Life Of Mrs Anna Elizabeth Mandler
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- Title
- Life Of Mrs Anna Elizabeth Mandler
- Publication year listed
- 1847
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- Public domain eBook
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Life Of Mrs Anna Elizabeth Mandler
Author: Mary T Wells
Year: 1847
LIFE OF MRS. ANNA ELIZABETH MANDLER (Mrs. Ira Wells) This memoir offers a vivid and rare first-person account of her mother, Anna Elizabeth Mandler-Wells, who emigrated from Prussia and—along with her husband, Ira Wells, and their family—became one of the earliest European settler families in Elkton, Oregon. The narrative traces their journey across the Atlantic Ocean, through New Orleans, and overland by wagon train in 1847. Along the way are stories of hardship, illness, and the forging of a new life in the isolated outpost beyond Fort Umpqua—then a Hudson’s Bay Company post within the British Empire. Rich in personal detail, the memoir captures the broader sweep of pioneer migration into the Umpqua Valley, in what was then known as Umpqua County. That county was dissolved in 1862, with most of its territory absorbed into Douglas County and a portion into Jackson County. This typescript appears to be a later transcription of an earlier handwritten document, preserving the original language and structure while making it more legible for archival use. A valuable resource for historians, genealogists, and researchers of Oregon’s early settlement era, this short document preserves on