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Adams, Bishop John Hurst (b. 1927)
Bishop John Hurst Adams was pastor at Seattle's First African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1962 to 1968 and a leader in the city's civil rights struggle. He moved to other cities and states after 1968, rising to national prominence as a religious and civil rights leader.
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Adams, Brock (1927-2004)
Brock Adams represented the state of Washington for 12 years in the U.S. House of Representatives during the 1960s and 1970s and for six years in the U.S. Senate as well as serving as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation. He began his career as a lawyer in Seattle, and in 1961 was appointed to the position of U.S. Attorney. In 1964 he was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives. In Congress he criticized the Vietnam War, became a key player in restructuring the nation's railroad system after Penn Central collapsed, and worked for support of AIDS research. Persistent allegations of sexual harassment and rape forced him to withdraw from politics in 1992.
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Adams, Nora B. (1928-2004)
Nora B. Adams was an African American Seattle Public School principal who left more than $1 million in her estate to three of her major interests. She left $600,000 to the Seattle Public Schools Scholarship Fund and divided the rest between cancer and heart research. A shrewd investor, Adams divested herself of stock brokers and managed her own portfolio. She devoted 37 years to education, as a teacher and as an administrator and was one of the first black female principals in the city. According to her nephew, Gordon McHenry Jr. (Boeing executive and former member of the Seattle Public Library Board), she was the quintessential educator, not given to idle chatter but insisting on thoughtful and meaningful conversation.
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Alexander, Stella (1881-1960)
Stella Alexander was a woman ahead of her time. She broke into the previously exclusive boy's club of Issaquah politics when she was elected to the town council in 1927, and in 1932 was elected to a two-year term as mayor of the town (located in east King County). A large woman who seemed to enjoy confrontation, Alexander soon alienated her town council and eventually, the citizens she was elected to lead. The fire department resigned en masse; the police judge resigned; part of the town counsel refused to work with her; bedlam reigned in Issaquah politics in 1933. Three recall petitions were filed against the mayor; she nimbly dodged the first two, but the third was the coup de grace, and on January 2, 1934, she was recalled. In a grand finale, she refused to turn over the keys to the town hall.
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Allen, Raymond Bernard (1902-1986)
Trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Raymond B. Allen served as president of University of Washington (UW) from 1946 to 1951. Although his time at the UW was a relatively brief stop in a career that took him to the highest levels of academia and government, it was one of the most controversial periods in the school’s history. Allen recommended the firing of three professors in 1949 for suspected Communist associations, which kindled a rash of similar dismissals at universities and colleges across the country. After leaving the UW, he served briefly as director of the U.S. Psychological Strategy Board before becoming chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles from 1952 to 1959. He then served as Indonesian director for the U.S. International Cooperation Administration and later with the World Health Organization in Washington, D.C. The Seattle-King County Association of Realtors named Raymond Allen First Citizen of 1949.
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Allen, William McPherson (1900-1985)
William McPherson Allen served the Boeing Company as president from 1945 to 1968 and is credited with leading the company into the jet age and providing a strong and enduring tradition of integrity and leadership. In 1954, the same year the Boeing 707 made its maiden flight and took air travel into the jet age, the Seattle-King County Association of Realtors named William Allen Seattle's First Citizen of the year.
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Alvord, Ellsworth C., Jr. (b. 1923) and Nancy Alvord (b. 1922)
Dr. Ellsworth C. Alvord Jr., former head of neuropathology at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, and his wife, Nancy Delaney Alvord, have been generous supporters of educational, arts, and public service groups in the Northwest and elsewhere. They've also inculcated the values of philanthropy in their children and grandchildren. Three generations of the Alvord family jointly donated $3 million to create two endowed chairs at the UW’s medical school in 1999. That gift was only part of the family’s long record of service to the community. In 1995, the Washington State Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives selected the Alvords as the Outstanding Philanthropic Family of the Year. The Seattle King County Association of Realtors named the senior Alvords First Citizens of 1991.
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An Eastside Slide Show: I've Lived Here All My Life
Since 1920 when he was born, Robert (Bob) Peterson has lived near King County's Lake Boren. This once bucolic setting, now within Newcastle's incorporated city limits, is surrounded by new developments. On March 4, 2000, six days before his 80th birthday, Bob shared his family's story and photographs. This slideshow was edited and curated by Heather MacIntosh.
