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Watson C. Squire photograph collection, approximately 1870-1910
Overview of the Collection
- Collector
- Squire, Watson C. (Watson Carvosso), 1838-1926
- Title
- Watson C. Squire photograph collection
- Dates
- approximately 1870-1910 (inclusive)18701910
- Quantity
- 68 photographs (1 box, 1 folder)
- Collection Number
- PH1230
- Summary
- Images of European cities and St. Petersburg from Squire's time as a representative of the E. Remington and Sons Arms Co., portraits of various celebrities and associates, images of Watson Squire, and images of memorials from the national military park in Georgia.
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Selections from the collection can be viewed on the Libraries' Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials Curator is required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Watson Carvosso Squire, attorney, Civil War veteran, industrialist, and elected official, was born May 18, 1838, in Cape Vincent, New York. He was the only son of Rev. Orra Squire, a Methodist Episcopal minister of English ancestry. His mother, Erretta Wheeler, was a descendant of pre-Revolutionary War English immigrants. Squire was educated in public schools, at Falley Seminary in Fulton, and at Fairfield Seminary in Herkimer County, New York. In 1859 he graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He read law in Herkimer, New York, and shortly afterward was made principal of the Moravia Institute of Moravia, New York.
When the Civil War broke out, Watson Squire enlisted in the New York State service for two years. He was elected 1st lieutenant and commissioned in Company F of the New York Volunteers 19th Infantry Regiment. Squire served on the upper Potomac at Harper's Ferry under General Banks and in Virginia. He was engaged in several skirmishes and expeditions. Squire was honorably discharged, and in October 1861 he returned north to Ohio. He read law and graduated from Cleveland Law School in June 1862. When the call came for more men, Squire raised the 7th Independent Company of Ohio Sharpshooters, and on November 11, 1862 he was commissioned as Captain. His company fought on the Tennessee River and later escorted General Sherman on his march to the sea. During these campaigns, Squire served as judge advocate of the general courts martial. Later he was made judge advocate of the district of Tennessee. He served on the staff of Major General Rousseau as judge advocate and also under Major General Thomas during the siege and battle of Nashville. He also participated in the battles of Chickamauga, Resaca and Missionary Ridge. He was promoted to the rank of brevet colonel. Squire was mustered out of the army July 28, 1865.
After the war, Squire joined the E. Remington & Sons, the arms manufacturer based in Ilion, New York. He married Ida Remington, the daughter of company president Philo Remington in 1868 and became in turn manager, treasurer, and secretary of the company. Squire promoted and sold primarily Remington arms, but he also marketed the company's sewing machines and typewriters. In the years following the Civil War, the development of the breech-loading rifle led to a great demand for Remington's product. Much of Remington's business was abroad, and Squire dealt with the representatives of France, Russia, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Egypt, Mexico, and other countries. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, Remington handled purchases for France. From 1877 to 1879, he traveled extensively in Europe and Mexico. He spent several months of 1877 in St. Petersburg, and in 1878 visited Madrid, Paris, Turin, and Stockholm.
Squire moved to Seattle in 1879 to attend to the development of lands which he had purchased from Philo Remington. He constructed buildings and houses in Seattle, and cleared farmland in the White River Valley. Squire's ownership of the Seattle properties was later contested in an unsuccessful lawsuit ( Shepard, et al., v. Squire ) brought by Remington's former partners. At the time of the lawsuit (ca. 1894), the property was worth about $1,000,000. After moving West, Squire divided his time between Seattle and New York. He maintained his ties with the Republican Party in New York State. In 1872, Squire was a member of the Republican executive and finance committees and became acquainted with Presidents Garfield and Arthur. Squire sold his interest in the Remington Arms Company in 1884 and in the same year was appointed Governor of Washington Territory by President Arthur. He served in this position until 1887. As governor, Squire was faced with the task of maintaining law and order during the anti-Chinese riots in Tacoma and Seattle. These troubles began in 1885 and peaked on February 8, 1886, when Squire declared martial law and inaugurated a military system of government until order was restored. Martial law was withdrawn on February 22. At the request of the State Department, Governor Squire afterwards investigated the losses of property by the Chinese.
