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Donald George Abel was an American attorney who served as a Washington State Supreme Court Justice from 1946 to 1947. He attended the University of Washington, where he played football under coach Gil Dobie. He received a B.A. degree in 1917. During WWI, Abel served in the 91st Division of the U.S. Army, was decorated for gallantry in the Battle of the Argonne, and rose to the rank of captain. Following his discharge, he returned to the University of Washington School of Law, and was graduated with a LL.B. degree in 1919. After graduation, Abel had a private practice of law in Chehalis and then held a series of government posts. From 1922 to 1926, he served as the Prosecuting Attorney of Lewis County. In 1932 he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination to Congress in the Third District. From May 1936 to February 1940, Abel was state administrator of the federal Works Progress Administration. In September 1942, he ran unsuccessfully for a position on the state Supreme Court, losing to John S. Robinson. Abel was appointed to Supreme Court as acting Justice in 1946 during the absence of Walter B. Beals, who was Presiding Judge at the International Military Tribunal I in Nuremberg, Germany. Governor Albert D. Rosellini appointed Abel to the State Public Service Commission in 1957 and later to the Washington State Liquor Control Board, where he served as member and chairman.

George Abernethy came to Oregon in 1840 as part of the "Great Reinforcement" to the Methodists' endeavors in the Willamette Valley. As the mission's financial manager, he bought out its store when the mission closed in 1844 and moved it to Oregon City, the center of Oregon's settlement and trade. Four years later, he built a sawmill. Abernethy became Oregon's first and only provisional governor, winning election in 1845 and 1847. He published Oregon's first newspaper, The Oregon Spectator of Oregon City from 1846 to 1855. In 1849, he was among the major contributors to the Clackamas County Female Seminary, founded in 1850 as the territory's first non-denominational school for women. In 1856, he purchased Portland's first fire engine. His name appears on a school and neighborhood in Portland and a creek and island in Clackamas County.

George Bancroft Adair was born in Romulus, New York and graduated from Ames College (now the University of Syracuse). After graduation, he worked in the hardware business. In 1868, he moved to California, and in 1883 relocated to Seattle where he established the firm of George B. Adair and Sons. He was a leading member of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce where he fought for lower freight rates for merchants. He was also president of the Seattle Board of Trade. In 1890, he was a member of the commission that produced a charter that continues to be the foundation of Seattle's city government.

Brockman "Brock" Adams was an American politician and member of Congress. He attended the University of Washington where he was elected president of the student government (ASUW) and was the first student to both serve in that post and receive the President’s Medal of Excellence as the University’s top scholar. He graduated in 1949 and was admitted to Harvard Law School, where he earned his law degree in 1952. Adams was a Democrat from Washington and served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, and United States Secretary of Transportation before retiring in January 1993.

Edwin Hubbard Adams joined the University of Washington in 1939 where he taught English composition. He was a member of the Seattle Committee for Educational Television. He had a radio program, Reading for Fun and also served as a counselor for veterans in the 1940s. He established the Radio Education Department at the University of Washington with the idea of providing practical experience in radio work.

George Russell Adams served in the U. S. Army during the American Civil War from 1862 to 1863. He wrote A story of the first American exploring expedition to Russian America, 1865-1867, an account of his experiences as the youngest member of the Western Union Telegraph Company's expedition for the Russian Extension, under the command of Col. Charles S. Bulkley and Maj. Robert Kennicott.

John Adams was the second president of the United States (1797-1801), having earlier served as the first vice president of the United States. Adams was a statesman, diplomat, and a leading advocate of American independence from Great Britain. His son, John Quincy Adams, became the sixth president of the United States.

John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States (1825–1829). He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. Adams was the son of former President John Adams and Abigail Adams. As a diplomat, Adams played an important role in negotiating many international treaties, most notably the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812. As Secretary of State, he negotiated with the United Kingdom over the United States' northern border with Canada, negotiated with Spain the annexation of Florida, and authored the Monroe Doctrine.

Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams.

William L. Adams was born in Ohio and attended Knox College in Galesburg, Ohio and Bethany College in West Virginia. In 1847, he purchased two wagons and traveled to Oregon. He taught school at Carlton, Oregon and in 1849 and again in 1852, went to California to pan for gold. He was elected probate judge of Yamhill County and established the newspaperThe Oregon Argus early in 1855. He edited the paper for nine years. President Lincoln appointed him as the Collector of Customs at the Port of Astoria in the 1860s. In 1863, he made his home at Forest Grove, practicing self-taught medicine; however, in 1873 he went to Philadelphia and took a course in medicine. He also studied law and received the Doctor of Laws degree from the American University of Pennsylvania. He practiced law and medicine briefly in Portland before moving to Hood River.

Henry Clay Agnew born in Macomb, Illinois. His father, a county judge, died when Henry was five years old, and Henry came to Seattle with his mother when he was nine. He attended Lincoln High School where he was leader in the school's state championship debate team. After high school, he attended the University of Washington and graduated with a law degree. During World War I, he served in the Coast Artillery at Fort Worden. He began practicing law shortly after the war and was well-known as a trial attorney. He was elected to the Superior Court bench in 1950 and served until the mandatory retirement age of 75. After retirement, he worked as a judge pro tem. His wife endowed a scholarship in his name at the University of Washington Law School.

Francis Ahnlund was born in Bollnas, Sweden and emigrated to the United States in 1902. He was the pastor of the First Swedish Methodist Church in Seattle. In 1923, he was elected secretary of the Pacific Coast Swedish Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Donald Ahrens was the vice president of the Washington Federation of Labor and the Pacific Coast District Metal Trades Council. He began his union career in Tacoma in 1931where he was a member of Tacoma Local 252 and later as an officer of the Tacoma Building Trades Council and the Tacoma Metal Trades Council. In 1965, he retired as the regional manager of the Laborers International Union of North America, representing workers in the western United States and western Canada. He married Dorothy Covalt in Shelton, Washington in 1931.

Russel Frederick Ahrens graduated from the University of Washington in 1925 and started work in 1927 with Boeing Air Transport, which later became United Airlines. He worked in San Francisco from 1927 to 1928, in Chicago from 1928 to 1929, and again in San Francisco in 1930, the year he was appointed district traffic manager for the company in Seattle. After transferring back to United's Chicago office in 1930, he was promoted to personnel director in 1942. He later became vice president, senior vice president of personnel and assistant chairman of the board. He retired in 1965 as assistant to the president.

Cory Ainey was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and moved to Tacoma in 1903. She worked at Weyerhaeuser for many years as a stenographer and secretary. On May 30, 1945, she became assistant secretary of the corporation and remained in that position until a few months before her death. She was the president of the Washington State Federation of Business and Professional Women, 1920-1921, an organization founded in 1919 with the mission to promote equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education and information. She was also the corresponding secretary of the Washington State Historical Society. She married Alex Matthews on April 29, 1925.

Charles Stanley Albert was a prominent attorney in Seattle. He was on the legal staff of the Great Northern Railway Company from 1898 until his retirement in 1942. He was appointed general attorney for the railroad in 1926. Born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, he studied at Columbia University and the University of Minnesota, receiving degrees of LL.B. and L.L.M. From 1898 until 1911, he was a member of the law firm Brown, Albert & Gueseman in Minneapolis, personally handling Great Northern trial litigation. He moved to Spokane in 1911 and later to Seattle, and was active in the civic affairs of both cities. During World War I, he served on General Pershing’s staff, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was the director of the Seattle department of Civilian Protection Services during World War II. He married Sarah Truax in 1908.

Sarah Truax was an American actor whose career began in the mid-1890s and lasted well into the twentieth century. Though she appeared in only a handful of Broadway and Hollywood productions over her career, Truax did achieve success throughout America as a star of stock and touring companies. She had starring roles in The Two Orphans,The Prince of India and The Garden of Allah. During her later years Truax remained active as an actor and stage director working with community theatres across her adopted state of Washington. Her first appearance in Seattle was in 1898 when she was married to her first husband, Guy Bates Post, a Seattle resident. She organized her own theater company, but gave it up when she married her second husband, Charles Stanley Albert in 1908. She returned to the stage in 1911 after the birth of her daughter. In 1912 Truax, her husband and young daughter moved to Spokane, Washington, where Charles Albert served as counsel for the Great Northern Railway Company. She eventually became involved in local theatres in Spokane, Seattle, and a number of other cities and towns throughout the state. During this period Truax supported the Little Theatre Movement where she enjoyed nurturing young talent. In 1927 she and her husband relocated to Seattle. Truax's autobiography, A Woman of Parts: Memories of a Life on Stage,was published in 1949. Truax was a supporter of the University of Washington drama program and gave many of her costumes to the UW Drama Department.

Robert Brooke Albertson graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1881 and studied law at the same university. After graduating, he moved to Seattle and initially worked for the Seattle and Commercial Mill Company. He spent six months as city editor of The Seattle Morning Chronicle, and for two years worked as a law clerk. In 1885, he entered into a law partnership with George Hyde Preston and later became a member of the firm of Lewis, Hardin & Albertson. In 1889, he was elected corporation counsel of Seattle, was elected a representative from the Forty-Second District of the state legislature in 1895 and re-elected in 1900. He served as Speaker of the House and was also speaker at the special session held in June, 1901. He belonged to the Hook and Ladder Company of the city until a paid fire company was installed. For five years, he was a member of the Washington State Militia and served during the Chinese riots in 1887. He served as a judge from 1903 until his death.

Frank Albrecht was the secretary-treasurer and business representative of Local 186, Packinghouse Workers Union from 1957 until 1971. He also served on the King County Labor Council.

Horace Albright, after graduating from the University of California Berkeley, worked for the Department of Interior in Washington, D.C. He became a legal assistant to Stephen Mather when Mather became Assistant Secretary in charge of National Parks, and later assisted Mather when the National Park Service (NPS) was established in 1916. As legal assistant, he helped acquire land for several new national parks in the east. When Mather became ill, Albright managed the NPS as acting director. He later served as superintendent of Yellowstone National Park and, for a short time, Yosemite National Park. On January 12, 1929, Albright succeeded Mather as the second director of the NPS and held the post until August 9, 1933. In 1933 Albright resigned to work for the U.S. Potash Corporation and U.S. Borax and Chemical Corporation, serving variously as Director, Vice President, President and General Manager. The nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, was awarded to him by President Jimmy Carter on the 64th Anniversary of the National Park Service. Albright Grove, a grove of old-growth hemlocks and tulip poplars located in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, was named in his honor. The Albright Training Center at Grand Canyon National Park and the Albright Visitor Center at Yellowstone National Park also bear his name.

James Alden was a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy, serving from 1828 until 1873. His ship The Active operated in the headwaters of Puget Sound, where her presence reassured the settlers. In the summer of 1859, during tensions resulting from an American's killing of a Britisher settler's pig on San Juan Island, the ship's timely arrival helped to quiet a potentially dangerous situation in what became later known as the "Pig War." Alden died in San Francisco on February 6, 1877 and was buried in his native Portland, Maine, on February 24, 1877.

Abraham Lansdale Alexander, the son of John Alexander and Frances Fay Alexander, was born in Washington Territory in 1852. He married Grace Bird in 1879; the couple had five children: Harry Earl, Gracie, Lillie, Abram Lester (Leslie) and Ida May. They had a farm in Coupeville, Washington.

Abraham Lester Alexander, who also went by the names "Abram" and "Leslie," was the son of Abraham Lansdale Alexander and Grace Bird Alexander. In 1910, he married Frances Boss. His son, Albert Leslie, was born in 1911. Abraham died in a car accident in 1942.

Albert Leslie Alexander was the son of Abraham Lester Alexander and Frances Boss Alexander.

Anna Lanning was born in Illinois and came to Washington in 1869. She married John Sharpe Alexander on December 28, 1870.

Frances Sharpe was born in Ireland and married to John Alexander. She arrived in Washington Territories in 1851, and the family settled in what is now Coupeville, Washington in 1852. John built an inn which went by many names over the years, most famously known as The Block House Inn. His widow ran it for years as Mrs. Fay’s, having married Captain Fay after John’s death; the inn burned in the1960s. The Island County Historic Society Museum is now located where the inn stood.

John Alexander Sr. was born in Ireland in 1805. He and his family sailed to Washington Territories on the schooner Exact in 1851. On the voyage, the vessel set ashore at Alki Point where the Denny party disembarked. Alexander filed for a Donation Land Claim in what is now Coupeville, Washington, on August 1, 1852. His claim adjoined the claims of Isaac Ebey on one side and Captain Thomas Coupe on the other; the land ran from what is now referred to as Ebey’s Prairie to the water’s edge on Penn Cove. Alexander’s former claim is now home to Prairie Center, the "Big Rock," Main Street and the 1855 Alexander Block House. The blockhouse has been moved from the Alexander property to Coupeville and restored; it now stands next to the Island County Historical Museum. He also built an inn which went by many names over the years, most famously known as The Block House Inn. His widow ran it for years as Mrs. Fay’s, having married Captain Fay after John’s death. The inn burned in the1960s. The Island County Historic Society Museum is now located on the site of the inn.

John Sharpe Alexander was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin and crossed the Plains, arriving at Alki Point, Washington Territory on November 13, 1851 and Olympia on November 15, 1851 where he worked as a shipbuilder. He married Alice Lanning on December 28, 1870. His parents were John Alexander and Frances Sharpe Alexander.

Moses Alexander was the second elected Jewish governor of a U.S. state and served as the 11th Governor of Idaho from 1915 until 1919. In 1895, he led an effort to build Ahavath Beth Israel synagogue, the first in Idaho; completed in 1896, it is the oldest synagogue in continuous use west of the Mississippi River.

William Alexander was the son of John and Frances Alexander. He was rumored to have been robbed, murdered and thrown into the Willamette River from Flander’s Wharf in Portland, Oregon, in 1872, leaving his wife and two children.

Nelson Algren was an American writer who was best known for The Man with the Golden Arm,a 1949 novel that won the National Book Award and was adapted as a 1955 film of the same name.

Jody Aliesan was an activist in the feminist movement and served as a consultant to the University of Washington Office of Equal Employment Opportunity programs. She also served as coordinator of the Women's Commission and was co-writer and co-researcher of the ASUW Women's Commission report on the status of women faculty, staff and students. In 1971, Mayor Uhlman appointed Aliesan to the new Seattle Women's Commission. She resigned after a year because she believed that the members of the commission were chosen to represent wide social and political interests, but did not have a knowledge or understanding of the problems relevant to women. In 1978, Aliesan was a member of the steering committee for the Citizens to Retain Fair Employment, an organization formed to defeat Initiative 13 which would have allowed discrimination in Seattle on the basis of sexual orientation. In 1979/80, her household was awarded an Urban Homestead grant by the U.S. Dept. of Energy for a demonstration project which sought to educate the public in conservation techniques. Her papers are held in UW Special Collections.

Alexander James Allen was the last of the four Assistant Surgeons to attend the Royal Marines on San Juan Island. He had nearly nine years of Navy medical experience both ashore and afloat when he arrived in the summer of 1870. He came from a two-year stint at Haulbowline Hospital in Cork. During his station on San Juan Island, he was carried on the books of the Zealous and the Scylla.While at the English Camp, he may have overseen the construction of a new hospital. He accompanied the Royal Marines when they left in May 1873. By September of the following year, he was assigned as a surgeon aboard the H.M.S. Crocodile and retired with a promotion in 1875.

Clay Allen was a King County Superior Court judge from 1929 until his retirement in 1949. He attended Baker University in Kansas and graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston. He was a quarterback for both of the universities' football teams and later played for the Medics, a professional team. He graduated from Indiana Law School in 1904. In 1948, he was the judge for the Canwell Committee contempt trial of Burton and Florence Bean James.

Edward Tyson Allen was one of the first United States forest rangers, hired at $50 per month in 1898 by the General Land Office and sent west to Washington State to assume the post of ranger on the Washington Reserve (now the Gifford Pinchot National Forest). He helped set the future trend for rangers by departing for his district and exploring the area until he knew it in detail; he then proceeded to define his job. Later in 1902, he helped the Interior Department prepare a book of regulations that emerged as the Forest Service's first Use Book, the regulations and instruction for the use of the national forests. In 1900, he undertook a cooperative timber survey in Grays Harbor County, the first of its kind in the county. He headed the Pacific Northwest Forest Protection and Conservation Association, whose objective was to protect forests from waste and to safeguard the national forest reserves. He later headed the Western Forestry and Conversation Association. During World War I, he worked with the government to stimulate the production of spruce for use in aircraft. He wrote several books about forestry, including Practical Forestry In The Pacific Northwest.

Edward Weber Allen was an attorney from Seattle, Washington who specialized in fisheries law. Beginning in 1928, he represented Alaska salmon packers in many capacities, including legal affairs, labor matters, lobbying, and as public spokesman for the industry. Allen also used his knowledge of fisheries law to the benefit of various international commissions. He was a member of the International Fisheries Commission (known after 1953 as the International Pacific Halibut Commission) from 1932 to 1955 and also served as its chairman and secretary. The International Fisheries Commission helped restore the depleted halibut stocks in the North Pacific. He served as a commissioner of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission from 1937 to 1957, which was formed to revive the salmon stock of the Puget Sound and Fraser River. In 1954, he helped create the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission, which was composed of representatives of the United States, Canada, and Japan. The commission met every three years, and Allen served as chairman. He was a long-time member of the U.S. State Department Fishing Industry Advisory Committee. Additionally, Allen was active in the American Bar Association. He chaired its Law of the Sea Committee and served on its International and Comparative Law Section, as well as other committees. During World War II, Allen served in the United States Office of Strategic Services. In 1957, he was named Puget Sound Maritime Man of the Year, and in 1959, he received the Raymond J. Huff Memorial Award for service in the field of international affairs. His papers are held in UW Special Collections.

Frank Phillips Allen, Jr. was a architect, engineer and landscape designer who played a key part in the construction and design of several major exposition projects in the western United States, including as consulting engineer for Portland's Lewis and Clark Exposition (1905), and Director of Works for Seattle's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909). Born in Great Rapids, Michigan, he was trained as a architect and contractor, and eventually moved to San Diego to open an independent office. His most prestigious job was Director of Works for San Diego's Panama-California Exposition (1915), for which he oversaw the creation of a number of notable constructions, including the Cabrillo Bridge and the Montezuma Gardens. He moved to Los Angeles in 1932 and died in a car accident in 1943.

George M. Allen was the Deputy Commissioner for the Bureau of Statistics and Immigration for Washington State. During the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, he conducted an information bureau for visitors in the Washington Building, which became a library for the University of Washington after the exposition closed. Acting in his capacity as advertiser for the state, he published The Booster Book, a publication dealing with the natural advantages of Washington. In 1910, he publishedThe Irrigated Lands of the State of Washington

Harry Eugene Allen was born in Burlington, Wisconsin and entered the University of Wisconsin at age 15. He was a surgeon by age 22 and interned at Cook County Hospital. He joined the Army and served during the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection. He resigned from the Army in 1902 and moved to Seattle, where he practiced at Pacific Hospital. He was president of the King County Medical Society, Medical Director for the State Department of Labor and Industries (1933-1938) and the assistant chief surgeon for the Milwaukee Railroad's Western Line for 31 years. During World War I, he was the chief surgeon for Eagleson Base Hospital in France and the commanding officer for Base Hospital 50. In 1904, he married Ethel Bagley of the Seattle pioneer family.

Henry Harrison Allen was born in Missouri and was an early settler in North Yakima, Washington Territories where he raised cattle. In 1887, he built the H. H. Allen Building on the southwest corner of Second Street and Yakima Avenue in Yakima. The building housed the Allen & Chapman Drugstore which he started in partnership with his son-in-law, William Chapman.

