Biographical Note
William T. Newby was an Oregon pioneer of 1843. He settled on a donation land claim in Yamhill County, and founded the town of
McMinnville, named after his home town of McMinnville, Tennessee.
Content Description
The diary for May to November 1843 is an account of the plains crossing from Westport, Missouri, to the falls of the Willamette River.
Newby came with the wagon train made famous by Jesse Applegate's "A Day with the Cow Column." The overland diary volume includes store
accounts prior to 1843, ferriage and other expense accounts to 1857, and weather observations for 1852 to 1853 and 1856 to 1857. The
account books for 1861-1864 include inventories, lists of income and expenses, occasional diary entries, and fairly complete weather
observations.
The overland diary was published, as edited by Harry N.M. Winton, in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, September 1839.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access Collection is open to the public.
Collection must be used in Special Collections & University Archives Reading Room.
Restrictions on Use Property rights reside with Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries.
Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the
Manuscripts Librarian in Special Collections & University Archives. The
reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation [Identification of item], William T. Newby Papers, A 088, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.