Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The History of Oregon, Vol. I 1834-1848. From "The Works
of Hubert Howe Bancroft," Vol. XXIX.  The History Company, San Francisco, CA,
1886. pg. 467.

HORACE HOLDEN

	Horace Holden and May Holden, his wife, came from the Hawaiian Islands in
the "Chenamus," Captain Couch, with Babcock and Hines, when they returned to
Oregon after hearing of the appointment of a new superintendent of the Mission.
Holden was a native of Hillsborough, New Hampshire, born in 1810.  He took to
seafaring, and while roaming about the ocean was cast away on one of the Pelew
Islands, and enslaved by the natives for three years.  On being rescued and
returning to New England, he published an account of his adventures, called
"Holden's Narrative of Shipwreck and Captivity among the Savages."  In 1837 he
went to the Islands with the design of introducing silk culture and manufacture,
but the scheme failed.  He then engaged in sugar-planting on the island of
Kauai, the plantation of Kalloa, in which he was interested, being the first
sugar-making plantation on the Islands.  By the representations of Dr Babcock he
was induced to remove to Oregon, which he professed never to have liked on
account of the rainy winters.  Holden settled near Salem on a farm, and engaged
in cattle-raising and grain and fruit growing.  "Holden's Oregon Pioneering,"
MS., from which the above is taken, contains little more than his personal
experience, and while it affords a plan on which a book might be written equal
to many of the most interesting narrations of adventure, contributes little that
is of value to this history. 

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