Edwin N. Altman was born in New York and served in the Merchant Marine during World War II. He moved to Seattle in 1946. He was elected president of the American Maritime Association in 1959 after serving as the secretary of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (CIO). He also served as the Seattle Mayor's marine advisor, was the director of United Good Neighbors, vice president of the Seattle King County Community Chest and a member of the steering committee of the Governor's Conference on Mental Health.

Thomas Moody Alvord was born in New York in 1832. He left New York on board thePrometheus,arriving in San Francisco December 1, 1853. He went to Calaveras County and mined for three and a half years. With the news of the discovery of gold in the Fraser River valley, he went north, but only remained a short time, returning to Olympia in December, 1858. In February, 1859, he bought property along the river and set up a successful ranch and trading business in Pialschie, Washington Territory near the town of Kent.

Anne Beatrice Shaw was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She studied in Europe and traveled extensively before marrying Edgar Ames in 1909. She and her husband lived in Paris and then moved to Seattle in 1914, where he was general manager of the Seattle and Lake Washington Water Way Company and the founder of Ames Shipbuilding and Dry Dock. She was the co-founder of the Music and Art Foundation and served as its president for 12 years. She was the first president of the Board of Cornish School and helped organize the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. One of her projects was a creative school for children which she started at Lowell School. Mark Tobey was a friend, and she put him in charge. He also painted her portrait and conducted art classes at her home.

Edgar Ames, a native os St. Louis, Missouri, came to Seattle in 1895 after graduating from Yale University. He was instrumental in dredging the Puyallup River and E;lliott Bay, which resulted in the creation of Harbor Island in Seattle. He established the Ames Shipbuilding and Drydock Company which built 25 steel steamships during World War I. In 1929, he established the Ames Terminal near his shipyeard. He was active in civic affairs, including the growth of the Cornish School, the Seattle Symphony and the Seattle Art Museum. He married Anne Shaw in 1909.

Amphilochius was the Eastern Orthodox Bishop of Sitka, 1923-1933. Born Antony Yakovlevich Vakulsky and given the name Amphilochius when he was tonsured a monk. Amphilochius was a missionary among the Chukchi people in Siberia during the years 1909-1910. After arriving in North America, he continued serving, from 1910 to 1915, the parishes of emigrant Orthodox Christians in Alberta, Canada. Amphilochius was consecrated Bishop of Alaska by the Russian North American mission in 1923, a position he served until 1931.

Dennis Andersen was the pastor of Bethany Lutheran Church in the Green Lake neighborhood. Following graduate studies in Germanic languages and literature at the University of Washington and the University of Vienna, Austria, he worked for seven years in charge of photographs and architectural drawings in the Special Collections Division of the University of Washington Libraries. His strong interests in historic preservation and architectural history were expressed through his six-year service on the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board, including two years as chairman, as well as his essay and editorial contributions to Shaping Seattle Architecture. He co-authored with Jeffrey Ochsner Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H.H. Richardson. Andersen served on the Board of Governors of the Book Club of Washington, was an adjunct faculty member of the School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University and a member of the Board of Directors of Partners for Sacred Places, a Philadelphia-based organization dedicated to the preservation and revitalization of historic religious structures and their ministries. He was a member of Historic Seattle's Council from 2004 until 2008.

Agnes Bradford Healy was born in Wisconsin and graduated from Vassar College in 1882. She married Alfred H. Anderson on January 23, 1883, and the couple moved to Shelton, Washington where Alfred had lumber holdings and was later an officer of Simpson Logging. He was credited with acquiring large tracts of timberland for the University of Washington. Mrs. Anderson donated the funds for the University of Washington's School (and later College) of Forest Resources in memory of her husband; it was the first UW building which had its total cost underwritten by one donor. She was the president of Anderson Real Estate Company and a patron of Cornish School.

Alexander Anderson was born in Scotland and emigrated with his family to the United States near Joliet, Illinois. He graduated from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois in 1856. He was the Chair of Mathematics and Dean of Academy at the Pacific University of Forest Grove, Oregon and Principle of Central School in Portland. He was the sixth president of the Territorial University (now the University of Washington), serving from 1877 to 1882; during this time, he reorganized the curriculum and opened all classes to both male and female students. He also strengthened the University's relationship with the city by bringing the city's library to the campus. In 1882 he resigned from his position as UW President to become the first president of Whitman College in Walla Walla. The college opened on September 4, 1882 with an enrollment of 60 students and three senior faculty : Alexander Anderson, Maria Anderson and their son, Louis, who taught at Whitman for fifty years.

Alfred H. Anderson was born in Wisconsin. He married Agnes Bradford Healy on January 23, 1883. The couple moved to Shelton, Washington where Alfred had lumber and railroad holdings and was later an officer of Simpson Logging, acquiring 48 percent of the company. He served in the 1891 Washington State Legislature, representing Mason County. According to Edmond Meany, it was his support and influence that was largely responsible for the size of the University of Washington campus; he opposed limiting the area to 100 acres, and in 1893, the campus area was restored to its original 355 acres. Mrs. Anderson donated the funds for the University of Washington's School (and later College) of Forest Resources in memory of her husband; it was the first UW building which had its total cost underwritten by one donor.

Donald K. Anderson was a 1937 graduate of the University of Michigan and after graduation, was the director of the University of Michigan's news service bureau. He served in the United States Navy as a fighter director officer of two aircraft carriers during World War II. After the war, he was director of public relations at the University of Illinois and the University of California before joining the University of Washington in 1952. He was the director of the Office of Public Relations and Student Affairs. He was later named Dean of Students and was Vice President of Student Affairs from 1963 to 1969. He retired in 1972.

Eva Greenslit Anderson was born on May 20, 1889, in Surprise, Nebraska. She received a B.A. from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1910 and in 1912 moved to Wenatchee, Washington to teach high school. She married Leonard O. Anderson on June 10, 1915. She was superintendent of the Douglas County School from 1919 to 1921, then superintendent of Waterville Public Schools. She received an M.A. from the University of Washington in 1926 and a PhD from the University in 1937. She was an instructor at the University of Oregon, returning to Wenatchee High School as girls’ advisor. In 1934 she was Washington State Supervisor of Adult Education and was named Washington’s “Woman of Achievement" in 1949. In 1954 she became a member of the Board of Curators of the Washington State Historical Society. She was interested in the history of the Pacific Northwest and wrote more than thirty books on local history; her book Chief Seattlewas rated one of the ten best on Native Americans by the U.S. Department of the Interior. She received the Washington State Press Women’s Pioneer Writers’ Award in 1963, and in 1968, the Social Science Building at Wenatchee Valley College was named Anderson Hall. Her papers are in Central Washington University's Special Collections.

Frederick Neel Anderson was born in Hunters, Washington and graduated from the University of Washington in 1942. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1954. He served as a sergeant in the Army during World War II and was a professor of art at the University of Washington.

Guy Anderson was an American Abstract Expressionist painter. Along with Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, William Cumming, and Mark Tobey, Anderson was identified in a Life Magazine article as one of the "northwest mystics," also known as the Northwest School. He received many awards and commissions, including the Governor's Art Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Seattle Opera House Commission. He has had exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, the Bellevue Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, the National Museum of Art in Osaka Japan, and the Northwest Museum of Art in La Conner.

Henrietta (Etta) Adair was born in Tompkinsville, Kentucky in 1834. She married her cousin, James Patton Anderson, in 1853, and the couple moved to Olympia in Washington Territory where he served as the first United States marshal of the territory. He was offered but declined an appointment as governor of Washington Territory. Instead, in 1857, 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 1860, 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, 1862 and to major general February 17, 1864. He was wounded at the Battle of Jonesboro, Ga., in August 1864 and retired from the field to recuperate. 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, 1872. Etta and their five children returned to Florida in 1883 and settled in Palatka, where Etta became the president of the local J. Patton Anderson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

James Patton Anderson was born near Winchester in Franklin County, Tennessee. He moved with his family to Kentucky in 1831, where he lived for most of his childhood, and then to Mississippi in 1838. He attended the medical school of Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in 1840, before a family financial crisis forced him to withdraw a short time before graduation in 1842; soon after his return home, he began practicing medicine. He studied law at Montrose Law School in Frankfort, Kentucky, and was admitted to the bar in 1843, establishing a practice in Hernando in DeSoto County, Mississippi. 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.S. Army. When Davis became Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce, he appointed Anderson as U.S. Marshal for the Washington Territory. Anderson married his cousin Henrietta (Etta) Adair in 1853, 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 was offered but declined an appointment as governor of Washington Territory. Instead, in 1857, 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 1860, 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, 1862 and to major general February 17, 1864. He was wounded at the Battle of Jonesboro, Ga., in August 1864 and retired from the field to recuperate. 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, 1872.

John Alexius Anderson was born in Tobyn, Mangskog, Sweden to Anders Nilsson and Anna Svedsdotter Skoglund. His mother died in 1905, and he immigrated to Seattle at the age of 14. traveling alone by ship to New York and then by train to Seattle where he lived with his uncle and aunt, John and Anna Nelson. He worked in the lumber industry as a logger and in the mills, working for Everett Lumber Company, Canyon Lumber in Everett, and Waites Mill in Granite Falls. He was an accomplished musician and played the piano, accordion and banjo. He married Mildred Corinne Rupp August 29, 1936.

Maria Louisa Phelps was born in Mayville, New York. She was the daughter of Luke and Lucinda Phelps and a descendent of George Phelps and Phillury Randall (later George's wife) who were passengers on the advance ship of the Winthrop fleet,Mary & Johnwhich landed at Nantasket on May 30, 1630. She graduated from Willoughby Seminary in Ohio in 1854 and married Alexander Jay Anderson in 1857. He was the president of the Territorial University (now the University of Washington) from 1877 to 1882. 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, 1882 with an enrollment of 60 students and three senior faculty: Alexander Anderson, Maria Anderson and their son, Louis, who taught at Whitman for fifty years.

Thomas McArthur Anderson was a career officer in the United States Army who served as a general in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. Anderson attended the Cincinnati School of Law and was admitted to the Ohio State bar in 1858. 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 1897 Anderson and 100 soldiers of the 14th U. S. 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.S. 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.S. Volunteers in 1898. When the war ended, Anderson stayed in Manila where he was placed in command of the 1st Division, VIII Corps and saw action in the 1899 Battle of Manila during the Philippine-American War. In March 1899, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the Regular Army.

Clarence Ellsworth Andrews was the son of Stephen P. Andrews and Nellie Burnett Andrews and the brother of Stephen Perle Andrews. He worked as a beekeeper, carpenter and plumber, and moved to Nevada in the 1930s.

Edward Williamson Andrews was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from Yale University in 1875. He began his career in banking in Ohio. In 1890, he moved to Olympia, Washington where he started a bank. In 1892, 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.

Ralph Andrews was active in advertising 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. In 1966, he received one of the first Governor's Writers Day Awards, now called the Washington State Book Awards.

Stephen Perle Andrews was the son of Stephen P. Andrews and Nellie Burnett Andrews and the brother of Clarence Ellsworth Andrews. He worked as a carpenter and a nurse.

Grant C. Angle installed a printing press in a small office in Shelton, Washington, and founded the Mason County Journal. The first issue came out on December 31, 1886. 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 1945. As of 2013, 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 1901 to 1903.

Charity Ankeny was the daughter of Levi Ankeny, banker and State Senator from Washington. Her sister was Harriet Velina Ankeny. In 1902, she was injured in an elevator accident in Portland, Oregon where she was attending school and never fully recovered from the effects of the accident. She died in 1905 following an operation to correct the injury to her ankle. At the time of her death, she was attending Bryn Mawr College with her sister, Harriet.

Harriet Ankeny was the daughter of Levi Ankeny, banker and State Senator from Washington. Her sister was Charity Pauline Ankeny. Harriet was married to Captain Francis H. Pope in 1908 and lived in the Philippines when he was stationed there. She divorced him in 1926 and married John A. Cameron. She lived most of her life in Walla Walla, Washington.

Levi Ankeny was born in Buchanan County, Missouri near St. Joseph, and crossed the plains to Oregon in 1850 with his parents who settled in Portland. He attended rural schools and later Kingsley Academy in Portland. He was in business in Lewiston, Idaho; Orofino, Idaho; and Florence, Idaho, and became the mayor of Lewiston. He moved to Walla Walla, Washington and was president of seven banks in Washington and Oregon, including the First National Bank of Walla Walla, the First National Bank of Pendleton, Oregon, the First National Bank of Baker City, Oregon, the Columbia National Bank of Dayton, Washington and the Vancouver National Bank of Vancouver, B.C. He was appointed a member of the Pan-American Exposition Commission and became its chairman. In 1902, he was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, and served from March 4, 1903 to March 4, 1909. He was chairman of the Committee on Coast and Insular Survey (Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses). In 1867, he married Pauline Nesmith, daughter of Oregon Senator James W. Nesmith: they had five children. He worked in banking in Walla Walla until his death.

Mary Jane "Jennie" Nesmith, the daughter of Senator James Nesmith of Oregon, married Levi Ankeny on October 2, 1867. They had five children.

Susan B. 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 was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President. In 1869, Anthony and Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), an organization dedicated to gaining women's suffrage. She also co-founded the women's rights journal, The RevolutionShe traveled the United States and Europe and averaged 75 to 100 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.

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 1843" 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. Near The Dalles, Oregon, a boat capsized and Jesse and Lindsay each lost a son to drowning. 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. Also known as the South Road, the Applegate Trail started at Fort Hall in present-day Idaho and followed the Humboldt River before crossing the Klamath Basin.

William Appleton served as watch officer on the U.S.C.S. Thomas R. Gedney, a survey ship in service in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Alfred Apsler was born in Vienna, Austria and emigrated to the United States on November 4, 1939. He was a reference librarian at Duke University before becoming a history and philosophy professor at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. He later became the chair of the Social Science Division at the college. At his retirement in 1971, 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.

Sverre Arestad was a professor of Scandinavian Languages and Literature and chair of the Scandinavian Department at the University of Washington. In 1934, he was appointed a full-time teaching associate at hte University of Washington, and, in 1938, he received his Ph.D. and joined the faculty. Arestad worked primarily with Norwegian languages and literature, but he also taught Danish. Highly respected as a mentor to graduate students, Arestad published several important articles on Norwegian literature, especially the writings of Henrik Ibsen. An immigrant himself, Arestad developed a special interest in, and published several articles on, the history of Scandinavian immigration to the Pacific Northwest. Partly, this interest grew out of Arestad's frequent travelling around the Pacific Northwest giving lectures to all kinds of groups, including Scandinavian ethnic organizations. For a time, the University of Washington gave faculty members extended leave to travel around the State to present lectures, and Arestad was especially active in this regard during the Second World War. In 1943, Arestad was the prime mover behind the establishment of a Scandinavian Historical Research Committee. Although it survived only a few years, it inspired several articles and the collection and preservation of the records of Scandinavians in the Puget Sound Region. Upon retirement from the University in 1972, Arestad established the Sverre Arestad Scandinavian Research Fund to support the publication and dissemination of the history of Scandinavians in the Pacific Northwest.

Adolphe Armand was born in Strasbourg, France and immigrated to the United States in 1873. With Otto Jukeland, a pioneer leader of Spokane’s German immigrant community, he co-founded The Washington Spokane Post, the largest German language newspaper in the Northwest. The newspaper found an eager readership among the city’s growing German community. Armand was the editor and manager of the paper before selling his interest to Jukeland in 1900. He died in Los Angeles in 1919.

Herbert Edward Arntson is known for writing juvenile historical fiction. 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-1800's, reflecting an influence of his early family history. His manuscripts and papers are in the University of Oregon's Special Collections.

John Wesley Arrasmith was born in Missouri. Arrasmith was a member of House of Representatives for the last Washington territorial legislature. He married Austa Miller on February 11, 1887 in Umatilla, Oregon.

Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st President of the United States (1881–85); he succeeded James Garfield upon the latter's assassination. Arthur 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.

John Arthur was born in Ireland, the son of Thomas and Hannah (O'Connor) Arthur. He was educated in Ireland and England, and came to the United States in 1863. He graduated from Columbian (now George Washington) University Law School and was first in his class. He was admitted to the Bar in Erie, Pennsylvania and was law assistant to the U. S. Treasury before entering private practice in Washington, D. C. He came to Puget Sound in April, 1883 as an attorney for the Tacoma Land Company. He then moved to Seattle to open a private practice. He was president of the Washington Bar Association, president pro tem of the State Board of University Land and Building Commission and Grand Master of the Masons in Washington State. He was married to Amy Lane of Philadelphia.

Earl Lee Arttazia, the son of Jean and Dora Arttazia, was born in Seattle. He married Shirley Ney in 1938 and worked as a machinist.

George Astel was born in Blackville, New Brunswick, Canada. 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 1922. During his time at the UW, he was editor of The Daily and served as vice-president of the ASUW. Before he was 20, he published The Stanwood Tidings, later The Twin City News. He also owned and published The Snoqualmie Valley Record, The Anacortes American, the Oak Harbor News, The Island County Times and the Whidbey Island Record. 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 1958.

Theodore Raymond Astley was born in Atlanta, Georgia and spent most of his childhood years in Pontiac, Michigan. After obtaining a bachelor of arts in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1943, Astley joined the U.S. Army as a classification specialist and personnel clerk, advancing to the rank of technical sergeant. In 1945 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 1946, Astley obtained a job at the University of Washington as a career counselor for veterans. In June 1948 he was served a warrant to appear before the Washington Legislature’s Joint Fact Finding Committee on Un-American Activities, dubbed the "Canwell Committee" after its chairperson, Albert F. Canwell. 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 1948 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 1954 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 1962 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.

John Jacob Astor was a German-American businessman who was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States. He was the creator of the first trust in America, from which he made his fortune in fur trading, real estate and opium. At the time of his death in 1848, he was the wealthiest person in the United States, leaving an estate estimated to be worth at least $20 million. His estimated net worth, if calculated as a fraction of the U.S. gross domestic product at the time, would have been equivalent to $110.1 billion in 2006 U.S. dollars, making him the fifth-richest person in American history. Astoria, Oregon was named for him.

Lillie Helvig Astrup, the daughter of John C. and Elsie Nelson Astrup, was born in Eureka, Wisconsin. 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 1920.

Sena Myrtle Astrup, the daughter of John C. and Elsie Nelson Astrup, was born in Eureka, Wisconsin. She came to Seattle with her parents when she was two. She married Ralph Vernon Clark in 1916, Clarence E. Smith in 1930, and Murland Walter Fish.

Stella Florence Astrup, the daughter of John C. and Elsie Nelson Astrup, was born in Seattle. She worked as a stenographer before she married Roger A. Dudley, a commercial photographer and the first president of the Professional Photographers Association of Washington.

Henry A. Atkins, Seattle's first mayor, was appointed by the Legislature pending the first City election scheduled for July 1870. He served from 1869 until 1871. Born in Vermont, Atkins moved to California in 1850 during the gold rush to mine for gold. He arrived in Seattle in 1858, becoming a merchant and businessman. Atkins, along with two partners, owned a steam-driven pile driver that was leased for work throughout the Puget Sound region. He helped clear land for the Territorial University campus in what is now the Metropolitan Tract in Downtown Seattle. Atkins partnered with William H. Shoudy, himself a future mayor, to operate a general store in modern-day Pioneer Square. He also was a partner in the Seattle Gas Company, the Puget Sound Wagon Road Company, and a wharf building business that worked in several ports around the region. Seattle was incorporated by the Washington Territorial Legislature on December 2, 1869, and Atkins was appointed its first mayor. He was elected to the position outright on July 11, 1870, defeating Henry Yesler by sixteen votes, and served until July 1871. He remained involved in civic affairs after his mayoral tenure, later serving as sheriff of King County and as a regent of the Territorial University.

