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Jim Ellis on Ernie Conrad

Among his many achievements as a civic activist, Seattle attorney Jim Ellis (1921-2019) led the campaign to clean up Lake Washington, pushed for development of the Washington State Convention Center, ...

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Jim Ellis on Forrest "Forry" Walls

A lawyer by trade, Jim Ellis (1921-2019) was a civic activist who helped transform Seattle and King County with his work to clean up Lake Washington, create Metro, and push for passage of Fo...

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Jim Ellis on Griffin Way, a Hero of World War II and Post-war Reconciliation

A lawyer by trade, Jim Ellis (1921-2019) was a civic activist who helped transform Seattle and King County with his work to clean up Lake Washington, create Metro, and push for passage of Fo...

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Jim Ellis on Harold and Frank Preston

Among his many achievements as a civic activist, Seattle attorney Jim Ellis (1921-2019) led the campaign to clean up Lake Washington, pushed for development of the Washington State Conventio...

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Jim Ellis on John F. "Jack" Henry and Jean McLaren Henry

In the excerpt from his memoirs, famed Seattle civic activist Jim Ellis (1921-2019) writes about friend and civic leader Jack Henry and his wife Jean. As Ellis writes, "Jack had been a friend since my...

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Jim Ellis on Laurel and Tom Gibbs

Among his many achievements as a civic activist, Seattle attorney Jim Ellis (1921-2019) led the campaign to clean up Lake Washington, pushed for development of the Washington State Convention Center, ...

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Jim Ellis on Oliver B. Thorgrimson

Among his many achievements as a civic activist, Seattle attorney Jim Ellis (1921-2019) led the campaign to clean up Lake Washington, pushed for development of the Washington State Conventio...

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Jim Ellis on Paul W. Seibert

A lawyer by trade, Jim Ellis (1921-2019) was a civic activist who helped transform Seattle and King County with his work to clean up Lake Washington, create Metro, and push for passage of Fo...

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Jim Ellis on Slade Gorton

Jim Ellis left an extraordinary legacy of civic achievement when he died in 2019 at age 98. Perhaps best remembered for his successful efforts to clean up Lake Washington, Ellis also was instrumental ...

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Jim Ellis on Walter B. Williams

Jim Ellis left an extraordinary legacy of civic achievement when he died in 2019 at age 98. Perhaps best remembered for his successful efforts to clean up Lake Washington, Ellis also was instrumental ...

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Jim Ellis on Warren Magnuson

Along with Seattle Mayor Dorm Braman, Jim Ellis (1921-2019) worked closely with Washington Sen. Warren Magnuson (1905-1989) to secure federal funding for Seattle and King County transportation project...

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Jing Chuan Ling remembers her father's Chinese apothecary in Tacoma's Japantown neighborhood and the disappearance of her Japanese playmates and neighbors in the 1942 incarceration

Given Tacoma's expulsion of Chinese immigrants in 1885 and the resulting lack of a Chinatown in the city, it's perhaps surprising to find the existence of a Chinese apothecary in the Columbus Hotel in...

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