[or-roots] Llewellyn - Howell marriage

[Sue Steward]

The Mail Tribune here in Medford has been carrying interesting little tidbits of history in celebration of the sesquicentennial.  This is the story from the morning newspaper.

"Peaches come to Oregon"
The story of how the first peach came to the Oregon country begins with the American brig Owyhee.  After sailing around the tip of South America in 1829 the ship stopped at an island off the coast of Chile.  One of the sailors purchased a few peaches, and rather than throw the pits away, he planted them in a box of soil.

Upon arrival at Fort Vancouver the box of peach sprouts was given to Dr. John McLoughlin who planted them near the fort.  The trees that grew produced the first peaches in the Oregon Country.  The earliest commercial peach orchard was owned by Henderson Luelling and was established in Milwaukie in 1848.
                                                        by Rick Steber
                                                        www.ricksteber.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Broad1000 at aol.com 
  To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:04 AM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Llewellyn - Howell marriage


  Meant to say Luelling was to give the 21 lbs. of apple seeds to an intermediate person to be delivered to Foster but to be paid for by an additional person who was reimbursed by Foster.  Filed it away in our archives yesterday so don't have it in front of me right now.

  Joanne 

  In a message dated 6/3/2009 6:34:11 A.M. Hawaiian Standard Time, casebeer at jeffnet.org writes:
    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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      Marsha pmml at meritel.net pmml at wvi.com genealogy:Bradley,Fish,Leabas 


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