He was born in 1816 in British Possessions of N. America to Donald and Charlotte and held various posts with Hudson's Bay Company. His father Donald, was from Scotland, also a HBC man, he drown in an accident trying to cross the river at Lac Pluie with his dog. His mother remarried a man named Thomas Corcoran who mentions his stepson, John often in correspondence. John and his wife (m. April 1st 1842 at the Tsimikian mission of the Walkers & Eels in Wa. state), an Indian woman, (named Charlotte also) got a donation land claim in Columbia County on July 31st, 1869. There is mention of the McPherson's in the book On To Oregon which diaries the mission work, dairy life and travels of The Walkers and the Eels's. He had the following children: Donald, Flora (Robinson), Sophia, John R. Jr., Annie (Foster/Tuesson), George Henry and Frederick Charles and a baby. He died in Columbia County on September 9th, 1877 leaving 815 acres of land $200.00 in personal property and real estate valued at about $1,000. It is reported that his wife is buried there by him with a baby & that they died of rheumatic fever. His daughter Annie, married Fremont Fenner Foster, a skipper on the mighty Columbia River. They divorced and she married a much younger man with the last name Tuesson. She is buried in the Toppenish, WA. cemetery, we have a few pictures of her because my mother and an Aunt remember her, she was their Grandmother.
He was born in 1816 in British Possessions of N. America to Donald and Charlotte and held various posts with Hudson's Bay Company. His father Donald, was from Scotland, also a HBC man, he drown in an accident trying to cross the river at Lac Pluie with his dog. His mother remarried a man named Thomas Corcoran who mentions his stepson, John often in correspondence. John and his wife (m. April 1st 1842 at the Tsimikian mission of the Walkers & Eels in Wa. state), an Indian woman, (named Charlotte also) got a donation land claim in Columbia County on July 31st, 1869. There is mention of the McPherson's in the book On To Oregon which diaries the mission work, dairy life and travels of The Walkers and the Eels's. He had the following children: Donald, Flora (Robinson), Sophia, John R. Jr., Annie (Foster/Tuesson), George Henry and Frederick Charles and a baby. He died in Columbia County on September 9th, 1877 leaving 815 acres of land $200.00 in personal property and real estate valued at about $1,000. It is reported that his wife is buried there by him with a baby & that they died of rheumatic fever. His daughter Annie, married Fremont Fenner Foster, a skipper on the mighty Columbia River. They divorced and she married a much younger man with the last name Tuesson. She is buried in the Toppenish, WA. cemetery, we have a few pictures of her because my mother and an Aunt remember her, she was their Grandmother.
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