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About Marcus Whitman
Marcus Whitman was an American physician and missionary. He is most well known for leading American settlers across the Oregon Trail, unsuccessfully attempting to Christianize the Cayuse Indians, and was subsequently killed by the Cayuse Indians in an event known as the 1847 Whitman massacre, over a misunderstanding, resulting in the beginning of the Cayuse War (1847–1855).
Everything about Marcus Whitman →- Occupation
- physician, missionary
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 4, 1802
- Died
- November 29, 1847