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Edward Gaylord Bourne

One of them, "The Legend of Marcus Whitman," is generally considered to have settled the Whitman question.

Marcus Whitman

In 1953, the state of Washington donated a statue of Whitman by the sculptor Avard Fairbanks to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol.

Plainfield, Massachusetts

Marcus Whitman (1802–1847), missionary physician who in 1843 convinced President Tyler that Oregon,and what is now the state of Washington, should be secured for the United States not Great Britain.

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