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  Linn County History
Linn County was named for U.S. Senator Lewis F. Linn of Missouri who was the author of the Donation Land Act that gave free land to settlers in the West.
The general administration of Linn County business was placed in the county court, composed of two elected commissioners and a county judge.
Linn County is also home to major producers of rare and primary metals, processed food, manufactured homes and motor homes as well as the traditional logging and wood products industries.
arcweb.sos.state.or.us /county/cplinnhome.html   (489 words)

  
 West Linn Online | History
The pioneer settlement now known as West Linn was first occupied by settlers in the early 1840s when Robert Moore purchased 1,000 acres of land from the "Wallamut" (Willamette) Indians.
Lewis F. Linn, a U.S. Senator from Missouri and sponsor of the Donation Land Claim Bill.
By then, his Linn City enterprises included a gristmill, sawmill, warehouse, wharves and a breakwater to create a basin for boats to tie up in for loading and unloading cargo.
www.ci.west-linn.or.us /Information/history.htm   (343 words)

  
 Beers: Linn p. 1160   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
LEWIS LINN, a representative agriculturist of Peters township, was born December 17, 1827, in Union township, Washington Co., Penn., and is a son of Aaron Linn.
Aaron Linn was born in 1790, in New Brunswick, N. J., and in early manhood was married to Eliza Henkison, a native of the same State.
Linn has had fifteen grandchildren, three of whom are deceased.
www.chartiers.com /beers-project/articles/linn-1160.html   (360 words)

  
 Court Reporting
Linn, a former electrical engineer from Ohio, was stoic as the jury foreman read the verdicts.
Linn's attorneys tried to convince the jury that the man didn't know right from wrong when he gunned down Cockman and torched his own mobile home after he treated the woman so badly she walked out on him.
After Linn had driven the woman from the home they'd shared for several months, Higgins said Linn was desperate to win her back.
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 Lewis Linn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lewis Linn was born near Louisville, Kentucky, on 5th November, 1796.
Linn was chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims and a member of the Committee on Agriculture.
Lewis Linn died in Saint Genevieve, Missouri, on 3rd October, 1843.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWlinn.htm   (227 words)

  
 Churches in Northern Linn County, Oregon
inn County was named for Senator Lewis F. Linn of Missouri, author of the donation land law that gave free land to settlers in the west.
Lewis C. Rich was ordained there in 1855 and presumably took the leadership for the next ten years; Daniel W. Elledge, pioneer of 1865, was there in 1866; George M. Whitney, pioneer of the 1850s was there in 1868; and John Moses Harris, pioneer of 1865, was there in 1869.
Part of the town is in Marion County and part is in Linn County.
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 Linn County, KS
Linn County is one of the most naturally beautiful and historically significant counties in Kansas.
Linn County was home to the original Kansas Jayhawkers, the site of the Marais des Cygnes Massacre, one of the triggers of the Civil War, and the location of the only Civil War battlefield in Kansas.
The Linn county courthouse in Mound City, built in 1886, is the second oldest courthouse still in use in Kansas.
skyways.lib.ks.us /counties/LN   (715 words)

  
 Linger in Linn:
Linn County was created in 1847 and named for U.S. Senator Lewis F. Linn of Missouri, who was the author of the Donation Land Act,
Linn County is in the center of the Willamette Valley, with the Willamette River as its western boundary and the crest of the Cascades as its eastern boundary.
Built in 1997, the Linn County Fair and Expo is one of Oregon's top facilities.
www.co.linn.or.us /visitus   (435 words)

  
 West Linn History - West Linn Chamber of Commerce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The history of West Linn is as rugged as its topography.
In 1845, Moore renamed his tiny town Linn City in honor of his friend, well-known free-state advocate Dr. Lewis F. Linn, U.S. senator from Missouri and sponsor of the Donation Land Claim Bill.
In 1913, the City of West Linn was incorporated, encompassing four areas - West Oregon City, Bolton, Sunset and Willamette Heights.
www.westlinnchamber.com /wl_history.html   (356 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Linn
Linn, Archibald Ladley (1802-1857) — of New York.
Linn, H. — of Cleveland, Bradley County, Tenn. Democrat.
Linn, Steve — of Stanhope, Hamilton County, Iowa.
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/linn.html   (423 words)

  
 West Linn, Oregon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The later Territorial Legislature of Oregon voted to rename it Linn City on December 22, 1845 as a memorial to Senator Dr. Lewis Fields Linn for whom Linn County is also named.
Linn was a neighbor and family friend of the Moores from their time as settlers in the early Missouri Territory.
For many years Linn City was an intense political and commercial rival to the adjacent town of Oregon City, but it suffered a series of natural and manmade setbacks, including Moore's death in September of 1857.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Linn,_Oregon   (1183 words)

