”The ship Lausanne, under command of Captain Josiah Spaulding, sailed from New York on October 10, 1839. Her large ‘mission family’ consisted of fifty-one souls, including the following: …Miss Maria T. Ware, …teacher …

Many of those names became familiar in the stirring history of Oregon during the decade from 1840 to 1850. The Lausanne sailed into the Columbia River on May 21, 1840, and not long thereafter her living cargo was distributed to the various mission stations at the Willamette Falls, The Dalles, Clatsop and Nisqually.”

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Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 2, by University of Washington and Washington State Historical Society, 1907, page 22