Squire was replaced as governor in 1887 by Eugene Semple, a Democratic appointee. In January 1889, Squire was made president of the Statehood Convention in Ellensburg, which met to urge admission of Washington as a state. Later that year, he was elected to the U.S. Senate by the state legislature. He was re-elected in 1891. In the Senate, Squire won appropriations for improvements of the rivers and harbors of the state and secured a naval station (later the Puget Sound Naval Shipyards) at Bremerton. His most successful efforts were on behalf of coast defenses.
After his defeat in the election of 1897, Squire practiced law and managed his properties. He founded and was president of Union Trust Co. (later the Squire Investment Co.), which was established to administer his properties. Watson Squire died in Seattle on June 7, 1926.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Images of European cities and St. Petersburg from Squire's time as a representative of the E. Remington and Sons Arms Co., portraits of various celebrities and associates, images of Watson Squire, and images of memorials from the national military park in Georgia.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
View selections from the collection in digital format
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Custodial History
Part of the papers had been in the possession of Squire's eldest daughter, Aidine Squire White, in Toronto but were transferred to Seattle to Mrs. Shirley Squire, widow of Squire's son. After Mrs. Squire's death, the papers were passed on to her daughter, Mrs. R. Hugh Dickenson.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mrs. R. Hugh Dickenson, April 5, 1989.
Processing Note
Accessioned as PH2004-049. Some photographs transferred from the portrait file, circa 2000.
Photograph of Selkirk Glacier was transferred to PHColl334 Alaska and Pacific Northwest early photographers collection.
The current photograph collection, Photo Acc. 2004-049, was received together, on April 5, 1989, with the materials that form Accession No. 4004-001 in the Manuscripts Collection. Please refer to the appropriate manuscripts finding aids to use those collections. The photographs were originally transferred to the Visual Materials Collection on February 11, 2004 and March 24, 2004.
Processed by Stefanie Terasaki, 2014; Processing completed, 2014.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Watson Carvosso SquireReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Portraits of Watson C. Squire |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/1 | 1 |
Group portrait
of Watson Squire with other governors and dignitaries
Written on front: At the time of the Chinese troubles.
|
1886 |
1/1 | 2 | circa 1906 | |
box-folder:oversize | |||
OS6 | 3 | Watson Squire
and his Wesleyan University Class of 1859
Mrs. E. BrownMiddletown, Connecticut (photographer)
|
June 1909 |
Box/Folder | |||
1/1 | 4 | circa 1910 | |
1/2 | 5 |
Watson
Squire Engraving
|
circa 1880s |
1/2 | 6 | Watson Squire
wearing suit and bow tie Engraving
|
circa 1880s |
1/2 | 7 |
Watson Squire
in a suit and tie
Harris and Ewing,Washington D.C. (photograhper)
|
undated |
box-folder:oversize | |||
OS6 | 8 | Watson Squire
with Colonel F.F. Hilder in Senate Office |
undated |
Watson Squire's trip to Europe
As a salesman for E. Remington and Sons Arms Manufacturing,
Squire travelled extensively in Europe and Mexico from 1877-1879. He spent
several months dealing with representatives from European countries and cities
including business in St. Petersburg in 1877 and Madrid in 1878 as well as
other various European cities during the 1870s.
|
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France |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/3 | 9 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, Napoleon III (April 20, 1808-
January 9, 1873)
Disderi,Paris,
France (photographer)
carte-de-visite
Photograph in leather frame.
Napoleon was the first president of the French Republic from
1848-1851 and ruler of the Second French Empire from 1852-1870 and is known for
his re-construction of Paris with the architect Baron Haussmann.
|
circa 1877 |
1/3 | 10 | Napoleon III
and Eugénie de Montijo's son, Prince Napoleon Eugene Louis Jean Joseph (March
16, 1856- June 1, 1879)
Disderi,Paris,
France (photographer)
carte-de-visite
Photograph in leather frame.
|
circa 1877 |
1/3 | 11 |
Wife of
Napolean III and last Empress of France from 1853-1871, Eugénie de
Montijo
Disderi,Paris,
France (photographer)
carte-de-visite
Photograph in leather frame.
|
circa 1877 |
1/3 | 12 | Man and
woman standing, possibly related to French royal family
Disderi,Paris,
France (photographer)
carte-de-visite
Photograph in leather frame.
