Lang, H. O., ed.  "The History of the Willamette Valley, Being A Description 
of the Valley and its Resources, with an account of its Discovery and 
Settlement by White Men, and its Subsequent History; Together with Personal 
Reminiscences of its Early Pioneers."  Portland, OR, Geo. H. Himes, Book and 
Job Printer, 1885.  p. 592.

ELOISA (McLOUGHLIN) HARVEY

     Born in Fort William, on the northern shore of Lake Superior, Feb. 13,
1817.  Her father was Dr. John McLoughlin, then physician at her birthplace,
which was a post of the Northwest Fur Company.  Her mother was the widow of
Alexander McKay, John Jacob Astor's partner in the Pacific Fur Company.  Father
and daughter came overland to Oregon in 1824, the latter having been,
undoubtedly, the first female to cross the continent.  In 1838 Miss McLoughlin
married at Vancouver, William Glen Rae, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company,
and lived with him at various trading posts until 1845, when he died at San
Francisco.  Their children were three, of whom Mrs. Theodore Wygant and Mrs.
Joseph Myrick, of Portland, survive.  She returned to Oregon and lived with her
father until 1850, when she married Daniel Harvey, by whom she had three
children -- Daniel Harvey, James W. McLoughlin Harvey, and Mrs. D. F. Leahy, all
residents of Portland.  Daniel Harvey, Sr., died in 1868, and his widow died in
the fall of 1884, at her residence in Portland.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.