Henderson Luelling
In 1847, Henderson Luelling brought more than 700 one year old grafted fruit trees from Iowa to Oregon by ox-team along with his wife and 8 children. He set out a nursery in the spring of 1848 near Milwaukie, which became the source of fruit trees for many homestead orchards in the Oregon Territory. His brothers John (from Iowa) and Seth (from Indiana) arrived in Oregon in 1850 by way of the California gold fields. Henderson Luelling's "traveling nursery" included the fruit cultivars.