Eliza Spalding Warren letter to Clarence Leroy Andrews regarding the Whitman Massacre, January 19, 1894
Eliza Spalding Warren, who was ten years old at the time of the Whitman Massacre, writes to Clarence Leroy Andrews in response to his request for more information regarding her experiences. She mentions fellow survivors Catherine Pringle Sager, Lorinda Bewley, and offers advice on which historical a...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:pioneerlife/3284 2023-05-15T16:35:30+02:00 Eliza Spalding Warren letter to Clarence Leroy Andrews regarding the Whitman Massacre, January 19, 1894 Warren, Eliza Spalding University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. United States -- Washington (State)--Waiilatpu Scanned from original text or image at 400 dpi saved in TIFF format, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2007. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/pioneerlife/id/3284 unknown Pacific Northwest Historical Documents University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, [Digital ID Number] http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/pioneerlife/id/3284 For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. Clarence Leroy Andrews papers. Accession no. 4797-002 Warren Eliza Spalding 1837-1919--Correspondence Andrews Clarence Leroy 1862-1948--Correspondence Whitman Massacre 1847 Letter (correspondence); text ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T15:11:47Z Eliza Spalding Warren, who was ten years old at the time of the Whitman Massacre, writes to Clarence Leroy Andrews in response to his request for more information regarding her experiences. She mentions fellow survivors Catherine Pringle Sager, Lorinda Bewley, and offers advice on which historical accounts of the day might be most reliable. The Whitman Massacre took place on Nov. 29, 1847, at Waiilatpu, a Christian mission on the Walla Walla River, when missionary Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and twelve male residents of the mission were murdered by a small band of Cayuse. The Cayuse blamed Whitman for a measles epidemic that had killed many members of the tribe, and also feared that he was bringing in too many white settlers. More than forty women and children, including Eliza Spalding, Lorinda Bewley, and the surviving Sager orphans Catherine, Elizabeth, Matilda and Henrietta, were subsequently taken captive by the Cayuse but were later ransomed by Peter Skene Ogden of the Hudson Bay Company. Although only ten years old at the time of the massacre, Eliza played a vital role in that she was the only survivor who knew enough of the Cayuse language to be able to understand their captors. Her father, Henry Harmon Spalding, another white missionary stationed 120 miles away at Lapwai, had just left Eliza at the mission for schooling and was himself nearly killed as he tried to return to Lapwai. Other/Unknown Material Hudson Bay University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Hudson Hudson Bay |
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Eliza Spalding Warren, who was ten years old at the time of the Whitman Massacre, writes to Clarence Leroy Andrews in response to his request for more information regarding her experiences. She mentions fellow survivors Catherine Pringle Sager, Lorinda Bewley, and offers advice on which historical accounts of the day might be most reliable. The Whitman Massacre took place on Nov. 29, 1847, at Waiilatpu, a Christian mission on the Walla Walla River, when missionary Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and twelve male residents of the mission were murdered by a small band of Cayuse. The Cayuse blamed Whitman for a measles epidemic that had killed many members of the tribe, and also feared that he was bringing in too many white settlers. More than forty women and children, including Eliza Spalding, Lorinda Bewley, and the surviving Sager orphans Catherine, Elizabeth, Matilda and Henrietta, were subsequently taken captive by the Cayuse but were later ransomed by Peter Skene Ogden of the Hudson Bay Company. Although only ten years old at the time of the massacre, Eliza played a vital role in that she was the only survivor who knew enough of the Cayuse language to be able to understand their captors. Her father, Henry Harmon Spalding, another white missionary stationed 120 miles away at Lapwai, had just left Eliza at the mission for schooling and was himself nearly killed as he tried to return to Lapwai. |
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