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Jason Lee (
June 28 1803 –
March 12 1845) an
American missionary and pioneer, was born on a farm near
Stanstead,
Quebec. He was the first of the
Oregon missionaries and helped establish the early foundation of a
provisional government in the
Oregon Country.
Early life
Lee attended the village school and by the age of 13 was self-supporting. After a conversion experience, he attended
Wilbraham Academy, graduating in
1830. Between 1830 and
1832 he was minister in the Stanstead area and taught school.
Missionary
In 1833 he was chosen to head a mission for the
Flathead Indians. He and his party, including his nephew
Daniel, traveled overland with the
Wyeth party, arriving in
Fort Vancouver in 1834. After the site of their first mission was abandoned as unhealthy, the missionaries settled on the
Willamette River, northwest of the present site of
Salem,
Oregon. He found about a dozen Canadian settlers with native wives, who had previously been employed by the Hudson's Bay Company.
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In early 1837 Lee participated in the Willamette Cattle Company along with Ewing Young in order to procure cattle for the mission. Lee invested in the venture that was designed to break the cattle monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company in the region. Though Lee was on the ship Loriot that took the company to California, Lee didn't sail with them. Also in 1836 and then in 1837 he helped to draft a petition for the establishment of a territorial government, and in 1838 he journeyed east to present the petition in Washington, D.C., stopping at the Whitman Mission near Fort Walla Walla to visit Marcus and Narcissa Whitman.
Lee continued to found missions during the 1830s and became increasingly active in the territorial organization of the Oregon settlement, encouraging its ties with the United States. He presided over the preliminary meeting for territorial organization held at Champoeg in 1841, and in 1843 he was instrumental in the formation of a provisional government. He also worked to promote education and formed the plan that resulted in the founding of Oregon Institute (now Willamette University). Problems with the mission including neglect to the education of Native Americans led to his return to headquarters in New York in 1844.
Death and legacy
While he was visiting his sister in Stanstead, his health failed; he died on March 12 1845. His remains were reinterred at the Lee Mission Cemetery in Salem, Oregon in 1906.
The house Lee occupied in 1841 is preserved as part of the Mission Mill Museum. You can see a picture of it here
.
In 1953, the state of Oregon donated a bronze statue of Lee to the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection.
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