Identifier: marcuswhitmanpat00eell (find matches)
Title: Marcus Whitman, pathfinder and patriot
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Eells, Myron, 1843-1907
Subjects: Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847
Publisher: Seattle : The Alice Harriman Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e mis-sion at which it was determined to build more mission housesat their station, so that the mission families could winter thereand send their children to a school there; and so take a largeamount of work from her hands, work occasioned by her board-ing some of these mission children. Mr. Walker was to moveto The Dalles; Mr. Eells to Dr. Whitmans, spending the win-ters for the benefit of the whites, and his summers itineratingamong the Indians; and Mr. Spaldings family was also to bethere. Fortunately, as the result proved, Mrs. Walkers healthwas such that she did not feel able to move to The Dalles, ascontemplated, consequently Mr. Eells remained among the Spo-kanes with him, and, for some reason not given, Mr. Spalding,too, stayed at his home. Father Brouillet has published a statement made by Mr.Thomas McKay that the Doctor had told him that for a coupleof years before his death he had ceased to teach the Indiansbecause they would not listen to him. But the statement o or e r 05
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Mission Work 139 above, given directly by both the Doctor and Mrs. Whitmanabout the very favorable condition of their mission, must set-tle that point. Mrs. Whitman also speaks of her large family. She had nochild of her own, but had opened her heart to take care ofthose of others. In 1841 she took two half-breed girls, MaryAnn, the daughter of James Bridger (out of whose back theDoctor had cut an arrow in 1835), and Helen Mar, the daughterof Joseph L. Meek, another mountain man, who afterwards set-tled near Hillsboro, in the Willamette, where he became quiteprominent. The next year a half-breed boy, whose fatherwas a Spaniard, but who had left him, was brought to Mrs.Whitman by his grandmother. He was about two years old,and was called David Malan. He had been put down by hismother in a hole and left to die, but was rescued by otherrelatives. Again he was found by an interpreter in the sameplace, surrounded by other boys, who were tormenting him byburning his naked body with sticks o

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