Lot Whitcomb [SEP] place of death
Lot Whitcomb
Lot Whitcomb (1807–1857) was an American commercial entrepreneur and politician who established the city of Milwaukie, Oregon. After making a fortune milling and shipping lumber and timber for California gold miners, Whitcomb launched the first steamship in the U.S. state of Oregon.
Biography.
Biography Early years.
Lot Whitcomb was born in Vermont on April 24, 1807. He married the former Irene Chamberlain in 1828, and together they would have four children, all daughters. Around 1830 Whitcomb moved to Michigan, where he
to Astoria, but under pressure from "Lot Whitcomb" was forced to drop this first to $15 per person, and later to $12. For a while, the owners of "Lot Whitcomb" as Milwaukie boosters, refused to stop at Portland. Portland's city founders retaliated by raising $60,000 and then buying the "Gold Hunter", an actual ocean-going vessel, to come north to the Columbia River, where she ran for about a year against the "Whitcomb." Shortly after launching,