Scope and Contents
The collection (1802-1835) contains Watt's personal and family reminiscences.
The reminiscences are a hand-written account of members of the Watt family, beginning in 1802 with Watt's grandparents, and including an account of the trip to Missouri. The 1848 trip to Oregon is not included in the reminiscences.
The reminiscences were written in 1890.
Dates
- 1802-1835
Creator
- Watt, Ahio S., 1824-1909 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
Ahio Scott Watt (1824-1909) was an Oregon pioneer of 1848, who he became clerk of the first court in the Oregon Territory.
"Watt was born in Knox County, Ohio, on January 15, 1824. At the age of 14, he went with his parents to Sullivan County, Missouri, where he made his home until March, 1848, when the Watt family crossed the plains to Oregon, settling near the present town of Amity, in Yamhill County. Watt later acquired land and engaged in farming. He also taught school for some time.
In 1884 he became land and tax agent of the Southern Pacific railroad and later of the O.R. and N. lines as well, keeping this position for twenty years. He became a member of the Oregon Pioneer Association soon after its organization in 1873, and also of the Oregon Historical Society."
On July 23, 1850, he married Mary Elizabeth Elder, who was also an Oregon pioneer.
[Source: Oregonian, Obituaries, May 16, 1909]
Extent
0.025 linear feet (1 container) : 1 folder
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Ahio Scott Watt (1824-1909) was an Oregon pioneer of 1848 who became clerk of the first court in the Oregon Territory. The collection (1802-1835) contains Watt's personal and family reminiscences.
Processing Information
Collection processed by staff.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
Material within this collection is minimally arranged. Any arrangement is either derived from the records' creators or custodians or from staff at the time of initial processing. It may be necessary to look in multiple places for the same types of materials.
- Diaries Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Missouri Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Missouri -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ohio -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Overland journals Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing
- Pioneers -- Missouri -- Sullivan County Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Pioneers -- Ohio -- Knox County Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Pioneers -- Oregon -- Yamhill County Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Reminiscences Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Watt family
- Watt, Ahio S., 1824-1909
- Title
- Guide to the Ahio Scott Watt Reminiscences
- Status
- Complete Description
- Author
- Tanya Parlet.
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English
- Sponsor
- Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
