11 Facts About Felix Hathaway

Felix Hathaway was an American carpenter and pioneer in what became the state of Oregon.

Felix Hathaway's home was used for the first meeting of the Provisional Legislature of Oregon in 1844.

Felix Hathaway sailed on the schooner Convoy to the northwest coast of North America.

Felix Hathaway settled in the Willamette Valley near the mouth of the Chehalem River in 1835, and remained there until 1840.

Felix Hathaway was hired by a group that included Ralph Kilbourne and Pleasant Armstrong to serve as the carpenter and superintendent of the shipbuilding project.

Construction began on Swan Island in what is Portland, Oregon, but Felix Hathaway quit about halfway through construction partly because he had not been paid for his work.

Felix Hathaway then moved to Oregon City where he was hired by the Methodist Mission to build a house on Abernathy Island at Willamette Falls in 1841.

Felix Hathaway soon had to stop due to a dispute between the mission and John McLoughlin of the Hudson's Bay Company.

In 1845, Felix Hathaway petitioned the Provisional Government of Oregon for divorce from his wife, which was granted.

Felix Hathaway had apparently often run away from Hathaway, and had only given consent to the marriage under duress from those whom controlled her at the time of the marriage.

Felix Hathaway died on March 6,1856, in Vancouver, California, at the age of 58.