Dr. John M. McLoughlin

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 6413
• _UID: 46C4A443EBF04AE38F0961938DE06BFE5BF2

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(Research):"The Father of Oregon". Superintendant of Hudson's Bay Company, Columbia District (1824- 1846).

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Family/Spouse: Dame Marguerite Wadin. Marguerite was born about 1775 in Montr?al (city/cit?), Montreal Region, Quebec, Canada; died on 28 Feb 1860 in Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon, United States; was buried in McLoughlin House Gravesite, Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Fnu. Fnu died about 1809. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 71816691
• _UID: 31A2F21B97B546FAB1B3AD0EC3E014337552

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(Research):Joseph McLoughlin, whose mother died while giving birth, was left as a child with Angus Bethune. As a young man at Fort Vancouver he weekly beat the furs (as some of the beaver furs from the Snake region had sand in them), a task which was often assigned to children of the fort. Although he appears to have been integrated in with the other children of the McLoughlin family, he received little or no education unlike his younger brother John who was trained to be a doctor and David who trained to be an engineer. He was a great admirer of his step-brother Thomas McKay and appears to have joined the HBC in 1827 as an apprentice clerk on the coastal trade. Joseph "rode like a centaur" a contemporary John Dunn wrote of him. He worked largely out of Fort Vancouver, but was noted as being at the Honolulu office in 1836-1837, and he retired on January 1, 1840 when he settled near Champoeg. He died eight years later from the delayed effects of a fall over a cliff in the Umpqua Region and was buried in the original St. Paul's Cemetery along with Louis LaBonte, Etienne Lucier and others from the fur trade.
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Fur Trade Employee Hudson Bay Company - Apprentice clerk, Coastal Trade (1827-1828); Trapper, Bonaventura (Sacramento) Valley expedition (1828-1830); Storekeeper and servant, Fort Vancouver (1830-1831); Native apprentice, Fort Vancouver (1831-1833); Storekeeper, Fort Vancouver (1833-1836); Storekeeper, Fort Vancouver 1837-1839); Builder, Cowlitz Farm (1838-1839); Member, Michel Laframboise's Bonaventura trapping expedition (1839-1840); Settler, Willamette (1840-1840)


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Parents:
John M McLoughlin (1784 - 1857)

Spouse:
Victoria McMillan Gregoire (1820 - 1898)*

Siblings:
Joseph McLoughlin (1809 - 1848)
John McLoughlin (1812 - 1842)*
Marie Eloisa McLoughlin Harvey (1817 - 1884)*
David McLoughlin (1821 - 1903)*

*Calculated relationship

Inscription:
Joseph McLoughlin, 28 yr., Dec. 23


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Joseph married Victoire McMillan on 8 Jul 1839 in Fort Vancouver, Oregon, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 76971520
• _UID: 16D97FF7510B44388DECA88A36F1D7775DC7

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(Research):Birth: ?tab?Aug. 18, 1812
Death: ?tab?Apr. 21, 1842
Wrangell
Wrangell Borough
Alaska, USA

John McLoughlin Jr., who could have had a promising medical career, was only reluctantly let into the service of the Hudson Bay Compnay and was eventually shot in the back by his own men who rebelled against his tyranny.

He spent the early part of his life in Terrebonne with his great-uncle Dr. Simon Fraser and in 1834 he was sent back from his medical studies in Paris for some unexplained offece. Because of John's conduct, George Simpson blocked him from Hudson Bay Company employment or passage to the Columbia. In 1837, however, in an effort to curb his rebellious activities at Red River, Simpson offered young John the position of surgeon at Fort McLoughlin, but crossing the mountains with his father in 1838 he chose instead to serve at Fort Vancouver. For two years he accompanied the express across the mountains until June 1840 when he was sent to Fort Stikine under William Glenn Rae.

In 1841, he was placed in charge with Roderick Finlayson as his assistant but when Finlayson was removed to Fort Simpson, McLoughlin was left without proper support. According to dispositions taken in 1842, his drinking and violent streaks became more pronounced and, in drunken stupors, he would pummel his servants with his fists and whip them until the blood ran. One night, after being threatened by William Lassert and Urbain Heroux, a drunken John Jr., armed with his own rifle tried to find the hidden pair to either punish them or kill them. Failing to find them, he rushed into the centre area yelling "Fire! Fire!" but four shots rang out, the fatal one entering his shoulder and exiting his throat. Coincidentally, Simpson arrived five days later and,after a brief investigation, deemed it "Justfiable Homicide", a verdict for which Dr. John McLoughlin never forgave the governor.

Conflicting dispositions taken at the time indicate McLoughlin to have been a moderate man who was assassinated without reason. The truth lies somewhere in between as in 1840 Rae found future assassinators Heroux a "good man" and Lasserte "a smart lad," whereas he spoke scornfully about others at the same time.

