The Oregon Territory was a historic administrative region in the Pacific Northwest of North America, established by the United States on August 14, 1848, following the Oregon Treaty with Britain in 1846. This treaty resolved the Oregon boundary dispute by setting the U.S.-British border at the 49th parallel and granted the U.S. control over land that now comprises the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming. The Territory’s formation was a significant milestone in the westward expansion of the United States, driven by the Manifest Destiny ideology that advocated for the expansion of U.S. territory across the continent. The Oregon Territory was carved out of a larger area previously known as the Oregon Country, which had been jointly occupied by the United States and Britain. Its establishment was crucial for the legal and political organization of the region, providing a framework for governance, settlement, and the establishment of American laws and institutions in the vast western territories. The territorial government initially centered in Oregon City, was later moved to Salem, and played a pivotal role in the early development and settlement patterns of the Pacific Northwest, laying the groundwork for the eventual statehood of Oregon in 1859, followed by Washington in 1889.
Articles of agreement and convention entered into at the Warm Springs Agency, Oregon, by J. W. Perit Huntington, sup’t Indian affairs for Oregon, on behalf of the United States, and the undersigned, chiefs and head-men of the confederated tribes and bands of Middle Oregon, the same being amendatory of and supplemental to the treaty negotiated […]
ALBERT H. TANNER. – Albert H. Tanner was born in what was at one time a part of the Oregon Territory; but, when Congress cut the territory in two and made Oregon and Washington Territories, it left him in Washington Territory, with the mighty Columbia between him and his now much-loved Oregon. His birthplace was
Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at Wasco, near the Dalles of the Columbia River, in Oregon Territory, by Joel Palmer, superintendent of Indian affairs, on the part of the United States, and the following-named chiefs and head-men of the confederated tribes and bands of Indians, residing in Middle Oregon, they being duly
Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at the treaty-ground, Camp Stevens, in the Wall-Walla Valley, this ninth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, by and between Isaac I. Stevens, governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for the Territory of Washington, and Joel Palmer, superintendent of Indian affairs
HON. WILLIAM STRONG. – There is no name more thoroughly associated with Oregon and Washington judicature than that of William Strong. His marked characteristics are indelibly impressed upon the system of law of both states, especially that of the latter. To long and distinguished service as associate justice of the supreme court, and in the
HON. GEORGE H. WILLIAMS. – Judge Williams alone among the citizens of our state, and of the Pacific coast, has had the distinction of occupying a place in the highest councils of the nation, – in the cabinet of a President. He was also regarded by President Grant as the man most fit and able
