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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"Peaches come to Oregon"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
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by Rick Steber</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:04
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Llewellyn -
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Joanne </DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 6/3/2009 6:34:11 A.M. Hawaiian Standard Time, <A
href="mailto:casebeer@jeffnet.org">casebeer@jeffnet.org</A> writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>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</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4> The fact that both the Bing cherry
(named after Seth Lewelling's Manchurian</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>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 </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4> 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. </FONT></DIV>
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<A title=mailto:pmml@meritel.net href="mailto:pmml@meritel.net">Marsha
Bradley-Luthy</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:24
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Llewellyn -
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<P>Don't mean to interup the conversation, but Violet Moore Guy? do
you have a address or e-mail?</P><BR><BR>
<P>Harguess, Dale wrote:<BR></P>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: lightgrey 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 8px; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px">This
is an email I received from Violet Moore Guy on 5/19/06. The
Jean<BR>Leaper she is addressing is the lady back in Iowa who was
writing the<BR>book.<BR>These two ladies have done a lot of
research.<BR>Dale> <BR><BR><BR>Jean Leaper:<BR>><BR>> A life
long friend, who was in high school & college with me,
recently<BR>told<BR>> me over the telephone, that there was a
biography of the Lewelling<BR>> nurseryman in the Oregon Historical
Society. As I was talking to her<BR>about<BR>> our upcoming DHS Class
Reunion (or get-to-gether, by now), which was<BR>> scheduled to be
held in early May during Pioneer Days in The Dalles,<BR>Wasco<BR>>
County, Oregon, she mentioned her late husband's Cherry Orchard.
Yes,<BR>The<BR>> Dalles is noted for its Cherries! I do recall my
Grandmother's Bing<BR>Cherry<BR>> tree. Remember this Bing Cherry was
developed by the Lewellings, and<BR>they<BR>> brought nursery stock
in a wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1847. (The<BR>rest of<BR>> Wasco
County is known for its wheat lands -- my father would
grow<BR>small<BR>> plots of experimental wheat for the Wasco County
Agricultural Agent on<BR>our<BR>> Moore Family's BLM lands, along
with winter wheat as the money crop &<BR>other<BR>> grains such
as oats & barley for horse/cattle feed.)<BR>><BR>><BR>> I
have hunted Lewelling references in Oregon for you:<BR>><BR>> 1)
<A title=http://bluebook.state.or.us/notable/notother
href="http://bluebook.state.or.us/notable/notother"
target=_blank>http://bluebook.state.or.us/notable/notother</A><BR>>
Lewelling, Seth (nurseryman, 1820-1896) under Other
Notable<BR>Oregonians<BR>> (but no information, so go the the URL for
the Oregon Historical<BR>Society,<BR>> below.)<BR>><BR>> 2) <A
title=http://www.ohs.org/collections/index.cfm
href="http://www.ohs.org/collections/index.cfm"
target=_blank>http://www.ohs.org/collections/index.cfm</A><BR>>
Oregon Historical Society<BR>><BR>> Go to Collections, then Search
OHS book and serial holdings online<BR>using<BR>the<BR>> Research
Library Catalog.<BR>> (I entered Lewlling, Seth -- 3 items including
a biographical sketch<BR>came<BR>> up.)<BR>><BR>> I hope that
this will be helpful.<BR>><BR>> Violet Moore Guy<BR>>
05/19/2006<BR>><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>or-roots
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<BR><FONT color=#0000ff size=4><STRONG>Marsha pmml@meritel.net
pmml@wvi.com genealogy:Bradley,Fish,Leabas</STRONG></FONT>
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