After his death, McLoughlin was taken to the main house, quite likely on the initiative of the Kanakas, (although Pierre Kanaguasse claimed he initiated the process), and his body was washed and dried. Kanaguasse took McLoughlin's ring, which Powpow took back and gave to McLoughlin's wife. A coffin was then built and the corpse removed from the main house to the bath. On the third day, the corpse was carried to an open grave by Lasserte, Fran?ois Presse, Louis Leclaire and some Kanakas. The remains of the young surgeon were later disinterred and brought to Fort Vancouver for burial on October 10, 1843 and he was finally laid to rest on October 12.
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HBC Surgeon, Fort Vancouver (1838); Surgeon and clerk disposable, Fort Vancouver (1838-1839); Surgeon and clerk, Fort Vancouver general charges (1839-1840); Surgeon and clerk, Fort Stikine (1839-1840); Surgeon and clerk, and assistant to W.G. Rae, Fort Stikine (1840-1841); Clerk in charge, Fort Stikine (1841-1842).

Source for information: Rootsweb tree of Explorers, Conquistadores, Pioneers, Settlers, and Indians, by Kenneth Henry Robinson. He cited "Lives Lived West of the Divide" - vol. 2 "A Biographical Dictionary of Fur Traders Working West of the Rockies, 1793-1858" by Bruce McIntyre Watson.

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 50826358
• _UID: 94D879E2476742D1922A69405B7C4AA8B636

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(Research):John McLoughlin, "The Father of Oregon", second daughter, was Maria Eloisa, called Eloisa, was considered McLoughlin's favorite. She was born at Ft. William on Lake Superior in 1817. She also stayed with Dr. John's sister to get educated but came out west afterwards. She was a great favorite at the fort. She took over hostess duties from her mother, who gladly gave it up. In 1838, she married William Glen Rae, the chief clerk at the fort. In 1840, they went to Ft. Stikine, to establish a new post, with Rae as chief trader. In 1841, he was sent to California to establish a new post. She joined him about 1842 at Yerba Buena, which later became San Francisco. They had two sons and two daughters. One son died a few days after birth. Her husband committed suicide under mysterious circumstances. She and her children moved into a new home in Oregon City in 1846. She remarried in 1850 to David Harvey, who was in charge of the McLoughlin mills. They had two more sons and one daughter. In 1867, they left Oregon City and moved to Portland. Harvey died the next year and so did her oldest son John from her first marriage. She died in 1884 at age 67. From History of Fur Traders by Beth Gibson. http://www.franksrealm.com/sivu-indians.html

Clackamas County History 1863:
Litigation over Dr. John McLoughlin's land claim at Oregon City was finally settled five years after his death. His heirs-- daughter Eloise McLoughlin Harvey and (second) husband Daniel Harvey-- sold the rights to water power at the east side of the Willamette Falls to George LeRoque who operated the Imperial Flour Mill on the east shore. The next year, the rights were sold to new owners: John M. Moore, George Marshall, Samuel L. Stevens, and Joseph Sweiter.
http://www.usgennet.org/alhnorus/ahorclak/timeline4.html


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Family/Spouse: Daniel Harvey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Glen Rae. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 76971975
• _UID: 380FE225C31D47428ACBB02629036AE75F3C

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(Research):David McLoughlin had a short career in the fur trade. He was about to accept a post in the military in Calcutta when Dr. John sent to live with his uncle, (his father's brother, David) in Paris during 1834, to become an engineer and perhaps go to India for his career.

He returned to the Oregon Territory in 1839, having passed his exams but his father had second thoughts about sending him to India and took him on as an apprentice clerk at Fort Vancouver.

In 1843, he is noted as working in the fort's retail store and in September of 1844 he was instrumental in helping put out a fire that could have destroyed Fort Vancouver. However, he resigned in 1845 ostensibly to look after his father's affairs in the Willamette Area but, being swept up by the gold fever at the time, hired Indians to work for him and managed to acquire about $20,000 in gold dust.

In 1846, he briefly went to San Francisco to wrap up the Company affairs there. On March 15, 1847 he was reported to have entered into partnership with two prosperous American merchants, Mr. Pettygrove and Mr. Oregon City. In 1866, he moved to Port Hill, Idaho, near the Canadian boundary. While there he started a trading post in Ockanook with his wife, Annie Grizzly, a member of the Kootenals. David and his family lived in a semi-secluded state where they were close to nature. He was seen in June 14, 1901 in Portland at a celebration for Oregon Pioneers. He died two years later.
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Hudson Bay Company Apprentice clerk, Fort Vancouver (1839-1845); Clerk, Columbia Department general charges (1845-1846).

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Family/Spouse: Anne Grizzly. Anne was born about 1835; died about 1897 in Porthill, Boundary County, Idaho, United States; was buried in Porthill Cemetery, Porthill, Boundary County, Idaho, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]