Harvey Clarke and his Party traveled overland with the Trapper Caravan from the States, leaving Westport on the Missouri River to travel across the plains, attend the 1840 Trapper Rendezvous in Green River, and on to Fort Hall where Joe Meek and his family were waiting. They arrived August 14, 1840, at the
Whitman Station. He was an independent missionary, unaffiliated with any missionary organization such as the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The Clarke Party included Harvey Clarke and his wife Emeline,
Alvin T. and Abigail Smith, Philo and Adelaide Littlejohn. Clarke made his land claim in 1846 for about .
Pacific University In 1842, Clarke and his wife started a school for Native Americans at Glencoe in what is now
Hillsboro to the east of Forest Grove. A few years later
Tabitha Moffatt Brown arrived in Forest Grove and joined the Clarkes in operating a home for orphans. In 1848,
George H. Atkinson arrived and began working with Clarke to create a college in Oregon, which was chartered by the
Oregon Territorial Legislature in 1849 as
Tualatin Academy. Clarke donated to the school that year, and deeded another . Tualatin Academy would grow with the addition of a college, Pacific University in 1854, while the academy would be closed in 1915. Marsh Hall at the school is situated where the three original land claims of the town’s founders met, including Clarke’s. ==Later years==