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He was offered but declined an appointment as governor of Washington Territory. Instead, in , he and Etta moved to Florida, where they agreed to take over the management of Casa Bianca plantation. With the election of Abraham Lincoln in , Anderson joined ardent secessionists and gave his full support to the Confederacy. He entered the Confederate Army as colonel of the 1st Regiment Florida Infantry , received promotion to brigadier general February 10, and to major general February 17, He was wounded at the Battle of Jonesboro, Ga.

Even after the restoration of the Union, Anderson remained unreconciled to the new order in the South, refusing to countersign his presidential amnesty. His finances were ruined, and he took his family to Memphis, Tennessee, where he earned his living by editing a publication on agriculture, working in insurance, and serving as a collector of delinquent taxes for Shelby County. He died of complications from war-time wounds on September 20, Etta and their five children returned to Florida in and settled in Palatka, where Etta became the president of the local J.

He moved with his family to Kentucky in , where he lived for most of his childhood, and then to Mississippi in He attended the medical school of Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in , before a family financial crisis forced him to withdraw a short time before graduation in ; soon after his return home, he began practicing medicine. He commanded the 2nd Battalion, Mississippi Rifles with the rank of lieutenant colonel during the Mexican-American War.

He entered politics, serving in the Mississippi House of Representatives and befriending Jefferson Davis, a fellow former Mississippi volunteer officer in the U. Marshal for the Washington Territory. Anderson married his cousin Henrietta Etta Adair in , and the couple moved to Olympia where he served as marshal for several years before being selected to represent the territory in the 34th Congress as a Democrat.

He immigrated to Seattle at the age of He was an accomplished musician and played the piano, accordion and banjo. He married Mildred Corinne Rupp in the s. John Anderson playing the accordion Written on verso: Moved to America at age His nickname was Timber John. He worked in lumber industry, both logging and in the mills. Anderson, Maria Louisa Phelps Mrs. He was the president of the Territorial Universty now the University of Washington from to Together they designed and implemented an ambitious curriculum, hired educators, secured funding, established an enrollment open to women on an equal basis with men, and set and enforced a high standard of discipline and academic excellence.

Alexander also strengthened the University's relationship with the city by bringing the city's library to the campus. Alexander was the first president of Whitman College, which opened on September 4, with an enrollment of 60 students and three senior faculty: When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the Union Army. He received a commission in the Regular Army as second lieutenant and shortly after was promoted to captain. He received brevet promotions to major for the Wilderness and lieutenant colonel for Spotsylvania.

He stayed in the regular army after the end of the war, eventually rising to the rank of colonel. In February Anderson and soldiers of the 14th U. Infantry set up a base in Alaska at the start of the Klondike gold rush to protect miners along the trails into Canada as well as to keep watch on the border. At the start of the Spanish-American War, he asked for and received reassignment. He was appointed brigadier general of U. Volunteers, and his troops were the first to land in the Philippines following George Dewey's naval victory there.

Anderson fought at the battle of Manila against the Spanish and was promoted to major general of U. In March , he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the Regular Army. He also painted my father. Portrait Written on front: In Alaska in early at Skagway Barracks. Anthony "Tony" Staunton Archer, was a prominent Vancouver photographer in the s.

His studio was disbanded in The photograph is signed by Archer. He worked as a beekeeper, carpenter and plumber. He moved to Nevada in the s. He began his career in banking in Ohio. In , he moved to Olympia, Washington where he started a bank. In , he was the founder and first president of Seattle National Bank. He was the president and chairman of the Seattle Clearing House Association and at the time of his death was the chairman of the Clearing House Association. He was also the vice-president of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Andrews, Ralph Warren January 12, - February 11, Ralph Andrews was active in adverstising and merchandising in his early career.

He became the editor and manager of Superior Publishing and was also an author. He is best known for his pictorial volumes on the early days of the timber industry. He worked as a carpenter and a nurse. Angle installed a printing press in a small office in Shelton, Washington, and founded the Mason County Journal.

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The first issue came out on December 31, In addition to news, Angle published the daily schedule of the steamer that ferried passengers from Shelton to Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle; he actively managed the paper until As of , the paper, now the Shelton-Mason County Journal , is the oldest continually operating business in Shelton.

He started the Angle Insurance Agency in Shelton and served as state senator from to Harriet was married to Captain Francis H. Pope in and lived in the Phillipines when he was stationed there. She divorced him in and married John A. She lived most of her life in Walla Walla, Washington. Joseph, and crossed the plains to Oregon in with his parents who settled in Portland. He attended the rural schools and later Kingsley Academy in Portland. He was appointed a member of the Pan-American Exposition Commission and became its chairman. He worked in banking in Walla Walla until his death.

