John McLoughlin
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John McLoughlin, baptized Jean-Baptiste McLoughlin, was a French-Canadian, later American, Chief Factor and Superintendent of the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver from 1
Digital photograph made from a lantern slide of Dr. John McLoughlin
John McLoughlin
John McLoughlin, National Statuary Hall Collection, statue
The McLoughlin House in Oregon City
Otokichi
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Otokichi, also known as Yamamoto Otokichi and later known as John Matthew Ottoson, was a Japanese castaway originally from the area of Onoura near modern-day Mihama, on the west coast of the Chita Pen
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…Fourteen families were relocated to Fort Nisqually, while the remaining seven families were sent to Fort Cowlitz. When three Japanese sailors, among them Otokichi, were shipwrecked on the Olympic Peninsula in 1834, McLoughlin thought they might present an opportunity to open trade with Japan. He sent the three…
Japanese drawing of Otokichi in 1849, as he visited Japan passing for a Chinese man.
Japanese drawing of the Morrison, anchored in front of Uraga in 1837.