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Oregon Statesman, 1851-60. Newspaper, Salem, Oregon. Early files in Portland Public Library.
Advertisements and politics.
Oregon Territorial Laws, 1849-59. Asahel Bush, Publisher, Salem, Oregon.
Legislative acts chartering institutions cited.
Umpqua Academy Bulletin, 1859, Second Annual. In files of Ore- gon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon.
Rare document; very valuable for curriculum and rules of government of this academy.
U. S. Census Schedules, 1850-60. Seventh and Eighth Census Schedules. The Original Copies are in the Oregon State Library.
Not much good for Methodist Education as such, but they are very valuable for general educational statistics of this period; gives number of schools, pupils, teachers, valuations, etc.
Yarnes, Thomas D. M. E. Pastor, Lebanon, Oregon. Reminiscent. Material collected around Lebanon on Santiam Academy.
SECONDARY SOURCES CONSULTED
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of Oregon, 2 vol., 789 and 843. The History Publishing Co., San Francisco, Calif., 1886.
By far the most exhaustive work and the most satisfactory. Contains most of the facts in order of occurrence. There are some errors of detail. There is no connected educational history and not even any attempt at any educational history after the missionary period. The missionary education is not stressed any.
Booth, R. A. History of Umpqua Academy. Oregon Hist. Quar- terly, March, 1918. pp. 1 to 25.
Very full account, giving names of many students and teach- ers connected with the academy. Fine appreciation of char- acter and influence of Wilbur. Is almost an original source, since Mr. Booth was a student there during much of the time of which he writes. Same issue of the Quarterly contains other reminiscent material on the academy, mostly after 1860, however.
Eells, Gushing. Indian Missions, pp. 270. Union Press, Phila- delphia, Pa., 1882.
First four chapters deal very fully with Indian Missions in general. Chapter five has a good account of founding of Willamette University. Eells had an active part in the events he relates.
Fenton, W. D. Father Wilbur and His Work. Oreg. Hist. Quar., June, 1909.
Best account of founding of Portland Academy.
Ferrin, W. N. Fifty Years of the College. Address at the Semi- Centennial Celebration Exercises at Forest Grove, 1898. 86 pp. Pam. in Oreg. Col. U. of O. Library. Account of founding of Pacific University.
Gaston, Joseph. History of Portland. S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.,