Levi Ankeny Abell Herrin Co. They had five children. Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She also co-founded the women's rights journal, The Revolution She traveled the United States and Europe and averaged 75 to speeches per year. She was one of the important advocates in leading the way for women's rights to be acknowledged and instituted in the American government.

The original is in the possession of Joseph Schafer at the University of Oregon. Jesse Applegate was an American pioneer who led a large group of settlers along the Oregon Trail to the Oregon Country. He took part in the early government of Oregon as a member of the provisional legislature and helped establish the Applegate Trail as an alternative route to the Oregon Trail. Along with his brothers Charles and Lindsay and their families, he joined what became known as the "Great Migration of " on the Oregon Trail. After leaving their guide, Marcus Whitman, at his mission and abandoning their wagons at Fort Walla Walla, the Applegate brothers built boats for traveling down the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver.

Recognizing that a safer alternative to boating the Columbia River was needed for settlers wishing to reach the Willamette Valley, Applegate wrote legislation that authorized him to survey a southern route to the Willamette Valley that would avoid the Columbia River. William Appleton served as watch officer on the U. He was a reference librarian at Duke University before becoming a history and philosphy professor at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. He later became the chair of the Social Science Division at the college. At his retirement in , he helped found the "Focus on Mature Learning" Program for older adults.

Full-time college instructors were mixed with professionals in the community to offer and teach courses on local history, interpersonal relationships, current events, psychology, and conversational languages. He and his wife, Dr. Ernestine Apsler, established a scholarship for students at Clark College. Arestad, Sverre December 2, - February 3, - Dr. He established a fund to support the publication of the histories of the Scandinavian people, their cultures, and their contributions to life in the Pacific Northwest. April 25, - ? Bertrand's Studio, Spokane, Washington photographer.

Armand was the editor and manager of the paper before selling his interest to Jukeland in He was born in Tacoma, Washington and attended the University of Puget Sound for both his undergraduate and Masters degrees in English. He completed his doctoral work at the University of Washington. He taught English at the high school and college level and was head of the creative writing program at Washington State University for 28 years. Many of his stories center in and around Oregon's Willamette Valley in the mid's, reflecting an influence of his early family history.

His manuscripts and papers are in the University of Oregon's Special Collections. October 11, - April 26, Rogers, Olympia, Washington photographer. Arrasmith was born in Missouri. He was a member of House of Representatives for the last territorial legislature. Arthur was the 21st President of the United States —85 ; he succeeded James Garfield upon the latter's assassination. He embraced the cause of civil service reform. His advocacy for, and subsequent enforcement of, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act was the centerpiece of his administration. He was educated in Ireland and England, and came to the United States in He was admitted to the Bar in Erie, Pennsylvania and was law assistant to the U.

Treasury before entering private practice in Washington, D. He then moved to Seattle to open a private practice. He was married to Amy Lane of Philadelphia. He married Shirley Ney in and worked as a machinist. He attended the University of Washington, majoring in journalism. He served in the Navy during World War I, returning to the UW after the war to complete his degree; he graduated in He was the president of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association. He returned to the University of Washington as an assistant professor of Journalism and as an advisor to The Daily.

He retired from the University in George Astel examining print layout Tyee, Seattle, Washington. After obtaining a bachelor of arts in psychology from the University of Michigan in , Astley joined the U. Army as a classification specialist and personnel clerk, advancing to the rank of technical sergeant.

In he was sent to Seattle to assist in administering an Army program that provided correspondence courses for overseas personnel. Two weeks after receiving his honorable discharge in , Astley obtained a job at the University of Washington as a career counselor for veterans. Astley appeared before the Committee and refused to answer its questions regarding whether or not he was a communist or had communist affiliations. In August Astley was fired from his counseling position. The University claimed that there was no correlation between his refusal to cooperate with the committee a month earlier and his dismissal from his job.

Astley maintained that his Canwell Committee experience was a direct cause of his firing, along with the fact that he participated in student organizations that were critical of the committee. In June Astley was called in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, again refusing to answer questions and citing the Fifth Amendment as the reason for his refusal.

