Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847 (Personal Name)

NUCMC data from U. of Wash. Lib. for Marshall, W.I. Papers, 1882-1915 (Marcus Whitman)

DAB, 1936 (Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847; b. Rushville, NY; studied medicine; proffered his services as "physician teacher, or agriculturist" to the Am. Bd. of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; sent west in 1835 to make a missionary reconnaissance in Oregon [Country]; dissensions in the missionary fraternity engendered complaints to the Board; Board ordered one mission closed; Whitman believed this order might be withdrawn if proper representations were made at Boston, and for that reason he returned to Boston-not, as has been so often asserted to "save Oregon" politically; murdered during the Cayuse outbreak, 1847)

Dictionary of Oregon history, c1956: p. 264 (Whitman, Marcus, Dr.; born Sept. 4, 1802, died Nov. 29, 1847; in 1832 awarded M.D. by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York)