![]() I Mary Collins being first duly sworn depose and say that the property contained in the foregoing list was owned and possessed by me before my marriage with M. Also all notes, accounts, claims and demands due me and growing out of said business to wit: 250 rolls of wall paper Said buildings being situated on unsurveyed public lands of the United States.Īlso the following list of goods, wares and merchandise owned by me and now in said Store room in said Malheur City Baker Co. One north of the store room now occupied by me and on the south side of Main Street and other three situated on the West side of Main Street and North of said Store room. Also four other sevrall dwelling houses situated in said Malheur City. The present Store House now occupied by me at Malheur City Baker County Oregon. Richardson and which property and the proceeds arising therefrom she intends to own, hold and possess as her separate property, free from the contract of her said husband and from any liability for any claims or demands against him to wit: List of personal property owned by and in the possession of Mary Collins before her intermarriage with M. Transcribed 1877 Prenuptial Agreement from Baker County Courthouse Records: This daring and almost unheard of action must have created quite a stir in 1870s Oregon. Miss Collins filed a Prenuptial Agreement with the Baker County Court stating that her possessions held before the marriage would be hers after the marriage. That same year Mary told the world that she loved her husband, but she would control her own financial destiny. She married another merchant, Minas Gallatin Richardson in 1877 at Malheur City. Mary was a vibrant French woman who created a financial empire in Malheur City and Eastern Oregon. While all four of Ontario’s founders were wealthy, Mary Richardson, just prior to her death at Baker City in 1932, was known as the richest woman in Eastern Oregon. The fourth man, Daniel Smith was a lumberman cutting timber from the mountains surrounding Baker City. William Morfitt and Mary Collins Richardson operated general merchandise stores in Malheur City and James Virtue was a gold miner and banker in Baker City. All four owned successful businesses: two in Malheur City and two in Baker City. Four prominent local entrepreneurs recognized the future city of Ontario’s potential, when it became known that a railroad was soon to arrive following the path of the Oregon Trail.
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