In Astley was awarded a teaching certificate and became a teacher. He worked in education until his retirement, usually teaching social studies and English at the secondary level in the Seattle area. Having been a union member and supporter ever since he worked for General Motors in Pontiac, Astley was active in the Washington Education Association and the Seattle Teachers' Association. He was the creator of the first trust in America, from which he made his fortune in fur trading, real estate and opium. His estimated net worth, if calculated as a fraction of the U.

Astoria, Oregon was named for him. Lillie Helvig Astrup, the daughter of John C. She came to Seattle with her parents when she was three. As a young girl, she worked as a helper in a printing company before marrying Deputy Sheriff Harley Kirk in Sena Myrtle Astrup, the daughter of John C. She came to Seattle with her parents when she was two.

Smith in , and Murland Walter Fish. Stella Florence Astrup, the daughter of John C. She worked as a stenographer before she married Roger A. Dudley, a commerical photographer and the first president of the Professional Photographers Association of Washington.

Atkins, Henry Allen Henry A. Atkins, Seattle's first mayor, was appointed by the Legislature pending the first City election scheduled for July He served from until McDonald, May 8, George Henry Atkinson was an American missionary and educator in what would become the state of Oregon. He later served as the county schools superintendent in Clackamas and Multnomah counties. In , he left his church to begin missionary work; in , he was named as Superintendent of Missions of Congregational Churches of Oregon and Washington Territory.

In , his district was split; he remained in charge of the Oregon section until his death. Attebery was born in Missouri and was married to Joseph A. She was the mother of Edgar Raymond Attebery; she also had five other sons and two daughters. Attebery, Edgar Raymond Sept. In , he joined the Oregon National Guard and served for two years, including 14 months in France.

After the war, he earned his B. He would serve in that post the rest of his life. In addition to his work in the ministry, Attebery was active in a number of civic causes. In he played an active role in the effort to free Industrial Workers of the World members jailed after the Armistice Day clash between workers and veterans in Centralia. He was also a vocal advocate of Prohibition and a critic of American isolationism.

Attebery joined the Washington National Guard as a chaplain in He was called to active duty in September , and sent overseas the following year. His son, Edgar Raymond Attebery Jr. He arrived in Seattle in to become the pastor of the First Methodist Church, then located at Second and Columbia. He served as and was the only chaplain of the Pioneer Association of the State of Washington, a group of early settlers in the territory formed in He was born in Newport, Kentucky, the son of American-born socialist parents; his father worked as a metal polisher and a wool duster.

Anxious to try their hand at establishing a socialist community from the ground up, the Ault family relocated from Kentucky to Washington state in April to join the Equality socialist colony then being launched by the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth. The year-old Harry became the editor of the colony's newspaper, Industrial Freedom , which debuted in May of that same year. While the Equality colony at Edison was not a lasting success, its effort at developing self-reliance and its humanitarian and cooperative vision had a lasting impact on Ault's life.

He participated in the affairs of the Socialist Labor Party from to ; in he transferred his allegiance to the new Social Democratic Party of America, headed by labor leader Eugene V. Debs and Wisconsin teacher-turned-newspaper publisher Victor L. He is best remembered as the editor of the Seattle Union Record , the long-running labor weekly turned daily published from to After termination of the Union Record , he worked as a commercial printer for a number of years before being appointed a deputy U.

Marshal for Tacoma, Washington, a position which he retained for 15 years. Photograph of a cartoon of Harry Ault as a young man, wearing an eight hour day button. Howard Ault was the brother of Erwin "Harry" Ault. Charles Austin was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in and moved to Walla Walla, Washington in where he was engaged in the grain business. He moved to Pomery, Washington where he was the first wheat buyer in Garfield County and at one time, had thirteen warehouses. In the fall of , he was elected to the first Senate of Washington, representing Garfield, Columbia and Asotin Counties.

During his time in the legislature, he aided in obtaining the University of Washington's present site. He arrived in Seattle in , where he organized the Seattle and Terminal Railroad and built a grain elevator in West Seattle; he shipped the first grain from Seattle. He was elected police judge and also Justice of the Peace.

Grow January 11, - March 31, Emma L. She was married to Charles G. They had three children. Isabella Austin was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota in She did two years of special study at the State Normal School in Winona, Minnesota and then taught for four years in Minnesota schools before being awarded a scholarship to Columbia University where she was a graduate scholar at the Teachers College.

She was the supervisor of the primary grades of the Tacoma Public Schools before coming to the University of Washington. She was Dean of Women Students from until her death from surgical complications resulting from an appendectomy. The Isabella Austin Memorial Scholarship was established in her name, and in , one of the halls of the new women's dorm was named for her. He wrote a book Living by Natural Law in describing the principles of vitosophy which is based on phrenology and the radiating action of magnetism and electricity.