George Henry Atkinson was an American missionary and educator in what would become the state of Oregon. In Oregon, he served as a pastor for several churches, helped found what would become Pacific University, and pushed for legislation to create a public school system in Oregon Territory, earning him the title of “Father of Oregon schools” by educators. He later served as the county schools superintendent in Clackamas and Multnomah counties. In 1872, he left his church to begin missionary work; in 1880, he was named as Superintendent of Missions of Congregational Churches of Oregon and Washington Territory. He traveled throughout the region and is credited with coining the phrase “Inland Empire” to describe eastern regions of Oregon and Washington. In 1885, his district was split; he remained in charge of the Oregon section until his death.

Betty L. Attebery was born in Missouri and was married to Joseph A. Attebery. She was the mother of Edgar Raymond Attebery; she also had five other sons and two daughters.

Edgar Raymond Attebery was born in Missouri on Sept. 11, 1895. After graduating from Everett High School, he attended Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, until his studies were interrupted by World War I. In 1917, he joined the Oregon National Guard and served for two years, including 14 months in France. After the war, he earned his B.A. from the University of Washington in 1921, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, and received his bachelor of theology degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1925. In September 1925, he became pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in Seattle (renamed Grace Methodist Church ca. 1939). 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 1929 he played an active role in the effort to free Industrial Workers of the World members jailed after the 1919 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 1929. He was called to active duty in September 1940, and sent overseas the following year. He died while landing with his division on Biak Island, New Guinea, on May 5, 1944. His papers are held in UW Special Collections. His son, Edgar Raymond Attebery Jr. also served in World War II and died in France on September 27, 1944.

Albert Atwood was born in New Jersey and married Amanda Robison on May 3, 1860. He arrived in Seattle in 1874 to become the pastor of the First Methodist Church, then located at Second and Columbia. He subsequently served as pastor in Olympia, Washington, Eugene City, Oregon (now Eugene), and several other towns. 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 1883.

Erwin Bratton "Harry" Ault was an American socialist and trade union activist. 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 1898 to join the Equality socialist colony then being launched by the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth. The 17-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 1892 to 1898; in 1898 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. Berger. This organization was the forerunner of the Socialist Party of America (SPA), a group which Ault joined at its formation. Ault left Industrial Freedom to launch a Seattle paper targeted at radical youth called The Young Socialist in 1900. He later worked in the National Office of the SPA on the staff of The Socialist, the paper which Titus had started in Seattle in the summer of 1900. He is best remembered as the editor of the Seattle Union Record, the long-running labor weekly (turned daily) published from 1912 to 1928. After termination of the Union Record, he worked as a commercial printer for a number of years before being appointed a deputy U.S. Marshal for Tacoma, Washington, a position which he retained for 15 years. His papers are held in UW Special Collections.

Howard Ault was the brother of Erwin "Harry" Ault. He was a member of the Pioneers of Columbia and owned Ault Tire Service in Tacoma for many years before retiring to a small farm in Fife Heights, Washington.

Charles G. Austin was born in Cleveland, Ohio. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in Company G, 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery and fought in the battles of Nashville, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. He was admitted to the bar in 1869 and moved to Walla Walla, Washington in 1877 where he was engaged in the grain business. He moved to Pomeroy, Washington where he was the first wheat buyer in Garfield County and at one time, had thirteen warehouses. In the fall of 1889, 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 1890, 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. He belonged to the Elks, Masons, the GAR, Knights Templar and Shriners.

Emma L. Grow Austin was born in Brookfield, Vermont and died in Skagway, Alaska where her daughter lived. She was married to Charles G. Austin. They had three children.

Isabella Austin was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1895. 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 1909 until her death from surgical complications resulting from an appendectomy. The Isabella Austin Memorial Scholarship was established in her name, and in 1936, one of the halls of the new women's dorm was named for her.

Howard Earl Averill, born in Snohomish, Washington, was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a center fielder from 1929 to 1941, including 11 seasons for the Cleveland Indians. He was a six-time All-Star and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1975. His son, Earl Douglas Averil, also an American professional baseball player, was a catcher and outfielder in the Major Leagues in 1956 and from 1958 to 1963 for the Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Angels and Philadelphia Phillies. He was commonly called Earl Averill Jr. to distinguish him from his father,

Joseph C. Avery was one of the earliest settlers in Benton County, Oregon and was the eventual founder of Corvallis. He registered his provisional land claim near the confluence of the Willamette and Marys Rivers on. November 5, 1845. He was prominent in early Oregon politics, serving as a member of the first and second sessions of the territorial legislatures.

John Edwin Ayer was the treasurer of the New England Club of Seattle and a teacher at the Boston College of Vitosophy. He wrote a book Living by Natural Law in 1909 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.

Dr. 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 1965 until 1982. He is the only UW faculty member elected to both the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. His election to the NAE in 1972 was in recognition of his pioneering work in the development and commercialization of artificial kidney systems and his applications of nuclear energy to medicine. His papers are held in UW Special Collections.

Elise Piutti Backus was born near Erfurt in Saxony, Germany in 1860. In 1881 she came to the United States with her brother, Max Piutti, head of the Department of Music at Wells College. At Wells she studied linguistics and was later became the chair of German. She was a teacher there for 15 years and met her future husband, Manson Backus there. During her sabbatical year she returned to Germany to study at the University of Berlin. Upon her return, they became engaged and in 1902 they were married at Green’s Farms in Connecticut. She was a charter member of the Sunset Club and a member of their Board of Directors. She was a member of the Ladies Musical Club and a member of the Ladies’ Relief Society, serving on the Board of Directors and as President for two years. She was a founder of the Rosemary Club for Girls and served as President of the Board. She collected the works of Roy Partridge, a Seattle artist and etcher who became the head of the Art Department at Mills College. She gifted his works to her alma mater, Wells College at Aurora, Illinois in memory of her brothers, Max and William Piutti.

Manson Backus was born in South Livonia, New York. 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 1889 was admitted to the bar at Buffalo, N.Y. 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 1900. 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 1909. He served as president of the Washington Society of the Sons of the Revolution in 1917 and was a member of the Rainier Club and its president in 1922. He supported the Fine Arts Association, was a trustee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and on the advisory board of Children's Orthopedic Hospital. His papers are held in UW Special Collections.

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 1844, 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 1845, joined the Barlow train to Oregon. He went to California in 1849 for the gold rush, before returning to Oregon where he located on Elliott’s Prairie, fourteen miles from Oregon City. In 1856, he moved to the town itself, finding employment in the stores of Charman & Warner and Charman & Son. 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 1868 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 1845. They had twelve children.

Franklin Badgley was born in Mansfield, Ohio and spent his early years on a Wisconsin farm. He entered the University of Chicago at age 16. After graduation, he worked as a chemist for Swift & Company where he met his wife of 65 years, Helen Cunningham. He was a proficient pilot, and in 1942, volunteered for the Army Air Corps; he was stationed in the Azores Islands. After the war, he earned his PhD in Meteorology from New York University. In 1950, he began a 32-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.

Louis Baeder was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and came to Seattle from Chicago in 1907. He was assistant director of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1907 and practiced architecture in Seattle until his retirement in 1951. He was a member of the Washington State Architecture Examination Board and one of the first members of the National Council of Architectural Registration Board. He married Marjorie Shackelford in 1930.

Alice J. Bagley was the daughter of Ira W. Bagley and Margaret Samantha Hupp Bagley. She married Edward R. Booth.

Cecil Bagley was the grandson of Daniel Bagley and the son of Clarence Bagley and Alice Mercer Bagley, all Seattle pioneers. He served in the National Guard during the Mexican Border campaign, World War I and World War II, retiring with the rank of colonel. He worked as a civil engineer with the City Engineering Department, where he supervised the paving and lighting of many Seattle streets.

Clarence Booth Bagley, the only child of Daniel and Susannah Bagley, was born in Troy Grove, Illinois. In 1851, the family traveled overland to Oregon. Clarence attended Willamette Institute, which later became Willamette University. In October 1860, 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 1863, 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. He married Alice Mercer, the youngest daughter of Thomas Mercer, on December 24, 1865. 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. He purchased two newspapers, The Territorial Republican and The Echo . After selling his interest in those two papers he went to work for The Commercial Age . Clarence helped run the Newcastle coal mines in 1870. He left the private sector in 1871 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 1880s, 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 1893 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. He wrote History of Seattle, Washington and History of King County, Washington as well as articles for Edmond Meany's Washington Historical Quarterly. His authorship of Seattle and King County histories, three volumes each, was an academic milestone in its time.

Cora Bagley was the daughter of Ira W. Bagley and Margaret Samantha Hupp Bagley. She married Oliver Walker in 1889.

Herman Bagley was originally from New York. In 1865, he earned a medicine degree from the Homeopathic Medical College in Cleveland, Ohio. He did post-graduate studies at Bellevue College in New York and then was a professor of surgery at Michigan Medical College. His father, Alvin Bagley, was the first homeopathic physician to locate in what now is the state of Washington. In 1875, 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. He was president of the Seattle Improvement Company, a director of Washington National Bank, president of the Washington State Homeopathic Medical Society and a member of the Lake Washington Canal Association, which raised money to open a channel between Lake Washington and Salmon Bay.

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. He married Riana E. Root (1830 - ?) in 1848 and Samantha Hupp (1833 - 1920) in 1851.

John M. Bagley was the son of Ira W. Bagley and Margaret Samantha Hupp Bagley.

Margaret Samantha Hupp married Ira W. Bagley in 1851; the couple had four children.

Mary Lillian Bagley was the daughter of Ira W. Bagley and Margaret Samantha Hupp Bagley. She married Ulysses G. Taylor in 1923.

Myrtle Park Bagley was born in Detroit, Michigan and moved to Seattle in 1900. She married Cecil Bagley in 1912 and was a member of the Ladies Musical Club for over 55 years.

Enoch William Bagshaw was an American football player and coach. Born in Flintshire, Wales, he arrived in Washington with his parents in 1892. After graduating from Broadway High School, he entered the UW in the fall of 1903, 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. 10, 1906. 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. Under Bagshaw’s direction, Everett lost just one game in 12 years (1909-20), that by a single point. His teams amassed a collective victory margin of 3,001-375, and his last two clubs (1919-20) won consecutive national high school championships. From 1921 to 1929, he served as the head football coach at the University of Washington, compiling a 63–22–6 record. His 1923 and 1926 squads went 10–1–1, equaling the best marks of his career; the team won the Pacific Coast Conference in 1925. Despite his success, Bagshaw was fired in 1929 after his team went 2–6–1. Bagshaw left with a record of 63–22–6.

Hermann Bahr was an Austrian writer, playwright, director, and critic who championed naturalism, Romanticism, and Symbolism. After studying at Austrian and German universities, he settled in Vienna, where he worked on a number of newspapers. From 1906-1907, he worked as a director with Max Reinhardt at the German Theater in Berlin, and starting in 1918 he was a Dramaturg with the Vienna Burgtheater. Spokesman for the literary group Young Vienna, Bahr was an active member of the Austrian avant-garde, producing both criticism and Impressionist plays. Bahr was the first critic to apply the label modernism to literary works and was an early observer of the Expressionism movement. His theoretical papers were important in the definition of new literary categories. His later critical works show his interest in the social effect of creative art.

Sotero Julao Baluyut, the son of Leoncio Baluyut and Casimira Julao, was born on January 3, 1889, in San Fernando, Pampanga. In 1904, Baluyut was given the opportunity to study at government expense in the United States. After he studied in Santa Ana Central and High School in California and the University Summer School of Illinois, he obtained a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Iowa. In 1911, Baluyut returned to the Philippines to work for the Office of Public Works as an assistant engineer in the provinces of Pampanga and Cavite. From 1912 to 1919, he was district engineer for the provinces of Isabela, Antique, Ilocos Norte, Bulacan and Pangasinan. He also worked on the San Jose-Santa Fe Road, and was an engineer for the Pampanga Sugar Development Corporation in 1920. In 1925, Baluyut was elected governor of the province of Pampanga and was re-elected three years later. During his two terms as governor, he was responsible for the construction of many schools, hospitals, roads and bridges. After his second term, Baluyut was elected in 1931 and re-elected in 1934 as a member of Senate from 3rd Senatorial District. In the Senate, among other things, he enacted a law which led to the establishment of National Electric Power and Development Corporation. At the end of 1937, Baluyut was elected governor of the province of Pampanga for a third term. He was appointed as Secretary of Labor from 1938 to 1940 while serving as governor. He became Secretary of Public Works and Communications from 1951 to 1952.

Gayton Bailey was a graduate of Roosevelt High School, Whitman College (1930) and Harvard Medical School; he served in the Army during World War II. He had a medical practice in Seattle and was president of the King County Medical Society in 1965.

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 1960. In 1949, 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.

Helen Winona Bailey was born in Maine and went to school in Colorado. She graduated from high school in Leadville, where she stayed for two years to teach. She went on to earn a B.A. in Classics from Colorado College. In 1907, 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 1907, edited the Mountaineer Bulletin and later headed the Mountaineers' Red Cross activities.

Margaret Jewett (Smith) Bailey was born in Saugus, Massachusetts. On January 24, 1837, she sailed from Boston in the brig Peru for Oregon with Captain Kilham, Reverend David Leslie and family and Reverend Mr Perkins of the Maine Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She taught at Willamette Mission until her marriage to Dr. William J. Bailey in 1839. In the early 1840's, they lived on a French Prairie farm. She became a regular contributor of both prose and poetry to the Oregon Spectatorand 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. Her principal literary effort was Grains, or Passages in the Life of Ruth Rover, with Occasional Pictures of Oregon, Natural and Moral, a long novel printed by Carter & Austin, Portland in 1854. 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 1854, she married Francis Waddell in 1855 and divorced him in 1858. She moved to Washington Territory, where she later died.

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 1798 with the beginning of the Quasi-War, the US Navy quickly expanded and Bainbridge accepted a commission as a lieutenant on August 3, 1798. The following month he received command of the schooner USS Retaliation. In 1800, 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 1812, 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.

Harry Baird was a member of the Packinghouse Union Local 186. He served on many committees and in nearly all offices of the Union. He became president of the Union in 1948, and in December 1955 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. Baird was seriously injured in the fire at the Frye Packing Company in 1943 when an Army bomber crashed into the plant.

Edward Dickinson Baker was an English-born American politician, lawyer and military leader. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator from Oregon. A long-time close friend of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, he served as U.S. Army colonel during both the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. 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 City, Oregon and Baker County, Oregon, were created and named for him.

Frank Smith Baker was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Elbert H. Baker, the publisher of The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Baker graduated from Adelbert College in Cleveland in 1902. He joined The Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1904 and The Boston Traveler in 1910. He purchased The Tacoma Tribune in 1912 and The Tacoma Ledger and Tacoma Evening News in 1918. He merged the News and the Tribune into an afternoon paper and continued The Ledger as a morning daily until 1937, when it became the Sunday edition of The Tacoma News Tribune. He was also the president of KTNT-TV, a trustee of the University of Puget Sound and a member of the American Society of News Editors. He was known as the godfather of Fort Lewis for his efforts in having the Army post established in 1916.

Frank Whitney Baker was born in Youngstown, N. Y. He attended Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie and the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N. Y. He began his business career in the hardware business in Greenville, Michigan and was later associated with the Black Hardware Co. in Detroit. In 1890 he moved to Seattle. He was the president of the Title Trust Company, the treasurer of the L. L. Moore Jewelry Company, a director of the Seattle National Bank, treasurer of the Seattle Hardware Company and a director of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. He was a member of the Rainier Club, Seattle Athletic Club and the Masons. 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.

George Baker was a Seattle realtor and a member of the Seattle Real Estate Board.

Micajah Baker was born in Caledonia, Kentucky. He served in Company L, Iowa 3rd Cavalry from August 15, 1861 until February 3, 1862. In 1862, 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 1860 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 1895.

On July 9, 1902, Willie May Baker, Mrs. W. J. 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 1902. 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.

Richard Bakken is primarily known as a performance poet and organizer of poetry festivals. In the 1960s, 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 poetry magazine from 1966 to 1969. He also taught at Pacific Lutheran University (Parkland, Washington), 1966-1967; Portland State University (Oregon), ca 1968-1970; and was poet in residence at Jefferson College, Allendale, Michigan, circa1976. He sometimes appeared in costume as the "Poetry Chicken." His papers are held in the UW Special Collections.

Frank Balch, the son of Jacob William Balch and Sarah Ann Bradbury Balch, was born in Maine. He was an early settler in Washington Territory, arriving before 1870. He married Sarah Esther Smith on January 15, 1887 and was a merchant and state legislator.

Sarah Esther Smith was the daughter of Alanson Bruce and Matilda Bush Smith. She was born in Ulster, Bradford County, Pennsylvania and married Frank True Balch on January 15, 1887.

Jesse Ball crossed the plains in 1853, the year that Washington was declared a territory. He headed first for the gold fields in California, where he worked briefly for wages. He prospected and mined for two years and then went into the stock business in Oroville, near Chico, for nine years. He moved to the Nisqually area near Olympia, the territorial capital, in the early 1870s and started a logging camp. By the mid-1870s, the Ball family resided near Castlenook on Fox Island across from Steilacoom. By the late 1870s, he had moved to the Skagit area where he owned a store, choosing the area because it was on the bend of the river.

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 1832, in his late thirties, he joined Nathaniel Wyeth's cross-country journey to Oregon. During a difficult journey that lasted from March through October 1832, 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 1833, 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: "The grandeur of these beautiful mountains, Hood and Jefferson, . . . as seen from the fort and my farm, were the hardest to leave." After practicing law in Virginia for two years, Ball moved to Michigan, where he speculated in land, practiced law, married, and became a prominent citizen and advocate of public education in Grand Rapids.

Levi Ballard was born in Petersburg, New Hampshire, the son of William and T.B. Downing Ballard. He went to Hancock Academy in Hancock for two years, after which he taught school in New Jersey for three years. He moved to Ohio and tried different occupations before taking up the study of medicine. He entered Cleveland Medical College, graduating as an M.D. in 1848. He practiced medicine in the area until the death of his wife in 1852. He left for California, where he tried mining. Finding no success, he returned to Ohio to settle up his business before starting again for California. On the way, he was persuaded to go to Oregon, arriving at The Dalles on July 14, 1853. He moved to Umpqua County in 1854 where he practiced his profession and also raised stock. When the Rogue River war started, he gave his services as surgeon and remained until the close of hostilities. In 1857, he returned to Ohio where he married a second time. In the spring of 1865 he moved to Washington Territory with his family, homesteading one hundred and sixty acres where the town of Auburn, Washington is today. In 1886, he gave part of his claim to establish town of Slaughter, naming it after Lieutenant Slaughter, who was killed by the Indians in 1856. He took an active part in educational and religious institutions and was the first elder in the First Presbyterian Church on White River. In 1893, citizens successfully petitioned the Washington State Legislature to change name of Slaughter to Auburn.

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 1890) which was later annexed to the growing city of Seattle, Washington in 1907. 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 1889, and the Seattle Savings Bank, serving as its president until 1897.

As the reform mayor of Seattle (1904–06),Richard Achilles Ballinger attracted the attention of the Theodore Roosevelt administration, and in 1907 he was appointed commissioner of the General Land Office. In 1909 he became Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President William Howard Taft. 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, 1911. The incident split the Republican Party and helped turn the election of 1912 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.

