[or-roots] Llewellyn - Howell marriage

[Harguess, Dale]

This is an email I received from Violet Moore Guy on 5/19/06.  The Jean
Leaper she is addressing is the lady back in Iowa who was writing the
book.
These two ladies have done a lot of research.
Dale> 


Jean Leaper:
>
> A life long friend, who was in high school & college with me, recently
told
> me over the telephone, that there was a biography of the Lewelling
> nurseryman in the Oregon Historical Society.  As I was talking to her
about
> our upcoming DHS Class Reunion (or get-to-gether, by now), which was
> scheduled to be held in early May during Pioneer Days in The Dalles,
Wasco
> County, Oregon, she mentioned her late husband's Cherry Orchard.  Yes,
The
> Dalles is noted for its Cherries!  I do recall my Grandmother's Bing
Cherry
> tree. Remember this Bing Cherry was developed by the Lewellings, and
they
> brought nursery stock in a wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1847. (The
rest of
> Wasco County is known for its wheat lands -- my father would grow
small
> plots of experimental wheat for the Wasco County Agricultural Agent on
our
> Moore Family's BLM lands, along with winter wheat as the money crop &
other
> grains such as oats & barley for horse/cattle feed.)
>
>
> I have hunted Lewelling references in Oregon for you:
>
> 1)  http://bluebook.state.or.us/notable/notother
>     Lewelling, Seth (nurseryman, 1820-1896) under Other Notable
Oregonians
>    (but no information, so go the the URL for the Oregon Historical
Society,
> below.)
>
> 2)  http://www.ohs.org/collections/index.cfm
>     Oregon Historical Society
>
> Go to Collections, then Search OHS book and serial holdings online
using
the
> Research Library Catalog.
> (I entered Lewlling, Seth -- 3 items including a biographical sketch
came
> up.)
>
> I hope that this will be helpful.
>
> Violet Moore Guy
> 05/19/2006
>