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Anderson, Ernestine (b. 1928): Jazz Singer
Ernestine Anderson launched her amazing career as a jazz singer while still a teenaged Seattle high school student back in the 1940s. By the 1950s she was an experienced performer who'd toured widely and sung with big-name bands led by Johnny Otis, Lionel Hampton, and Eddie Heywood. Anderson's debut album brought rave reviews from leading music critics which led to her being included in the all-star lineup at the very first Monterey Jazz Festival in 1958, and she was soon heralded as an important new singing star by both Time and down beat magazines. In the decades since, she has cut more than 30 albums of sophisticated and sensual jazz and blues music, received four GRAMMY award nominations, and been honored with a command performance at the White House.
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Anderson, Guy (1906-1998): Painter
Guy Anderson was, according to Bruce Guenther, former curator of modern art at the Seattle Art Museum, "perhaps the most powerful artist to emerge from the Northwest School." Partly by virtue of his semi-reclusive lifestyle, and partly through the profound gravity of the giant paintings that issued from his studio, Anderson occupied an elevated niche in the Northwest art world. This biography of Guy Anderson is reprinted from Deloris Tarzan Ament's Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002).
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Anderson, Otto (1857-1938): Seattle's Award-Winning Furniture Designer and Guitar-Maker
The excellent wood-working skills of Swedish immigrant, Otto Edward Anderson provided him with good job opportunities upon his arrival in the Pacific Northwest in 1888. One highlight of his career must have been winning a gold award at Seattle's first world's fair -- the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition -- for the innovative designs of some fine handcrafted furniture. But in hindsight, it seems that it was his years of making musical string instruments -- guitars, violins, and perhaps a mandolin -- and an association with the region's legendary instrument manufacturer, Chris J. Knutsen, which may bring him longer-lasting fame.
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Angell, Tony (b. 1940): Renaissance Man
Tony Angell is an eminent Pacific Northwest painter and sculptor whose work has often centered on birds, especially ravens and crows. He is also an author. Since 1971, he has been Washington State Director of Environmental Education. Washington State chapter of the Nature Conservancy. This biography of Tony Angell is reprinted from Deloris Tarzan Ament's Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002).
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Anhalt, Frederick William (1896-1996)
Builder and contractor Frederick William Anhalt produced some of Seattle’s most noteworthy apartment buildings in the years immediately surrounding the Great Depression.
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Arai, Kichio Allen (1901-1986)
Kichio Allen Arai was Seattle's first Asian American architect to design buildings under his own name. Arai's approach to design integrated Japanese aesthetics with American conventions. Arai's career was unfortunately brief, for the Great Depression and then his forced relocation and incarceration along with others of Japanese ancestry during World War II stymied his potentially fruitful professional life in architecture. He is best known for Buddhist temples in Seattle, Auburn, and Wapato, Washington.
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Ayer, Elizabeth (1897-1987)
Elizabeth Ayer, the first female graduate of the University of Washington's architecture program, helped fashion the residential architecture of many Seattle neighborhoods in the mid-twentieth century. Notwithstanding the growing popularity of modernism, Ayer integrated modern needs with traditional forms and throughout her career embraced historical styles.
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Bagley, Daniel (1818-1905) and Clarence B. Bagley (1843-1932)
Daniel Bagley was a Methodist preacher who traveled west in covered wagons with his family in 1852 as part of the Bethel Party. He and his wife Susannah Whipple Bagley (1819-1913) and son Clarence Bagley arrived in Seattle in October 1860. Daniel Bagley established the Brown Church in Seattle in 1860 and besides preaching became a key advocate for the Territorial University and its location in Seattle. He also managed the Newcastle coal mines. His only son, Clarence Bagley, was 17 when he arrived in Seattle. He became a printer, publisher, and writer, a founder of the Washington State Historical Society, and the region's first and preeminent historian.
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Bain, William James Sr. (1896-1985)
William Bain Sr. was a founding principal of NBBJ (named for Naramore, Bain, Brady and Johansen), now one of the world’s largest architecture firms. His career included the design of an elaborate false town to camouflage the Boeing plant during World War II.
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Barnett, Powell S. (1883-1971)
Powell S. Barnett, a Seattle musician, baseball player, and community leader, was the organizer and first president of the Leschi (neighborhood) Community Council. He was a leader in organizing the East Madison YMCA and was the first black person to become a member of the once all white Musicians Union.
