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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