WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY HISTORY DATES BACK TO EARLY PIONEER DAYS
First Graduate, Who Got Diploma in 1859, Is Emily York Moore. Now Resident of Portland-Establishment of In stitution Result of Service on Ship Lausanne in 1839, When Jason Lee Makes Plea for Oregon.
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B';y FRED LOCKLEY, stttute was formally (ransferred to the rnHE first g-raduate of the Wlllam M.ethodist Church. Although work was· l.f. ette University, Emily York Moore, well unoier way on the building of the Oregon Institute when Rev. George j lives in Portland. She graduated ...~...;:t"''?"__.~ .. ·-·· Gary, who had been sent out by the ....~~~··if• in 1859·. Recently she told me of the rnissiollary board to close up the. work ~arly days of this pioneer school. To go of the Methodist mission to the Indians, Pres /5&y~ Z?P back to the very beginning of its his offered the Indian Missloh Manual tory takes us to a Sunday service Labor School at Salem, which had cost ner, · Edgar B. Piver~how familiar those nan:es are. V{e know t;h&m best aboard the ship Lausanne, October .25, $10,000, to the trustees of the Ores-on lnstltute tor f4000, the offer wa5 ac a.s Sup·reme Court judges, ediiors, ora l839. The "Great Reinforcement". was tors, Congressmen, attorneys, physi coming out to help Jason Lee establish cepted. The first board of trusteea were .J11son Lee, David Leslie, Gus cians, teachers or capitalists. the. Methodist mission In Oregon. Rev. tavus Hines, J, L. Parrlsfl, L. H. Judson, Class of 10 Graduates in 1866. Gustavus Hines preached a sermon to George Abernethy, Alanson Beers, One of the largest classes ever grad the missionaries and laymen which was uated from tl\.e university was the class in . the nature of a celebration of the Hamilton Campbell and Dr. J. L: Bab cock. of 1866, of which Samuel L. Simpson, hundredth. aJ;J.niversary of the founding Miss Chloe A. Clark had come to Ore the poet, and Henry H. Gilfrey, the of Methodism. No religious service ill gon aboard the missionary ship Lau reading clerk of the United States Sen the Methodist church is complete with sanne with the· Great Reinforcement ate, were members. There were 19 in out the taking up of a collection, so to tea6h the children of the mission, the class. Jason Lee announced that, as a fitting aries, so when the Oregon Institute Wlllamette Univet·sity's new school memorial of the occasion, a collection opened , its doors in the Fall of 1844 year has started off under auspicious would be taken up to found a school in she was installed as Its first teacher. circumsta.r,ces, both in Interest and at ,the Wlllamette Valley. She was. no longer Miss Clark, however, tendan ~ e. Rev. Carl Gregg Doney, Ph. 1 These pioneer missionaries to Oregon as she ha