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.

Sotero Julao Baluyut, the son of Leoncio Baluyut and Casimira Julao, was born on January 3, 1889 in San Fernando, Pampanga, in the Philippines. In 1904, he was given a scholarship from the government to study in the United States. He attended Santa Ana High School in California and obtained a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Iowa. In 1911, 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 1912 to 1919, he was district engineer for the provinces of Isabela, Antique, Ilocos Norte, Bulacan and Pangasinan. He also worked on the San Jose-Santa Fe Road. In 1920, he became an engineer for the Pampanga Sugar Development Corporation. He was elected governor of the province of Pampanga in 1925 and re-elected three years later. As governor, he was responsible for the construction of many schools, hospitals, roads and bridges. In 1931, 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 1937, Baluyut was elected governor of the province of Pampanga for a third term. He was appointed as Secretary of Labor from 1938 to 1940 while serving as governor. He became Secretary of Public Works and Communications from 1951 to 1952. He died in Manila in 1975.

George Bancroft was an American historian, statesman and Democratic politician who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national and international levels. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe, leading diplomatic missions to Britain and Germany. Among his best-known writings is History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (Aleksandr Baranof) was born in 1746 in Kargopol, St. 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.

William H. Bard was born in Genesee, Illinois. When he was sixteen, he went to the Black Hills, where he served as a courier of the U. S. Scouts under Captain Jack. In 1878, he moved to Denver, working in the freight business, driving one of the first mule trains from Denver to Leadville. He was the discoverer of the Little Florence Silver Mine, which he sold for $3,000, using the money to go to Europe; the mine was re-sold for $60,000. Returning to Chicago, he studied law, receiving his degree from Ann Arbor University. In 1897, 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. He was the first discoverer of gold in the benches of the Lower Bonanza, selling his interest for $8,000; over $500,000 in gold was later taken out of the mine. Hearing favorable reports of gold in Nome, he moved there and was named U. S. Attorney, prosecuting over 110 cases in the only court in the area at that time. In 1903, he was elected mayor of Nome. He eventually moved to Seattle, where he started the Washington-Alaska Company, a real estate firm. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 1910 where he established a law practice.

Calvin Samuel Barlow was born on the Barlow Donation Land Claim on the Columbia River. His parents were pioneers in the Cowlitz Valley, arriving in 1852. He moved to Tacoma in 1879 and became one of its leading citizens, serving in both state and city legislative positions. His first legislative term began in 1897, and he served again from his own district in 1913. 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 1892; its business was trading, building supplies and maritime commerce. He changed the name of the company to C. S. Barlow & Sons when he sold off its shipping interests. When the company was acquired by Graystone, Inc. of Seattle in 1959, it was the oldest company in Tacoma still under the original ownership.

Samuel Kimbrough Barlow, the son of William Henry Harrison Barlow and Sarah Kimbrough, was born in Nicholas County, Kentucky. He trained as a tailor and in 1818 moved to Bloomington, Indiana, where he married and started a family. Barlow was convicted of manslaughter in August 1827 for killing George Matlock with an ax on October 16, 1826 and was sentenced to one year of hard labor. Scores of people, including the victim's brother, pleaded for Barlow's pardon and quashing of his sentence since he did it to prevent harm to his wife and children. Indiana Governor James B. Ray pardoned him on December 6, 1827. In 1845, when he was 53, he moved with his family to Oregon. His party of seven wagons joined Joel Palmer's group of 23 wagons and, after considerable difficulty, blazed a wagon trail over the Cascade Range, which later was named the Barlow Road. Along the way, on October 7, 1845, Barlow made an early ascent of Mount Hood, though he did not reach the summit; he and Palmer were scouting a way for their wagon train to cross what is now Barlow Pass. In the summer of 1850, Barlow was appointed Justice of the Peace for Clackamas County by acting Governor Kintzing Prichette. On September 17, 1850, he purchased the donation land claim of Thomas McKay, which he later sold to his son William; the land eventually became the town of Barlow, Oregon, named for William. In 1854, Barlow, along with Cyrus Olney, Granville O. Haller, Thomas J. Dryer, Wells Lake, and T.O. Travailliot, were reported as making the first ascent of Mount Hood, though the report has been disputed. Sam Barlow High School in Gresham, Oregon, is named for him.

William Edward Barnard was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College. He served as president of the Territorial University of Washington from 1863 to 1866, having previously served as president of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He was also a successful lumberman. He died on the steamship Magnolia while en route from China to Japan.

Clare Louise Barnes married William J. Keating in Victor, Colorado on November 16, 1902.

John S. Barnes was born in Chickasaw, Iowa. In 1878, he homesteaded three miles from the present site of Enumclaw and worked as a farmer and lumberman. He married Julia Ramsdell in 1884.

Eric Lloyd Barr was born in Huron, South Dakota and graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1911. During World War I, he was on the first submarine to cross the Atlantic Ocean under its own power. He earned the Naval Cross during the war and retired as a captain. He established the ROTC program at the University of Washington in 1926. During World War II, he was the executive officer and head of training Naval Sciences and Tactics. 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 1949 and was an assistant professor of guidance and education at the University. He was the program chair of the Seattle Chapter of the National Vocational Guidance Association during the 1950s. In 1955, he moved to San Jose, California to teach at San Jose State University.

Jose Barrera became famous as Wild West showman "Mexican Joe". In 1897, 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 toured throughout the United States and Europe with Pawnee Bill, Buffalo Bill Cody, and the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Show. 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.

Charles A. Barrett was born in Maine. He arrived in Umatilla County, Oregon in 1872 and spent six years as an employee of J. F. Adams on Wild Horse Creek, helping drive cattle east. He married Jennie Mays in 1877; they had two children, Areta and Henry. In 1880, he arrived in Centerville, where he raised horses and sheep. In 1883, he started a hardware and implement store.

Ford Slocum Barrett was born in Oakland County, Michigan. His parents, Daniel and Louise (Woodman) Barrett were also natives of that state. Barrett came west alone in 1889, arriving in Seattle soon after the fire. After six months of study at Queen City Business College, he was hired as a stenographer at Solicitors Loan & Trust of Seattle. In 1892, he was transferred to Walla Walla, Washington where he worked for the same company as secretary to the manager until December 1893 when he was transferred to the Seattle branch as manager and traveling examiner. He was sent to Spokane in 1895 as manager for the company. In 1898, he opened a real estate and rental office, conducting general real estate, rental, loan and insurance business. His real estate operations in the Grand View, Hills, Front and Second additions contributed to the growth of Spokane. He married Minnie Ehlers on November 19, 1896; the couple had three children. He was elected president of the Northwest Real Estate Association in 1923, succeeding Albert R. Ritter.

Helen M. Barry was born in Maine. In 1870, she married Jerome N. Barry, who worked in agriculture in Olympia; they had two children, Roy and Earl.

Allan Emil F. Bartz was born in Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1877 and served in the U. S. Army from 1878 to 1880. He settled in Stanwood, Washington where he owned a hotel and candy store.

Chester A. Batchelor was born in Vernon, Indiana; his father was a circuit court judge in southern Indiana. Batchelor graduated from the University of Indiana and the Illinois College of Law. He served as prosecuting attorney of Jennings County, Indiana and practiced law there before moving to Seattle in 1909. He practiced law in Seattle from 1909 until 1919 when he became deputy prosecuting attorney. In 1926, he was appointed Justice of the Peace and in 1929 was elected to the King County Superior Court bench, serving until his death.

James Hervey Simpson Bates was born in Ohio and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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, 1913. After their marriage, they lived in Massachusetts and after 1918, at Cloverfields Farm near Olympia, Washington. Cloverfields Dairy Farm was a model dairy farm located in Olympia, Washington built by Washington State pioneer Hazard Stevens, Kate Stevens' brother. After long careers in politics and the military, Stevens returned to Olympia from Boston, Massachusetts in 1914, determined to develop a large tract of land his father purchased in the 1850s. The first commission in Olympia for architect Joseph Wohleb, the Cloverfields farmhouse still stands today at 1100 Carlyon Avenue SE. It was built in the Dutch Colonial Revival Style and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 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. In 1949, 40 acres of the Cloverfields Dairy Farm in Southeast Olympia was purchased by the Olympia School District. Today it is the location of the current Olympia High School.

Kate Stevens Bingham Bates grew up in Newport, Rhode Island, and Dorchester, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, the governor of the Washington Territory from 1853 to 1857, who later served in the U. S. Congress and as a Brigadier General in the Union Army during the Civil War. She married Edward Wingard Bingham on February 15, 1886; the couple moved to Portland, Oregon, where her husband had a home. E. W. Bingham and his brother John invented an improved horseshoe and founded the Bingham Sectional Horseshoe Company. When the horseshoe business failed, Bingham practiced law. Mrs. Bingham was a member of the Unitarian Society in Portland, prominent socially and wrote for newspapers and magazines. Edward Bingham died in 1904; on February 14, 1913, she married James H. S. Bates. After her second marriage, she and her husband lived in Massachusetts and after 1918, at Cloverfield Farms near Olympia, Washington. Her papers are at the University of Oregon Libraries in Eugene, Oregon.

Harry C. Bates was the president of the Bricklayers International Union and played a major role in the merger of AFL and CIO in 1955, serving as Chair of the Unity Committee. The Bricklayers and Allied Craftworks Union has established a scholarship in his name. He wrote Bricklayers' Century of Craftsmanship; a History of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers' International Union of America.

Alfred Battle was born in Waco, Texas and graduated from Baylor University as the valedictorian of his class. After graduating from Vanderbilt Law School, he came to Seattle in 1888 to practice law with his father, Nicholas Battle. When their office and law library were lost in the Seattle fire of 1889, he was hired by the city to assist with the litigation resulting from the fire. He was a partner in the firm of Ballinger, Ronald & Battle and was later appointed Judge in the Washington Supreme Court.

Harry C. Bauer was born in St. Louis, Mo., on July 22, 1902. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Washington University, and graduated from the St. Louis Library School in 1931. During World War II, he was a combat intelligence officer for the United States Air Force and earned a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Air Medal. Bauer was the assistant library director at the University of Washington from 1945 to 1947 and director of the library from 1947 to 1959. He then served as a professor of library science until 1967. Bauer retired from the Army Reserves as a colonel and was a Mason, a Shriner, and a member of the American Legion and Kiwanis Club.

Frank P. Baum established The San Juan Graphic in Friday Harbor, Washington in 1890. 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 Association in 1890.

Portus Baxter was born in Derby Line, Vermont and attended Tufts University. He arrived in Seattle in 1889, a few days before Washington became a state. He worked as a reporter and sports editor for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1890 to 1918; after his retirement, he was kept on the payroll at $5 per week by his replacement, Royal Brougham. 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 1914. When he died, he left the bulk of his estate to Brougham, who used it to establish a charity foundation for needy students.

Elizabeth Harpole Bayley was the wife of James Riley Bayley, whom she married in 1852. They moved to Oregon in 1855, settling in Lafayette, Oregon and later in Corvallis, Oregon.

James Riley Bayley was born in Clark County, Ohio and graduated from Ohio Medical College in 1851. He married Elizabeth Harpole in 1852, and they moved to Lafayette, Oregon in May, 1855 and later to Corvallis, Oregon. In 1856 and 1857, 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. He served as State Senator from Benton County in 1868 and 1869 and was the Supervisor of Internal Revenue from 1869 to 1873. Bayley built Ocean House, probably the first resort hotel on Oregon's coast, on the site of the current Coast Guard station in Newport. He was a 32nd Degree Mason & Grand High Priest & Grand Master of the Masonic jurisdiction of Oregon and was a prominent Odd Fellow.

Stephen Bayne was born in New York City and educated at Trinity School and Amherst College. Following his graduation from General Seminary in 1932, he remained there as fellow and tutor until 1934. He served as parish priest in St. Louis, Missouri, and Northampton, Massachusetts until his appointment in 1941 as chaplain of Columbia University and chairman of the department of religion. He remained there until 1947 except for two years on leave as a naval chaplain during World War II. In 1946 he was elected bishop of the Diocese of Olympia and served as diocesan bishop until December 31, 1959, when he resigned in order to accept appointment by the Archbishop of Canterbury as the Anglican Communion's first executive officer. He became First Vice-President of the Executive Council and director of the Overseas Department in 1964. In a reorganization of the Council in 1968, 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 1970 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 1973. He was the author of several books.

Lewis Philo Beach was born in Seneca Falls, New York and went to California in 1849. In 1861, he went to Olympia, Washington Territory where he worked as a printer. In later years, he was engaged in surveying and was Surveyor General of Washington Territory from 1872 until his death. In 1871, Beach and Governor Elisha Ferry brought the printing plant of the Puget Sound Courier from Port Townsend to Olympia. Beach, although a printer, was not a newspaperman, and F. D. Loveridge of Chicago was imported to do the editorial work. Loveridge’s management of the paper was short, and he soon returned east. Beach ran the paper for a year and then sold it to Clarence Bagley.

Luman Beach was 19 years old when he enlisted on January 1, 1865 as a private and was mustered into "B" Co. OH 186th Infantry. He was mustered out on September 18, 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee. After the war, he moved to Washington Territory where he worked as a farmer and miner.

Nellie Beach was the daughter of Alexander Lyman Beach and Sarah Jane Bonham Beach. 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. Beach was a member of the Seattle Ladies Musical Club and taught piano in Seattle for over forty years.

Rex Ellingwood Beach was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. He was born in Atwood, Michigan and grew up in Tampa, Florida where his father grew fruit trees. Beach studied at Rollins College, Florida (1891–1896), the Chicago College of Law (1896–97), and Kent College of Law, Chicago (1899–1900). In1900 he was drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His second novel The Spoilers (1906) was based on a true story of corrupt government officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, which he witnessed while he was prospecting in Nome, Alaska.. It became one of the best selling novels of 1906. It ecame a stage play and then was remade into movies five times from 1914 to 1955. His adventure novels were immensely popular throughout the early 1900s. Beach was a member of the American water polo team which won the silver medal in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis.

Alice Beals , a member of the Seattle Women's Commission in 1971, served for 27 years as an official with the Waitresses Union and its two successor organizations. She became te business agent for the union in 1951 and served on the King County Labor Council. She was the secretary-treasurer for Local 8, Hotel, Motel, Restaurant Workers and Bartenders.

Walter Burges Beals was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and attended public schools in St. Paul. He began law studies under an attorney’s supervision, but ill health prompted his move to Bellingham, Washington. Within a year, he became strong enough to work in a saw mill as a shingle weaver. In 1899, he entered the first class at the University of Washington Law School, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1901. His first law practice was in partnership with Fred Rice Power. After the latter’s death, Beals continued in solo practice. A member of the Washington National Guard from 1909, he rose from infantry private to the rank of major. He entered the U. S. Army in August 1917, serving in the judge advocate’s division. Beals spent sixteen months in France and saw action in the Meuse-Argonne offensive with the American expeditionary forces. Promoted to lieutenant colonel and decorated with the Legion of Honor by France, he became one of the founders of the American Legion. Fluent in French, he remained in Europe for several months after the armistice as a liaison office with the French government. During his career, Beals served as Seattle corporate counsel from 1923 to 1926, a King County Superior Court judge from 1926 to 1928, and as a Washington State Supreme Court judge from 1928 to 1946 and again from 1947 to 1951. He served as the chief justice of the Washington Supreme Court from 1933 to 1935 and from 1945 to 1946. From 1946 to 1947, Beals was the presiding judge at the Internal Military Tribunal I in Nuremberg, Germany, He retired in 1951.

Mary Frances Meeker was the daughter of John V. Meeker, who traveled to Washington Territory by ship in 1859 and settled in the Puyallup Valley. Mary Meeker married Clarence Bean, a civil engineer.

Charles A. Beard was one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. His works included a radical re-evaluation of the founding fathers of the United States, who he believed were motivated more by economics than by philosophical principles. Beard's most influential book, written with his wife Mary Beard, was the wide-ranging and best-selling 1927The Rise of American Civilization which had a major influence on American historians.

Joene Beattie was born in Seattle and married Samuel K. Keeland.

Charles Bebb was a prominent Seattle architect who participated in two of the city's most important partnerships, Bebb and Mendel (with Louis L. Mendel) from 1901 to 1914, and Bebb and Gould (with Carl F. Gould) from 1914 to 1939. He designed the UW campus with his partner, Carl Gould. In 1911, he was an architectural adviser to the State of Washington for the State Capitol competition and was associated with Wilder and White on this project. He was also important in the development of the architectural terra cotta industry in Washington State and was an early participant in the Washington State Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (predecessor to today's AIA Seattle Chapter). Bebb was never directly involved in architectural education, but several years after Carl F. Gould became head of the architecture program at the University of Washington, Bebb provided funds for an award for an annual student competition called the "Bebb Prize." His papers are held in UW Special Collections.

Frederick R. Bechdolt was born in Pennsylvania and attended the Universities of North Dakota and Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1896. He worked on odd jobs in the west for several years, including gold mining in Alaska, driving sled dogs, and helping drill the Cascade tunnel, before becoming a journalist in California. He later wrote fiction and non-fiction with western themes and settings, including novels, stories, fact-based collections of tales, and articles. He settled in Carmel, California.

Clarence Francis Beck, the son of Theodore and Anna Beck, married Wilda Wolfkill in 1949. He was the brother of Delores A. Beck Carsensen.

Dave Beck was an American labor leader and was president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1952 to 1957. He helped found the "Conference" system of organization in the Teamsters Union and would become a key leader of the Teamster's Union on the West Coast for some 40 years, from the late 1920s to the early 1960s. He rose to national prominence in 1957 by repeatedly invoking his right against self-incrimination before a United States Senate committee investigating labor racketeering.

Delores Amber Beck, the youngest of five children, was born in Walla Walla, Washington, on November 23, 1933. Her parents, Theodore and Anna, were in the hotel business, and the family moved frequently when she was a child. She spent part of her high school years in Seattle where she attended Ballard High School before graduating from high school in Walla Walla. She graduated from Pacific Luther University in 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Education. Delores married Richard Carstensen on May 1, 1956 shortly before Richard shipped out for the Army. The Carstensens farmed in Almira, Washington for over 40 years. She was the sister of Clarence F. Beck.

Ethel Anderson Becker was born in Bellingham, Washington and moved to Dawson, Yukon Territory with her family in 1898 when she was five. Her father, Peter B. Anderson, built the boat that the photographer, E. A. Hegg used to go into the gold fields. Hegg took over 4,000 photographs of the Gold Rush, and Becker was later instrumental in collecting and saving them. She was a writer who wrote books about the Klondike Gold Rush, including Klondike '98 (1949) which featured Hegg's photographs.

Robert M. Becker was born in New York and moved to Washington Territory. In March 1877, he married Eliza Emmeline Woodcock in King County, Washington; they later moved to Whatcom County where they had a farm.

Marvin E. Beckman graduated from University of Washington in 1953 with a degree in Political Science. He was as an officer in the United States Air Force from 1953 to 1957 and earned his J.D. from University of Washington in 1960. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the State of Washington from 1960 to 1962 and was in private practice from 1962 to 1965. During 1965 to 1966, he served as a District Court Judge in the State of Washington. In 1966, he accepted the position of General Counsel of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. He served in that capacity from 1966 to 1996, and again from 2007 to 2009.