  
 Lewis Fields LINN — Infoplease.com
The Life and Public Services of Lewis F. Linn, for Ten Years a Senator of the United States from the State of Missouri.
Schlueter, Robert E. “Dr. Lewis F. Linn (1795-1843).” Weekly Bulletin of the St. Louis Medical Society 29:20 (25 January 1935): 310-317.
“Linn and the Oregon Territory.” Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society 19 (December 1918): 283-305.
www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/linn-lewis-fields.html   (149 words)

  
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Moore later changed the name to "Linn City" in honor of his friend, Dr. Lewis F. Linn of Missouri.
The community was incorporated as the City of West Linn on August 15, 1913.
The Willamette Falls Locks, built between 1868 and 1873, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
www.ci.west-linn.or.us /services/planning/cdc/Historic/historic.htm   (185 words)

  
 Linn County, Missouri
Linn county was organized January 6, 1837, from Chariton County and named for Lewis F. Linn, United States Senator.
involved Bakers from Mendon, Linn County, MO The Meeks Murders of Sullivan and Linn County
Messages about Linn County, its history and residents may be posted.
mogeneal.tripod.com /linn/linn.html   (317 words)

  
 Early Emigrants to Oregon
The Whitman Mission would figure prominently in the Oregon Trail story for the first few years it was in widespread use, as the Trail went past the Whitmans' front door from 1843 until the deaths of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman in 1847.
Starting in 1841, Senator Lewis Linn of Missouri annually introduced a bill to Congress to extend American jurisdiction to Oregon and offer free land to white settlers and "half-breed Indians." The prospect of 640 free acres of prime Willamette Valley farmland, as opposed to paying $200 for 160 acres in the States, was very enticing.
For Linn's efforts, he was rewarded with a namesake town in Oregon: Linn City, originally called Robins Nest and later renamed West Linn when a fire devastated Linn City's business district and the town was rebuilt on higher ground a short distance west of its original location.
www.endoftheoregontrail.org /road2oregon/sa14overlanders.html   (980 words)

  
 James Linn Lewis, Colonel, United States Army
James Linn Lewis, 88, a retired Army Colonel who specialized in engineering and logistics, died February 1, 2003, at the Belvoir Woods Health Care Center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, where he lived.
After his military retirement in 1968, Colonel Lewis was a disaster assessor for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and its predecessor organizations.
While serving in the Army, he received a master's degree in engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a master's degree in logistics from Harvard University.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jllewis.htm   (202 words)

  
 Lewis Linn McArthur, Class of 1861   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lewis L. McArthur was born in Portsmouth, Virginia on March 18, 1843.
The couple had two sons, one of whom later served in Congress.
Lewis Linn McArthur died at home in Portland on May 10, 1897.
chronicles.dickinson.edu /encyclo/m/ed_mcarthurLL.htm   (277 words)

  
 Lewis F. Linn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lewis Fields Linn (November 5, 1795 – October 3, 1843) was a Jacksonian Democratic U.S. Senator for the state of Missouri born in Kentucky on November 5, 1795.
He served in that role from 1833 to 1843.
Linn in the Bioguide of the U. Congress
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lewis_F._Linn   (106 words)

  
 Linn County, Oregon - Oregon.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Home > Cities and Regions > Counties > Linn County
- On December 28, 1847 the Provisional Legislature created Linn County from the southern portion of Champoeg (later Marion) County.
No portion of this content may be repurposed, reproduced or published by any entity without the express, written permission of Oregon Interactive Corporation.
www.oregon.com /counties/linn.cfm   (503 words)

  
 The Probert Encyclopaedia - Places of the World (Le-Lm) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lewis Clark County is a county in the State of Montana, USA
Lewis County is a county in the State of Missouri, USA
Linn County is a county in the State of Iowa, USA
www.fas.org.cob-web.org:8888 /news/reference/probert/GF1.HTM   (10467 words)

  
 hhh1: Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lewis, Anne (marriage to William Lovelace) (i3269), b.1528-d.1569
Linn, Ardath (marriage to Donald Marion Murray) (i487), b.1930-
Linn, Staci Linnette (marriage to Dane McInturiff) (i356), b.1969-
www.theshop.net /silent1/hbmc/lindex.htm   (408 words)

