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Kelley, Hall J(ackson) (1790–1874)| US teacher and Oregon propagandist. He organized the American Society for Encouraging the Settlement of the Oregon Territory in 1831, and in 1832 made the arduous journey, arriving in Ft Vancouver, Oregon, in 1834. His ‘Memoir’ (1839), printed in a Congressional report, influenced the eventual US occupation of Oregon. |
| He was born in Northwood, New Hampshire. A graduate of Middlebury College in 1813, he was a Boston public school director 1818–23, turning to engineering in Palmer, Massachusetts, after his dismissal. After 1836 he spent his life as a hermit in Three Rivers, Massachusetts. |
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