James P. Beckwourth was an American mountain man, fur trader and explorer who played a major role in the early exploration and settlement of the American West. An African-American born into slavery in Virginia, he was freed by his father (and master) and apprenticed to a blacksmith; he later moved to the American West. As a fur trapper, he lived with the Crow Nation for years. He is credited with the discovery of Beckwourth Pass through the Sierra Nevada (U.S.) Mountains between present-day Reno, Nevada and Portola, California during the California Gold Rush years. He improved a Native American path to create what became known as the Beckwourth Trail through Plumas, Butte and Yuba counties, which thousands of settlers followed to central California. In August 1851, he led the first intact wagon train into the burgeoning Gold Rush city of Marysville, California. He narrated his life story to Thomas D. Bonner, which was published as The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians (1856).

Adam Madison Beeler was born and raised on a farm in Indiana. He worked his way through George Washington University Law School and for a time practiced in Indiana. He came to Seattle in 1906 and established the law firm of Beeler and Sullivan. Beeler served King County as a representative for three sessions in the legislature. He was appointed King County Superior Court judge in 1928 to succeed Walter Beals when the latter was named a Supreme Court justice. Beeler was elevated to the Supreme Court bench in 1930. Resigning from the Supreme Court in 1932, he formed a law partnership with John Dore, former Seattle mayor, and Louis Haven. The firm was dissolved in 1934, and Beeler was in solo practice until 1941, when he formed a partnership with Edward Merges.

Joseph Beezley, an Oregon pioneer, was born in Springfield, Ohio and later moved with his family first to Indiana and then Illinois. He married Mary Jane Barr, in 1842 and moved to Fairfield, Iowa where he was elected sheriff. In 1851, after the death of his parents, he and his wife and children set off for Oregon in the company Colonel I. R. Moores. They arrived in The Dalles October 18, 1852, after seven months of continuous travel; during the trip, one son died. The winter of 1852-53 proved very severe, and all of his cattle perished. In September, 1853, he went down to Clatsop Plains, shipped a hundred head of cattle in a boat sixty miles up the Columbia River and drove them to the Umpqua Valley. He lost his property by endorsing a note and subsequently moved to Benton County in July, 1862. After three years, he went east, moving his family in wagons across the Cascade Range to Wasco County where he bought a homestead and started raising horses and sheep. He sold his homestead in 1879 and moved his family back to The Dalles.

Mary Jane Barr, the daughter of William Wilson Barr and Mildred Carter Barr, was born in Edgar, Illinois. In 1842, she married Joseph Beezley. In 1851, following the death of his parents, the couple moved to Oregon, arriving in The Dalles in 1852 after seven months of travel.

Sarah Rumaha DeBell married Joseph H. Frost, a Methodist minister, in 1834. They were pioneer Methodist missionaries in the Oregon Territory in 1839-1843, and their first mission was amongst the Clatsop Indians near Astoria, Oregon. The Frosts helped the crew of the US Navy USS Peacock (part of the US Exploring Expedition) when it was shipwrecked near the mouth of the Columbia River on July 18, 1841 Her husband’s ministry to the Native Americans was not successful; he lamented the lack of support from the church, the isolation, and his poor health and that of Sarah. In 1843, the Frosts left Oregon to return to a ministry in New York. After Frost’s death, Sarah married Stephen R. Beggs, who was also a Methodist minister, on January 1, 1866. During her marriages, Sarah organized a number of Woman’s Foreign Missionary Societies. She lived with her nephew, Dr. E. F. DeBell, a physician on the Rosebud Reservation after the death of her second husband.

Edwin Bell was a First Lieutenant in the 8th Infantry, arriving in Rampart City, Alaska in 1898. He established Camp Rampart and paid $6,000 for a building that would serve as a barracks. He gradually assumed the lead role in governing the town, including continuing the series of public auctions of town lots and setting up a free hospital, staffed by an Army doctor. In 1899, he received orders assigning him to the Manila, Philippines. He served in the Spanish-American War and retired as a Colonel. He is buried in Arlington Cemetery.

John Bell was born in Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky. At the age of 20, he moved to Missouri with his parents where he purchased a farm and raised of tobacco. After spending five years in Missouri, he went to New Orleans for two years before returning to Missouri. In 1845, he married Sarah E. Ward, the daughter of General Thompson Ward. In 1847 he was engaged by the General to organize the regiments of Generals Donovan and Price and the battalion of Major Powell being sent to Fort Kearney for the protection of emigrants. It was in these operations that he received his military rank of colonel. In 1850, Bell crossed the plains to Oregon, leaving his family in Missouri. From Oregon he went to the goldfields of California and later conducted a packtrain from Salem to Yreka, California. He operated a store in The Dalles for one year and built the first house there before the Government forts were constructed. In 1854 he returned to Missouri to bring his family to Oregon. On his return to Oregon, he opened a general merchandise store in Salem, remaining there until 1870. After selling his business in Salem, he retired from active life until his appointment by President Cleveland as postmaster of Astoria.

Sarah E. Ward, the daughter of General Thompson Ward, married John Colgate Bell in 1845 and later emigrated with him to Oregon.

Ted Bell was born in Puyallup and graduated from Broadway High School, where his father, Anthony, was the football coach. Bell competed in track and held the city high school record for the shot put. He attended the University of Washington, where he competed in track and was on the football team. After graduation, he was a professor at the University in the Communications and Radio Education Department. He was the program director for KRSC, an early radio station that later became KING. He also had a radio show for many years, focusing on sports.

Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times. He received the Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990. On April 9, 1952, he gave a lecture on "The stature of the hero in modern fiction" at Parrington Hall on the University of Washington campus.

William Harrison Benedict was born in Bar Harbor, ME and served in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He sold cars for 16 years and operated a home improvement business for a short time. In 1961, he was hired by the National Broadcasting Company as a film editor for the “Today” show. He worked for the “Today” show and “NBC Nightly News” before retiring in 1987.

Allen Benham was born in St. Peter, Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1900 with quadruple honors in Latin, Greek, German and English. He was a high school principal for one year before receiving his Masters degree. In 1905, he was awarded a PhD in English from Yale University and joined the University of Washington the same year as the second member of the English faculty. An avid book collector, he considered his library to be an extra educational facility of the University's, often purchasing books on behalf of the UW Library. His office, in Parrington Hall (first floor, last room on the left) housed his 20,000-book collection. He gave the collection to the University on the UW's Centennial Anniversary; at the time, the collection represented 2 percent of the Library's collection.

Leta Benn, the daughter of Samuel and Martha Benn, was born in Aberdeen, Washington. She married Raymond Brasfield in 1920.

Samuel Benn was born in Ireland; his parents emigrated to the United States shortly after his birth. He worked as a carpenter in New York before sailing for the California gold fields in 1856. He and his cousin worked in the gold fields for three years before moving north. He homesteaded in the Chehalis Valley in 1859. In 1868, he traded his homestead for land that eventually became the city of Aberdeen. As more people came into the area, he gave away some of his land to encourage the building of a mill and a railroad. He also gave land to workers to encourage them to settle in the area. In 1883, he had the land surveyed, and in 1884, the town of Aberdeen was officially recorded. His papers are held in UW Special Collections.

Ceta (née Sheila) Woodland Bennett was born in Keswick, Ontario, Canada to Nelson and Lottie Bennett. She married Brackett True Munsey; they had two children. She was an actor in the early 1900s.

James Abner Bennett was born in Bracken County, Kentucky. As an adult, he moved to Missouri where he worked as a blacksmith and operated a livery stable. In 1840, he married Louisa E. R. Bane. With the news of the California Gold Rush, he went to California in 1849, returning to Missouri with the intention of moving West. On May 9, 1850, he and his wife joined a wagon train going to Oregon, arriving on October 2, 1850; he was elected the captain of the train. He and his family settled near Corvallis. He was elected senator from Benton County for the territorial legislature. He also served as assessor and sheriff. In 1865, he moved stock to Idaho to supply the mines, and he and his wife operated a dairy.

Louisa E. R. Bane was born to Baldwin and Nancy Bane in Lewis County, Kentucky. She married James Abner Bennett on June 18, 1840. In 1850, they moved to Oregon where she and her husband had a homestead. In 1864, they moved to Ada County, Idaho, where they supplied stock to the miners and established a dairy. When her husband fell ill, in 1870, she took over the operation and continued it until his death in 1885.

Nelson Bennett was born in Toronto, Canada and left fatherless at six. He quit school at fourteen to work on a farm. He emigrated to the United States during the Civil War, helping to build Army barracks and worked as a brakeman on the Dixon Air Line. He joined one his brothers in Pennsylvania where they drilled for oil, sinking twenty-seven wells before the boom tapered off. He took his small fortune west, but lost it in land speculation in Missouri and Iowa. He then taught school in Missouri, even though he had only gone through the sixth grade, fought Indians, prospected in the Dakotas and organized a mule-train freight service in the Southwest. When the copper rush in Montana began, he contracted to move a quartz mill from Ophir, Utah, to Butte, six hundred miles, on mule back, and did it. He put the profits into building Butte's first street railway and the profits from that into moving a steam sawmill into the Lost River region of Idaho. His Rocky Mountain activities brought Bennett into contact with Washington Dunn, who was building the Utah and Northern for Jay Gould. Bennett teamed up with Dunn, digging a thirty-five mile irrigation ditch in Idaho. The job required six hundred men, twelve hundred horses, and an arsenal of drilling and blasting equipment. After Dunn's death, Nelson and his brother Sidney won the contract for building the first 134 miles of the Cascade Division, Pasco to Ellensburg, before securing the Stampede Pass assignment. They completed the tunnel on May 3, 1888. When the Cascade Tunnel was completed, Nelson Bennett brought the first railroad to the Fairhaven and Sedro-Woolley areas of Washington and was the first to efficiently extract and ship coal from the area.

Theron G. Bennett was born in Chehalis and graduated from Chehalis High School. He worked as a lumberman and later as a bookkeeper.

George Benson was a popular Capitol Hill druggist and five-term member of the Seattle City Council (1974 to 1994). A native of Minnesota, Benson moved to Seattle in 1938 and earned a degree in pharmacy at the University of Washington. He served in the United States Navy during World War II and returned to Seattle to run the Mission Street Pharmacy with his wife Evelyn. Best known for spearheading the creation of the Seattle Waterfront Streetcar, Benson was a leader for mass transit, community crime programs, utility improvements, and gun control. He died at the age of 85 on October 25, 2004.

Henry Kreitzer Benson was a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Washington from 1904 to 1947. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Franklin and Marshall College in 1899 and 1902, respectively, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1907. When Benson joined the UW faculty, he was asked to design the program and curriculum for a chemical engineering department, and for this he was known as the "Father of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington." Benson was made head of chemistry in 1919 and became chief executive officer of the dual Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering between 1925 and 1947. His research interests included chemical engineering, the chemistry of soil, and work with the by-products and industrial waste of the pulp and paper industry. The Department of Chemical Engineering is now housed in a building named in Benson's honor. Author of Industrial Chemistry for Engineering Students (1913). His papers are held in UW Special Collections.

Merritt Benson was born in Kansas and graduated from the University of Washington. He also had a law degree from the University of Minnesota and an advanced degree from Stanford. He joined the UW faculty in 1931 and taught journalism for 36 years, serving as professor, assistant director and acting director in the School of Journalism. He worked at The Chicago Herald-Examiner and The Columbus Telegram. After retirement, he published The Ranger for Army personnel at Fort Lewis, Washington.

Beth Singer was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She attended the University of Minnesota and received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. She won the Hopwood Award for fiction in 1948 while continuing graduate studies in Michigan. She moved to Seattle in 1952 where she married Nelson Bentley, a professor at the University of Washington. She taught poetry in the Northwest and elsewhere for over thirty years, including at the UW from 1980 to 1992. She founded and directed the Northwest Poets Reading Series at Seattle Public Library from 1960 to 1974 and taught poetry to children in the Tacoma Public Schools, Lake Washington Schools District and at Cornish College of the Arts. Her work was widely published, and she received numerous awards. She was a fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978. Her collections includeLittle Fires and Phone Calls from the Dead which won the Washington State Governor's Award.

George Nelson Bentley was born in Elm, Michigan and studied at the University of Michigan under W. H. Auden in the 1940s. He left Michigan in 1952 to teach at the University of Washington and to work with Theodore Roethke, who was on the UW faculty at the time. Bentley taught English and poetry at the UW for 37 years, retiring in 1989. During his career he started the weekly Castalia Readings, during which students publicly read from their work; was a co-founder of Poetry Northwest and The Seattle Review; promoted the inclusion of poetry in programs on public radio and television; and was poetry editor of the Seattle Times' Pacific Magazine. He won the University of Michigan's Hopwood Awards in 1942 and 1949, the Washington State Governor's Arts Award in 1987 and the Governor's Book Award in 1967. Several of his books and hundreds of poems are still in print. He was married to Beth Bentley, who was also a poet.

Sidney Smith Benton was born in Galena, Illinois to Addison and Carlottie Benton. His father went to California in 1849 during the gold rush, and Sidney followed him in 1856. Sidney mined in California until 1861 when he moved to Nevada and became the underground foreman of the Savage Mine. He married Martha Estella Bowmer in 1863; they moved to the Colfax, Washington area in 1878 where he raised cattle and invested in property. At the time of his death he was the proprietor of the "U and I" saloon on Main Street in Colfax.

Thomas Hart Benton was a United States Senator from Missouri. A member of the Democratic Party, he was an architect and champion of westward expansion by the United States, a cause that became known as Manifest Destiny. Benton served in the Senate from 1821 to 1851, becoming the first member of that body to serve five terms. Benton's prime concern was the westward expansion of the United States. He called for the annexation of the Republic of Texas, which was accomplished in 1845. He pushed for compromise in the partition of Oregon Country with the British and supported the 1846 Oregon Treaty, which divided the territory along the 49th parallel. He also authored the first Homestead Act, which granted land to settlers willing to farm it. Though he owned slaves, Benton came to oppose the institution of slavery after the Mexican–American War, and he opposed the Compromise of 1850 as too favorable to pro-slavery interests. He pushed hard for public support of the intercontinental railway and advocated greater use of the telegraph for long-distance communication. He was also a staunch advocate of the disenfranchisement and displacement of Native Americans in favor of European settlers.

Barbara Helen Berger grew up in Seattle and worked as a painter with gallery shows in the Seattle area. She attended Yale University, 1966, and Temple University's Tyler School of Art (Rome, Italy), 1966-67, She graduated from the University of Washington with a B.F.A. in painting. In1980 she turned her focus to children’s books. She wrote and illustrated ten books and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Washington State Governor’s Writers Award in 1985 and 1991. She wroteGrandfather Twilight, and A Lot of Otters which won a 1998 PNBA Award. Berger’s personal essays and memoirs appeared in Exhibition,Crone Chronicles.Snowy EgretParabola,and in two anthologies. Her artwork has been featured at the Bainbridge Island Art Museum.

Joseph Bernard was born in France in 1875 and while a student at Jersey, England was recruited as a missionary to the Nome mission by Father De La Motte. In 1903, he arrived in the United States and worked at the St. Ignatius Mission near Missoula, Montana before being ordained a priest in 1906 at Gonzaga University. Father Bernard arrived in Nome on August 2, 1906 and after a brief training period was assigned to Mary's Igloo. From there he traveled by dog team to gold camps and Eskimo camps on the Seward Peninsula, including Nome and Teller. In 1909 he left Alaska for further studies at Canterbury, England; while there he held lectures about the Alaska Missions, using 120 glass-slides to illustrate the talks. He returned to Alaska and Mary's Igloo in 1911 and remained there until called to military duty during World War I. He served as an interpreter and orderly officer for 3 ½ years. After his discharge from the armed forces, he petitioned the Society of Jesus superiors for permission to return to Alaska; instead, he was assigned to work as a retreat master in France and Switzerland, a position he held for 32 years. His photography collection is held in the Alaska State Library.

Steven "Jessie" Bernstein was a poet, musician, playwright and performance artist who is most famous for his recordings with Sub Pop records and his close relationship with William S. Burroughs. He was born in Los Angeles, California and moved to Seattle, Washington in January 1967, where he adopted the name Jesse, and began performing and self-publishing chapbooks of his poetry. The first was Choking On Sixth in 1979. He become an icon in Seattle's underground music scene and opened for many local bands. Although known for his connection to grunge and punk rock, he saw himself primarily as a poet, and his live performances were influential. He is credited as a major influence by many local poets from his era. The concept for the album Prison was for him to do a raw, live performance at the State Penitentiary Special Offenders unit in Monroe, Washington in 1991. The album was only partially completed by the time of Bernstein's death by suicide. After his death, he was honored by a Sub Pop album and an exhibit at the Experience Music Project. His song A Little Bit Of Everything (That Brought Me Down To This) was included on the two-CD set Home Alive, the proceeds from which benefitted women's self-defense groups in the Seattle area. A documentary about him,I Am Secretly An Important Man premiered in 2010 at the Moore Theater in Seattle.

Florence Alice Baker was born in Berryville, Arkansas and moved with her parents to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. She wrote two books of juvenile fiction with his sister, Gladys Baker Bond, The Mystery at Far Reach and The Secret of Rocky Ridge.

Samuel Benjamin Best was born in Tennessee. He married Elizabeth Cline in 1867, and they moved to Washington Territory where they were early settlers and farmers in Anacortes.

Charles W. Bethel was born in Illinois and moved to Washington in 1883 where he started a farm in Harrington. In 1912, he was elected Senator for the 14th District, Lincoln County, Harrington, Washington.

Ann Elizabeth White was only 14 years old when her family came west from Wisconsin in 1851. They settled on Chambers Prairie southeast of Olympia. By 1853, Ann was employed as a school teacher in the Packwood home in the Nisqually Delta area near Olympia. She married Daniel Richardson Bigelow on June 18, 1854. She and her husband were devout Methodists and helped organize the Methodist Episcopal Church in Olympia. They were also active proponents of public education, rights for non-whites, women’s suffrage and temperance.

Daniel Richardson Bigelow was born in New York State. In 1851, two years after reading law at Harvard, he crossed the Oregon Trail. After a short stay in Portland, he traveled to the pioneer settlement of Olympia in late 1851. He soon established a law practice, filed a 160 acre Donation Land Claim east of town, and involved himself in local politics. Daniel married Ann Elizabeth White in 1854 and began married life in a two-room cabin he built on his land claim just east of downtown Olympia. Soon afterwards they built a two-story Carpenter Gothic home where they raised their eight children. Daniel was among the first settlers to call for the separation of Washington from Oregon Territory. He served as a Councilman representing Thurston County in the Washington Territorial legislature from 1854-56 and as a Representative in 1871. He also held a number of other public offices during his long career. He and Elizabeth were devout Methodists and helped organize the Methodist Episcopal Church in Olympia. They were also active proponents of public education, rights for non whites, women’s suffrage and temperance.

Isaac Newton Bigelow was born in Kingsport, Nova Scotia and moved to Seattle in 1875. He was a carpenter and contractor who started the Mechanics Mill and Lumber Company. He invested in real estate, purchasing land which he platted and sold. He built the Bigelow Block on Fourth and Pike, obtained the first street railway franchise and initiated the paving of Pike Street. He founded and was president of the Seattle Dime Savings and Loan.

Phoebe Louisa Crosby was born in Massachusetts and, with her parents, arrived in Portland, Oregon in 1850. She married George Wiley Biles, who was also the son of pioneers, in 1864. They lived in Olympia, where George was a retail merchant and the postmaster.

