Robert Moore (Oregon pioneer)
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Robert Moore (1781-1857) was a pioneer and founder of Linn City, Oregon. A Pennsylvania native and veteran of the War of 1812, he also participated in the early movements to form a government in Oregon Country.
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[edit] Early life
Born in Pennsylvania in 1781, Robert Moore was a soldier in the War of 1812.[1] In 1805 Moore married Margaret Clark.[2]
[edit] Oregon
Robert Moore traveled to Oregon over the Oregon Trail in 1839.[1] He started out with the Farnham party from Peoria, Illinois termed the Peoria Party.[1] Moore joined the Shortess party briefly after the Peoria Party split at Bent’s Fort.[2] He then arrived in 1840.[1] His first wife died before arriving in Oregon, and only three of his ten children also immigrated west.[2] Moore remarried in 1851 to Jane Gilbert Tubbs Apperson.[2]
In 1840 after arriving, Moore began building Robin’s Nest across the river from Oregon City.[3] He purchased the land from a local Native American chief.[2] The town was later renamed Linn City in honor of Missouri Senator Lewis Linn who sponsored the Donation Land Claims Act.[3] By 1845 Moore was also operating a ferry across the Willamette River to Oregon City.[3] In 1850, Robert Moore was appointed as territorial printer.[4] At that time he was the owner of the Oregon Spectator newspaper based out of Oregon City.[4] Also in 1850, Moore became the postmaster for the community.[5] Then in 1854 a fire destroyed much of Linn City, so the business district was relocated to the west and the city became West Linn.[3]
[edit] Politics
Moore’s political career began in Missouri where he was elected to the state house.[6][4] Then in Oregon on February 18, 1841, Moore was selected to a constitutional committee by fellow pioneers in an early and failed attempt at forming a provisional government.[7] Though a constitution was never adopted, Dr. Ira L. Babcock was selected to serve as a supreme judge with probate powers to deal with the estate of prominent pioneer Ewing Young, while Moore was chosen as a justice of the peace.[7]
Then at the July 5, 1843, Champoeg Meeting Moore participated and voted in favor of forming a Provisional Government.[8] Robert Moore was then selected for the provisional legislature that same year.[9]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Tobie, Harvey Elmer (1949). No Man Like Joe: The Life and Times of Joseph L. Meek. Binfords & Mort.
- ^ a b c d e Flora, Stephenie. Emigrants to Oregon in 1840. Retrieved on February 11, 2007.
- ^ a b c d From Robin's Nest to Stumptown. Oregon's Historic Trails. End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Retrieved on February 11, 2007.
- ^ a b c Lockley, Fred (1982). Visionaries, Mountain Men, & Empire Builders. Rainy Day Press.
- ^ City of West Linn
- ^ Missouri State Archives
- ^ a b 1841. Oregon Trail 1841 to 1843. End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Retrieved on February 11, 2007.
- ^ (1917) Oregon Blue Book: 1917-1918. Oregon Secretary of State.
- ^ Oregon State Archives
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Pioneer History of Oregon (1806–1890) |
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| Topics |
Oregon Country · Oregon Treaty · Oregon missionaries · Executive Committee · Oregon Trail · Oregon boundary dispute · Pacific Fur Company · Provisional Government of Oregon · Hudson's Bay Company |
| Events |
Treaty of 1818 · Russo-American Treaty · Champoeg Meetings · Whitman massacre · Donation Land Claim Act |
| Places |
Fort Astoria · Oregon Mission · Fort Vancouver · Champoeg, Oregon · Fort William · Barlow Road · Whitman Mission |
| People |
George Abernethy · Sam Barlow · Tabitha Brown · Abigail Scott Duniway · Philip Foster · Peter French · Joseph Gale · William Gilpin · David Hill · Jason Lee · Asa Lovejoy · John McLoughlin · Joseph Meek · Ezra Meeker · John Minto · Joel Palmer · Sager orphans · Henry H. Spalding · Marcus Whitman · Narcissa Whitman · Ewing Young |
| Oregon History |
Native Peoples History · History to 1806 · Pioneer History · Modern History |
