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Charles Kletsch (1872-1936) was a Cowlitz County, Washington dairy farmer who sold a large 500 acre tract to the Long-Bell Lumber Company in 1921 for close to $100,000, which was then developed for the Paper Mills and Company Town of Longview, Washington. After selling the land, he operated the Alaska Blue Fox Company and speculated on real estate before losing all his money in the Great Depression. Clarence C. Brown was a real estate speculator, consulting engineer, and salesman based in Vancouver, Washington, who collaborated with Kletsch in a number of businesses before also suffering a Great Depression bankruptcy.

In 1910, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce reorganized in order to broaden its scope and to work "to promote the growth and development of the State of Washington, the territory of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest." In order to achieve this goal, the Chamber created several new bureaus, including the Alaska Bureau, which formed on November 7, 1911. The Alaska Bureau developed many promotional materials, including albums and exhibits, to encourage the development and improvement of Alaska.

Running from June 1 through October 16, 1909, and attracting some 3.7 million visitors, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was an international fair held in Seattle, Washington that was designed to promote the development of Alaska and improve trade relations with East and Southeast Asian countries. An exhibition had been proposed for Seattle to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1907, but organizers decided to postpone any event of this kind for two years after learning that another international exposition was to be held in Jamestown, Virginia during that summer. The noted landscape design firm Olmsted Brothers (John C. and Frederick Law, Jr.) was selected to help to plan the site for the fairgrounds, which was constructed on land that was later developed as the University of Washington campus. Popular attractions included the Eskimo Building, animal sculptures composed of fruits and nuts, and the Pay Streak amusement area, which held the Igorrote Village and the Fairy Gorge Tickler ride. Among the few surviving AYPE-era structures still found on the current University of Washington campus are the Fine Arts Building (Architecture Hall), the Geyser Basin reflecting pond (Drumheller Fountain), and the Laredo Taft statue of George Washington.

Abraham H. Albertson (1872-1964) was a Seattle-area architect. He was born in Hope, New Jersey in 1872, and attended Columbia University, where he earned a Ph. B. in Architecture in 1895. He married Clare D. Fox in 1915. Albertson moved to Seattle in 1907 as an associate of the New York firm Howells and Stokes. During World War I, Albertson established an independent practice, A.H. Albertson and Associates, which became Albertson, Wilson and Richardson in 1924. After the end of World War I, Albertson also formed the partnership Howells and Albertson. Between 1939 and 1949, Albertson was also the architect for the Washington State office of the Federal Housing Authority. He was also a member of the Federal Fair Rentals Commission between 1917 and 1919, and the chairman of Seattle's Building Code Commission in the early 1920s. He was a member of the American Institute for Architects, and was made a fellow in 1934. Among other buildings, he designed Everett City Hall, the Medical Dental Building, the Montlake Bridge, the Northern Life building, St. Joseph Catholic Church, the Metropolitan Tract, and several buildings for the University of Washington in Seattle.

Thomas Theobald Aldwell was born in Toronto on June 14, 1868, was trained as a banker, and became a public official, businessman, power company executive, and civic leader. In 1890, he moved to Port Angeles, Washington, where he became a successful real estate investor and, between 1894 and 1908, served as Clallam County auditor, deputy customs collector, and chairman of the Clallam County Republican Party. Aldwell founded (and was the vice president and general manager of) the Olympic Power and Development Company, whose earnings funded Aldwell's dream project, the building of a dam on the Elwha River. The Elwha Dam was completed in 1913 and provided power to Port Angeles, Port Townsend, and the Bremerton Navy Yard. Aldwell was president of the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the district's first port commissioner; he also was a leader in the fight to return some of Olympic National Park's land to the national forests. At age 82 he published his autobiography, Conquering the Last Frontier. Aldwell died several years later in 1954.

