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David Thomas Lenox
David Thomas Lenox (December 8, 1802 – October 18, 1874) was an American pioneer who settled in the Oregon Country where he organized the first Baptist Church west of the Rocky Mountains. A native of New York, he lived in Illinois and Missouri before he was captain of the first wagon train over the Oregon Trail to what became the state of Oregon.〔 He also organized several schools and churches, and served as a judge and justice of the peace. In Oregon, he settled on the Tualatin Plains near what is now Hillsboro and later lived in Eastern Oregon.
==Early life==
David Lenox was born in Catskill, New York, on December 8, 1802.〔Corning, Howard M. (1989) ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 146.〕 His parents were English of the Scotch Methodist faith. He became an orphan at an early age, and had a limited education in the local schools.〔〔 At 18 he left New York for Lexington, Kentucky, where he worked on a plantation.〔 There he married the plantation owner’s daughter, Louisa Swan, in 1826.〔 The couple had ten children.〔
The Lenox family moved to a farm at Rushville, Illinois, in 1829.〔 There David Lenox farmed and served as a school teacher.〔 He also converted to the Baptist sect in Rushville in 1832.〔 In 1840, Lenox sold the farm and moved to Todds Creek in Platte County, where he bought timberland for $5 per acre.〔 In Missouri he served as the clerk at his local church.〔 After a couple years they decided their land would not be productive enough to sustain the family, and they resolved to immigrate to the Oregon Country.〔
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