He donated land for a private park in Seattle and suggested the name "Madrona" for the neighborhood where it was located. B Return to Top. Albert Leslie Babb was an engineer and professor in the fields of chemical and nuclear engineering at the University of Washington for more than four decades. He was known for his pioneering work in the development and commercialization of artificial kidney systems and applications of nuclear energy to medicine.

He was the co-creator of the first automated home kidney dialysis machine and was the first chair of the UW Department of Nuclear Engineering, which he chaired from until His election to the NAE in was in recognition of his pioneering work in the development and commercialization of artificial kidney systems and his applications of nuclear energy to medicine.

Babb with Dean Harold E. Peterson, Seattle, WA photographer. The wall behind Babb is a precursor type of reactor known as a graphite pile, which was not a net producer of energy, located in Bagley Hall, the chemistry building. The cylinders sticking out of the graphite pile are fuel rods containing natural uranium. The people in the picture are wearing radiation dose badges, commonly known as dosimeters. The picture was probably taken in or , shortly after the U. Government's announcement of the Atoms for Peace Program. This time frame would be consistent with Henry Schmitz still being UW president; he stepped down in October 27, - January 10, John M.

Bacon was a native of Buffalo, New York. His father died when he was two, and he lived with his grandfather until he was fourteen years old. When he was seventeen, he shipped from New Bedford in a whaler, spending two years in China.

In , he went to Bombay, serving as second mate on an English ship. Returning to the United States, he went first to Illinois with his brother Francis, and in , joined the Barlow train to Oregon. Six years later, he tried his luck at running a store and stock ranch at Lewiston, Idaho, but soon returned. He was elected county clerk, and four years later, city recorder and overseer.

He was appointed postmaster in and served for twenty years, running a book and stationery store in connection with the post office. His wife, Rachael Newman, was also a pioneer of They had twelve children. He was educated in the New York public schools and after completing his education, became a cashier in his father's bank, First National Bank, in Union Springs, New York.

He then studied law and in was admitted to the bar at Buffalo, N. Later that year, he moved to Seattle, and with Edward O. Graves, organized the Washington National Bank of Seattle, of which he became president in A long and successful career in banking and in the financial institutions of Seattle followed. Besides banking and financial concerns, he was a regent of the University of Washington in He served as president of the Washington Society of the Sons of the Revolution in and was a member of the Rainier Club and its president in Backus' residence at University Street.

The firm existed from to and designed multiple buildings that are listed on the U. National Register of Historic Places. Badgley, Franklin Ilsey December 20, - April 28, in a laboratory. Franklin Badgley was born in Mansfield, Ohio and spent his early years on a Wisconsin farm. He entered the University of Chicago at age He was a proficient pilot, and in , volunteered for the Army Air Corps; he was stationed in the Azores Islands.

After the war, he earned his Ph. D in Meteorology from New York University. In , he began a year career as a professor and chairman of the Atmospheric Sciences Department at the University of Washington. He was one of the founders of the Quaternary Research Center. He worked as a civil engineer with the City Engineering Department, where he supervised the paving and lighting of many Seattle streets. In , the family traveled overland to Oregon. Clarence attended Willamette Institute, which later became Willamette University.

In October , the family moved to Seattle where Clarence cleared timber from the site of the new university and later did painting, carpentry and other jobs for the university. After the university building was in place, both Daniel and Clarence taught there. In , Clarence went east for additional education, studying at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

He returned to Seattle the following year and found work as a painter. Soon after his marriage, he was appointed to a clerk's position in the Surveyor General's office in Olympia where he became involved in printing, publishing and writing. After selling his interest in those two papers he went to work for The Commercial Age. Clarence helped run the Newcastle coalmines in He left the private sector in to return to Olympia as deputy in the office of the Internal Revenue Collector of Washington and was co-owner of another newspaper, The Puget Sound Courier.

He then accepted the position of Territorial Printer. In the s, he and some friends bought the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Bagley became its business manager. He also served as an alternate state commissioner for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Bagley's collection of regional historical material, including books, pamphlets, and old newspapers, grew into one of the largest such resources in the Pacific Northwest.

