Marcus Whitman

With wineries popping up, busloads of tourists are crisscrossing the area; on many summer weekends, every hotel -- from the upscale Marcus Whitman to the Budget Inn -- are filled.

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But for the patriot missionary, Marcus Whitman, who in the winter of 1842-43 made a perilous journey from his mission post in Oregon to Washington, to stir up the American Government to a sense of its duty, and of the imminent danger of the seizure of Oregon by the British, that valuable region would in all probability have passed under British dominion.

The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country Henry Mann

Indians fell upon the missionaries and killed fifteen, of them, among the dead being Marcus Whitman and his wife.

American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

With that triumph, the name of Marcus Whitman is most closely associated, through a brilliant but rather useless feat of his, of which we shall speak later on.

American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

In 1834, the American board of missions, learning of the need for a missionary among the Oregon Indians, appointed Marcus Whitman to the work.

American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

One more era remains to be recorded, that in which the United States confirmed its hold upon the Pacific coast, and here again the story is that of the lives of three men -- Marcus Whitman, John Augustus Sutter, and John Charles Frémont.

American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

We have seen how, years after the events which we are now narrating, the agents of the company tried to save Oregon for England and how Marcus Whitman foiled them.

American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

Washington, and continued until 1849, when it was abandoned in consequence of the massacre of Rev. Marcus Whitman and his companions of the Presbyterian mission of Waiilatpu amoung the Cayuse.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

However that may have been, on the twenty-ninth of November, 1847, the Indians fell upon the missionaries and killed fifteen, of them, among the dead being Marcus Whitman and his wife.

American Men of Action Stevenson, Burton E 1913

In 1834, the American board of missions, learning of the need for a missionary among the Oregon Indians, appointed Marcus Whitman to the work.

American Men of Action Stevenson, Burton E 1913