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Daniel Bagley papers
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Bagley, Daniel, 1818-1905
- Title
- Daniel Bagley papers
- Quantity
- .67 cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection Number
- 4602 (Accession No. 4602-001)
- Summary
- Papers of a Washington State pioneer, Methodist pastor, businessman, and civic leader.
- 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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The papers are open to all users.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Daniel Bagley was a Washington State pioneer, Methodist pastor, businessman, and civic leader. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1818 and died in Seattle in 1905. His wife, Susannah Rogers Whipple, was born in Massachusetts in 1819 and died in Seattle in 1913. Bagley became a minister of the Methodist Church in 1842, and in 1852 he was chosen by its board of missions to represent its teachings in Oregon Territory. In the same wagon train with the Dexter Horton, Thomas Mercer, Aaron Mercer, William Shoudy, and John Pike families, Bagley left Illinois in 1852 and settled first in Salem, Oregon. In 1860 the family moved to Seattle.
In March 1861 the Washington territorial legislature appointed Bagley, John Webster, and Edmund Carr as commissioners of the newly established Territorial University. Bagley was named president of the commission and was one of those responsible for acquisition and sale of university lands. He was also actively involved in the functions of the Republican Party in the territory, and in the development of real estate in Seattle. In partnership with George F. Whitworth, Josiah Settle, and Clarence Bagley, he organized the Lake Washington Coal Company, which developed commercial coal mining in the area now known as Newcastle.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Contains correspondence, legal documents, and other material documenting the enterprises of Daniel Bagley in nineteenth-century Washington Territory. Correspondents include Arthur Armstrong Denny.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
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Restrictions on Use
The creator's literary rights have not been transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Preferred Citation
Daniel Bagley Papers, Accession No. 4602-001. Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in multiple series: incoming and outgoing correspondence (a total of 356 letters); financial miscellany; legal documents, including court papers, deeds, land agreements, indentures, memoranda, powers of attorney, and documents relating to the Lake Washington Coal Company; miscellany, including speeches, charts, etc.; and a Washington (Territory) University land sales record book.
Incoming correspondence is filed by name of author and given individual name folders when either quantity of letters or unique content indicated the importance of the correspondent. Remaining letters are filed alphabetically in miscellaneous name folders. Outgoing letters are filed chronologically. The remaining series are arranged in approximate chronological order.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Clarence Booth Bagley.
Related Materials
The papers of Clarence Booth Bagley, Daniel Bagley's son, should be used in conjunction with the Daniel Bagley papers, as many of the enterprises which concerned both of them are more fully documented in the Clarence Bagley collection. The Clarence Bagley papers, Manuscript Collection 0036, are also available in the Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Incoming correspondenceReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Individual
correspondents |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/1 | Alvord, Thomas M.,
1832- 3 items
|
1868 |
1/2 | Bagley, Clarence Booth,
1843-1932 1 item
|
1874 |
1/3 | Bagley, Susannah Whipple,
1819-1913 17 items
|
1867-1870 |
1/4 | Bagley, William 7 items
|
1892-1902 |
1/5 | Barnard, William E. 8 items
|
1866-1867 |
1/6 | Blinn, Marshall 1 item
|
1883 |
1/7 | Brannan, Joseph, 1825- and Sara
V. 9 items
|
1888-1897 |
1/8 | Brents, Thomas Hurley,
1840- 1 item
|
1888 |
1/9 | Carr, Edmund 3 items
|
1868-1870 |
1/10 | Carr, J. Tyler 3 items
|
1869-1870 |
1/11 | Car, Ossian J. 11 items
|
1866-1875 |
1/12 | Denny, Arthur Armstrong,
1822-1899 18 items
|
1863-1882 |
1/13 | Evans, Elwood 1 item
|
1887 |
1/14 | Garfielde, Selucius, 1822-1881
4 items
|
1866-1875 |
1/15 | Givler, M. 3 items
|
1887, 1891 |
1/16 | Gowey, John F. 4 items
|
1885, 1887 |
1/17 | Horton, Dexter,
1825-1904 1 item
|
1868 |
1/18 | Jacobs, Orange,
1827-1914 5 items
|
1876-1878 |
1/19 | Jenner, Charles Kirkham,
1846- 4 items
|
1881-1882 |
1/20 | Lansdale, R. H. 8 items
|
1886, 1887, 1892 |
1/21 | Leary,. John,
1837-1905 2 items
|
1897, undated |
1/22 | Longsworth, M. A. 4 items
|
1895-1899 |
1/23 | McGuire, Mary Ann 4 items
|
1892, 1896 |
1/24 | McNaught, Ferry & McNaught,
Seattle, Washington 2 items
|
1880-1881 |
1/25 | Mitchell and Lewis Company,
Portland Oregon 3 items
|
1891 |
1/26 | Mix, James D. 4 items
|
1870-1871 |
1/27 | Moore, Phillip D. 1 item
|
1868 |
1/28 | Newell, William A,
1817-1901 1 item
|
1884 |
1/29 | Turney, L. Jay S. 1 item
|
1861 |
1/30 | United States General Land
Office 3 items
|
1882, 1887, 1892 |
1/31 | United States Indian Affairs
Office 8 items
|
1883-1890 |
1/32 | United States Land Office,
Olympia, Washington 12 items
|
1866-1883 |
1/33 | United States Land Office,
Vancouver, Washington 4 items
|
1864-1882 |
1/34 | Whitworth, George F.,
1816- 1 item
|
1886 |
1/35 | Yantis, J. V. 2 items
|
1886, 1889 |
1/36 | Yesler, Henry L.
