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Lake family

 Family

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Burton/Lake/Garton family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 301
Abstract John James Burton, the progenitor of the Burton/Lake/Garton families, was an Oregon pioneer, establishing a farm on his donation land claim in Yamhill in 1844. Although the collection contains family papers of the Burton/Lake/Garton families, the collection will be of particular interest to scholars of Asian immigration in the West, and the work of Kate Burton Lake and Margaret Lake Garton to help Chinese and Japanese girls and young women through their work in the Methodist Episcopal...
Dates: 1848-1993

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Chinatown (San Fracisco, Calif.) 1
Chinese American children 1
Chinese Americans 1
Church work with immigrants -- United States 1
Church work with orphans -- United States 1