Judith Billings is a native of Montana, with degrees from Pacific Lutheran University, the University of New Mexico, and Seattle University School of Law. She was Washington's thirteenth Superintendent of Public Instruction, elected in 1988 and re-elected in 1992. Prior to being elected, she worked as an educator at junior and senior high schools, as well as colleges and universities. In 1979, she joined the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction as the State Director of federally funded programs for disadvantaged children. She also worked as an advisor to the US House of Representatives Education Committee in the years directly preceding her first election as Washington SPI. In her work as Superintendent of Public Instruction, she advocated for increased funding for public education and creation of support programs for high risk children. Since retiring from office in 1997, Billings has served on numerous regional and national educational organizations and has been active in HIV/AIDS-related issues. She made a comeback run for Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2004, but lost to incumbent and fellow Democrat Terry Bergeson.

William Billings was born in Vermont and left home in 1846 as a hand on a sailing ship that went around Cape Horn on its way to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). He stayed in the islands until 1849 when he learned gold had been discovered in California. He stayed a short time in California before moving north, first to Portland and then to Olympia. He joined the volunteers during the Indian War of 1855. He was elected Sheriff of Thurston County in 1860 and served until 1881. In 1877 he contracted with the Territory to build a jail at his own expense. He built his jail at Seatco, started a cooper establishment, developed a coal mine and organized the Seatco Manufacturing Company for making sash, doors and blinds. He served as Superintendent of the Puyallup Indian reservation for five years.

John Bird was born in Kentucky and joined Captain Sawyer's wagon train in May, 1847, arriving in Linn City, Oregon in October. He went to California in 1849 during the gold rush, but soon returned to Lafayette, Oregon where he farmed, kept a tin and stove store and served four years as county treasurer. A veteran of the Black Hawk war, he was a volunteer during the Indian War of 1855-56.

Torger Birkeland was born in Norway and emigrated with his parents, Ole and Olina Birkeland, to the United States while still an infant. The family homesteaded in Hood Canal, Washington in 1903. At age 11, he started working as a "whistle punk"(the person who operates a steam whistle as a means of communication during logging operations) to support his family. When he was 16, he went to work as a deck hand on a fish carrier. A turning point in his career was when he was offered a job as a cabin boy on the Hyak, part of Puget Sound's 'mosquito fleet." He worked his way up the ranks, earning a mate's license and eventually his captain's papers in 1920. His first command was the Verona of the Poulsbo Transportation Company. He retired as captain of the Evergreen State, the largest Washington State ferry at the time. After retirement, he wrote Echoes of Puget Sound: Fifty years of logging and steamboating.

James Birnie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and joined the Northwest Company in Montreal in 1818 as a as a trading clerk. In 1824, when the Northwest Company became part of the Hudson's Bay Company, he was sent to the Columbia River, where he was one of the founders of Fort Vancouver and later Fort George (now Astoria, Oregon). He married, Charlot Beaulieu, the daughter of a French voyager and a princess of the Kootenai tribe in 1838; her skill with native languages and his personality were said to have contributed to their excellent relations with local Indian tribes. Most of his appointments were in the Columbia River Valley. He settled in the valley, where he operated a trading post, and founded the village of Birnie's Retreat, in what is now Cathlamet, Washington. Birnie Island, British Columbia was named for him.

Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976, the only American to have won that prize. In 1966, she spent two semesters as poet in residence at the University of Washington.

Dirk Blaauw, a Norwegian of Dutch descent, was the editor and publisher of Tacoma Tidende, the most widely circulating Scandinavian newspaper in the Northwest at the time. The paper was a 6-column, 8-page weekly which took a conservative position in politics and was a spokesman for business; it was published from 1889 until 1899. Blaauw also had business interests in Tacoma, including owning a cannery that supplied food to the Klondike miners.

Colonel Henry Moore Black served at Fort Simcoe, Washington Territory in 1857-58 while a 1st Lieutenant in the 9th Infantry. During the American Civil War, he was on the Pacific Coast, assuming command of the Army's Fort Vancouver in 1861. He was later a Commandant of Cadets at West Point.

John Blackburn was born in England and emigrated to the United States at an early age. He lived on Vashon Island in King County, WA in the 1880s and served as postmaster.

Charles Blackfan was born in Illinois and enlisted in the 102 Regiment, Illinois Infantry on Octobrt 7, 1864, serving until July 8, 1865. After the war, he married Minnie Cook, and they moved to Sherman, Lincoln County, Washington where they had a farm.

Alanson Blackman was a prominent businessman and lumber merchant who migrated with his two brothers, Elhanan and Hyrcanus, from their native Maine to the Washington Territory in 1872, eventually settling in the county of Snohomish where they built a lumber and logging business.

Elhanan Blackman was a prominent businessman and lumber merchant who migrated with his two brothers, Alanson and Hyrcanus, from their native Maine to the Washington Territory in 1872, eventually settling in the county of Snohomish where they built a lumber and logging business. He invented the tripper shingle machine in which a carriage holding a block of cedar is tripped by a ratchet action, moving the block in and out of the saw, creating a shingle with each pass. With his brothers, he patented a geared logging locomotive in 1883.

Henry Blackman was born in New York. In 1850, his mother moved with him to San Francisco where he attended school. After marrying Fannie Heppner in 1878, he and his wife moved to Heppner, Oregon, a town founded by Fannie's brother, Henry. Blackman went into business withhis brother-in-law, later buying out his interest and starting H. Blackman & Company. He was the director of the First National Bank of Heppner, established the Park Hotel and was the first mayor of the town, serving three terms. He was elected to the Oregon Senate in 1890.

Hyrcanus Blackman was a prominent businessman, political figure and lumber merchant active in the Washington Territory. Born into a family long active in the Maine lumber industry, Hyrcanus and his two brothers, Alanson and Elhanan, migrated from their native Maine to the Washington Territory in 1872, eventually settling in the county of Snohomish where they built a lumber and logging business. He had a general store in the mid-1880s and constructed the Penobscot Hotel in 1888. He was elected to the Washington Territorial Legislature in 1878 and 1880 and was elected as the first mayor of the newly incorporated city of Snohomish in 1890. later serving as chief of police and on the school board. His home in Snohomish is now a museum.

Dighton H. Blackmar played center field for the Seattle Reds baseball club, the champions of the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington Territory and British Columbia) during the 1884 season. In the 1890s, he worked as a notary public and real estate agent.

Catharine Paine Blaine, with her husband David, came to Seattle from Seneca Falls, New York, the site of America's first women's rights convention in which she participated. She was one of the 100 signers of the historic Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions that launched the women's rights movement. The Blaines were Methodist missionaries who arrived in Seattle in 1853 via the Isthmus of Panama sea route. Catharine became Seattle's first teacher and school administrator and voted in Washington Territory in 1884. Her role as the community's first schoolteacher is remembered today in the Catharine Blaine Elementary School in Magnolia.

David Blaine and Catharine Paine Blaine were Methodist missionaries who arrived in Seattle in 1853 via the Isthmus of Panama sea route. David founded Seattle's first church, called the "Little White Church," at Second and Columbia. After the January 1856 Battle of Seattle (a conflict with Indians), the Blaines left for missionary duty in Portland. They returned to Seattle in retirement in 1882.

Elbert Blaine was an attorney and manager of the Washington Irrigation Company who was interested in the reclamation of arid land. In 1910, he and Charles L. Denny started subdividing the area in east central Seattle; it is now named Denny-Blaine for its developers.

James G. Blaine was an American Republican politician who served as United States Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Maine, and twice as Secretary of State. He was nominated for President in 1884, but was narrowly defeated by Democrat Grover Cleveland. Blaine was one of the late 19th century's leading Republicans and champion of the moderate reformist faction of the party.

Homer Blair graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in electrical engineering. He was a member of Theta Chi and the Tacoma Club while at the University. His cousin, Nathan Blair, also attended the UW. Homer invented a field telephone for use in mine rescue. Homer's son, also named Homer, had degrees in chemistry, physics and law from the University of Washington and worked in the patent, trademark, licensing and technology transfer fields; he played a significant role in the legislation that created the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Nathan Blair was the cousin of Homer O. Blair; he graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in electrical engineering.

Alice Rufie Jordan Blake was born in Michigan in 1864. She entered the University of Michigan at age 16, earning her bachelor's degree in 1884 at the age of 20. She attended the University of Michigan's law school for one year and passed the Michigan bar the following year. She decided to further her legal education, but was turned down by Columbia and Harvard because of her gender. Blake applied in person to Yale Law School. The registrar attempted to turn her away, explaining that women were not admitted. Rather than accept his answer, Blake pointed out that the school's rules stated that "Attorneys at law of any state are entitled to admission to the Senior Class without examination." Since she was an attorney in Michigan, she qualified. Following Blake's 1886 graduation, the governing body of Yale made an addendum to the school's catalog barring women from future enrollment except in programs specifically designed to include women. Yale would not graduate another woman until 1920. In 1888, she married George D. Blake, an attorney and former classmate. They moved to Seattle, where she served as the second president of the Women's Century Club.

Bruce Blake was born in Danville, Indiana; his family moved to Spokane, Washington in 1888. He attended the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan and was admitted to the Washington State bar in 1905. He began his law practice in Spokane. Blake served as assistance corporate counsel and as a municipal police judge. In 1912 he was elected as a Washington Superior Court judge at the age of 31, then the youngest person ever elected to that office. He was re-elected in 1916 and 1920, and in 1932 was elected to the State Supreme Court. He served on the Supreme Court bench until his retirement in 1946.

Nelson Gales Blalock was born in North Carolina and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1861. He served as regimental surgeon for the 115th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. After the war, he practiced medicine in Illinois before moving to Walla Walla in 1872. He continued to practice medicine while cultivating land, growing fruit and grain. He was the surgeon for the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, served as Mayor of Walla Walla, was a member of the State Constitutional Committee and served as director of Whitman College. In 1892, he donated 40 acres to the Seventh Day Adventist Church for the establishment of a school in College Place. The Blalock Islands and Blalock Canyon along the Columbia River are named for him. He purchased Blalock Island in 1899, built a pumping plant on the southeastern shore to be used for irrigation and planted extensive orchards on the island. Downstream of the Blalock Islands is Blalock Canyon, a location which .he had hoped to develop into another agricultural center. Today the original large "Blalock Island" is under the waters of Lake Umatilla, the reservoir behind the John Day Dam, and only small islands, now known as "Blalock Islands," are left.

Augustin Magloire Blanchet was born in the village of St. Pierre Riviere de Sud, in present-day Quebec. The younger brother of François Norbert Blanchet, Augustin Blanchet studied at Le Petit Séminaire de Québec and then at the Grand Seminary of Quebec. He was ordained to the priesthood on 3 June 1821 in the Archdiocese of Quebec and held several church positions in Quebec and Nova Scotia, mainly around the Montreal area. On 28 July 1846, while a canon in Montreal, Blanchet was appointed bishop of the new Diocese of Walla Walla in the Oregon Country (now in the U.S. state of Washington) where he served as the first bishop. On 31 May 1850, the Holy See under Pope Pius IX established the Diocese of Nesqually (later spelled "Nisqually"), with its episcopal see in Vancouver in what was by then known as the Oregon Territory, and named Blanchet bishop of the new diocese. Three years later, the Walla Walla diocese was completely eliminated and much of its territory transferred to the new Nesqually diocese (now known as the Archdiocese of Seattle). Along with his elder brother and several other fellow French Canadian missionaries, Blanchet was instrumental in establishing the Catholic Church presence in the present-day U.S. state of Washington. On January 2, 1848, he ordained Oblate Missionaries Eugene Casmire Chirouse and Charles M. Pandosy as Catholic priests at Fort Walla Walla, the first Catholic ordination in the Washington Territory. Bishop Blanchet High School in Seattle is named for him.

François Norbert Blanchet was born near Saint-Pierre, Rivière du Sud in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec). Along with his younger brother Augustin-Magloire Blanchet, he entered the Seminary of Quebec and was ordained a priest in 1819. Blanchet spent a year working at the cathedral in Quebec before being sent to do missionary work with the Micmac and Acadian people in present-day New Brunswick. In 1827 he was summoned back to Montreal and became a pastor. In the 1830s, French Canadian Catholic employees of the Hudson's Bay Company petitioned the bishop in their native Quebec to send priests to what was then known as the Oregon Country. Blanchet was appointed the Vicar General of the Oregon Country and left Quebec on May 3, 1838. Blanchet was selected to help draft the laws of a new government in Oregon at a February 18, 1841, meeting; two years later these meetings would culminate in the formation of the Provisional Government of Oregon. On December 1, 1843, the Vatican under Pope Gregory XVI established the Vicariate Apostolic of the Oregon Territory, and named Blanchet its vicar apostolic. Then on July 24, 1846, the Vatican under Pope Pius IX divided the vicariate apostolic into three dioceses: Oregon City, Vancouver Island, and Walla Walla. Blanchet was named bishop of Oregon City, and his brother, Augustin Blanchet, bishop of Walla Walla. The Diocese of Oregon City was elevated to an archdiocese on July 29, 1850, and François Blanchet was elevated to archbishop. He was instrumental in establishing the Catholic Church presence in the Pacific Northwest. Blanchet Catholic School in Salem, Oregon is named for him.

Alden Blethen was born in rural (Knox County) Maine. He first became a schoolteacher and then a lawyer. At age 34, he moved his family to Kansas City and purchased part interest in the Kansas City Journal. He then moved to Minneapolis and became part owner of the Minneapolis Tribune. For the next 12 years, he operated the paper successfully and began to be called "Colonel," an appellation he preferred for the rest of his life. In 1896, a newspaper known as The Seattle Daily Times published an item announcing Blethen's trip to the area to visit relatives. Three weeks later, he bought the paper, which he quickly renamed The Seattle Evening Times and went to work introducing an element of drama in news coverage that helped the paper to increase circulation. After his death in 1913, the Blethen family continued to run the newspaper, now called The Seattle Times.

Percy Pratt Bliss was born in Ionia, Michigan. In 1891, his family moved to Anacortes, WA. He was clerk of the Board of King County Commissioners in 1912 and was later a land appraiser for the King County Assessors Office. In 1934, he went to work in the King County Sheriff's office, retiring as deputy sheriff in 1950, having served 40 years as a King County employee. He gained fame for a long distance chess game with King Abdullah of Jordan; the match was carried on by mail and lasted three years. He married Mary Ellen Amsberry of Anacortes in 1908.

Lucienne Bloch was a Switzerland-born American artist. She was best known for her murals and for her association with the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, for whom she produced the only existing photographs of Rivera's mural Man at the Crossroads, painted in 1933 and destroyed in January 1934 at Rockefeller Center in New York City. From 1935 to 1939, Bloch was employed by the WPA/FAP (Works Progress Administration/Federal Arts Project). She also worked free-lance as a photographer for Life Magazine , recording the desperate conditions of autoworkers during labor strikes and protests that occurred throughout the U.S. during the formation of automobile workers unions. She created nearly 50 murals across the United States for religious institutions, schools, hospitals, and businesses.

Bloody Knife (Sioux: Tamena Way Way or Tamina WeWe; Arikara: Nes I Ri Pat or Nee si Ra Pat) was a Native American who served as a scout and guide for the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment. He was the favorite scout of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and died during the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

MarjorieC. Bloyd, the daughter of Leander and Sarah Bloyd, was born in California. She was a student at the State Normal School in Cheney, Washington. She attended one year of college in Walla Walla, Washington before marrying Francis Clyde Fender on June 20, 1916 and moving to Prescott, Washington with her husband. She later moved to Seattle where she worked in sales for MacDougall's Department Store. She married Harold W. Boehme, a motion picture salesman, in 1955.

Lois A. Whitcomb was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and moved with her family by ox team to Iowa in 1851. The family later moved to Nebraska and then to Colorado, where she married Edward A. Boblett. In November, 1869, they left Prescott, Arizona on a government train for California and then traveled by boat to Seattle. In 1870, they arrived in Semiahmoo on the steamer Libby.The couple homesteaded where Blaine, Washington now stands; Boblett Street was named for them. In 1922, she wrote a memoir, A Fair Distance.

William Edward Boeing was an American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company in 1916. He was posthumously inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio, in 1966 and into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in 1984.

Harry W. Boetzkes was born in Wurzburg, Germany and moved to the United States at an early age. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1902 with a degree in civil engineering. While at the University, he was on the track team and in student government. After graduatioin, he worked on irrigation, highway and extracting projects in the Northwest. During World War I, he served as a captain with the U. S. Engineers in France and the Balkens. He served on a mission for the Romanian Government in 1919, working with the Romanian Bridge Commission, and on post-war recovery in Warsaw, Poland.

Virgil Bogue was born in Canton, St. Lawrence, N. Y. and graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1868. One of the foremost planners and developers of the time, he was hired in 1911 by Seattle planners to design a "city for the future" which could be occupied by one million people. His designs included harbor development, parks, rapid rail transportation and a downtown civic center to be located in the Denny Regrade area. The civic center was based on a European city model and would have provided an open mall surrounded by government buildings, museums and libraries, connected to the rest of the city by wide boulevards. He warned against tall buildings that would make the city streets too dark and also against building any roadway that would cut off the city from the waterfront. Put to a vote, the plan was defeated. He also planned the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad through the Cascade Mountains to Tacoma and completion of the line from Portland to Tacoma. He constructed the trans-Andean railway system in Peru and solved the problem of bringing water to San Francisco from the Hetch Hetchy Valley.

William Bolcom was born in Seattle, Washington. At the age of 11, he entered the University of Washington to study composition privately with George Frederick McKay and John Verrall and piano with Madame Berthe Poncy Jacobson. He later studied with Darius Milhaud. While at the Paris Conservatoire, he received the 2ème Prix de Composition. Bolcom won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1988, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. He taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973 until 2008.

Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and of her execution by beheading for treason and other charges made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation.

Walter A. Bolinger was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas and came to Washington State in 1889. He was an apple orchardist in the Methow Valley.

Thomas (Tom) Bolles graduated from the University of Washington in 1926. He rowed for the UW 1924 to 1926 and later was the coach of the UW freshman crew, coaching them to four national freshman titles. His last year of coaching at the UW was 1936, the year the UW Crew won Olympic gold. After the Olympics he accepted the head coaching position at Harvard. He coached there until retirement in 1951 and is credited with the resurgence of the Harvard program; his crews won the Harvard-Yale race in all but two of the years he coached. After retirement from coaching, he was Director of Athletics for Harvard until 1963.

George Melville Bolling was born in Baltimore, MD and educated at Loyola College in Baltimore and Johns Hopkins. After graduation, he taught Greek Languages and Literature as well as Sanskrit at Ohio State University until his retirement in 1943. He was one of the founders of the Linguistic Society of America and was its editor during the first fifteen years of its existence. He served as president of the society in 1930. He wrote several books, includingIlias Atheniensium. In 1920, the Greek government awarded him the Cross of Gold of the Knights of the Redeemer. His papers are held at the State Historical Society of Missouri.

Frederick Elmer Bolton grew up on a small frontier farm near Tomah in southern Wisconsin. He became interested in education early in his life and worked as a teacher, principle or superintendent for various two room schools, high schools, and normal schools in Wisconsin. Later he served as dean of the College of Education at the University of Iowa. In 1912, Bolton moved to Seattle, where he was the dean of the College of Education at the University of Washington. Bolton authored or co-authored a number of books including The Beginning Superintendent and History of Education in Washington. During his career, Bolton was active in the Progressive Movement. He was a strong advocate for the development of junior colleges in Washington State and played a key role in the organization and success of the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools. His collection of photographs of public schools and school buses is held at the University of Washington Special Collections.

