In 1857, Doctor Anson G. Henry wrote a report on the health conditions at Grand Ronde. A few days before he had written another report, a table of the disease and death counts for the reservation for the past three months, (October-December 1856). His account is perhaps the most detailed of the health reports of the early reservations in Oregon. Henry was a great long-term personal friend to President Lincoln who helped him gain appointments in the Washington Territory. In 1852 Henry came on the Oregon Trail with his wife and five children to settle in Lafayette Oregon. Henry set … Continue reading A Hot Bed of Disease and Death, Anson G. Henry Physician at Grand Ronde