1810-1892 1 item
|
1867 |
Miscellaneous
correspondents |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/37 | Abbott, L. G. |
1869 |
1/37 | Abbott, S. B. |
1866 |
1/37 | Affley, Eva B. |
undated |
1/37 | Allen, J. R. |
1867 |
1/37 | Anthony, B. W. |
1888 |
1/38 | Bagley, Mr. and Mrs., and
Agnes |
1898 |
1/38 | Bagley, A. H. |
1896 |
1/38 | Bagley, Adella |
1903 |
1/38 | Bagley, Ellen |
1898 |
1/38 | Bagley, Josiah |
1893 |
1/38 | Bagley, Myrta |
1883 |
1/38 | Bagley, O. H. and L.
J. |
1870 |
1/38 | Bagley, Rena |
undated |
1/38 | Beach, L. P. |
1869 |
1/38 | Bell, John 2 items
|
1869 |
1/38 | Bell, W. N. |
1867 |
1/38 | Brown, Beriah F. |
1869 |
1/38 | Browning, John T. |
1867 |
1/38 | Bryan, H. E. A. 3 items
|
1867, 1870 |
1/38 | Brygges, Anna S. |
1898 |
1/38 | [Bullins?], George
W. |
1894 |
1/38 | Byles, C. N. |
1866 |
1/38 | Bywater, C. M. |
1881 |
1/39 | Caton, H. S. |
1884 |
1/39 | Coe, B. W. |
1878 |
1/39 | Cook, S. M. |
1892 |
1/39 | Chambers, A. J. |
1894 |
1/39 | Clymer, C. |
1868 |
1/39 | Coombs, Samuel F. |
1891 |
1/40 | Denny, David T. |
1883 |
1/40 | Dickenson, Obediah 2 items
|
1870, 1890 |
1/40 | Dodge, John |
1867 |
1/40 | Donohoe, Kelly & Company,
San Francisco, California |
1873 |
1/40 | Edis, Rhoda A. |
undated |
1/40 | Edwards, George |
1876 |
1/40 | Edwards, O. W. |
1886 |
1/40 | Ferry, Elisha Peyre |
1889 |
1/40 | Fletcher, Thomas P. |
1871 |
1/40 | Freemasons, General Grand
Secretary |
1871 |
1/40 | Freemasons, Grand Lodge of
Washington |
1896 |
1/40 | Freemasons, St. John's Lodge,
No. 9 2 items
|
1889, 1870 |
1/41 | Graves, Franklin P. |
1898 |
1/41 | Guye, F. M. |
1880 |
1/41 | Hale, Henry C. |
1897 |
1/41 | Hallowell, Henry G. 2 items
|
1885, 1893 |
1/41 | Hammond, Eliza A. |
1899 |
1/41 | Hammond, William |
1890 |
1/41 | Hayes, P. C. |
1838 |
1/41 | Hewitt, R. H. |
1866 |
1/41 | Hill, B. A. |
1877 |
1/41 | Holgate, L. J. |
1838 |
1/41 | Hunter, W. H. |
1869 |
1/41 | Island Company, Washington
Territory Auditor v. |
1893 |
1/42 | Johnson, Jasper W. |
1900 |
1/42 | Johnson, W. W. |
1863 |
1/42 | Jones, R. S. |
1900 |
1/42 | Keach, Philip |
1866 |
1/42 | Keally, W. F. |
1886 |
1/42 | Kendrick, Rodney |
1892 |
1/42 | Littlejohn, H. J. |
1889 |
1/42 | Longsworth, B. N. 2 items
|
1891, 1892 |
1/43 | McCracken, John 2 items
|
1869 |
1/43 | McCullough, Robert |
1879 |
1/43 | McElroy G. B. |
1886 |
1/43 | McNaught, James |
1889 |
1/43 | Mann, S. H. |
undated |
1/43 | Maple, E. P. |
undated |
1/43 | Maple, J. W. |
1893 |
1/43 | Meany, Edmond S. |
1894 |
1/43 | Mercer, Annie E |
1883 |
1/43 | Metcalf, Adeline I. 2 items
|
1891, 1892 |
1/43 | Methodist Protestant Board of
Publication, Baltimore, Maryland |
1886 |
1/43 | Moore, C. W. |
1891 |
1/43 | Mullan, John |
1890 |
1/43 | Munson, J. S. C. 2 items
|
1837 |
1/44 | Neyce, J. H. |
1869 |
1/44 | Northern Pacific Railroad
Company, Pacific Division |
1876 |
1/44 |
Pacific Mason
magazine |
1896 |
1/44 | Phillips, L. S. |
1869 |
1/44 | Page, Emily H. |
undated |
1/44 | Pike, F. E. |
1898 |
1/44 | Pincus, Isaac |
1890 |
1/44 | Price, P. S. |
1870 |
1/44 | Puget Mill Company, Port
Gamble, Washington |
1864 |
1/45 | Renton, William |
1866 |
1/45 | Richardson, Edwin 2 items
|
1866 |
1/45 | Robbins, Joseph |
1887 |
