”…the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church had planted an American community in the Willamette valley, consisting of men, women and children, with homes and schools and worship, with flocks and herds and plows and harvests, peaceably, but mightily confronting the rule of the Hudson’s Bay Company over the fair realm which it so long had governed. In less than three years more fifty-one more persons were added to this American community by the same missionary authority. These consisted of …Misses M. T. Ware, …”

Reference Data:

An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Harvey K. Hines, 1894, page 98