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Barr, Roberta Byrd (1919-1993)
Roberta Byrd Barr was an African American educator, civil rights leader, actor, librarian, and television personality. She was born in Tacoma and lived for much of her life in Seattle.
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Bartell, George H. Sr. (1868-1956)
George H. Bartell Sr. was the founder of Seattle's Bartell Drugs, the oldest family-owned drug store chain in the United States. Trained as a pharmacist, Bartell arrived in Seattle in 1890, at the age of 21. He bought his first drugstore two weeks later. He struggled along for several years before founding Bartell's Owl Drug, after the Klondike gold rush of 1897 had turned Seattle into a boom town. He was an innovator in the development of soda fountains and other drug store traditions such as processing film.
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Esther Clark Short and her family settle near Fort Vancouver on December 25, 1845.
On December 25, 1845, Esther Clark Short (1806-1862) arrives at the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Vancouver in what will become the city of Vancouver, Clark County. She, her husband Amos Meade Short (1808-1853), and their children explore the area near the fort and the Willamette Valley across the Columbia River before becoming the first American settlers to locate permanently in the future Clark County. They claim a section of land near Fort Vancouver, where they will establish their farm. Their move will lead to tension with the British Hudson's Bay Company, which seeks to confine American settlement to south of the Columbia River. The Shorts will not be deterred and will successfully defend their claim, which stretches from the banks of the Columbia River up to what is today W Fourth Plain Boulevard and Main Street. After Amos's death, Esther will play a pivotal role in building the new city of Vancouver.
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John Holgate explores the Duwamish River by canoe but does not stake King County land claim during the summer of 1850.
During the summer of 1850, John Cornelius Holgate (1828-1868) canoes up Puget Sound from the village of Olympia. He explores the Duwamish River, and considers settling on the site (the future Georgetown) claimed the following year by King County's first white settlers -- Luther M. Collins (1813-1860), Henry Van Asselt (1817-1902), Jacob Maple (or Mapel) (1798-1884), and Samuel Maple (1827-1880). Historian Edmond Meany (writing in 1909) and others incorrectly give the honor of "the first settler of Seattle" to Holgate, writing that he selected land but neglected to register his claim.
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Sarah Yesler arrives in Seattle in July 1858.
In mid-July 1858, Sarah Burgert Yesler (1822-1887) arrives in Seattle to join her husband Henry Yesler (1810-1892), Seattle pioneer and proprietor of the town's first sawmill. Upon her arrival, she becomes cook for the sawmill employees, and actively involves herself in the Yesler business enterprises. She is in the forefront of the suffrage movement, active in the Seattle Library Association, a founder of Seattle's first social service organization, and in general, moves at the center of life in Seattle. The Yeslers were spiritualists who refused to join any church and resisted the anti-Chinese agitation in the 1880s. Sarah Yesler formed a passionate attachment to at least one other woman, while remaining a loyal wife to Henry. When she died in 1887, the entire city mourned the passing of one of their leading citizens.
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Mary Low Sinclair arrives in Cadyville (future Snohomish City) on May 1, 1865.
On the last day of April 1865, Mary Low Sinclair and her one-month-old son Alvin, board the small, unfinished steamer Mary Woodruff in Port Madison, Kitsap County, for a journey across Puget Sound and up the Snohomish River to a place called Cadyville, where her husband Woodbury Sinclair (1825-1872) has purchased the Edson T. Cady claim that previous December. Mary remembers the day of her arrival in an article published 46 years later in the November 24, 1911, issue of the Snohomish County Tribune. She does not mention the fact that she was the first Caucasian woman to take up permanent residence in the place that was to become Snohomish City. She also fails to note that even by 1911, she is considered to be the founder of education in Snohomish by opening her home as the first classroom. Plus, she skips over the intriguing fact that by learning the native languages of the area, she served as translator for visiting officials and journalists. The last recorded event was two years before her death, at 79 years of age, when she helps a reporter from Seattle's Post-Intelligencer interview Snohomish's famous Pilchuck Julia.
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Chief Seattle dies on June 7, 1866.
On June 7, 1866, Chief Seattle, the leader of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes in whose honor Seattle was named, dies at Old Man House in north Kitsap County.
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Voters elect John T. Jordan as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 10, 1871.