His authorship of Seattle and King County histories, three volumes each, was an academic milestone in its time. In , shortly after Herman Bagley married Katherine "Kitty" Sweet, the couple moved to Seattle to join his father where they built a home at Fourth and Spring. He practiced medicine and dealt in real estate, in addition to serving on the Seattle City Council. Became large owner of real estate. Owned large farm on Black River, near Renton. Not my relative, Clarence Bagley. Bagley, Ira - May 21, Ira Bagley was the brother of Daniel Bagley, an early settler in Seattle who became a key advocate for the Territorial University and its location in Seattle.

Ira did not travel west with Daniel and remained in Illinois with his family. She married Cecil Bagley in Born in Flintshire, Wales, he arrived in Washington with his parents in After graduating from Broadway High School, he entered the UW in the fall of , intent on becoming a mining engineer. Bagshaw, a five-year starter on the football team at Washington, is credited with throwing the first completed forward pass in school history on Oct. After graduation, he worked as a Snohomish County engineer, surveying roads, before becoming a science instructor at Everett High.

He was also assigned the dual duties as head football and basketball coach. His teams amassed a collective victory margin of 3,, and his last two clubs won consecutive national high school championships. From to , he served as the head football coach at the University of Washington, compiling a 63—22—6 record. His and squads went 10—1—1, equaling the best marks of his career; the team won the Pacific Coast Conference in Despite his success, Bagshaw was fired in after his team went 2—6—1.

Bagshaw left with a record of 63—22—6. Myers, Seattle, Washington photographer. Group photo at banquet. Bailey, George Congdon March 17, - September 6, George Bailey was a blind musician who played the campus chimes three times a day at the University of Washington. He began three weeks after graduating from the UW School of music and continued until his final concert on the last day of summer quarter in In , when the old lever-operated bells were destroyed, he went to Princeton to learn to play carillon bells.

His concerts were always marked by music appropriate for the time of day. His special song for incoming freshmen was Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. She taught at Willamette Mission until her marriage to Dr. In the early 's, they lived on a French Prairie farm. She became a regular contributor of both prose and poetry to the Oregon Spectator and was the first woman editor of the first women's pages in the paper.

Increasing domestic troubles are believed to have encouraged her writing, much of which reflected the loneliness of her life. A personal study of married life, the book disappeared from public attention; only one copy is known to exist. It is considered to be the first novel written in English and published on the Pacific Coast and is believed to be the subject of the first known book review in Oregon.

After obtaining a divorce from her husband in , she married Francis Waddell in and divorced him in She moved to Washington Territory, where she later died. She graduaated from high school in Leadville, where she stayed for two years to teach. She went on to earn a B. In , she moved to Seattle, where she taught Latin at Queen Anne High School; she was also a grade school principal. She made history as the first woman to climb Greece's Mount Olympus.

She joined the Mountaineers in , edited the Mountaineer Bulletin and later headed the Mountaineeers' Red Cross activities. Bainbridge, Captain William May 7, — July 27, Photograph of by George Parker after J. William Bainbridge was born at Princeton, New Jersey and started his life at sea at the age of fourteen. As tensions with France came to head in with the beginning of the Quasi-War, the US Navy quickly expanded and Bainbridge accepted a commission as a lieutenant on August 3, The following month he received command of the schooner USS Retaliation.

In , he was given, with the rank of captain, the command of the frigate Philadelphia which three years later ran aground near Tripoli and was captured by the Tripolitans, who imprisoned him for about two years. In , he was promoted to the rank of commodore and placed in command of a squadron. In December of the same year, he captured the British frigate Java after a desperate contest and was subsequently given the command of a fleet in the Mediterranean.

Bainbridge Island, Washington is named for him. December 1, - June 21, with Charles J. Harry Baird was a member of the Packinghouse Union Local He served on many committees and in nearly all offices of the Union. He became president of the Union in , and in December was presented a plaque recognizing his long service to the Union at the Union's annual Christmas party by Charles J. Mentrin, the Union's business representative.

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Baird was seriously injured in the fire at the Frye Packing Company in when an Army bomber crashed into the plant. He served in the U. House of Representatives from Illinois and later as a U. A long-time close friend of U. President Abraham Lincoln, he served as U. He was killed in the Battle of Ball's Bluff while leading a Union Army regiment, becoming the only sitting senator to be killed in the Civil War.

Baker, the publisher of The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Baker graduated from Adelbert College in Cleveland in He merged the News and the Tribune into an afternoon paper and continued The Ledger as a morning daily until , when it became the Sunday editon of The Tacoma News Tribune. He was known as the godfather of Fort Lewis for his efforts in having the Army post established in He began his business career in the hardware business in Greenville, Michigan and was later associated with the Black Hardware Co. In he moved to Seattle. He was the president of the Title Trust Company, the treasurer of the L.