Gladys Baker Bond was born in Berryville, Arkansas; her childhood years were spent in the Ozarks of Arkansas. On September 2, 1934, she married Floyd James Bond and had one son, Nicholas Peter. She lived in Idaho and Washington all of her adult life and was an officer of the Idaho Writers League between 1952 and 1954. Bond's books for children cover a wide range of subjects and are often autobiographical. She wrote under the pseudonyms Jo Mendel (The Tucker series) and Holly Beth Walker (the Meg series), as well as her own name. She is credited with writing The Mystery of the Uninvited Guest (1977), The Mystery of the Castaway Children (1978), and The Sasquatch Mystery (1979).

Born in Franklin, Indiana, Bone and his family moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1899. He attended Tacoma Law School and was admitted to the Bar in 1911. He specialized in labor law and served as an assistant special prosecutor for Pierce County in 1912, as the Corporate Counsel for the Port of Tacoma from 1918 to 1932, and as an attorney for Tacoma City Light. Bone ran unsuccessfully for prosecuting attorney and Mayor of Tacoma as a Socialist, and for the Third District Congressional seat as a Farmer-Labor candidate. In 1922 he served in the Washington State House, where he advocated for the ability of local government to form public utility districts. In 1928, Bone again ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a Republican. In 1932, he won election to the United States Senate, this time as a Democrat, and served from 1933-1944. He continued his advocacy for public owned power and other progressive causes, supporting creation of the Bonneville Dam and the Grand Coulee Dam. Bone, along with Senator Matthew Neely and Representative Warren Magnuson, wrote the legislation which created the National Cancer Institute. On April 1, 1944, Bone was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 1, 1944, and received his commission the same day. He returned to the private practice of law in San Francisco, California, from 1956 to 1968. His cousin was the Governor of Alaska, Scott C. Bone.

Hugh Bone was born in Illinois and earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University; he taught there and at the University of Maryland before joining the UW faculty in 1948. Adviser to politicians such as Washington Governor Dan Evans, he lectured at universities throughout the United States and wrote several books including Smear Politics: Analysis of 1940 Campaign Literatureand American Politics and the Party System. He was the chairman of the University of Washington Political Science department from 1959 until 1968.

Scott C. Bone was the third Territorial Governor of Alaska, serving from 1921 to 1925, appointed by President Warren G. Harding. It was Governor Bone who ordered a relay of dog teams to transport diphtheria antitoxin to Nome in 1925 to thwart a threatened epidemic, a mission now memorialized by the Iditarod sled dog race. He belonged to numerous organizations and held many positions, including chairman of the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention, member (and at one time president of) the Gridiron Club, member of the National Press Association, director of publicity for the Republican National Committee, life member of the Red Cross, and the Decorated Order of Sacred Treasure of Japan. He was the editor of the Washington Post, founded the Washington Herald and later was the editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. His cousin was Senator and later Judge Homer Truett Bone.

Born in China as Sing Deuh, Ah Fuh/Fur, or Qui Fah, Mary Bong was also known as "China Mary." She came to America at age nine, first landing in Victoria, B.C. where she met her first husband, Ah Bong. He owned the Sang Wo Bakery and Restaurant in Sitka, Alaska. She learned to speak both English and Tlingit and acted as a midwife for women in Sitka. After the death of her first husband, she married Sing Lee and worked in his laundry. In 1909, having divorced Lee, she married Fred Johnson and worked with him in a variety of occupations including dairy farming, fox farming, prospecting and fishing. She was the first woman troller in the area, earning the reputation for good catches, even in stormy weather. After Johnson died, she worked as the matron of the federal jail in Sitka.

Don Bonker is an American former congressman for the state of Washington and a Democrat. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1989, representing Washington's third Congressional district. He did not run for reelection in 1988 so he could run for nomination to the United States Senate, where he narrowly lost in the primary to Democrat Mike Lowry, who was defeated in the general election by Republican Slade Gorton. During his time in the House, Bonker was a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and chairman of the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade. He also served on the President's Export Council and headed former House Speaker Tip O'Neill's Trade Task Force, which led to passage of the 1988 Omnibus Trade Act. During his tenure in Congress, Bonker authored and was a principal sponsor of significant trade legislation, such as the Export Trading Company Act and the Export Administration Act. He helped establish the Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge and the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, added Protection Island to the National Wildlife Refuge system, preserved the Point of Arches in the Olympic National Park, added 250,000 acres to the 1984 Washington Wilderness Act, and banned the export of Western red cedar. Bonker is now the president and CEO of the International Management and Development Institute, on the board of the Foundation for U.S.-Russia Business Cooperation, and is executive vice president of APCO Worldwide. He is the author of America's Trade Crisisand is a writer and speaker on U.S. trade policy. His monthly column on trade policy appears in a number of newspapers around the country.

Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville was a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West. He is noted for his expeditions to the Oregon Country and the Great Basin, and in particular for blazing portions of the Oregon Trail. During his lifetime, Bonneville was made famous by an account of his explorations in the west written by Washington Irving, The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, published in 1837. Bonneville Salt Flats and Bonneville Dam are named for him.

Lyman Walter Bonney was born in Iowa and in 1852, crossed the plains by ox team with his family. The family went first to Salem, Oregon and later settled near Steilacoom, Washington. Bonney left home in 1859, working as a carpenter and eventually owning a sash and door factory in Idaho. After selling that business, he went to San Francisco where he traded in mining stocks. He returned to Seattle in 1880 and purchased an interest in a cabinet shop and undertaking business that O. C. Shorey, his brother-in-law, had started in 1868. Shorey's interest was eventually purchased by George Stewart; when Stewart became Seattle's postmaster, Bonney brought in Henry Watson to manage the business. Watson was made a partner, and the firm became Bonney-Watson Company, one of Seattle's oldest businesses.

William Pierce Bonney was born in Steliacoom, Washington. His father had crossed the plains by ox team in 1852, arriving first in Salem, Oregon and then moving to Steilacoom. During the trip west, Sherwood Bonney's wife, Elizabeth, his son, Alvin, and his brother, Timothy, died. In 1853, Sherwood married his sister-in-law Lydia; William's half-brother was Lyman Bonney. William Bonney was active in Tacoma business and civic affairs. He was a member of the first Tacoma Council in 1884 and established a drugstore on Pacific Avenue and Eighth Street. He was the Secretary of the Washington State Historical Society for many years.

George Boole was born in Massachusetts. He was president of Western Hardware and Metal Company and was on the executive committee of the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition in 1909. He gained control of the Seattle Post-Intelligencershortly before its sale to the Hearst Corporation in 1919.

John Arthur Boose was a soapbox speaker and an IWW leader in both Duluth, Minnesota and Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1922, he was convicted under the Espionage Act and sentenced to five years in prison at Leavenworth, Kansas.

Laurence S. Booth was born at Battle Creek, Michigan and came to the Northwest with his parents at the age of 2. He attended the University of Washington. At the age of 26, he became a partner in the pioneer abstract firm of Booth & Briscoe, which in the course of the years became successively the Booth & Hanford Abstract Co., the Booth Whitlesey Hanford Abstract Co. and finally the Washington Title Insurance Co., with statewide subsidiary companies. He was president and chairman of the Board of the latter company. He was a trustee of the Seattle Community Fund from its inception, Deputy Auditor of King County from 1880 to 1887, a member of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, the Seattle Real Estate Board, the Northwest Real Estate Board, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the Municipal League, a former President of the National Association of Title Men and a former Chairman of the State Taxation Committee of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. He was also a member of the first amateur baseball organization in Seattle, the first athletic association and the first association for protection of game, the old Volunteer Fire Department and the National Guard, in which he was a Commander of Company B of the 1st Regiment. He was one of the two or three men who first purposed the $40 million tax limitation. He was the grandfather of Washington Governor (1985-1993) Booth Gardner.

William Borah was a prominent Republican attorney and longtime United States Senator from Idaho, noted for his oratorical skills and isolationist views. Progressive, independent, and often outspoken, he was known as "The Lion of Idaho." He was in office from 1907 until his death in 1940.

Thomas Bordeaux was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and moved to Washington State in 1875. He was active in developing the Northwest lumber industry, and with his brother Joseph, was the founder of the Mason County Logging Company and the Mumby Lumber and Shingle Company. He was also the vice-president of the Washington Forest Fire Association. The town of Bordeaux, a community southwest of Olympia in southwest Thurston County, was named for him and his brother. The town, established in 1900, was once a logging and sawmill town, but suffered from the depletion of local timber resources. During Bordeaux's boom between World War I and 1930, it had two hotels, school, numerous saloons, banks, and large residential area. In addition to the town of Bordeaux, the brothers also owned a twin timber town across the hills south of McCleary at Malone. The employment in both towns shrank throughout the 1930s with each closing within a few years of each other.

Jeremiah W. Borst was born and raised in Tioga County, New York. He traveled west by ox team in 1850 to seek gold in California. Finding gold, he used it to rent a farm near Sacramento. By 1858, he had made $8,000 from raising barley and decided to move north to Seattle. He settled in what was left of Fort Alden, a blockhouse that had been abandoned the previous year where the towns of Snoqualmie and North Bend are today. He was the first permanent non-Native American settler in the area. He planted an orchard, raised onions and potatoes, grazed cattle, and eventually went into hop farming. In 1865, Borst accompanied Seattle pioneer Arthur Denny, William Perkins and a guide from the Snoqualmie tribe on an exploration trip where they made a plan to widen the trail and create a wagon road through Snoqualmie Pass. In 1868, he took charge of building the first road through the pass. Sometime in the mid-1880s, Borst and his wife, Kate, moved to Fall City where he hired B.C. Majors to survey and plat the town of Fall City, anticipating the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad coming through the property. The plat was recorded in 1887; however, to Borst's disappointment, the railroad missed the town by a mile when the tracks finally arrived in 1889. He operated the trading post nearest to the pass and owned almost all the land in the prairie. Eager to have more people move into the valley, he aided many of them financially. He paid the salaries of the first schoolteachers, and later served on the first school board. He also served two terms as King County commissioner. He is considered to be the father of the Snoqualmie Valley.

Joseph Borst was born in New York State. He came west in an ox team train when he was 25, following the Oregon Trail to Oregon City where he wintered. In the spring of 1846, he continued his journey to the Puget Sound country in Washington, where he was among the very first settlers of what is now Centralia, Lewis County. In November 1846, he registered his donation land claim of 320 acres on the north side of the Chehalis River and prepared the land for crops. On October 15, 1854, he married Mary Adeline Roundtree whose father was a doctor and the doorkeeper of the Washington Territory's first House of Representatives. They lived first in a small cabin and later in a blockhouse that Joseph built during the Indian Wars of 1855-56. In 1860, Joseph began construction of a new home; at the time the house and barn were completed, Joseph said that they were so well built, they would last for 80 years. The house is still standing and open to the public. He was a successful farmer and stock-raiser, also owning a ranch in Ellensburg, Eastern Washington, which he devoted to cattle growing.

Mary Adeline Roundtree was born in Illinois, the daughter of Dr. James N. Roundtree. In 1852, he brought his family across the plains to Lewis County, Washington Territory where he was a pioneer physician and surgeon. She married James Brost on October 15, 1854; they had eight children. Both she and her husband were among the earliest settlers of the Chehalis River area; their home in Centralia still stands and is open to the public.

Frank Borzone (Berzone) was born in Italy. He married Louisa Mortola in 1870; the couple came to Washington in 1883, settling first in Port Ludlow and then in Seattle. Borzone was a carpenter and shipwright. In 1902, he presented a petition to the Ballard (WA) Council for a franchise to build and maintain a toll bridge across Salmon Bay. After his wife died in 1923, he married Viktoria Newman in 1925.

Louisa Mortola, the daugher of Philip Mortola and Rosa Magnasco Mortola, was born in Genoa, Italy. She married Frank Borzone in Italy. The couple came to Washington in 1883, settling first in Port Ludlow and then in Seattle.

John Bossard, a native of Switzerland, lived in Newport, Kentucky before moving to Happy Valley, near what is now Redmond, Washington. He was known as a silversmith and orchardist and had a farm in Happy Valley. He was married to Eliza Watkins.

Edward Everett Bostetter was born in Hagerstown, MD and graduated from Franklin and Marshall College. He received his M.A. in 1937 and his Ph.D. in 1938, both from Princeton. He taught at the University of Minnesota before coming to the University of Washington in 1940 where he was an English professor specializing in Romantic Literature. He wrote The Romantic Ventriloquists: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron and edited Twentieth Century Interpretations of Don Juan. His papers are held in UW Special Collections.

Gladys R. Boughton received her B.A. from the University of Denver. She taught cataloging and classification at the University of Washington before being appointment acting director of the UW School of Librarianship in 1950. She later became director before resigning in 1955 to devote herself to research.

Father John Baptiste Boulet arrived in Washington on October 15, 1864. In 1878, he succeeded Father Chirouse at the St. Paul Mission where he served the Lummi and Nooksack people in the Puget Sound region for 40 years. He brought a printing press with him and printed many items in the Snohomish and English languages. He built the Church of the Assumption in Bellingham in 1890 and also traveled from Bellingham to outlying areas to provide care and instruction to families.

Rollo Preston Bourbon was the commanding officer of the 50th General Hospital from September 1, 1942 until August 1, 1945. The 50th General Hospital, officially activated on September 4, 1942, was comprised largely of volunteer physicians and nurses from Seattle. In World War II, the 50th General operated a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, and then was chosen to follow in the invasion of Normandy. The expedition included 68 doctors, 105 nurses and about 500 enlisted personnel.

Frazier Augustus Boutelle served in the US Army for 57 years, fighting in the Civil War and the Indian Wars and working as a recruiter in World War I. He was born in Troy, New York; the family relocated to northern California in the 1850s. His military career began on June 4, 1861 when he enlisted as one of the first volunteers of the 5th New York Cavalry, Company A. He served at Antietam, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Wilderness, Gettysburg, and the Second Battle of Bull Run and was on the staff of Gen. J. H. Wilson, under Gen. Philip Sheridan; he mustered out on July 19, 1865. On February 12, 1866, he re-enlisted as a private in the regular Army and was sent to the West to join the First Cavalry's Company F. By November, he was at Fort Boise, Idaho at the beginning of Crook's Winter Campaign. He served in the Indian Wars and the Modoc War. A scuffle with Scarface Charley precipitated the Battle of Lost River subsequently gained him a brevet promotion and a citation for distinguished service. He was also given a medal during the Nez Perce conflict. He retired Aug. 27, 1895. In June 1889 he was appointed acting superintendent of Yellowstone National Park which was initially run by civilians. The Army took over management in 1886, establishing Fort Yellowstone at Mammoth Hot Springs and developing systems for conservation and resource management that served as foundations for the National Park Service. Boutelle supported the conservation of bison, advocated stocking streams to maintain fish populations, insisted that travelers use established campgrounds, and developed a system for rapid and effective response to fires, which at that point were primarily caused by park visitors. He gained recognition in conservation circles for his advocacy of protection for wildlife, landscape, and natural features. His demands for more resources for firefighting caused Secretary of the Interior John Willock Noble to dismiss him from the superintendent's post. He returned to service with the 1st Cavalry's Company K, retired from the Army a second time on Aug. 27, 1895 and immediately took up work with the Washington National Guard. In 1896 Gov. John H. McGraw appointed Boutelle to head the Guard as Adjutant-General, with the rank of brigadier general. Boutelle developed a streamlined reporting system, among other efficiencies, and coped with a Sand Island incursion of armed Oregon fishermen. Adjutant-General had previously been an elected post, and political turmoil ended Boutelle's term in January 1897. Boutelle returned to duty in 1905 as a recruiting officer and was active at the Seattle office during World War I, the oldest serving officer of his time. When the office closed in 1919, he retired from military service for the third and final time. His papers are housed at the University of Oregon Libraries' Special Collections & University Archives.

John Clyde Bowen was born in Newbern, Tennessee and graduated from the University of Tennessee and Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar in Tennessee in 1961, in Hawaii in 1917 and in Washington in 1919. He served in the Army as a 2nd lieutenant during World War I. Bowen was named to the Washington State Senate in 1931 and then became a legal advisor to Governor Clarence Martin in 1933. From 1933 to 1934, he was a member of the Columbia River Basin Commission which promoted the Grand Coulee Dam project. He also served as a Collector, Internal Revenue for Washington and Alaska before President Roosevelt appointed him a U. S. District Court judge in 1934. He was chief justice from 1939 to 1959 and took senior judge status in 1961.

Peter Bowers was an aeronautical engineer with Boeing in Seattle as well as a journalist specializing in the field of aviation. He was known in the general aviation community for his work with General Aviation Newswith over 800 articles detailing historic aircraft for a column called Of Wings and Things. He served as a contributing editor for Sentry Publications' twin magazine titles Wings and Airpower, drawing on a lifetime of aviation photographs of his own, and of a vast archive collected through his employment at Boeing. Commissioned in 1943, he was eventually assigned to the China/Burma/India theater as a maintenance officer; by the end of the war, his abilities to photograph and categorize aircraft led to his being placed in charge of the U.S. Army Aircraft Recognition Program. After leaving the Army in 1947, he was hired as an engineer by the Boeing Company in Seattle and remained with Boeing until his retirement in 1988. He was an avid aviation photographer and a designer of home-built aircraft such as the Fly Baby, a single-seat light aircraft, and Namu II, a single-engine two-seat recreational aircraft. He redesigned a 1918 Fokker D.VII monoplane in association with Rheinhold Platz, the original designer with a view to starting a replica building program. He built a full-scale Fokker Triplane replicas well as a full-scale replica of the Wright Model EX of 1911, the first airplane to cross the American continent. He published 26 books, including Guide to Homebuilts, Unconventional Aircraft, Guide to Aviation Photography, and Boeing Aircraft Since 1916. He was inducted into the EAA Homebuilder's Hall of Fame in November, 2004. His photographs are held at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.

Wilson Bowlby was born in New Hampton, New Jersey. He went to Cincinnati to attend medical lectures at the Eclectic Institution and began practicing medicine in Fairfield, Indiana in 1845. In 1852, he went to Oregon, first to Portland and later to Hillsboro, where he lived until 1860. In 1860, he moved to Forest Grove to continue his medical practice. From 1869 to 1873, he was collector of internal revenue, with his residence at Portland. He was a member of the last territorial as well as the first state legislature. He served in the lower House for four terms and in the Senate for one term, where he was chosen presiding officer. During the Civil War, he served as examining surgeon.

Henry Bowman, one of the earliest settlers of Umatilla County, was born in Tyler County, Virginia. In 1860, he traveled to Oregon in a train of thirty-six wagons. Arriving in Umatilla Country, he selected a place on Birch Creek, ten miles south of the present site of Pendleton and began stock-raising. He later moved to Pendleton where he had a livery stable.

Angus Livingston Bowmer was born in Bellingham, Washington, the only child of Charles C. Bowmer and Florence "Flora" Priest. He moved with his family at least twice, living in Mount Vernon, Washington and Oak Harbor, Washington. He graduated from the Washington State Normal School at Bellingham (now Western Washington University) in 1923. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle in the 1930s, acting in at least two Shakespeare productions under guest director Ben Iden Payne. Payne was an Englishman whose ideas for neo-Elizabethan staging of Shakespeare’s plays provided inspiration later in Bowmer's life when he began producing the plays that became the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In 1931, Bowmer was invited to become an instructor in English at Southern Oregon Normal School, a predecessor to Southern Oregon University, in Ashland, Oregon. He organized theater activities in Ashland and continued teaching at the college until he retired in 1971. Bowmer remained active in the festival until his death in 1979.