John B. Allen (1845-1903) was a lawyer, a delegate from the Washington Territory, and the first United States Senator for Washington State. He was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he attended Wabash College. He later served as a private in an Indiana regiment for the Union Army during the Civil War. Allen earned a law degree from the University of Michigan and was admitted to the bar in 1869. In 1870, he moved to Washington, where he practiced law in Olympia. He moved to Walla Walla in 1881. From 1875 to 1885, Allen served as the United States Attorney for the Washington Territory. Allen also acted as the reporter for the Territory's Supreme Court from 1878 to 1885. He was elected as the Republican delegate to Congress for the Washington Territory in 1889, and then as a United States Senator later that year. He served in the Senate until 1893, when the Washington legislature failed to elect a Senator. Although he was appointed to fill the post by then-governor John McGraw, Allen was not permitted to qualify when he presented his credentials. Allen then moved to Seattle, where he returned to practicing law with the firm Struve, Allen, Hughes & McMicken. He died suddenly on January 28, 1903, from complications relating to a heart condition.

The Northwestern Division of the American Red Cross Society covered the region encompassing Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and the territory of Alaska, although hundreds of local chapters operated throughout the Pacific Northwest. During World War I and immediately after, the Division's headquarters was located in the White Building at Fourth Avenue and Union Street in downtown Seattle. The focus of the Red Cross during these years was on the aftermath of World War I, as the organization worked to bring relief to the allied countries (through donated clothes, etc.) and to raise money. All aid to Europe was conducted through the Military Relief Department. Specific activities in the Pacific Northwest included relief efforts in the wake of local tragedies such as fires and epidemics, assisting disabled soldiers with care and employment, and delivering Christmas trees and presents to the needy. These activities all fell under the Civilian Relief department.

Lumber company executive, banker, and political activist Edward Ames (1856-1935) was the manager of the Pope & Talbot interests in the Puget Sound region and a leading figure in the Seattle business community in the early twentieth century. Born in Maine, he was a cousin of Captain William Talbot, a co-owner of the Pope & Talbot companies. In 1881, he went to work for Pope & Talbot's subsidiary, the Puget Mill Company at Port Gamble, Washington. He married Maud Walker, who was the niece of Edwin's superior, Cyrus Walker, and a Pope & Talbot stockholder. When Maud's mother died in 1919, the couple inherited a fortune, which was administered as the Walker-Ames Company with Edwin as president. In the 1890s, Ames led the drive to modernize the mills to reduce waste and to meet the demand for specialized sizes of high-quality lumber. He was active in the Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacturer's Association and its successor, the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Ames was a political conservative who supported reforms that benefitted the timber industry. In 1911, he successfully led the effort to pass a workers' compensation program. Although Ames shunned political office himself, he was a key financial backer of conservative Republicans in state and local politics. In addition, Ames served on the board of directors of three large Seattle banks. When his wife died, Ames moved and donated his Seattle house to the University of Washington to become the official residence of its president. He left his personal papers and his collection of over 3,000 volumes to the school. His will created the Walker-Ames Foundation, a fund which still finances numerous programs.

Clarence Leroy Andrews (1862-1948) was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, on October 19, 1862. He moved to Oregon with his family in 1864. After graduating from United Brethren College in 1882, he briefly worked as a postal clerk in Seattle before establishing a homestead in eastern Oregon. From 1890 to 1897, he lived and worked in Seattle as a deputy in the King County auditor's office and owned a small print shop. Andrews visited Alaska in 1890, and returned in 1897 as part of the Duke of Abruzzi's climbing expedition to Mount Elias on the Canadian-Alaska border. He remained in Alaska after the expedition's completion, working in the Customs Office at Sitka, Skagway, and Eagle for a decade. While there he studied photography, Alaskan history, and Russian. He came back to Seattle in 1909 as part of Alaska's contingent at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. He returned to Alaska in 1915 as a journalist and a photographer for the Alaska-Yukon magazine and the Alaska Daily Empire. Between 1923 and 1929, he traveled throughout the Arctic as a surveyor for the School and Reindeer Service for the Alaska Bureau of Education. In his later years, Andrews wrote about Alaska and the Eskimos and translated several Russian works about Alaska. He died in Oregon in 1948.

John Denny Ashby, often called "Denny," was born on February 8, 1876, in Garfield County, Washington, to John J. Ashby and Mary Denny Ashby, who was the niece of David and Arthur Denny of the famed Denny party who first settled on the land that would become Seattle. Denny graduated from Pomeroy High School in 1895 and became the first person born in Garfield County to receive a Bachelor's degree after finishing his studies at Wesleyan University in Montana. In 1900, Denny entered medical school in New York City at the New York Homeopathic Medical College. While vacationing with his fiancé, Ada Oughtred, in Babylon on Long Island, New York, tragedy struck when both she and Denny were drowned in an unusually large and strong ocean wave on August 2, 1904. Denny would have graduated from medical school in 1905. After the death of his mother, Mary Denny Ashby, in 1923, Denny's boyhood home in Pomeroy, Washington, was converted to a community library dedicated to his memory.

