Early Life
William Waldo was born in Gasconade County, Missouri, on April 22, 1832 to Daniel and Malinda Lunsford Waldo. In 1843, the family traveled the Oregon Trail to Oregon Country along with neighbors Jesse and Lindsay Applegate. William joined the militia during the Cayuse War, serving for the Provisional Government of Oregon in the war against those responsible for the Whitman Massacre.
In 1849, he headed south to California for the gold mines. There he worked at Yreka before returning to Missouri in 1852. Waldo purchased and rove 300 head of cattle to Oregon in 1853 to the family’s farm in the Waldo Hills. For a few years he traveled back and forth from his birth state to what was the Oregon Territory, even attending the University of Missouri at one time.
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