He gave money to build the annex for the Seattle Children's Home and provided funds in his will for the work to continue as well as providing for an annual outing for the children. In , he led what was called the Iowa wagon train to Oregon. He settled in Union County and became La Grande's first attorney. He was a Republican from the foundation of the party and in was a delegate from Ohio to the national convention.

He was a delegate to county and state conventions during his years in Oregon as well as chairman of the county central committee and member of the state central committee. He was a delegate to the National Republican League in McKinney and Charles Jerrolls were taken hostage by Harry Tracy, who had escaped from an Oregon prison after killing three guards and wounding a fourth. Tracy had been serving a 20 year sentence for assault and robbery when he escaped with David Merrill, his brother-in-law, whom he later killed.

He was the subject of the most famous manhunt in the Pacific Northwest in the spring and summer of Baker later appeared in a play about Tracy, entitled Tracy-Merrill. She married James Lee McKinney, the son of the woman with whom she was walking when taken hostage. Bakken, Richard August 1, Richard Bakken is primarily known as a performance poet and organizer of poetry festivals.

In the s, Bakken gave up a tenured job as an English professor at Washington State University and began touring the country chanting and reciting his work. He is the founder of the Portland and National Poetry Festivals and edited Salty Feathers , a poety magazine from to He sometimes appeared in costume as the "Poetry Chicken.

At draft resistance service, St. Bakken and Susan Vernier in front of house, both wearing hats. Dust on our faces! Our whole rosy earth! Wine to the taste, to the last quaff. Break the bottle and kiss! O we do have our day. In a chicken costume holding baby, Harmony. He was an early settler in Washington Territory, arriving before He married Sarrah Esther Smith on January 15, and was a merchant and state legislator.

Balch, Sarrah Esther Mrs. She immediately made friends with a herd of Alaska reindeer that arrived at Seattle, Washington the other day. They are resting on their voyage from Santa Claus' country before being shipped all over the nation to serve as Santa Claus teams during Christmas time. They are feeding on Arctic moss which was brought along for their daily diet.

John Ball spent just one of his eighty-nine years in Oregon but has been widely recognized as the first school teacher in the Oregon Country. He was born to a farming couple in Grafton County, New Hampshire, the youngest of ten children. He graduated from Dartmouth College at the age of twenty-five and then moved to New York, where he taught school and studied law before becoming an attorney and helping to operate his sister's oil-cloth factory.

In , in his late thirties, he joined Nathaniel Wyeth's cross-country journey to Oregon. During a difficult journey that lasted from March through October , Ball recorded desertions, hunger and thirst, and the loss of critical equipment. Wyeth had aspired to run the Hudson's Bay Company out of business once in Oregon. Instead, he found himself and the remnant of his party dependent on John McLoughlin's hospitality at Fort Vancouver. Ball decided to stay there, and McLaughlin asked him to teach the boys at the fort. Using implements and seed loaned him by McLoughlin, Ball took up farming the following spring, moving south to French Prairie, where several families who had retired from the fur trade resided.

He and another survivor of the Wyeth expedition planted and harvested a crop of potatoes and wheat. Both men struggled with illness, and Ball became lonely. In late , he traded his harvested crop for passage on a ship bound for San Francisco Bay and the Sandwich Islands, and eventually reached Norfolk, Virginia. He reported that he missed Oregon's scenery more than its populace: Colman group photograph William Rankin Ballard was a Seattle pioneer, banker, and land developer and the son of Levi W. Ballard, the founder of Auburn, Washington. William Ballard was one of the founders of the city of Ballard, Washington incorporated in which was later annexed to the growing city of Seattle, Washington in The title of Captain derives from his command of the boat Zephyr that operated between Seattle and Olympia to the south.

He became one of the organizers of the Seattle National Bank in , and the Seattle Savings Bank, serving as its president until July 9, — June 6, As the reform mayor of Seattle —06 , Ballinger attracted the attention of the Theodore Roosevelt administration, and in he was appointed commissioner of the General Land Office.

During his two years in that post, Ballinger sought to make public resources more available for private exploitation and became embroiled in a highly publicized controversy with Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Division of Forestry in the Department of Agriculture. Pinchot, citing allegations brought by a public-land inspector, charged that Ballinger had cooperated with private interests in a fraudulent scheme to plunder coal reserves in Alaska.