On July 10, 1871, Seattle voters elect John T. Jordan, stone mason, as the city's mayor.
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Voters elect Corliss P. Stone as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 8, 1872.
On July 8, 1872, Seattle voters elect Corliss P. Stone as mayor of the City of Seattle.
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Seattle pioneer Doc Maynard dies on March 13, 1873.
On the evening of March 13, 1873, David Swinson "Doc" Maynard (1808-1873) dies at his Seattle residence. "Doc" Maynard was proprietor of Seattle's first store, a physician and surgeon, realtor, justice of the peace, school superintendent, notary public, clerk of the court, attorney-at-law, and in general a key settler of the new town that he advocated calling Seattle after his friend Chief Seattle.
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Voters elect John Collins as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 14, 1873.
On July 14, 1873, voters elect Democrat John Collins as mayor of the City of Seattle.
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Chinese funeral held for Chun Wa in Seattle on July 21, 1873.
On July 21, 1873, in Seattle, a funeral is held for Chun Wa (ca. 1841-1873). The deceased was a merchant in partnership with Wa Chong. Their store was located on Mill Street (renamed Yesler Way).
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Voters elect Henry Yesler as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 13, 1874.
On July 13, 1874, voters elect Republican Henry Yesler (1810-1892) as mayor of the City of Seattle.
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Voters elect Gideon A. Weed as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 10, 1876.
On July 10, 1876, voters elect Gideon A. Weed as mayor of the City of Seattle.
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Voters re-elect Gideon A. Weed as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 9, 1877.
On July 9, 1877, voters re-elect Gideon A. Weed as mayor of the City of Seattle.
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Voters elect People's Ticket candidate Beriah Brown as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 8, 1878.
On July 8, 1878, voters elect People's Ticket candidate Beriah Brown (1815-1900) as mayor of the City of Seattle. Brown is one of the owners of the Puget Sound Dispatch newspaper.
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Voters elect Orange Jacobs as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 14, 1879.
On July 14, 1879, voters elect Orange Jacobs (1827-1914), a Republican, as mayor of the City of Seattle.
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Voters elect Henry G. Struve as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 10, 1882.
On July 10, 1882, voters elect Republican Henry G. Struve as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 10, 1882.
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African American pioneers John and Mary Conna settle in Federal Way area in 1883.
In 1883, African American pioneers John Conna (1836-1921) and Mary Conna (1840-1907) arrive in the Federal Way area and settle on their 157 acre homestead. John Conna becomes the first black political appointee in the history of Washington Territory.
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Black publisher Horace Cayton arrives in Seattle in 1886.
In 1886, Horace Cayton (1859-1940) comes to Seattle from Mississippi and by 1894 is publishing the Seattle Republican newspaper.
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Future architect Kirtland Cutter arrives in Spokane in 1886.
In 1886, future architect, Kirtland Cutter (1860-1939), arrives in Spokane at the age of 26. Cutter is lured to Spokane Falls by his uncle, banker Horace Cutter. He will establish his practice in 1889, and over the next 34 years will become one of Spokane's most prolific and successful architects.
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Voters elect Peoples Party candidate William H. Shoudy as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 12, 1886.
On July 12, 1886, voters elect Peoples Party candidate William H. Shoudy as mayor of the City of Seattle. Shoudy defeats Arthur A. Denny (1822-1899), one of the founders of Seattle, who is the candidate of the Loyal League. Both of these parties were organized in the aftermath of anti-Chinese riots in Seattle five months earlier. The Peoples Party supported the expulsion of all people of Chinese ancestry from the city, while the Loyal League opposed it.
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A Letter Written from a 1900 Railroad Trip from Spokane to Athena, Oregon
This people's history, contributed by Richard Hall, consists of an eight-page letter written by his great grandmother, Annie Hall (1869-1921) in late November 1900. She boarded a Spokane-bound Northern Pacific train in Edwall, Lincoln County, and recorded her trip in a letter addressed to "My Dear Joe and Children." Joe is Joseph Banyon Hall (1857-1947), her husband. In Spokane, Annie changed to a Union Pacific train that took her to Athena, Oregon. The writing commenced at Tekoa and the letter was mailed, on December 2, 1900, several days after her arrival in Athena. Following the letter is a brief history of the Hall family by Richard Hall.
