Smith Mission Traditional Cache
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The following is from the "Oregon Historical Quarterly" Volume 36, page 100. Members of First Wyeth Expedition. "The following men went to Oregon and became permanent settlers. Smith, Solomon Howard. Born at Lebanon, New Hampshire, December 26,1809. He studied medicine at Norwich, Vermont, at a military academy conducted by Colonel Partridge. In, 1830, he clerked in a store at Boston and later entered a fishing enterprise sailing to the banks of Newfoundland, where the catch was good, but he schooner was run into during a fog and sunk. The fisherman were picked up and taken to Boston where Smith herd of Wyeth's expedition and joined. He at one time commanded a protion of the party during a "lean" period,on its trip to Oregon. Smith was released at Vancouver and Dr. McLoughlin, finding him an educated man, hired him to teach the school at the fort. He thus became the second teacher in the Oregon country, John Ball having preceded him for a few months. Smith taught at Vancouver for nearly two years, andduring that time became acquainted with Ceiliast, daughter of Kobaway, chief of the Clatsops. They were married and soon moved to Frenc Prairie, where Smith started a school in 1834, the first in the Willamette Valley. In 1836, he moved to the mouth of Chehalem Creek, where hehelped Ewing Young build a saw mill. In 1840, Smith, the missionary J.H. Frost, and Calvin Tibbets moved to Clatsop, the home of Celiast, and shortly after located on Skipanon Creek, locating a claim there. In 1843, Smith journeyed from below the present town of Astorial to Champoeg to vote in favor of the provisional government, May 2, 1843. In 1849-50 Smith entered the mercantile business at Skipanon Landing and the following year ran the Horall saw mill on the Lewis and Clark River. Smith was a school director, county commissionerof Clatsop County for two terms and a member of the state senate. He contributed to the Presbyterian church and various public improvements. He died August 16, 1876."
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