1877 Hon. Stephen Staats: The Occasional Address

1877 Hon. Stephen Staats: The Occasional Address

This speech, made by Hon. Stephen Staats to the Oregon Pioneer Association in 1877, is found in a compilation of Oregon Pioneer Association materials from the year 1877. Transactions of the Fifth Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association for 1877 include the Annual Address Delivered by Hon. Elwood Evans, Together with a Poem by Francis Henry, Esq., the Occasional Address by Hon. Stephen Staats, a Poem by Samuel L. Simpson, Esq., Obituary Notices of Members Who Have Died the Past Year, and the Names of Members of the Association. It comes as part of an annual series of pamphlets published by the Oregon Pioneer Association, founded in 1873, following the Oregon Pioneer Society (est. 1867). At the time of Staat's address, the group had only been around for five years. In this address, Staat speaks of David Carson fondly as Uncle Davy and remembers him kindly as a tough pioneer. Staats and Carson came on the same trail in 1845 and became friends on the trail, it is likely Staats would've then interacted with Letitia as well, but he does not speak of her.

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Excerpt from Transactions of the Fifth Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association 1877
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