biography
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Kelley, Hall J(ackson)
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| lived:
| (1790–1874)
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| biography:
| Teacher and propagandist, born in Northwood, New Hampshire, USA. A graduate of Middlebury College (1813), he became a Boston public-school director (1818–23), turning to engineering in Palmer, MA after his dismissal. He organized the American Society for Encouraging the Settlement of the Oregon Territory (1831), abandoning his family (1832) to make the arduous trek by land and sea alone, and arriving in Ft Vancouver, Oregon (1834), in a near-death state. Returning by boat in 1836, he spent the rest of his life as a hermit in Three Rivers, MA, supported mainly by his neighbours. Although he was something of a fanatic, his ‘Memoir’ (1839), printed in a Congressional report, influenced the eventual American occupation of Oregon. |
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