Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Guide to the Nancy Osborne Jacobs
Speech (transcript)
1912
Cage 5052
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
- Creator
- Jacobs, Nancy Osborne
- Title
- Nancy Osborne Jacobs Speech (transcript)
- ID
- Cage 5052
- Date [inclusive]
- 1912
- Extent
- .05 linear feet of shelf space, 1 folder
- Language
- Collection materials are in English.
- Abstract
- This collection consists of a single item, an undated typescript (14 leaves) with the text of Nancy Jacobs' 1912 paper and a brief introduction written at some point after her death.
Preferred Citation
[Item Description] Speech by Nancy Osborne Jacobs (transcript), 1912
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Biography/History
Nancy Osborne Jacobs was a survivor of the 1847 killings at the Whitman Mission, generally referred to as the "Whitman Massacre." She was nine years old at the time. On May 29, 1912, she read a paper at the Pioneer Reunion at Walla Walla, first relating memories of her family's overland journey in 1845 from Henderson County, Illinois to several different settlements in present-day Washington and Oregon, and then her recollections of the events at the Whitman Mission at Waiilatpu on November 29, 1847.
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a single item, an undated typescript (14 leaves) with the text of Nancy Jacobs' 1912 paper and a brief introduction written at some point after her death.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2012
http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/
Terrell Library
P.O. Box 645610
Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA
509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open and available for research use.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Cheryl Gunselman.
Names and Subjects
Corporate Name(s)
Subject(s) :
- Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.) -- History
Personal Name(s)
Subject(s) :
- Osborne family
Subject(s)
- Whitman Massacre, 1847
- Overland Journeys to the Northwestern United States
- Washington (State)