  
 CareLink   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lewis County Health Department - Home Health Agency
Linn County Health Department - Home Health Agency
Counties Served: Linn, Sullivan, and neighboring counties to the west and south
www.kcom.edu /carelink/resource_dir/home_care_services.htm   (2056 words)

  
 BridesWebpage.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Brideswebpage.com is a division of Lewis and Linn and Associates based in Phoenix, AZ.
Lewis and Linn, founded in 1988, has been involved in the party and promotion business since its inception.
Here is where you should come if you have questions or need advice about weddings and all the stuff that goes along with it.
www.brideswebpage.com.cob-web.org:8888   (95 words)

  
 lincoln
M704-225 1840 Census: Lewis, Lincoln, Linn, and Livingston Counties
M653-663 1860 Census Slave Schedules: Lawrence, Lewis, Linn, Lincoln, Livingston, Macon,Madison, Maries, Marion, McDonald, Mercer, Miller, Mississippi, Moniteau, Monroe,Montgomery, Morgan, New Madrid, Newton, Nodaway, Oregon, Osage, Ozark, Pemiscot,Perry, Pettis, Phelps, Pike, Platte, Polk, Pulaski, Putnam, Ralls, and Randolph Counties
T623-871 1900 Census: Lewis (ED 53-end), Lincoln, and Linn (EDs 64-78, and ED 79 [part],sheets 1-8) Counties
www.heritagequest.com /genealogy/microfilm/missouri/html/lincoln.html   (240 words)

  
 [or-roots] Look-Up Request, Lewis Fields Linn
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------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C2D45B.AF6B4330 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I checked "TheCentennial History of Oregon" and it always mentioned = Lewis F Linn as Senator from Missouri.
Sue ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Spmarjan@aol.com=20 To: or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us=20 Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 6:21 PM Subject: [or-roots] Look-Up Request, Lewis Fields Linn Hi, I am new to the group, I am wondering if Lewis Fields Linn, whom Linn = County Oregon was named after, ever lived in Oregon?
www.sos.state.or.us /pipermail/or-roots/2003-February/001251.html   (167 words)

  
 Lewis-Linn Cemetery
h/o Jesse Lewis; [Marker NF, info per 2003 survey]
Aged 26 yrs, 6 mos & 1 day; marker very worn, hard to read add'l image
d/o Robert J. & Lalla Irene Lewis Raiden.
www.gabartow.org /cem/cem.LewisLinn.shtml   (238 words)

  
 CareLink   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Eligibility requirement: Individuals age 65 or older living in Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Linn, Macon, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland, or Sullivan County.
Description of Services: ElderLynk is a system that links seniors and doctors with education, information, and a team of local mental health care providers and organizations to care for the well-being of seniors.
Special agreements may extend for as little as one hour or for one year with an option for renewal.
www.kcom.edu /carelink/resource_dir/geriatric_services.htm   (1584 words)

  
 web design, website design india, web site design, ecommerce website, webdesign india, web designing (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
We have a huge range of resources for people looking for advice on finding someone to love.
Brides Webpage.com Brideswebpage.com is a division of Lewis & Linn & Associates based in Phoenix, AZ.
Lewis & Linn, founded in 1988, has been involved in the party and promotion business since its inception.
www.doomshell.com.cob-web.org:8888 /portfolio.php   (478 words)

  
 Missouri Livestock Symposium ~ Person of the Year Award (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
These will then be sent to the Missouri Livestock Person of the Year Committee, which will in turn submit their recommendation(s) to the Missouri Livestock Symposium Committee for final approval.
Eligible applicants must have been residents (do not have to be current residents) of one of the following Northeast Missouri Counties: Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Linn, Macon, Marion, Monroe, Pike, Putnam, Randolph, Ralls, Schuyler, Scotland, Shelby or Sullivan.
Individual receiving award must have made a significant contribution to the livestock industry.
www.missourilivestock.com.cob-web.org:8888 /mls2303.htm   (512 words)

  
 Lewis Linn McArthur/Mamie Louise Walker (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lewis Linn McArthur/Mamie Louise Walker (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)
Name: Emilie Constance McArthur Born: 25 FEB 1890 at: Chicago, Cook Co, IL Married: at: Died: 28 JAN 1920 at: Spouses:
Name: Lewis Linn Born: 30 JAN 1898 at: Married: at: Died: 9 FEB 1960 at: Chicago, IL Spouses:
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 Lewis Cemetery, Linn County, Oregon (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lewis Cemetery, Linn County, Oregon (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)
Lewis Cemetery Page One - A through E
If you have a correction, please let me know.
linnhistory.peak.org.cob-web.org:8888 /cems/lewis3.html   (1439 words)

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