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. 604. LEONARD B. JUDSON Mr. Judson was one of the Methodist missionaries who came to Oregon in 1840 in the ship "Lausanne." He was born in New York State. He now resides in Salem. To use his own words: "I saw the Willamette Valley when it was a wilderness, peopled only by wild Indians and the Hudson's Bay Company subjects; witnesses the first Provisional Government in the new territory; saw Portland when its site was a dense body of timber; saw Oregon City when only the log cabin of a single trader was there; saw Salem when only two buildings were up, and the whole valley above was but a trackless wilderness, roamed over by the red man; lived the first year on boiled wheat slicked over with Hudson's Bay molasses, strong enough to go alone, with an occasional cake made of flour ground in the coffee mill." ******************* 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.