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Whitman, Marcus (1802–1847)| US physician and missionary. He established a mission near present-day Walla Walla, Washington, in 1836. After returning east, he brought over 900 settlers to Washington in 1843. Following a measles epidemic in which many American Indians died but most whites survived, he and his wife were killed by Cayuse Indians. Whitman was born in Rushville, New York. |
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