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Table Rock Sentinel Feb 1987 L E ROC K � E N TINE L E SOUTHERN OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY MINt-:E.SoTA I"SK) Year each state admitted into Union shown In parenthesis. For the past six years nearly every issue of the newsletter has featured a pioneer family who crossed the plains to reach the far frontier. On several occasions we have been privileged to present diaries giving day-to-day accounts of the dangers of that tedious and treacherous trip. But not until the current issue have we re­ produced a sketch of the Oregon Trail, which appears so harmless as it wanders across the five states. History reminds us that the entire journey was fraught with peril, but the worst part was at the end when the travelers reached the Columbia River in Oregon. For Jesse A. Applegate's vivid account of the passage down this menacing river, see page 10. COVER When Jacksonville fell upon hard times, many buildings were closed and locked; among them was St Joseph's little Catholic Church on Fourth Street. The congrega­ tion attended church in Medford, and for almost twenty years St. Joseph's stood empty, the bell silent, and the churchyard abandoned. The picture on the cover, of some historic interest, was taken in the 1940s during its period of neglect. It is gratifying today to see it in excellent condition with well-tended lawns behind its white picket fence. FOR THE RECORD Mrs. Jeanette Gore Person of Nevada City, California, advises us that the people in the pictures on page 19 of the December issue are incorrectly identified. She writes : "The top picture should have listed Edith Gore as the first on the left, then Jeanette Gore, Margaret Johnson and Elizabeth Gore. In the middle picture Margaret Johnson is at the left, .then Edith, Jeanette and Elizabeth. " We are sorry for the error; but this will set the record straight. LIVING HISTORY INTERPRETERS ARE NEEDED Applications and complete job descriptions for paid seasonal work with this sum­ mer's Living History Program are available at the Jacksonville Museum and the Chappell-Swedenburg House. App Zication deadZine is March 31. Those wishing to volunteer should contact Dawna Curler or Marge Herman, 899-1847. THE SOUTHERN OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Donald D. McLaughlin ............................................ President Coordinator of Exhibits .................................... Jime Matoush Isabel Sickels ............................................ 1st Vice President Curator of Interpretation ................................... Dawna Curler James M. Ragland ................................... 2nd Vice President Coordinator of Photographic Services .............. Natalie Brown Laurel Prairie-Kuntz ................................................ Secretary Curator of Preservation and Maintenance .......... Byron Ferrell William R. Bagley ................................................... Treasurer Coordinator of Chappell-Sweden burg House Leslie Egger-Gould Financial Manager ......................................... Maureen Smith STAFF Librarian/Archivist ........................................ Paul Richardson Acting Executive Director .......................... Samuel J. Wegner Membership/Administrative Assistant .................... Susan Cox Children's Museum Coordinator .................... Stacey Williams Newsletter Editor .......................................... Raymond Le""is Curator of Collections ......................................... Marc Pence Oral Historian ................................................ Marjorie Edens Gift Shop Manager ..................................... Sharon Lumsden Coordinator of Vo lunteers .......................... , .... Marge Herman 2 THE TABLE ROCK SENTINEL Pathel> Prancis Xavier l!Zanc/wt Jather 1)lanGhet &stablishes the GhurGh <& Gharles Sweet odaY much of Jacksonville's early pharmacist Louis Herbert, who came to history is revealed in the build­ America with Samuel Champlain, founder ings that are still to be seen on of Quebec. Among Pierre and Marie's a walking tour of the town. No exception offspring were many prominent citizens is St. Joseph's Catholic Church at the in the New World, including several who southeast corner of Fourth and D Streets. entered the priesthood. One such priest This classic-revival style structure, was their grandson, Francois Norbert with its Gothic pointed-arch windows and Blanchet. When the French-Canadian fur door, was southern Oregon's first--and traders of the Hudson Bay Company set­ presently the oldest-standing Catholic tled in the Oregon country, they wrote parish church. Most frequently associ­ to the Quebec Archdiocese and expressed ated with this parish is the name of an a need for a priest to care for their illustrious French-Canadian family : spiritual