Talk:Henderson Luelling

Sources for expansion
Another source:
 * Oregon Historical Quarterly, Volume 68, No. 2 (June 1967): Henderson Luelling, Seth Lewelling and the Birth of the Pacific Coast Fruit Industry. by Thomas C. McClintock
 * The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912 (1912) by Joseph Gaston
 * Iowa History Project (1929)
 * http://cafamilies.org/lewelling/sources.html#oregon
 * Anderson, Heather Arndt. Portland: A Food Biography. New York: Rowman, 2014
 * “The Emigrant Free Lovers,” Sacramento Daily Union, 19 May 1860)
 * 2014 Pendleton Record article (Offbeat Oregon)
 * Wrenn, Sara B. “Early Days and Ways in and around Milwaukie,” Oregon Folklore Studies, WPA Writer’s Project, 1939
 * Cartoon from Harper's Weekly, 1871
 * - anti-slavery Iowa Quakers

Thanks. In the article I started about Seth, it says he bought out Henderson in 1857, and this article says 1859. Do we have a definitive source? Valfontis (talk) 16:34, 1 August 2021 (UTC)


 * I am starting a timeline on Joseph Hamilton Lambert's talk page of all people. Valfontis (talk) 18:59, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
 * cool - sorry, missed your ping earlier. Not sure where I read that, but if I didn't cite it explicitly, it likely wasn't a great source. I'd say go with yours. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 05:18, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Ideas for expansion
I think we really need to mention "free love" in the context of the utopian experiment (that would have made a great DYK). (I know, I know, just WP:DOIT, ha ha.) Valfontis (talk) 18:59, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
 * It really is a tantalizing tidbit. He was mocked in papers all over the country. Almost felt sorry for him, with his earnest do-gooderism, but the string of ex-wives he left behind (including the one whose parents he mooched off of after his failed ventures) kinda made me sympathize with his detractors. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 05:20, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Here's a rather thorough recounting. The Bee had more coverage of this voyage too. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 05:27, 27 January 2022 (UTC)