Salem Heritage Network
This photograph represents a typical scene in the Marion County countryside where Rachel lived with the Delaney family. Used courtesy Oregon Historical Photograph Collections, Salem Public Library. Rachel’s surname was given her when she was sold from her former Tennessee owner (named Belden) to Daniel Delaney in 1843...
Willamette University began in this Oregon Institute building. This was where Lucyanna attended college and became a teacher. When she was three-weeks-old, Lucy Anna’s mother died. Lydia Hines, a faithful friend, who had recently lost an infant daughter, took the infant from her mother’s arms...
Sally Bush and Fannie Kay were both greatly influenced by their fathers. But after these gentlemen died, each woman made an important decision contrary to her father’s vision of her future. Sally was 18 years old, visiting away from Salem, the winter of 1877-8 when Bush House was being completed and furnished by her father. ..
On November 24, 1894, Myra Albert married Frederick Wiggins in the First Presbyterian Church in Salem. Following the wedding, friends and family attended a reception at John and Mary Albert’s Victorian home on Winter and Oak Streets. ..
Maud’s life is a series of question marks. She told her children that in 1881, when she was nine years old, she had “walked” on the Oregon Trail from Missouri to Joseph, Oregon with her parents, Richard and Elizabeth Hill, where they joined Tucker family members...
On the occasion of the dedication of the Oregon State Library Building, Cornelia Marvin Pierce wrote the following:
“I do recall most vividly indeed those beginnings in August, 1905, when I arrived in Salem as Secretary of the Oregon Library Commission, which had neither books, quarters, traditions, nor financial support beyond the state appropriation of $1200 a year for all expenses. ..
Alice is photographed before a portrait at 11 years old. The intersection of 12th and Mission streets is one of the busiest in Salem. But tucked away in the southwest corner, almost out of sight behind a small park and quiet landscaped lawns, is a beautiful 1894 Queen Anne residence that plays host everyone in Salem. ..
A major honor accorded to Nora Anderson during her lifetime was the dedication of the first bench in Bush Pasture. On that spot she remembered her favorite patch of wild strawberries. The tribute was more than deserved: she had helped found the organization that sponsored the dedication, the Salem Garden Club. ..
More than a half century later, Mary Purvine remembered the moment in 1898 when she decided to be a doctor: “A woman physician was called when a fall on a slippery board caused a fracture of mother’s right arm. Since at that time I had never seen or scarcely heard of a woman doctor, I can still feel the thrill of watching her deft manipulation reduce the dislocated bones and put in a splint. ..