wants. Finally, in 1838, the Blanchet. Archbishop of Quebec commissioned two In Canada this family was established priests to establish missions in Oregon. in Quebec when Pierre Blanchet, a native They were 43-year old Francois Norbert of Picardy, France, married Marie Founier Blanchet and 29-year old Modeste Demers, on February 1, 1650. Marie was a who had been ordained to the priesthood descendant of an early Canadian colonist, the year before and would be Blanchet's FEBRUARY 1987 assistant. The building was completed that fall, The two curates, in their black gowns, and in November, 1858, Archbishop Blan­ journeyed across Canada with a Hudson chet came down from Portland to dedicate Bay Company caravan and, in the autumn the church. Soon thereafter, Father of 1838, arrived at Fort Vancouver. Croke went to California where he later Here they were greeted by Chief Factor became Vicar General of the San Fran­ James Douglas, who was in charge of the cisco Archdiocese. The Reverend John trading post while Dr. John McLoughlin Fierens was the first resident pastor was in Europe. During the ensuing years of St. Joseph's Church and served from the two priests established missions 1861 to 1863.* When Archbishop Blanchet throughout northern Oregon and southern was back in Quebec during 1856, he had Washington. In 1845 Abbe Blanchet was made a glowing appeal for recruits to ordered back to Montreal, where he was do missionary work in Oregon. One who consecrated as the Bishop of the Oregon heard the appeal and decided to answer Country by Pope Pius IX. During this the call was his young nephew, Francis same period, Father Demers became Bishop Xavier Blanchet, then studying for the of Vancouver Island and Archbishop priesthood. Blanchet's brother, Hagloire, was made Francis Xavier was the son of the Arch­ Bishop of Walla Walla. The Archbishop bishop's brother, Hubert, and his wife arrived back in Portland in 1847. Julie. He was born July 22, 1835. After schooling in Quebec, he attended ollowing the discovery of gold the Grand Seminaire in Montreal where in southern Oregon and the in­ he was ordained on April 12, 1863. Two flux of miners and settlers, months later he was on his way to Oregon. J Archbishop Blanchet ordered Traveling from Quebec to New York City, Catholic missions to be estab- Father Blanchet boarded the steamer lished in this area. Priests from Cali­ America with a large party of mission­ fornia and northern Oregon began visit­ aries and nuns bound for the Isthmus of ing the mining camps and the little Nicaragua. Crossing the isthmus, they settlement of Jacksonville (then called obtained passage on the Moses Tay lor , Table Rock City) to administer the which carried them to San Francisco. sacraments to the Catholic inhabitants. Before heading north, Father Blanchet The year 1856 saw Father James Croke visited and admired such landmarks as dispatched to Jacksonville by the Arch­ St. Mary's Cathedral and the church of bishop to evangelize southern Oregon. St. Francis of Assisi, then called upon By then the placer and gold deposits kinsfolk and friends in San Jose. On were almost depleted, and the cleric the last leg of their journey, the found slim pickings among the miners. Oregon-bound missionaries embarked on Father Croke toured the mining camps the steamer Brother Jonathan. The ship as far south as Yreka and eventually made a brief stop at Victoria, Vancouver was able to collect $856 from the gold­ Island, allowing Father Blanchet to be seekers. This wasn't enough to build a welcomed by Bishop Demers. The Cana­ chapel in Jacksonville, but in 1858 the dians ended the voyage when they dis­ church fathers authorized merchant John embarked at Portland. Here Father Anderson to solicit funds for this pur­ Blanchet was greeted by his uncle, the pose. Another townsman, James Cluggage, archbishop. A few days later the young donated four choice lots to Father priest went across the Columbia River Croke, who then drew up specifications to visit his Uncle Magloire in Vancouver. for construction of St. Joseph's Church and had a contractor start the structure. n the 23rd of November, 1863, Father Blanchet arrived in Jacksonville to SOURCE MATERIAL take charge of the Southern Mission F.X.Blanchet, Ten Years on the Pa cific Coast3 of Oregon, encompassing a vast ter­ (Edited by Edward J. Kowrach in 1892) ritory 200 miles long and 150 miles wide. Sisters of the Holy Name, GLeanings of Fifty *Father Fierens later became Vicar General to Years3 pp. 110-112, 123-128. M. Leona Nichols, The MantLe of EL�s. Archbishop Blanchet, built the Catholic SOHS biographical files cathedral in Portland, and started the diocesan Reverend Wm. McLeod, Souvenir 1858-1958 newspaper, The CathoLic SentineL. 4 THE TABLE ROCK SENTINEL St. Joseph 's ChUY'oh At this time
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