1. Lindsay Applegate was an American pioneer known for his participation in blazing the Applegate Trail, an alternative route of the Oregon Trail.
13 Facts About Lindsay Applegate
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Lindsay Applegate was born to Daniel and Rachel Applegate in Kentucky on September 18,1808.
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In 1831, Lindsay Applegate married Elizabeth Miller, whose sister Melinda was married to Lindsay Applegate's older brother Charles, and they had six sons.
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Lindsay Applegate fought in the Black Hawk War against Native Americans in 1832.
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The first emigrants to use the Lindsay Applegate Trail did so in the fall of 1846 by following the Lindsay Applegate party on the return trip, a group of perhaps 150 families which were persuaded by Jesse.
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Lindsay Applegate made a donation land claim in Yoncalla in 1846 and established a grist mill.
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Lindsay Applegate owned the toll road through the Siskiyous, which he sold in the 1860s.
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Lindsay Applegate was appointed special agent for the Modoc Indians in 1861.
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In January 1873, along with several other settlers, including Samuel Asahel Clark and R H Kincaid, Lindsay successfully proposed a peace commission to stop the war's spread.
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Lindsay Applegate died on November 28,1892, at the home of his son Oliver in Klamath County.
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Lindsay Applegate had five other children who predeceased him: Warren, Theresa, Annie, Frank, and Jerome.
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Lindsay Applegate wrote Notes and Reminiscences of Laying Out and Establishing the Old Emigrant Road into Southern Oregon in the Year 1846.
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Lindsay Applegate is the namesake of the Applegate River in Oregon.