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Walton Haydon

1854–1932

Surgeon and physician. Son of George Henry Haydon. Surgeon with the Hudson Bay Company in Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada, 1877–83. Emigrated to Coos, Oregon, USA; practised as a doctor and became a US citizen. Photographed and collected natural history specimens and Indigenous material culture.

Sources

Census returns of Canada 1881 (Library and Archives Canada: Eastern Ruperts Land, Territories, Northwest Territories, p. 20)

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/607/66/9)

London, England, Church of England births and baptisms, 1813–1917 (Ancestry.com, accessed 4 June 2020)

Oregon death index 1931–1941 (Ancestry.com, accessed 4 June 2020)

Photo Lot 150, Walton B. Haydon photographs of Cree, Ojibwa, and Inuit peoples, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, https://sova.si.edu/record/NAA.PhotoLot.150?s=0&n=10&t=C&q=Factories&i=5

United States Federal Census 1910 (Empire, Coos, Oregon 56/2A) (Ancestry.com, accessed 4 June 2020)

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