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On this day in 1780 Tabitha Moffat Brown was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts. In 1846, at 66 years of age, she crossed the plains to Oregon with her son as wagon master and settled at West Tualatin near Forest Grove. In 1847 she founded a home and school for orphan children of pioneer immigrants and became affectionately known as "Grandma Brown." The log church she used for a school was officially established as Tualatin Academy in 1848 and later became Pacific University.
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