Taft supported his secretary and dismissed both Pinchot and his informant, Louis Glavis. Although a congressional investigation exonerated Ballinger, the episode left a residue of bitterness between the conservative Republicans led by Taft and the progressives loyal to Theodore Roosevelt. The questioning of committee counsel Louis D. Brandeis made Ballinger's anti-conservationism clear, and Ballinger resigned in March, The incident split the Republican Party and helped turn the election of against Taft. The Ballinger-Pinchot scandal reflected the ongoing tension between those who emphasized the immediate use of natural resources and those who wanted them conserved for the future, a discussion that remains active today.

Orlando Ralph Ballou was born in Cuyahoga, Ohio. He was an early settler in Walla Walla, Washington where he had numerous agricultural interests. He was one of the first to see the possibilities of an interurban railroad between Walla Walla and Milton-Freewater, providing instrumental support for the building of the railroad. In , he was given a scholarship from the government to study in the United States. In , Baluyut returned to the Philippines where he went to work for the Office of Public Works as an assistant engineer in the provinces of Pampanga and Cavite.

From to , he was district engineer for the provinces of Isabela, Antique, Ilocos Norte, Bulacan and Pangasinan. In , he became an engineer for the Pampanga Sugar Development Corporation. He was elected governor of the province of Pampanga in and re-elected three years later. As governor, he was responsible for the construction of many schools, hospitals, roads and bridges.

In , Baluyut won election as a member of Senate from 3rd Senatorial District. As senator, he enacted the law which led to the establishment of National Electric Power and Development Corporation. At the end of , Baluyut was elected governor of the province of Pampanga for a third term. He was appointed as Secretary of Labor from to while serving as governor. He became Secretary of Public Works and Communications from to He died in Manila in Petersburg Governorate of the Russian Empire. He became a successful merchant in Irkutsk, Siberia before moving to Russian America and becoming a successful fur trader there.

He became the chief manager for the influential Russian-American Company, managing all of the company's interests in Russian America and eventually became the first governor of Russian Alaska. Baranov convinced native hunters to expand their range to include the coasts of California and also advocated more educational opportunities for them. Under his leadership, schools were created and frontier communities became less isolated. Baranof Island in Alaska is named after Baranov. Bard, William Harrison February 13, - ? Bard was born in Genessee, Illinois.

When he was sixteen, he went to the Black Hills, where he served as a courier of the U. Scouts under Captain Jack. In , he moved to Denver, working in the freight business, driving one of the first mule trains from Denver to Leadville. Returning to Chicago, he studied law, receiving his degree from Ann Arbor University. In , he went over White Pass to the Klondike. He was one of the first attorneys in Dawson and practiced law; however, he devoted most of his time to mining.

Hearing favorable reports of gold in Nome, he moved there and was named U. Attorney, prosecuting over cases in the only court in the area at that time. In , he was elected mayor of Nome. He eventually moved to Seattle, where he started the Washington-Alaska Company, a real estate firm. He continued to practice law in Seattle and Portland.

May 13, - April 5, Jeffers, Olympia, Washington photographer. His parents were pioneers in the Cowlitz valley, arriving in He moved to Tacoma in and became one of its leading citizens, serving in both state and city legislative positions. His first legislative term began in , and he served again from his own district in He was one of the fifteen members of the Tacoma city charter committee and was a member of the State Board of Visitation.

He also served on the building committee of the First Methodist Church in Tacoma. He started Tacoma Trading and Transportation Company in ; its business was trading, building supplies and maritime commerce. He changed the name of the company to C. When the company was acquired by Graystone, Inc.

He was also a successful lumberman.

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He was a farmer and lumberman. Naval Academy in He earned the Naval Cross during the war and retired as a captain. He established the R. After the war, he was the director of the UW Summer Quarter. He is buried in Arlington Cemetery. John Barr received his PhD from the University of Washington in February, and was an assistant professor of guidance and education at the University.

Rowe look in microscope Tom Cohen, The Daily photographer. Close view of Barr watching Dr. Rowe look in microscope. Tom Cohen, The Daily photographer. Barrera, Jose - November 17, - see William F. In , Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show was the first to hire Jose as a performer; billing him as the greatest trick roper in the world. He and other performers executed the spectacular "Bailable a Caballo" in which riders and horses danced in pairs to the music of a twelve piece band. In later life, he worked as the Pawnee Bill Ranch foreman, overseeing livestock and agricultural activities.

