On March 9, 1853, Malcolm McPhatridge Crow, his wife, Elizabeth Clem, and their five children Richey, Mack, Lemuel, Ann, and Cass, left Andersonville, Indiana, a village now part of Indianapolis. They traveled down the Wabash River, then up the Mississippi River to Keokuk, Iowa, where they joined an immigrant wagon train. The train consisted mostly of United Brethren preachers, with T. J. Conner, as Captain.
The wagon train traveled along the Platt River, crossed through the Rocky Mountains using the Fort Laramie Pass, and then crossed the Blue Mountains via the old Oregon Trail. They arrived at Salem October 7, 1853 and Malcom claimed land Southwest of Junction City. He quickly became dissatisfied with the lack of education, so he moved his family to Sublimity, just east of Salem. His son Cass, attended his first school there at age seven. The school was taught by the father of renown inventors, Orville and Wilbur Wright.
After residing in Sublimity for one year, the Crows moved to a farm near Junction City. Malcom bought the farm from Mr. Estes using money he and Tom Clem made cutting rails. Malcom and his daughter, Ann, carried poles to build a shack for the winter. The Crow family had arrived in the Willamette Valley without anything, so Malcom built a fence for a man near Corvallis and took wheat as pay. He sold some of the wheat for $4.00 per bushel and for their winter food, they boiled part of the wheat and killed an ox that had fattened on grass. The following year, they raised their own wheat, then took it to a mill near Corvallis to be made into flour. Malcom's farm at Junction City had fruit trees, five kinds of grapes, and many varieties of cherries that ripened from May to September. In 1897, the Crows left Oregon for Washington state, due to Elizabth's asthma, however she did not like living in Washington.
Although some sources say Malcom died November 17, 1892 at Eugene, Oregon and was buried at Lowell, Oregon, there is a grave marker next to his wife's marker at the Pitts Cemetery in Pullman, Washington, with the death year of 1891.∼Death of a Pioneer Preacher.
Rev. Malcolm M. Crow, a pioneer preacher of Oregon, was found dead in bed at the home of his son, four miles south of Palouse City, Whitman county, November 17, aged 76. He was born in Virginia. At the age of 8 he went to Indiana where he married Elizabeth Crom, who died last June. One of their sons is a prosperous farmer in Whitman county, two are residents of the upper Willamette valley, while a fourth is living in California. In the spring of 1863, a colony of United Brethren was formed in Indiana to go to Oregon. T.J. Conner and Jeromiah Kenoyer were sent out by the missionary board and those were accompanied by J.B. Liehtenthaler and Malcolm M. Crow. They left Kenneville, Ia., on the 10th of May, 1853, and after is somewhat eventful journey, struck the Willamette valley at sunset on the last day of September of the same year, Mr. Crow, after viewing the country, settled in Lane county, a few miles above where Monroe now stands, he and his wife taking a homestead. When a project to found a college at Philomath was put on foot, he aided it with his means, his patronage and influence.
Published in Morning Oregonian, Nov 25, 1892.
The wagon train traveled along the Platt River, crossed through the Rocky Mountains using the Fort Laramie Pass, and then crossed the Blue Mountains via the old Oregon Trail. They arrived at Salem October 7, 1853 and Malcom claimed land Southwest of Junction City. He quickly became dissatisfied with the lack of education, so he moved his family to Sublimity, just east of Salem. His son Cass, attended his first school there at age seven. The school was taught by the father of renown inventors, Orville and Wilbur Wright.
After residing in Sublimity for one year, the Crows moved to a farm near Junction City. Malcom bought the farm from Mr. Estes using money he and Tom Clem made cutting rails. Malcom and his daughter, Ann, carried poles to build a shack for the winter. The Crow family had arrived in the Willamette Valley without anything, so Malcom built a fence for a man near Corvallis and took wheat as pay. He sold some of the wheat for $4.00 per bushel and for their winter food, they boiled part of the wheat and killed an ox that had fattened on grass. The following year, they raised their own wheat, then took it to a mill near Corvallis to be made into flour. Malcom's farm at Junction City had fruit trees, five kinds of grapes, and many varieties of cherries that ripened from May to September. In 1897, the Crows left Oregon for Washington state, due to Elizabth's asthma, however she did not like living in Washington.
Although some sources say Malcom died November 17, 1892 at Eugene, Oregon and was buried at Lowell, Oregon, there is a grave marker next to his wife's marker at the Pitts Cemetery in Pullman, Washington, with the death year of 1891.∼Death of a Pioneer Preacher.
Rev. Malcolm M. Crow, a pioneer preacher of Oregon, was found dead in bed at the home of his son, four miles south of Palouse City, Whitman county, November 17, aged 76. He was born in Virginia. At the age of 8 he went to Indiana where he married Elizabeth Crom, who died last June. One of their sons is a prosperous farmer in Whitman county, two are residents of the upper Willamette valley, while a fourth is living in California. In the spring of 1863, a colony of United Brethren was formed in Indiana to go to Oregon. T.J. Conner and Jeromiah Kenoyer were sent out by the missionary board and those were accompanied by J.B. Liehtenthaler and Malcolm M. Crow. They left Kenneville, Ia., on the 10th of May, 1853, and after is somewhat eventful journey, struck the Willamette valley at sunset on the last day of September of the same year, Mr. Crow, after viewing the country, settled in Lane county, a few miles above where Monroe now stands, he and his wife taking a homestead. When a project to found a college at Philomath was put on foot, he aided it with his means, his patronage and influence.
Published in Morning Oregonian, Nov 25, 1892.