|
circa 1877 |
Italy |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/4 | 13 | Isole
Borromeo, Lago Maggiore, Italy
Boggiani and Bacmeister, Lago Maggiore,Italy (photographer)
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circa 1870s |
Germany |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/4 | 14 | Cologne
Cathedral with scaffolding over the west entrance, Germany
Anselm Schmitz,Cologne, Germany (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
Spain |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/5 | 15 | Gardens of
Alcazar, Seville, Spain
J. Laurent,Madrid,
Spain (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
1/5 | 16 |
Cathedral of
Alcazar, Seville, Spain
J. Laurent,Madrid,
Spain (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
1/5 | 17 | Palace of
San Telmo, Seville, Spain
J. Laurent,Madrid,
Spain (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
1/6 | 18 |
Baths of
Maria of Padilla archways, Seville, Spain
J. Laurent,Madrid,
Spain (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
1/6 | 19 | North Facade
of Seville Cathedral, Seville, Spain
J. Laurent,Madrid,
Spain (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
1/7 | 20 |
View of
Burgos Cathedral from the Burgos Museum, Burgos, Spain
J. Laurent,Madrid,
Spain (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
1/7 | 21 | Burgos
Cathedral, Burgos, Spain
J. Laurent,Madrid,
Spain (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
1/7 | 22 | Sepulcro of
Juan II and Isabel of Portugal, Burgos, Spain
J. Laurent,Madrid,
Spain (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
1/7 | 23 | Interior of
Burgos Cathedral, Burgos, Spain
J. Laurent,Madrid,
Spain (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
Switzerland |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/7 | 24 | Hotel du
Mont Prosa illustration
Illustration is stuck to small painting of castle and
mountains.
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circa 1870s |
St. Petersburg, Russia |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/8 | 25 | Tsar
Alexander III |
circa 1870s |
1/8 | 26 |
Grand Duke
Paul Alexandrovich
Paul Alexandrovich was the brother of Tsar Alexander
III.
|
circa 1870s |
1/8 | 27 | Grand Duke
Sergei Alexandrovich
Sertgei Alexandrovich was the brother of Tsar Alexander
III.
|
circa 1870s |
1/8 | 28 |
Sergei
Georgievich, 8th Duke of Leuchtenberg
Bergamasco,St.
Petersburg, Russia (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
1/9 | 29 | Peterhof
Palace, St. Petersburg
A. Felisch,St.
Petersburg, Russia (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
1/9 | 30 | Church of
Grand Peterhof Palace, St. Petersburg
A. Felisch,St.
Petersburg, Russia (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
1/9 | 31 |
Marly
Palace, Peterhof Palace, St. Petersburg
A. Felisch,St.
Petersburg, Russia (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
1/9 | 32 | Sun
Fountain, Peterhof Palace, St. Petersburg
A. Felisch,St.
Petersburg, Russia (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
United States National Park Memorials
Squire was part of the 7th Independent Company of Ohio
Sharpshooters and became Captain on November 11, 1862. He participated in the
battles of Chickamauga, Resaca and Missionary Ridge and was promoted to brevet
colonel.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/10 | 33 | Independent Company Ohio Sharpshooters memorial tablet
marker at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park, Georgia |
undated |
1/10 | 34 | First Battalion Ohio Sharpshooters monument at Widow
Glenn's, Chickamauga Battlefield National Park, Georgia |
undated |
Portrait PhotographsReturn to Top
Includes images of politicians, famous figures, and friends and acquaintances of Watson Squire and Ida Remington.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Acquaintances
and Friends of Watson Squire and Ida Remington |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/11 | 35 | Annabel in
profile
Dana,New
York (photographer)
Written on front: Always your Annabel.
|
undated |
1/11 | 36 | Mattie S.
Baker
Hall and Rudd,Green
Bay, Wisconsin (photographer)
Written on verso: Kendall's wife.
|
circa 1872- circa 1873 |
1/11 | 37 | Uncle Tom
Croly
P.H. Benedict National Photograph Gallery,Syracuse, New York (photographer)
|
undated |
1/11 | 38 |
Eben
Kendall
Jonathan Carbett,Chicago (photographer)
|
May 27, 1972 |
1/11 | 39 | Philo R.
