Tandy Thomas Winfrey (1 results)

Twelve pieces. 1st - Abstract of Title, No. 5192. Folio. 8.5 x 14 in. 100 leaves, mimeograph typescript, including hand-coloured map, printed & typed cover sheet, split-pin binder at upper fore-edge; 2nd -- Marshland, OR Plat Map. Oblong atlas folio. 27.5 x 23.5 in., cyanotype blueprint, 1 plat indicated sold off of Henderson St. in ink, L.G. English, 610 McKay Building, a real estate attorney (some minor toning to verso, a few very minor closed tears at fold creases), still VG; 3rd -- Partial Relase of Mortgage, Folio. 8.75 x 14 in. 4 leaves, w/ TLS from Shinn to Tandy on Columbia County Abstract Co. letterhead; 4th -- Mortgage. Folio. 8.6 x 14 in. 4 pp., printed and manuscript filled-in; 5th -- Warranty Deed. Oblong Folio. 17 x 14 in., with center fold as issued, MS on lithographed engraved form, embossed notary stamp; 6th -- Warranty of Deed. Folio. 8.5 x 14 in. 4 pp. Printed document, manuscript, embossed notary stamp; 7th - Deed. Folio 8.6 x 14 in. 4 pp. manuscript and notarized in MS, w/ coated linen manuscript map, pencil annotations on verso for Woodward family land in New Prairie, MN (now a ghost town); 8th -- Warranty Deed. Folio. 8.5 x 14 in. 2 pp. filled in manuscript; 9th - Mortgage. Folio. 8.5 x 14 in. 2 pp., preserving Noratry Public's seal on verso; 10th -- Satisfaction of Mortgage, Folio. 8.5 x 14 in. 2 pp. printed on form by Glass & Prudhomme, manuscript signature, filled-in; 11th -- 4to. 8.5 x 11 in. 2 pp. TLS carbon copy, signed by Graham and George Young, w/ embossed stamp; 12th - Indenture Copy between Tandy & Armstong. Folio. 8.5 x 14 in. 2 leaves typescript, w/ manuscript annotations. This tidy archive of original land documents, plat maps, and letters not only includes autographed documents from early Oregon pioneers, but also traces the development of a small Columbia County town from the 1870's through 1940, when Marshland, OR still retained a train station, post office, and even general store. The documents open chronologically with Alba Woodward (1843-1902) a Minnesota Civil War veteran arranging to purchase several plots of Pacific County land from Oregon pioneers William Lingenfelter (1830-1917) and his wife Mary (1843-1904), in three installments from 1877 through 1881 for a total of $ 9000 in gold coins, broken up for a couple years with Woodward returning to the Indian Territory (later Oklahoma) for three years. As indicated by the Township survey directions and BLM records, the lands were located along Skunk Cabbage Ridge above Tandy Creek near present-day Colvin Road, West of Clatskanie and above Marshland Road, near where the SP&S Railway would later construct their line to Astoria. Two of these documents are signed by William Lingenfelter who had come Overland to the Oregon Territory in 1851 with the L. Helms emigrant wagon train, first settling in Aurora, and then Columbia County by 1863 where he operated a salmon fishing & canning operation -- one of only three men at the time who held the secret of safely preserving salmon in cans. He later became a dairy farmer and moved his operation to Ilwaco, W.T. after selling his Marshland properties to Woodward. His wife Mary Catherine Bryant had crossed the plains in on the Oregon trail in 1852, settled in Washington County, and married Lingenfelter after he mustered out from the Indian Wars in Oregon in 1858. Woodward rapidly sets up his successful dairy & cattle ranching operation, with enough success that by 1887 he was able to return to Minnesota where he marries Lizzie Ann Henderson (1865-1939), older sister to Harriett Henderson Curtis (1869-1956) whose sons Asahel, Edward, and George Curtis became renowned Pacific Northwest photographers. In addition, he also begins developing land in Montavilla near East Portland where he builds Woodward Hall, before dying from blood poisoning after being injured while trying to thaw his frozen pipes in the winter of 1901-1902. Alba had also purchased additional land from Albert Tichenor (1832-1911), for.…