[or-roots] Llewellyn - Howell marriage

[Bob Casebeer]

Marsha, I just wrote a short radio script for Jefferson Public Radio's As It Was program about Henderson Lewelling and his two brothers Seth and John.  It is remarkabled that these three brothers started the grafted frut tree industry in at least two states:  Iowa and Oregon, and perhaps in Central California as well. t

    The fact that both the Bing cherry (named after Seth Lewelling's Manchurian
foreman and the Latham cherry (a sport that one of Seth's workers developed aqfter a seedling from one of the Bing trees he had, is remarkable.  And that 
what we call the Royal Ann cherry actually is called a Napoleon back east, but one of the Lewellings had forgotten thre name of the cherry graft and named it the Royal Ann.--that too is a great story. Bob Casebeer, Talent.
    By the way by the end of the 1860s large orchards in Jackson County were developed and most likely all of the original stock came from the Lewelling efforts. 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marsha Bradley-Luthy 
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  Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:24 PM
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  Don't mean to interup the conversation, but Violet Moore Guy?  do you have a address or e-mail?




  Harguess, Dale wrote:


    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
    >

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