August, December 10, Helen M. Barry was born in Maine. In , she married Jerome N. Barry, who worked in agriculture in Olympia; they had two children, Roy and Earl. Bartz, Allan Emil F. October 14, April 7, Wagness, Stanwood, Washington photographer. Bartz was born in Germany. He emigrated to the United States in and served in the U. Army from to He settled in Stanwood, Washington where he owned a hotel and candy store. He was named after James Hervey Simpson, the chief engineer of the Interior Department who oversaw the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.

He married Kate Stevens Bingham on February 14, After their marriage, they lived in Massachusetts and after , at Cloverfields Farm near Olympia, Washington. After long careers in politics and the military, Stevens returned to Olympia from Boston, Massachusetts in , determined to develop a large tract of land his father purchased in the s. In addition to the house, Cloverfields originally included a large barn and two silos. As the president of the Olympia Light and Power Company, Stevens utilized electricity extensively throughout Cloverfields, particularly in the electrified barn and milking machines.

The Holstein cows he used were anomaly in the area and were complemented by extensive orchard and angora goats. Today it is the location of the current Olympia High School. Christmas card with photograph. Cloverfields Farm, Olympia, She was the daughter of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, the governor of the Washington Territory from to , who later served in the U.

She married Edward Wingard Bingham on February 15, ; the couple moved to Portland, Oregon, where her husband had a home. Bingham and his brother John invented an improved horseshoe and founded the Bingham Sectional Horseshoe Company. When the horseshoe business failed, Bingham practiced law. Bingham was a member of the Unitarian Society in Portland, prominent socially and wrote for newspapers and magazines.

Edward Bingham died in ; on February 14, , she married James H. After her second marriage, she and her husband lived in Massachusetts and after , at Cloverfield Farms near Olympia, Washington. The Bricklayers and Allied Craftworks Union has established a scholarship in his name. He graduated from Baylor University as the valedictorian of his class. After graduating from Vanderbilt Law School, he came to Seattle in to practice law with his father, Nicholas Battle. When their office and law library were lost in the Seattle fire of , he was hired by the city to assist with the litigation resulting from the fire.

He later moved to Lopez Island, Washington where he was involved in real estate near Port Stanley and served as that community's postmaster. He was elected to the Washington Press Assocation in He arrived in Seattle in , a few days before Washington became a state. He scored the first professional baseball game ever played in Seattle, and his baseball experience dated back to the days of Bill Lange and Charley Irwin. He became the official statistician of the Northwestern League in When he died, he left the bulk of his estate to Brougham, who used it to establish a charity foundation for needy students.

In and , he was a member of the Territorial Council and was twice elected Judge of Benton County. He sponsored and helped pass a bill through Congress that opened a part of the Siletz Indian Reservation for white settlement. He also secured a land grant for a military road from Corvallis to Elk City, the head of navigation on Yaquina Bay. Bayley built Ocean House, probably the first resort hotel on Oregon's coast, on the site of the current Coast Guard station in Newport.

Following his graduation from General Seminary in , he remained there as fellow and tutor until He served as parish priest in St. Louis, Missouri, and Northampton, Massachussetts until his appointment in as chaplain of Columbia University and chairman of the department of religion. He remained there until except for two years on leave as a naval chaplain during World War II. In he was elected bishop of the Diocese of Olympia and served as diocesan bishop until December 31, , when he resigned in order to accept appointment by the Archbishop of Canterbury as the Anglican Communion's first executive officer.

In a reorganization of the Council in , he was made First Vice-President and Deputy for Program, responsible for the Council's central planning and the design and execution of the Church's national programs. Bishop Bayne resigned from this post in the summer of to return to General Seminary as professor of Christian Mission and Ascetical Theology. Later he was acting dean and then dean of the seminary until his retirement at the end of the academic year in He was the author of several books. Portrait wearing reglia and holding the staff of his office as bishop Charles Pearson, Seattle photographer.

Stephen Fielding Bayne, Jr. She was born in Alton, Iowa and moved with her parents to Seattle at a young age. The family lived in a row house on Fifth and Madison. She was a member of the Seattle Ladies Musical Club and taught piano in Seattle for over forty years. September 9, October 25, Luman Beach was 19 years old when he enlisted on January 1, as a private and was mustered into "B" Co.

He was mustered out on September 18, in Nashville, TN. After the war, he moved to Washington Territory, where he worked as a farmer and miner. On their honeymoon with Mr. Lee, Tacoma, Washington photographer. Mary Frances Meeker was the daughter of John V. Meeker, who traveled to Washington Territory by ship in and settled in the Puyallup Valley. Mary Meeker married Clarence Bean, a civil engineer.

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