Oregon, and the Settlement of California (Classic Reprint)
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AN arrative of Events and Difficulties in the Colonization ofO regon, and theS ettlement of California: And Also aH istory of the Claim of American Citizens to Lands on Quadra sI sland; Together With an Account of the Troubles and Tribulations Endured Between theY ears 1824 and 1852, By theW riter was written by Hall J. Kelley in 1852. This is a 100 page book, containing 33992 words and 33 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title.
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A History of the Settlement of Oregon and the Interior of Upper California: And of Persecutions and Afflictions of Forty Years' Continuance Endured by the Author
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Hall Jackson Kelley was an American author, educator, and engineer. He worked as a school principal in Boston from 1818 to 1823 and as an engineer for the Three Rivers Manufacturing Company from 1828 to 1829.
Background
Hall Jackson Kelley was born on February 24, 1790 at Northwood, New Hampshire, United States, the son of Dr. Benjamin Kelley (or Kelly) and Mary Gile. He was descended from John Kelly, who died in Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1644. In 1801 his father moved to Gilmanton, New Hampshire.
Education
Kelley received his schooling in the Academy in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. He graduated from the college at Middlebury, Vermont in 1813.
Career
Kelley began teaching at sixteen. In 1818 he took charge of one of the Boston public schools. He soon published several educational books and a Sunday-school lesson book, and helped to establish the Sunday school. In 1823 the Boston school board "dispensed" with his further services, thus closing his teaching career. Kelley was a mathematician of parts and he now devoted himself to surveying. In 1828 he became engineer for the Three Rivers Manufacturing Company, Palmer, Massachusetts, in which he invested heavily. Its failure in 1829 dissipated most of his fortune. By that time, however, he was obsessed with a plan for colonizing Oregon. He organized the American Society for Encouraging the Settlement of the Oregon Territory which was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts in 1831. He enlisted some recruits, notably Nathaniel J. Wyeth of Cambridge, petitioned Congress for aid, and, awaiting congressional action, repeatedly postponed the date for beginning the emigrants' march to Oregon, which was finally fixed for the spring of 1832. His theoretical arguments were ridiculed by keen newspaper critics, especially W. J. Snelling, editor of the Boston Journal, and Kelley suffered the mortification of seeing his companies of prospective emigrants disintegrate. Only Wyeth made the trip and he severed his connection with Kelley entirely.
Leaving his family to be cared for by relatives, Kelley now raised some money, traveled overland to New Orleans, shipped to Vera Cruz, crossed Mexico to the Pacific, and visited California. There he encountered the trader Ewing Young, under whose guidance he made his way, most of the time a very sick man, to the land of his dreams, reaching the Columbia (Fort Vancouver) October 27, 1834. Despite evil reports about his emigrant enterprise sent up from California by sea, Dr. John McLoughlin of the Hudson's Bay Company cared for him at Fort Vancouver during the winter and in spring gave him a passage in the company's ship Dryad to the Sandwich Islands, whence he sailed to Boston, arriving early in the year 1836, sadder but not perceptibly wiser than before his mad adventure.
His best and only significant writing on the Oregon question, the so-called "Memoir, " was supplied to Caleb Cushing in 1839 and was printed with Cushing's report on Oregon. It summarizes Kelley's personal study of western geography. Kelley continued for many years to write petitions praying reimbursement for his losses, accounts of the hard usage he had received from the Hudson's Bay Company and others, and Letters from an Afflicted Husband to an Astranged Wife (1851).
Kelley followed engineering occasionally but lived a hermit's life at Three Rivers for a whole generation, afflicted by poverty, blindness, and "queerness, " fed and befriended by charitable neighbors. He was an impressive fanatic, possessed some real ability, and exerted an appreciable influence on the popular and official mind in favor of the American occupation of Oregon. This is his sole title to fame.
Kelley was a strong advocate for settlement by the United States of the Oregon Country.
Connections
On May 4, 1815 Kelley married to Mary Baldwin of Boston who died the following year, leaving a son; on April 17, 1822, he married Mary Perry of Boston, who bore him three sons. His wife became "astranged" when he insisted on breaking up the home in order to go to Oregon, and she remained separated from him thereafter.