[103] See Roby Wentz, Eleven Western Presses (Los Angeles, 1956), p. 23-26.
[104] See The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, vol. 23, 1922, p. 45-46.
[105] See no. 73 (note) in Thomas W. Streeter's Americana—Beginnings (Morristown, N.J., 1952).
[106] No. 588 in the sale catalog.
[Oregon]
Oregon Spectator. "Westward the Star of Empire takes its way." Vol. I Oregon City, (Oregon Ter.) Thursday, May 28, 1846. No. 9.
Medare G. Foisy performed the first Oregon printing in 1845 with type owned by the Catholic mission at St. Paul. Apparently without the benefit of a permanent press, he printed at least two official forms, and there is evidence that he produced tickets for an election held on June 3, 1845. Foisy was a French Canadian who had worked at the Lapwai mission press for Henry Harmon Spalding (see p. 63, above) during the fall and winter of 1844-45.[107]