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A Remembrance of Patsy Collins by her brother Stimson Bullitt
Stimson Bullitt (1919-2009) gave this remembrance of his sister Priscilla "Patsy" (Bullitt) Collins (1920-2003) at her Memorial Service at Seattle's Town Hall on July 8, 2003.
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Agnes Johnson Remembers Three Years At Firland Sanatorium
Agnes "Aggie" Guttormsen Johnson (b. 1928), is an Everett native. After graduating from Providence Everett School of Nursing in 1949 Agnes was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis and admitted to Firland Sanatorium in Seattle. She remained a patient at Firland for three years. On June 24, 2007, Aggie Johnson met with HistoryLink.org Deputy Director David Wilma and staff historian Paula Becker at Cedars Bay restaurant at Tulalip Casino, Marysville, Washington (Snohomish County) to recount her experiences at Firland.
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Almonjuela, Dorothy (b. 1918): Growing Up Squamish
Dorothy Almonjuela (b. 1918) was born on an Indian reserve in North Vancouver, Canada. A Squamish Indian, she moved to Bainbridge Island in 1942. This account includes memories of her life on the reservation, berry-picking on Bainbridge Island, and her 1942 wedding to the Filipino farmer Tomas Almonjuela. This excerpt is taken from an interview conducted by Teresa Cronin on April 9, 1975 for the Washington State Oral History Project.
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Battling Union Busters with Gary Ewing (1942-2000)
Gary Ewing (1942-2000) died on October 5, 2000, one week past his 58th birthday. This extraordinary, courageous, funny man was a passionate champion of working people and a loyal friend of many. Gary was an officer in Teamsters Local 174 in the early 1980s and later a lobbyist and representative for waste management firms Rabanco, Emerald Service, and Cedar Grove Composting. He was a former president of the International District Rotary and active in many political and community groups. His wife Violet is a veteran teacher in Seattle Public Schools. In this account, Walt Crowley remembers Gary's role in creating an innovative ad campaign to resist "union-busting" by local beer distributors.
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Ben Snipes, Northwest Cattle King
Roscoe Sheller of Sunnyside gave this talk about Yakima and Ellensburg pioneer Ben Snipes (1835-1906) to an April 1958 meeting of the Spokane Westerners. The talk was published in the Fall 1959 issue of The Pacific Northwesterner and is posted here with the permission of the publisher.
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Bill Newby and Seattle City Light's Skagit Hydroelectric Project, 1935-1996
Bill Newby (b. 1935) was born in the Seattle City Light community
of Newhalem on the Skagit River. He worked for City Light starting in
1955 as a laborer, digging ditches.
He retired in 1996 as Director of Operations on the
Skagit River hydroelectric project, responsible for three dams, four power houses,
and two communities. In this interview conducted by David Wilma for HistoryLink in January 2001, Bill Newby recalls life in Newhalem and on the Skagit Project.
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Braman, James d'Orma (Dorm), (1901-1980)
This biography of James d'Orma "Dorm" Braman, Seattle City Council member beginning in 1954, and Seattle mayor from 1964 to 1968, was written by his son, Jim Braman.
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Bratnober, John (1879-1951)
Say the name Bratnober to anyone living on the Sammamish Plateau in the first half of the twentieth century (or to a Plateau historian) and their face will light up in instant recognition. Bratnober was one of the preeminent lumber barons of the Sammamish Plateau, in the first four decades of the twentieth century, rivaled only by the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. Yet it was Bratnober who seems to have left a bigger impression on the Plateau. This account, written by Sammamish Heritage Society historian Phil Dougherty, reprints Dougherty's article, "Lumber John" ( Sammamish Scene, April 4, 2007, pp.12-14), and appears here with the kind permission of the Sammamish Review.
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Bryant, Alice Franklin (1899-1977)
Alice Bryant was a life-long peace activist and advocate for justice, based in Seattle. She was a world traveler, a prolific writer of letters to the editor, a lecturer, poet, essayist, and an author of books for children and adults. This biography is written by her granddaughter, Ruth Williams.
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Caffiere, Blanche (1906-2006): An Appreciation
Blanche Hamilton Hutchings Caffiere was a Seattle teacher, librarian, writer, and storyteller. Over the course of her very long life she influenced many people. Among these were her childhood friend, world-famous Northwest writer Betty MacDonald, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who was her student at View Ridge Elementary School. In this essay HistoryLink.org staff historian Paula Becker, a friend during the last six years of Caffiere's life, remembers her.