On March 9, 1853, Malcolm McPhatridge Crow, his wife, Elizabeth Clem, and their five children Richey, Mack, Lemuel, Ann, and Cass, left Andersonville, Indiana, a village now part of Indianapolis. They traveled down the Wabash River, then up the Mississippi River to Keokuk, Iowa, where they joined an immigrant wagon train. The train consisted mostly of United Brethren preachers, with T. J. Conner, as Captain.
The wagon train traveled along the Platt River, crossed through the Rocky Mountains using the Fort Laramie Pass, and then crossed the Blue Mountains via the old Oregon Trail. They arrived at Salem October 7, 1853 and Malcom claimed land Southwest of Junction City. He quickly became dissatisfied with the lack of education, so he moved his family to Sublimity, just east of Salem. His son Cass, attended his first school there at age seven. The school was taught by the father of renown inventors, Orville and Wilbur Wright.
After residing in Sublimity for one year, the Crows moved to a farm near Junction City. Malcom bought the farm from Mr. Estes using money he and Tom Clem made cutting rails. Malcom and his daughter, Ann, carried poles to build a shack for the winter. The Crow family had arrived in the Willamette Valley without anything, so Malcom built a fence for a man near Corvallis and took wheat as pay. He sold some of the wheat for $4.00 per bushel and for their winter food, they boiled part of the wheat and killed an ox that had fattened on grass. The following year, they raised their own wheat, then took it to a mill near Corvallis to be made into flour. Malcom's farm at Junction City had fruit trees, five kinds of grapes, and many varieties of cherries that ripened from May to September. In 1897, the Crows left Oregon for Washington state, due to Elizabth's asthma, however she did not like living in Washington.
Although some sources say Malcom died November 17, 1892 at Eugene, Oregon and was buried at Lowell, Oregon, there is a grave marker next to his wife's marker at the Pitts Cemetery in Pullman, Washington, with the death year of 1891.∼Death of a Pioneer Preacher.
Rev. Malcolm M. Crow, a pioneer preacher of Oregon, was found dead in bed at the home of his son, four miles south of Palouse City, Whitman county, November 17, aged 76. He was born in Virginia. At the age of 8 he went to Indiana where he married Elizabeth Crom, who died last June. One of their sons is a prosperous farmer in Whitman county, two are residents of the upper Willamette valley, while a fourth is living in California. In the spring of 1863, a colony of United Brethren was formed in Indiana to go to Oregon. T.J. Conner and Jeromiah Kenoyer were sent out by the missionary board and those were accompanied by J.B. Liehtenthaler and Malcolm M. Crow. They left Kenneville, Ia., on the 10th of May, 1853, and after is somewhat eventful journey, struck the Willamette valley at sunset on the last day of September of the same year, Mr. Crow, after viewing the country, settled in Lane county, a few miles above where Monroe now stands, he and his wife taking a homestead. When a project to found a college at Philomath was put on foot, he aided it with his means, his patronage and influence.
Published in Morning Oregonian, Nov 25, 1892.
The wagon train traveled along the Platt River, crossed through the Rocky Mountains using the Fort Laramie Pass, and then crossed the Blue Mountains via the old Oregon Trail. They arrived at Salem October 7, 1853 and Malcom claimed land Southwest of Junction City. He quickly became dissatisfied with the lack of education, so he moved his family to Sublimity, just east of Salem. His son Cass, attended his first school there at age seven. The school was taught by the father of renown inventors, Orville and Wilbur Wright.
After residing in Sublimity for one year, the Crows moved to a farm near Junction City. Malcom bought the farm from Mr. Estes using money he and Tom Clem made cutting rails. Malcom and his daughter, Ann, carried poles to build a shack for the winter. The Crow family had arrived in the Willamette Valley without anything, so Malcom built a fence for a man near Corvallis and took wheat as pay. He sold some of the wheat for $4.00 per bushel and for their winter food, they boiled part of the wheat and killed an ox that had fattened on grass. The following year, they raised their own wheat, then took it to a mill near Corvallis to be made into flour. Malcom's farm at Junction City had fruit trees, five kinds of grapes, and many varieties of cherries that ripened from May to September. In 1897, the Crows left Oregon for Washington state, due to Elizabth's asthma, however she did not like living in Washington.
Although some sources say Malcom died November 17, 1892 at Eugene, Oregon and was buried at Lowell, Oregon, there is a grave marker next to his wife's marker at the Pitts Cemetery in Pullman, Washington, with the death year of 1891.∼Death of a Pioneer Preacher.
Rev. Malcolm M. Crow, a pioneer preacher of Oregon, was found dead in bed at the home of his son, four miles south of Palouse City, Whitman county, November 17, aged 76. He was born in Virginia. At the age of 8 he went to Indiana where he married Elizabeth Crom, who died last June. One of their sons is a prosperous farmer in Whitman county, two are residents of the upper Willamette valley, while a fourth is living in California. In the spring of 1863, a colony of United Brethren was formed in Indiana to go to Oregon. T.J. Conner and Jeromiah Kenoyer were sent out by the missionary board and those were accompanied by J.B. Liehtenthaler and Malcolm M. Crow. They left Kenneville, Ia., on the 10th of May, 1853, and after is somewhat eventful journey, struck the Willamette valley at sunset on the last day of September of the same year, Mr. Crow, after viewing the country, settled in Lane county, a few miles above where Monroe now stands, he and his wife taking a homestead. When a project to found a college at Philomath was put on foot, he aided it with his means, his patronage and influence.
Published in Morning Oregonian, Nov 25, 1892.
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