The Willamette Steam Navigation Company (W.S.N.) was an American company incorporated in October 1865 to challenge the monopoly on

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inland steam navigation that the

People's Transportation Company The People's Transportation Company operated steamboats on the Willamette River and its tributaries, the Yamhill River, Yamhill and Tualatin River, Tualatin rivers, in the State of Oregon from 1862 to 1871. For a brief time this company operated ...

was attempting to establish.

Overview

Officers of W.S.N. were D. W. Burnside, president,

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co-founder Asa L. Lovejoy (1808-1882), vice-president, and John T. Apperson, secretary. Apperson also served as captain on one of their boats. The steamers ''Active'' and ''Alert'' were constructed, and they controlled the ''Echo'' and one or two others. ''Alert'' was put on the Portland to

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run, and ''Active'' and ''Echo'' worked above

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from Canemah (now Oregon City) to Corvallis. Nicholas Haun (also seen spelled Hann and Hahn), was also reported to have been a president of the company. Like previous challengers to the monopoly, the Willamette Steam Navigation Company soon sold out to the People's Transportation Company in March 1866.

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