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Campbell, Bertha Pitts: An Oral History
Bertha Pitts Campbell (1889-1990), an early Seattle civil rights worker, was a founder of the Christian Friends for Racial Equality and an early board member of the Seattle Urban League. This is an excerpt of an oral history interview of Bertha Pitts Campbell done by Esther Mumford on April 23, 1975, as part of the Washington State Oral History Project. The interview contains reflections on discrimination against African Americans in Seattle as well as an account of the internment of Japanese Americans at the beginning of World War II.
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Cathlamet in the 1930s (Marjorie Bacon Brown Remembers) by Crystal J. Ortmann
This portrait of Marjorie Bacon Brown and of Cathlamet in the 1930s was written by Crystal J. Ortmann.
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Childhood Memories of Criminologist Luke May, by his Granddaughter
In this People's History file, Mindi Reid, granddaughter of the renowned Seattle criminologist Luke S. May (1892-1965), recalls him as a beloved grandfather. Luke May, known as America's Sherlock Holmes, was a pioneering forensic detective. He moved to Seattle in 1919.
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Conna, John N. (1836-1921)
This is a biography and reminiscence of the Tacoma African American pioneer John N. Conna written by his grandson, Douglas Q. Barnett.
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Daniel Corbin and the Spokane Falls & Northern Railway
John R. Fahey, the author of this essay, was born and educated in Spokane. He graduated from Gonzaga University and went to graduate school in journalism and political science at Northwestern. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps as a provost marshal and in a program democratizing German prisoners of war. In civilian life he worked as a radio news editor and announcer with several stations and became program director on KHQ radio and TV. For this piece, first published in The Pacific Northwesterner's and edited for HistoryLink.org by David Wilma, Fahey interviewed Edward J. Roberts and examined his personal papers. It appeared as John R. Fahey, “Spokane Falls and Northern,” The Pacific Northwesterner, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 1960), pp. 17-26, and is reprinted by kind permission.
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Daniel Drumheller: Good Genes and a Bit of Luck
The writer of this article on Daniel Drumheller was Norman Bolker, a retired physician in Spokane who was interested in western history. This story of one immigrant's battle with disease originally appeared in The Spokane County Medical Bulletin (Fall 1980). It is here reprinted from Norman Bolker, M.D., "Good Genes and a Bit of Luck," The Pacific Northwesterner, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Winter 1989), pp. 14-16.
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Emory C. Ferguson Recalls Early Days in Snohomish County
Often referred to as the patriarch of Snohomish, Emory C. Ferguson (1833-1911) was a pioneer who followed the same routes as many early adventurers who came West in the late 1850s. He first searched for gold but found better money selling goods to the prospectors and soon traveled north to join with others building roads and settlements in the Pacific Northwest. Ferguson chose for himself land that eventually became the city of Snohomish where he stayed for the rest of his life. Here he served as postmaster, mayor, realtor, saloon keeper, store proprietor, legislator -- even justice of the peace -- and was on hand to give birth to Snohomish County when it was formed in January of 1861. A well-loved pioneer figure in his senior years, "Old Ferg" helped to humorously craft his own image through his writings and after-dinner speeches in which he depicted himself as a rugged pioneer once living alone in the wilderness. The following accounts, collected by Margaret Riddle, were taken from early Snohomish County newspapers.
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Eulogy for Lud Kramer by Ralph Munro
This eulogy for A. Ludlow "Lud" Kramer (1932-2004) was given by Ralph Munro at Lud Kramer's memorial service at St. John's Cathedral in Spokane on April 16, 2004. Lud Kramer became the youngest Secretary of State in Washington history when elected in 1964 at age 32. A moderate Republican, he championed the rights of the poor and minorities and pushed for reforms in housing, prisons, and the electoral system. Lud Kramer died of lung cancer on April 9, 2004. Ralph Munro served as Washington Secretary of State from 1981 through 2001.
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Eulogy for Stan Stapp (1918-2006)
Stan Stapp (1918-2006) was the longtime publisher of the North Central Outlook, one of Seattle's most respected and influential community newspapers, and a mentor to two generations of "underground" and "alternative" journalists. He died on May 5 at age 88. Walt Crowley delivered this remembrance at University Unitarian Church on May 21, 2006.
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