missionary zeal of Dr. Whitman a debt which it can only pay in honor and
love. Dr. Whitman was murdered by the Indians soon after the settlement of
the Walla Walla country by the pioneers from the Eastern States.

Mr. Mann's inspiration to become a missionary pioneer on the Oregon had
been derived from a Boston schoolmaster whose name also the Northwest
should honor. An inspired soul with a prophet's vision usually goes before
the great movements of life; solitary men summon the march of progress,
then decrease while others increase. Hall J. Kelley was a teacher of the
olden time, well known in Boston almost a century ago. He became possessed
with the idea that Oregon was destined to become a great empire. He
collected all possible information about the territory, and organized
emigration schemes, the first of which started from St. Louis in 1828, and
failed. He talked of Oregon continually. The subject haunted him day and
night. It was he who inspired Rev. Jason Lee, the pioneer of the
Willamette Valley. Lee interested Senator Linn, of Missouri, in Oregon,
and this senator, on December 11, 1838, introduced the bill into Congress
which organized the Territory.

Some of the richly endowed new schools of Oregon would honor history by a
monumental recognition of the name of Hall J. Kelley, the old
schoolmaster, whose dreams were of the Columbia, and who inspired some of
his pupils to become resolute pioneers. Boston was always a friend to
Washington and Oregon. Where the old schoolmaster now rests we do not
know. Probably in a neglected grave amid the briers and mosses of some old
cemetery on the Atlantic coast.

When Marlowe Mann came to the Northwest he found the Indian tribes unquiet
and suspicious of the new settlements. One of the pioneers had caused a
sickness among some thievish Indians by putting emetic poison in