Kendall
Hall and Rudd,Green
Bay, Wisconsin (photographer)
Written on verso: Affectionately
|
May 27, 1972 |
1/12 | 40 |
Arthur B.
Leech
C.D. Fredericks,Broadway, New York (photographer)
Written on verso: The Captain of the Irish Team who appeared
at Creedmore on 13th and 14th Sept. 1876, the days of the great International
Match.
The Grand International Rifle Match was held at Creedmore,
Long Island in 1875 between the American and Irish rifle teams. 8000 people
showed up to view the world championship that was a long range match with
distances of 800, 900 and 1,000 yards. America won the championship.
|
1876 |
1/12 | 41 |
Arthur B.
Leech
Sassell,Washington
D.C. (photographer)
Written on verso: My Dear Mrs. Remington, I can asure you that
I have made no visit in America, nor the aquaintance of any people in all
America that I more respect and value than yourself and your good husband and
your interesting belongings. Sincerely your obliged Arthur B. Leech. Captain
Irish Rifle Team
|
October 1876 |
1/12 | 42 | Baby, Birdie
Mann
Charles D. Fredricks and Co.,Broadway, New York (photographers)
Written on verso: Birdie Mann, Mrs. John Mantis.
|
undated |
1/12 | 43 | William
McGrory and wife
J.M. Elliot,Columbus,
Ohio (photographer)
|
undated |
1/12 | 44 | John
Norris
O. Schoefft,Cairo,
Egypt (photographer)
|
March 6, 1872 |
1/13 | 45 |
Marcus
Pollasky
C.M. Hayes and Company,Detroit, Michigan (photographer)
Written on front: Faithfully yours "For God and the Right"
Seattle, U.S.A.
Marcus Pollasky was born 1861 in Detroit, Michigan. He
attended University of Michigan Law School and graduated in 1883 he was
admitted to practice at the State Court level. In 1884 he was married to Nellie
A. Waldb. He became the president of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company
around 1891 that proposed the building of a railroad from Fresno to the Sierra
Timber Belt. Pollasky also had a hand in telegraph building and real estate
investing.
|
November 8, 1904 |
1/13 | 46 | Major
Sanchez
Mora,Broadway, New
York (photographer)
Written on verso: To my dear friend Col. W.C. Squire The
Original, New York.
|
April 2, 1884 |
1/14 | 47 | Elizabeth
Zrilitz
Hennigar,Middletown,
Connecticut (photographer)
Written on verso: Very Sincerely yours Elizabeth Zrilitz. Took
Greek Prize Scholarship Class of 1910 Wesleyan University.
|
1910 |
1/14 | 48 | Possibly the
sister of Watson C. Squire
Nicholson and Sons,Crawfordsville, Indiana (photographer)
Watson Squire had three sisters, Mary Amelia Squire, Frances
Eliza Squire and Ellen Augusta Squire.
|
undated |
Celebrities |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/15 | 49 |
Geronimo with
son and Natchez Native Americans
C.S. Fly,Tombstone,
Arizona (photographer)
Printed on verso: Scene in Geronimo's camp, The Apache Outlaw
and Murderer. Taken before the surrender to Gen. Crook, March 27, 1886 in the
Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico, escaped March 30, 1886. No, 171- Geronimo and
Natches mounted, Natches with hat on; son of Geronimo standing by his side.
This group was taken by special request of Geronimo.
|
March 27, 1886 |
1/15 | 50 |
Bill
Germayne
Otto LewinBowery,
New York (photographer)
Bill Germayne was a hunter, cowboy and scout in the Western
Territories. He acted as a guide for hunters and travelers in Yellowstone
park.
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1/16 | 51 |
Mark Twain
(November 30, 1835- April 21, 1910)
Warren'sBoston,
Massachusetts (photographer)
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Political Figures and Presidents |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/17 | 52 |
David Josiah
Brewer (June 20, 1837 – March 28, 1910)
David J. Brewer was a lawyer, jurist and Supreme Court Judge.
He was appointed to the Supreme Court by Benjamin Harrison on December 4, 1889.
He held the position until his death in 1910.
|
1888 |
1/17 | 53 | 1889 | |
1/17 | 54 | Benjamin
Harrison photograph attached to block of wood
Photograph copied by S.A. Curtis, Stratford, Connecticut
Photograph reads: A Chip of the old Block.
