Reverend Harvey Clark was the founder of the Tualatin Academy, later becoming Pacific University. His cabin was built in 1841. Clark lived in the cabin from 1847 to 1848. Tabitha Brown, helped Clark found the Tualatin Academy, housed classes in the front room of the cabin. The back of the photo outlines information about Clark and where he resided in Forest Grove.
Reverend Harvey Clark was the founder of the Tualatin Academy, later becoming Pacific University. His cabin was built in 1841. Clark lived in the cabin from 1847 to 1848. Tabitha Brown, helped Clark found the Tualatin Academy, housed classes in the front room of the cabin. The back of the photo indicates the cabin was located south of 15th on west side on Elm Street.
Photo of Reverend Harvey Clark's cabin, founder of the Tualatin Academy which is now Pacific University, in the late 1930's. Back of photo indicates the trustees of Tualatin Academy had their first meeting on December 6, 1848 at Clark's cabin. The trustees met again on December 11 having a quorum present. This record was from Edward M. Atkinson, 1876 Pacific University graduate who became an attorney and trustee of Pacific. The cabin was built in 1841.
Photo of the cabin of Reverend Harvey Clark, taken in 1891. He was one of the founders of Pacific University, and died in Forest Grove in 1858. The cabin stood near what is now the intersection of 15th Avenue and Elm Street in Forest Grove.
Portrait of Reverend Harvey Clark, one of the founders of Pacific University. He was born in Vermont on October 7, 1807, and he and his wife Emeline Cadwell arrived in Oregon Territory in 1840 to serve as missionaries for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He went on to preach and to educate children, founding Tualatin Academy in 1849. Harvey Clark died of tuberculosis in Forest Grove on March 25, 1858, and was buried on what is now the Pacific University campus. His body was later re-interred at the Mountain View Cemetery in Forest Grove.
Photo of the gravestone of Harvey Clark, an early Oregon pioneer and missionary. A white obelisk rises from a square white block placed on a larger concrete block. The name 'Clarke' is incised on the stone block; faded but legibly carved on the obelisk is the following: 'Rev Harvey Clarke. Born in Vermont, Oct. 2, 1807. Died March 24, 1858.' The Clark/Clarke last name is spelled with or without an 'e' in various contexts. Based on a similar photograph from the same cemetery (see WCMpic_000292), this photograph may have been taken circa 1926, possibly by Albert Tozier.
