Salem Heritage Network
Maria Ware and Lucy Thompson met and became friends when they both attended Newbury Seminary in Newbury, Vermont, the oldest theological seminary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, founded in 1834, and one of the first to offer education to both men and women...
Traveling by sailing ship on the world’s oceans and by the “Prairie Schooner” across our continent, Lydia Bryant Hines had a life of adventure. The following profile of this exceptional Salem woman is condensed from an article in the Pacific Christian Advocate of April, 1870...
Three of the pioneer women who came to Oregon on the Lausanne in 1840 had lives touched with scandal. Divorce and suicide were rare in those days, but when they happened in a family, community criticism focused on the woman.
The first incidence befell Orpha Lankton Carter in 1850...
In the distribution of Salem land ~ either by the mission or by donation land claims ~ several missionaries and their Lausanne wives, obtained considerable property.
Waller-Chamberlain House as it appears today In 1833 Elepha White married Alvan Waller, a circuit riding preacher of the Genessee Conference in NY. ..
Although two of the thirteen Salem women who came to Oregon on the Lausanne in 1840 died within three years, the average lived another thirty ~ most dying about 1870. By then Salem was a young city, the capital of the state. Two women, no longer living in Salem, lived another thirty years ~ until 1902 and after 1907...
The Breyman brothers, Eugene and Werner, were prominent merchants in early Salem and several handsome buildings in the downtown historic district still carry their names. Judge Reuben Boise is remembered as a outstanding jurist in the years when Oregon was formulating its first laws...
Originally constructed by Karl J. Peters, this modest bungalow has served continuously as a residence since 1925.The Peters owned the house until 1937. It changed hands five times through the 1940s until it was purchased by Ole P. and Dorothy Nielson in 1950...