Written on verso: Craigie's [ill.] 35 Nassm Street, NY 1888.
Mrs. C. Reveley Lowell Oneida Co.
Benjamin Harrison was born August 20, 1833 in North Bend,
Ohio. In 1888 he successfully ran against Grover Cleveland in the presidential
election becoming the 23rd president of the United States. His presidency
included the adding of Montana, the Dakotas, Idaho, Washington, and Wyoming as
states. In 1892 Grover Cleveland won the presidential election over Harrison.
Harrison moved to San Francisco, California to teach at Stanford
University.
|
1888 |
1/17 | 55 |
Rutherford B.
Hayes (October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893)
Rutherford B. Hayes was born October 4, 1822 in Delaware,
Ohio. He attended Harvard Law School in 1843 and would become a politician and
the 19th president of the United States from 1877-1881.
|
1888 |
1/18 | 56 |
Robert P.
Kennedy
A. Lesourd,Bellefontaine, Ohio (photographer)
Robert Patterson Kennedy was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio. He
was in the Union Army as an officer from 1861-1865. In 1862 he married Maria
Lewis Gardner. After the war he returned to Ohio to study law and was appointed
by President Rutherford B. Hayes as collector of internal revenue for the
fourth district of Ohio, from 1878 to 1883. Afterwards he became the Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio from 1885–87 and went on to be elected as a U.S.
Representative from 1887-1891.
|
undated |
1/18 | 57 |
Wendell
Phillips (November 29, 1811- February 2, 1884)
J.W. Black and CoBoston, Massachusetts (photographer)
Written on verso: Inclosed to W.C. Squire in letter from
Wendell Phillips.
Wendell Phillips was born on November 29, 1811 in Boston,
Massachusetts. He went to Harvard University and graduated with a law degree in
1833. He opened a law practice in the city but around 1836 he stopped
practicing to focus on the abolitionist movement. He was a well known orator
for the abolitionists and was a member of the American Anti-Slavery Society as
well as a frequent speaker for women's rights. He assisted with the creation of
the first woman suffrage petition in Massachusetts and was the treasurer of the
National Woman’s Rights Central Committee.
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February 19, 1977 |
1/18 | 58 |
William Vance
Rinehart
Boyd,Seattle,
Washington (photographer)
William Vance Rinehart was born December 28, 1835 in
Tippecanoe County, Indiana. He crossed the plains and ended up in Oregon where
he worked as a merchant and became an active Republican in the area. In 1870 he
assisted in the race for state senator in the interest of Honorary George H.
Williams for the United States senate, but was defeated by a close vote. He
became postmaster at Canyon City from 1869 to 1874 and in 1882 moved to Seattle
and was elected state senator in the first Washington State election. After his
first term was completed he became the Commissioner of Public Works.
Written on verso: Courteously yours Wm Vance Rinehart.
|
undated |
Unidentified
Portraits and cabinet cards |
1877 | ||
Box/Folder | item | ||
1/19 | 59 | Illustration of man driving a horse and
carriage |
undated |
1/19 | 60-61 | Man with beard in profile
Bradley and RulofsonSan Francisco, California (photographer)
|
circa 1861-circa 1878 |
1/19 | 62 | Man with a moustache in profile
C.W. Bell,Washington
D.C. (photographer)
|
undated |
1/20 | 63 | Man with moustache and side beard
A. Marshall,Boston,
Massachusetts (photographer)
|
circa 1867- circa 1882 |
1/20 | 64 | Man with moustache
North and Oswald,Toldeo, Ohio (photographer)
|
circa 1870s |
1/20 | 65 | Man, possibly an actor, in bow tie
A. Bogardus' Souvenir Card,New York (photographer)
|
circa 1880- circa 1889 |
1/20 | 66 | Woman in evening dress and gloves with
book
C. Parker,Washington
D.C. (photographer)
|
undated |
1/20 | 67 | Young girl in white dress and plaid belt
Ranger and Austen,Syracuse, New York (photographer)
|
undated |
box-folder:oversize | |||
OS6 | 68 | Man with a beard |
undated |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Personal Names
- Squire, Watson C. (Watson Carvosso), 1838-1926--Photographs