Brian Boyle received a Bachelor of Science degree from Montana School of Mines and an MBA from the University of Portland and worked as a supervising engineer and metallurgist in the metals industry. He was elected Commissioner of Public Lands in 1980, serving until 1993. During his tenure, the agency imposed tough restrictions on logging, setting aside 40,000 acres as natural preserves. In 1989, he established the DNR Natural Resources Conservation Area program and designated Cypress Island as one of the first in the program. Until then, most of the island was privately owned, and over half the total acreage slated for development as a resort. Through his efforts, the state purchased the land from the developer, bringing state ownership to 4,700 acres. He took strong stands in favor of log exports and mixed forest uses and attempted to negotiate a reasonable compromise in the spotted owl controversy. Prior to his election, he was executive director of the Pacific Innovations Group and chairman of the Cowlitz County Commissioners. After leaving office, Boyle was a visiting professor at the University of Washington and directed a study on the future of the U.S. Forest Service.

Mary Ebey was born in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Jacob and Sarah Ebey. The Ebeys were among the first settlers on Whidbey Island, arriving in 1854. She married Thomas S. Wright on September 25, 1842 and divorced him on February 13, 1857; they had two children, Polk and Almira. In 1858, she married Urban E. Bozarth. In 1868, county commissioners approached her about using her family's burial ground overlooking Ebey's Prairie for their first public cemetery, and Bozarth agreed. On April 6, 1869, she sold the one and a quarter acre plot to Island County for $1.00. The county records referred to the burying ground as the "County Grave Yard on the Hill," later renamed Sunnyside Cemetery, where Bozarth and the rest of her family are buried.

George Brackett was born and raised in eastern Canada, where his father was a logger. He left home in his late teens and over the next decade logged timber in New Brunswick and then in Wisconsin. In 1869 he headed farther west, staying briefly in San Francisco before moving to Washington Territory where he and his brother logged at several locations around Puget Sound. Together they established a logging camp in Ballard, and Brackett also secured a land claim at La Conner. Searching out new stands of timber, he rowed along the eastern shore of Puget Sound and was attracted by the site that became Edmonds. In 1876, he purchased acreage and moved there; meanwhile he logged an area along the Sammamish River at a spot still called Brackett's Landing in present-day Bothell. In 1880 he established the first store in Edmonds and four years later the settlement acquired a post office, with Brackett as postmaster. After Edmonds' incorporation in 1890, he became the first mayor. He operated a mill and a wharf and maintained several businesses in Edmonds. He donated property for a school after classes were originally held in his barn. He served several terms on the city council, the last one a few years before he died in 1927.

Clement Adams Bradbury was born in Maine and worked in the woods from the age of thirteen. When he was twenty-five, he went to sea aboard a whaler; on his second cruise, the ship ran aground on Bering Island. The crew was rescued by a ship bound for the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii), where he found a ship headed for the Columbia River. He reached the Columbia in December, 1846 and found employment at a mill on the Oregon side of the Columbia opposite Cathlamet. In 1848 he went to California to look for gold; he returned to Oregon in 1851 where he was the first permanent settler on the middle portion of the Lower Columbia below Sauvie’s Island and above Astoria. Bradbury Slough and the one-time railroad station of Bradbury (later re-named Locoda) are named for him.

James Bradford was born in Rochester, Minnessota and graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School. He moved to Seattle in 1900 and was employed as the assistant in the office of the Corporation Counsel for Seattle. He was appointed in 1911 to fill the unexpired term of Seattle Corporation Counsel Scott Calhoun, who had resigned. He was subsequently elected to the position in the municipal election and served from 1912-1916. In 1916 he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor on the Progressive ticket; in early 1918, he ran for the office of Seattle Mayor and lost to Ole Hanson. From 1928-1933 he served as the counsel for the Port of Seattle. Bradford was later the state director of the National Emergency Council, the Federal Housing Authority, and the National Recovery Act. In 1938, he left public service and returned to private practice where he gained a reputation as a constitutional lawyer. His scrapbooks are held in UW Special Collections.

Robert Bradley was a photographer in Seattle during the early part of the 20th century. He owned a photography studio on Second Avenue with his brother Edwin.

Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, serving from 1973 to 1993. He was the only African-American mayor of that city, and his 20 years in office mark the longest tenure by any mayor in the city's history. His 1973 election made him the second African-American mayor of a major U.S. city. Bradley retired in 1993.He ran unsuccessfully for Governor of California in 1982 and 1986 and was defeated each time by Republican George Deukmejian. In 1985 he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP.

Charles Bradshaw was born in Bridgewater, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania and arrived in Portland, Oregon in 1852. He headed north to Port Townsend where he farmed while continuing to study law. He was admitted to the Washington Bar in 1864 and had a political career as sheriff, justice of the peace, legislative representative, prosecuting attorney and mayor of Port Townsend. In 1889 he was appointed, by President Harrison as collector of customs of Puget Sound district. He wrote a history of Jefferson and Clallam Counties and also owned Bradshaw Shingle Mill at Dry Creek near Port Angeles, WA.

Simon Bradstreet was a colonial magistrate, businessman, diplomat, and the last governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Arriving in Massachusetts on the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, Bradstreet was almost constantly involved in the politics of the colony but became its governor only in 1679. He served on diplomatic missions and as agent to the crown in London, and also served as a commissioner to the New England Confederation. He was politically comparatively moderate, arguing minority positions in favor of freedom of speech and for accommodation of the demands of King Charles II following his restoration to the throne. Bradstreet was married to Anne, the daughter of Massachusetts co-founder Thomas Dudley and New England's first published poet. He was a businessman, investing in land and shipping interests.

John Green Brady was orphaned at an early age and found living on the streets of New York City by Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. a well-known philanthropist and the father of the future President, Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt sent him west to the family of John Green, of Tipton County, Indiana. He attended Yale University and graduated in 1874. Brady moved to Alaska Territory as a Presbyterian minister, missionary and lawyer. In 1878 co-founded what is now Sheldon Jackson College as a school for educating Alaska Natives. He was later appointed Governor for three terms serving from July 15, 1897 until March 2, 1906. He married Elizabeth Jane Patton in 1887 in Sitka, Alaska.

Ruth Coblentz Brady was a senior counselor at the UW Women's Residence Halls.

Erastus Brainerd was an American journalist and art museum curator. Born in Middletown, Connecticut to Norman and Leora (Campbell) Brainerd, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, from which he graduated at the age of 19. He served as curator of engravings at the Boston Museum of Arts, then traveled to Europe, where he promoted a tour for showman W. Irving Bishop. He was a success in Europe, and became a Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, a Knight of the Red Cross of Rome, a Knight Templar, and a Freemason. Returning to America, he wrote editorials for the New York World, where he also became assistant night editor, then served as associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution and Philadelphia Press. In July 1890, he headed west to become editor of the Seattle Press and the Seattle Press-Times (now The Seattle Times), a role he held until September 1893. He was appointed State Land Commissioner in 1893, serving in that capacity until 1897. In 1897, as secretary and executive officer of the newly founded Bureau of Information of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, he became the most prominent figure in the publicity campaign that established Seattle's preeminence as a mercantile and outfitting center for the miners headed to the Yukon. He also convinced the federal government to open an assay office in Seattle. He briefly worked as a mining consultant before becoming editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In the 1910s, he led the Anti-Prohibition Association of Washington in its unsuccessful fight to keep alcoholic beverages legal in Washington. Brainerd died in Tacoma, Washington in 1922.

Herbert M. Brainerd was the editor and publisher of The Gate City Herald a weekly English language newspaper for the community of Deep Creek Falls near Spokane, Washington in 1890. He married Minnie Alice Applegate in 1891.

Joseph Brannan was born in Union County, Ohio. On his 19th birthday, he left home and moved west to Illinois where he farmed. In 1854, he left Illinois for Washington Territory to join his brother, William. During the Northwest Indian Wars, also known as The Treaty Wars, William and his family were killed, and Joseph joined Company B, 1st Regiment. After the war, he moved to Thurston County, Washington, before settling in Slaughter, W. T. in the Kent Valley where he purchased the Meeker farm. The town of Slaughter was named after Lt. William Slaughter who died during the war; the town was later renamed Auburn.

John Casper Branner was an American geologist and academic who discovered bauxite in Arkansas in 1887 as State Geologist. He was Chair of the Departments of Botany and Geology at Indiana University and later at Stanford University. He was a member of the founding faculty at Stanford and served as the university's second president. He served as president of the Geological Society of America in 1904 and was the president of the Seismological Society of America in 1911. Banner was an expert in Brazilian geology, among many other things. While at Stanford he directed the Agassiz-Branner expedition to Brazil in 1899 and a second similar expedition in 1907-1908. He served on government commissions studying the Panama Canal and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He published a grammar of the Portuguese language, based on his work in Brazil.

Albert Braun was born in Dusseldorf, Germany. He initially worked with his father, but in 1888, he sold his interest in the family business and came to the United States. On the advice of Adolphus Busch, president of the Anheuser-Busch Association, of St. Louis, Missouri, he entered the brewery of Peter Doelger, of New York and learned the practical workings of the business, completing his instruction at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis. In 1889, he made a trip through the Northwest, and, after a short visit in Seattle, selected it as a location for his brewery, establishing the Albert Braun Brewing Association in 1890. In 1893, the Albert Braun Brewing Association was consolidated with the Bay View Brewing Company and the Claussen-Sweeney Brewing Company, and incorporated as the Seattle Brewing and Malting Company.

Charles Bray was an Oregon composer and musician who wrote Lost in the deep, deep sea in 1881 in memory of Eva Burbank, who drowned in the Pacific Ocean. She was the daughter of Augustus Ripley Burbank, an investor in the Oregon Railway Company.

James "Jim" Bridger was born in Richmond, Virginia and began his career in 1822 at the age of 18, as a member of General William Ashley's Upper Missouri Expedition. He was among the first European-Americans to see the geysers and other natural wonders of the Yellowstone region as well as the Great Salt Lake. In 1830, he and several other trappers bought out Ashley and established the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, competing with the Hudson's Bay Company and John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company for the lucrative beaver pelt trade. In 1843, Bridger and Louis Vasquez built a trading post, later named Fort Bridger, on the west bank of Blacks Fork of the Green River to serve pioneers on the Oregon Trail. In 1846, Bridger and Lansford W. Hastings were at least partially responsible for the tragic journey of the Donner Party, due to their misdirection of wagon trains through the impractical Hastings Cutoff. In 1850, looking for an alternate overland route to the South Pass, he found what would eventually be known as Bridger's Pass, which shortened the Oregon Trail by 61 miles. Bridger Pass would later be the chosen route for both the Union Pacific Railroad and later Interstate 80. In 1864, he blazed the Bridger Trail, an alternate route from Wyoming to the gold fields of Montana that avoided the dangerous Bozeman Trail. Later, he served as guide and army scout during the first Powder River Expedition against the Sioux and Cheyenne.

Harry Bridges was an Australian-born American union leader, initially with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA). In 1937, he led several chapters in forming a new union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), expanding members to workers in warehouses, and led it for the next 40 years. He was prosecuted for his labor organizing and believed subversive status by the U.S. government during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, with the goal of deportation. This was never achieved. Bridges became a naturalized citizen in 1945. His conviction by a federal jury for having lied about his Communist Party membership when seeking naturalization was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1953 as having been prosecuted outside the statute of limitations. His official power was reduced when the ILWU was expelled by the CIO in 1950, but he continued to be re-elected by the California membership and was highly influential until his retirement in 1977.

Shirley Bridge was born in Seattle, graduated from Broadway High School and Magna Cum Laude in Pharmacy at the University of Washington, where she was a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi and Rho Chi Honorary. A lifetime activist and philanthropist, she was president of Seattle Women's Commission, as well as leading or being a board member on a host of other organizations including the Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center, the University of Washington Development Board, Harborview Foundation, Women's Law Center and Hadassah. She helped create the Women’s Endowment Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and also helped start the Diabetes Research Council. The co-chair of the Bailey Boushay AIDS Housing campaign, she was honored by having the Shirley Bridge Bungalows named after her. She worked as a pharmacist for 40 years and was on the Board of Ben Bridge Jeweler.

Albert Briggs was born in Sholam, Addison County, Vermont. In the spring of 1847, he and his family started with ox-teams to Oregon. He arrived at The Dalles in October, 1847 and then continued down the Columbia to Portland in small boats. He worked as a carpenter in Oregon City, but soon started farming on the Santiam River. In 1849 he went to the gold fields of California for three months, before returning to Oregon. In 1852, he moved to the present site of Port Townsend in Washington Territory at a time when there was only one house in the city. He was one of the first settlers of the city.

Benjamin Briggs was born in Massachusetts and traveled to San Francisco in 1852, where he worked in a steamboat office and later a grain and commission business. He joined Dexter Horton's bank when it was founded in 1870; he was a clerk and remained in that position for 21 years. He then resigned to become Dexter Horton's confidential agent and assistant. In 1877, he married Sarah Rebecca Horton, Dexter Horton's daughter.

George Briggs attended the UW and graduated from University of California Berkeley. After graduation, he was the assistant athletic director for UC Berkeley before joining the UW as Director of the Athletic Department in 1955. In his five years at the UW, he created the Tyee Club, hired football coaches Darrell Royal and Jim Owens, saw the team win two Rose Bowls and a National Championship, and sent the UW Crew to both Henley and Moscow. In 1961, he left the UW to begin a banking career first at UCB in Los Angeles, and then in Seattle at Seattle First National Bank, Fidelity Mutual and First Interstate. He was active in many organizations, serving as president of the Washington Athletic Club and PONCHO, and chairman of the Museum of Flight.

William Henry Bright was President of the Council of the Wyoming Territorial legislature. In 1869, during the Wyoming territory’s first legislative session, he introduced a women’s suffrage bill. The bill was signed into law by Governor John A. Campbell, and the territory became the first government to grant women the right to vote in all public elections. Women voted for the first time in 1870.

Mary J. Bristow was an early pioneer settler in Oregon. She was married to William W. Bristow.

Henry Broderick was a Seattle civic leader and the longtime president of the city's largest real estate firm. From the time he arrived in town in 1901 until his death seven decades later, Broderick was involved in almost every important aspect of Seattle civic life, boosting, chairing, contributing financially, and observing and recording what he saw. Broderick was youngest of 49 trustees of Seattle's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (A-Y-P). Years later, in 1962, as the only surviving A-Y-P trustee, he served as a trustee Seattle's Century 21 Exposition and, toward the end of his life, as an honorary trustee of Spokane, Washington's Expo '74 world's fair.

George Brooke was born in Dubuque, Iowa and arrived in Portland, Oregon in 1874. He worked as a cashier and bookkeeper for the Oregon Steam Navigation Company before moving to Sprague, Washington Territory. He worked in banking and in 1883, was the first mayor of Sprague.

Albert M. Brookes was born in Galena, Illinois. He served in the Civil War under the command of General Sheridan. After the war, he moved to San Francisco, CA where he worked in the post office for twelve years. In 1877, he moved to Seattle and went into business with his brother-in-law before moving to Black Diamond for two years. He returned to Seattle in 1887, where he was the president of the Northwest Cracker Company. He was also involved in the Home Insurance Company, the Puget Sound Freezing and Cooling Company, and the Ventilated Barrel Company. He was appointed postmaster by President Harding and worked to improve the efficiency of the postal service. He resigned in 1891 to accept a position with the Boston National Bank.

John E. Brooks was born in Canton, New York. He worked as a traveling agent for the United States Book Publishing Company and later as a teacher. He married Julia Ray on April 13, 1852, and a week later they headed west to Oregon, arriving six months later. He located a Donation Land claim and also purchased a sawmill approximately six miles west of present day McMinnville, Oregon. He was opposed to slavery and was active in party politics. He supported the development of railroads, schools and improvements to the water system, and donated money to help start McMinnville College.

Quincy Brooks was born in Washington County, PA and graduated with honors from the Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pittsburgh). He practiced law in Pittsburgh until 1851, when he made the trip to Portland by ox team, moving later to Olympia. He was the first United States attorney in the vast domain north of the Columbia to the British Columbia line and was a member of the famous Cowlitz convention which carved Washington out of Oregon territory. He was later general agent of the post office department for the entire coast and in 1886 was appointed collector of customs for the district, serving until President Cleveland's first election.

Richard Brooks was born in Braintree, MA and studied in Paris under the sculptor Jean-Pierre Aube. He created a statue for the 1909 Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition to honor the Secretary of State, William Seward, who advocated for the purchase of Alaska from Russia. The statue was moved to Volunteer Park after the exposition. He also created the statue of Governor John H. McGraw which is located in Seattle’s Times Square. He was elected to the National Sculpture Society in 1897, won the gold medal for sculpture at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition in 1901 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1908. He was chairman of the Jury of Sculpture at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.

William Robert Broughton was a British naval officer who served in the late 18th century. As a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, he commanded HMS Chatham as part of the Vancouver Expedition, a voyage of exploration through the Pacific Ocean led by Captain George Vancouver in the early 1790s.The Broughton Archipelago, Broughton Island and Broughton Strait in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Strait region are named for him. A street in Vancouver's West End and a street in downtown Victoria also bear his name as does Broughton's Bluff, a popular rock climbing destination at the Lewis and Clark State Recreation Site in Troutdale, Oregon. His map of the Columbia River was instrumental in the planning of the Lewis and Clark expedition. A plaque erected by the State of Oregon along Interstate 84 in the Columbia Gorge commemorates the spot where he landed in 1792.

Father Jean-Baptist Brouillet was a pioneer Catholic missionary and the first director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. Bishop Augustin Blanchet encouraged him to join the Catholic missionary efforts in the Oregon Territory, and Brouillet arrived in 1847. He was the first outsider on the scene of the Whitman massacre and later wrote a book, Authentic account of the murder of Dr. Whitman and other missionaries that described his efforts to allay the hostilities and suspicions of the Indians, comfort the captives, and bury the dead.

Frank "Buster" Brouillet was an influential Washington State educator. He served as a teacher in the Puyallup and Tacoma school districts, State Representative, Superintendent of Public Instruction, President of Pierce College and Director of the Education Department of the University of Washington Tacoma Campus. He was instrumental in the development of the community college system in the State of Washington as well as establishing teacher exchange programs with the Peoples Republic of China. Frank B. Brouillet Elementary School in Puyallup, WA is named for him.

Amos Brown was a prominent early citizen of Seattle. He was a pioneering lumberman in the Puget Sound region beginning in the 1850s and had substantial real estate holdings in present downtown Seattle and in several counties along Puget Sound. He served as a member of the Seattle City Council and was director of Western Washington Hospital in Steilacoom for several years. The Brown Building at 1201 Second Avenue in Seattle was built in 1898 and named for him.

Anna Mary Peebles Brown, the daughter of Hugh Peebles and Emaline Palmer Peebles, came to Seattle from the East Coast in 1865, traveling around Cape Horn with her sister, Elizabeth Peebles Mackintosh. Brown taught at Denny School in Seattle in the early 1900's. She married Amos Brown in 1867.

A newspaper publisher by trade, Beriah Brown served as Clerk and Recorder of Iowa County, Wisconsin and was a member of the first Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1857, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin. Brown was later President and Chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of Washington and was Mayor of Seattle from 1878 to 1879. He was the publisher of The Puget Sound Dispatch in partnership with Charles H. Larrabee; at the time, this was the only daily paper published in Seattle. One of his more notable editorials was a strong defense of civil rights, in response to local opposition to the admission of an African American student to the winter session of the University of Washington in January 1874. Brown continued to be involved in both civic affairs and journalism after leaving office, including establishing the first newspaper in Kent, called The Kent Recorder, founded in May 1889.

Clarissa Browning was born in Tennessee. She married Hugh Leeper Brown in 1828, and with him crossed the plains to Oregon, arriving in 1846. The town of Brownsville, OR is named for her husband. They had eight children.