1/45 | Roberts, T. F. 2 items
|
1892, 1896 |
1/45 | Sanderlin F. M. |
1898 |
1/45 | Seattle Lumber & Commercial
Company |
1883 |
1/45 | Shattuck, Charles
B. |
1875 |
1/45 | Shields, H. E. |
1896 |
1/45 | Smith, Jesse |
1901 |
1/45 | Stacy, M. V. B. 2 items
|
1884 |
1/45 | Stone & Burnett, Seattle,
Washington |
1870 |
1/46 | Taylor, Fred E. |
1905 |
1/46 | Tibbetts, George W. |
1893 |
1/46 | United States Land Office,
Seattle, Washington |
1888 |
1/46 | United States Treasury
Department |
1864 |
1/46 | Washington Territory Supreme
and District Court Clerk |
1877 |
1/46 | Washington Territory Surveyor
General 2 items
|
1874 |
1/46 | Washington Mill Company,
Seabeck, Washington |
1875 |
1/46 | Ward, Dillis B. 2 items
|
1869, 1883 |
1/46 | Webb, Thomas |
1893 |
1/46 | Webster, H. A. |
1876 |
1/46 | Weed, G. A. |
1870 |
1/46 | West, M. F. |
1870 |
1/46 | West Coast Improvement Company,
Seattle, Washington |
1899 |
1/46 | Whipple, A. J. |
1904 |
1/46 | Whitworth, F. H. |
1881 |
1/46 | Winsor, Charles F. 2 items
|
1868 |
1/46 | Winsor, H. |
1868 |
1/46 | Zack, James C. |
1876 |
Box/Folder | ||
1/47 |
Letters introducing
Bagley 2 items
|
|
Box/Folder | ||
1/47 | Bailey Gatzert to A.
Schwabacher, San Francisco, California |
21 November 1870 |
1/47 | N. Andrew Chilberg to E. A.
Holbrook, Chicago |
12 May 1888 |
1/48 | Letters in which Bagley is
referred to 4 items
|
1864-1890 |
Box/Folder | ||
1/48 | J. M. Edmunds (General Land
Office) to Register, Olympia, Washington |
2 April 1864 |
1/48 | Treasury Department to Andrew
B. Young |
7 March 1879 |
1/48 | M. V. B. Stacy to Dexter Horton
& Company |
18 October 1884 |
1/48 | Wilfred M. Kellogg to Rolland
S. Denny |
1 November 1899 |
1/49 | Letters from unidentified
parties 6 items
|
1865-1869, 1890 |
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
2/1-2 | Bagley to Marshall Blinn,
Seabeck, Washington 8 items
|
1861-1866 |
2/1-2 | Bagley to Selucius
Garfielde 1 item
|
1868 |
2/1-2 | Bagley to William Pickering, Jr.,
photostat letter |
1869 |
Legal documents, circa 1861-1902Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
2/4 | Court papers 13 items
|
1871-1898 |
2/5 | Deeds, land agreements,
mortgages, etc. 15 items
|
1861-1892 |
2/6 | Indentures 26 items
|
1873-1902 |
2/7 | Memoranda, powers of attorney,
etc. 14 items
|
1885-1894 |
2/8 | Documents relating to the Lake
Washington Coal Company 2 items
|
1867 |
Washington Territory University, land sale record book, circa 1861-1888Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 2/10, 11
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Businessmen--Washington (State)--Archives
- Civic leaders--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives
- Clergy--Washington (State)--Archives
- Coal mines and mining--Washington (State)
- Methodist Church--Clergy--Washington (State)--Archives
- Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
- Pioneers--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives
Personal Names
- Bagley family--Correspondence
- Bagley, Daniel, 1818-1905--Archives
- Denny, Arthur Armstrong, 1822-1899
Corporate Names
- Lake Washington Coal Company
- Territorial University (Wash.)
Geographical Names
- Washington (State)--Politics and government--19th century