Elizabeth Ayer (1897-1987) was the first female graduate of the University of Washington's architecture program and the first female architect registered in Washington State. Ayer was born in Thurston County, Washington, in 1897. She received her degree in 1921 and worked for several architectural firms after graduation. In 1922, she moved to New York City to work for the firms of Cross & Cross, Grosvenor Atterbery and Andrew Willatsen. She then returned to Seattle, where she joined the firm of Ivey & Riley. In 1940, Ayer started her own architectural firm with fellow University of Washington graduate and architect Rolland Lamping. Ayer's architectural style combined elements of modernism with more traditional, historical styles. Many of her homes were characteristic of the Colonial Revival style. Some of her more prominent Puget Sound designs include the Langdon C. Henry residence, the Seattle Children's Home, the Winston W. Chambers residence, and the Albert Schafer Castle. Ayer retired in 1970 after practicing architecture for nearly 50 years. She died in 1987.

Gustaf Arvid Backman was born in Sweden in 1883 and immigrated to Seattle in 1915, where he became a businessman. He was naturalized as a United States citizen in 1941. Franz Leander Backman was born in Sweden in 1888 and immigrated to the United States in 1915 with his brother. He became a citizen in 1931, and lived until 1980. Gus Backman served on the Executive Board of the Swedish Tercentenary Association of Seattle and Vicinity. He also was cast in the lead role in the pageant held at the Civic Auditorium on July 9, 1938, and served as an announcer for the "Allsvensk Dag" festival. The Swedish Tercentenary Association of Seattle and Vicinity was formed in 1937 to plan local area celebrations in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the first Swedish settlement in the United States. The group initially was comprised of fifty-eight Swedish churches, lodges and other organizations. The main events of the festival, which took place on July 9 and 10, 1938, included a large pageant at the Civic Auditorium in Seattle and an outdoor celebration held at the Vasa park resort on Lake Sammamish.

From his arrival in Seattle in 1860 until his death in 1932 at the age of eighty-eight, Clarence Bagley was concerned with the growth of Washington as a Territory and State in general, and Seattle's growth as a city in particular. Soon after their arrival and his father's appointment as University Commissioner, Bagley became a clerk in the Surveyor General's office in 1866, shortly after his marriage to Alice Mercer. This move brought him directly into politics and into the printing trade as well. While working in the Surveyor General's office in Olympia, Bagley came under the tutelage of Randall Hewitt, owner of the Territorial Republican and the Temperance Echo. With L. G. Abbott he bought the Echo in 1868 but sold his interest shortly thereafter and took employment with the Commercial Age, organ of the Republican Party. When this newspaper was discontinued in 1870, he returned to Seattle, remaining until May 1871, when he became deputy in the internal revenue office, holding the position until 1873. While in this office he worked with the Puget Sound Courier, finally buying it in 1873, and emerging as Territorial Printer for the next ten years. He sold the Courier and the printing office in 1884, returning to Seattle to stay in 1885 after a brief interval in Portland as a deputy collector of internal revenue. By now a confirmed publisher, Clarence Bagley joined with others and purchased the Post-Intelligencer in 1886, which he managed until L. S. J. Hunt took it over that same year. Other ephemeral ventures followed, one in banking and one again in newspapers, joining with Homer Hill for two years in publishing the Daily Press. In 1890 he was elected to the House of Delegates of the City Council from where he fought open gambling and Seattle's "open town" policy with the result that doors were barred on many of the "gambling hells. " Following upon this experience in elective office he acted as an adviser in writing the 1893 city charter, contributing clauses affecting assessments for local improvements. From 1893 until his appointment as Secretary of the Board of Public Works in 1900, he worked in the City Comptroller's office. He continued as Secretary of the Board until his retirement in 1929. These experiences in city government and his ever-present concern for governmental efficiency led him to become candidate in 1909 for the Republican nomination for councilman from the Eighth Ward. He announced his candidacy in letters to friends, but did not actively canvass his ward for votes. He stressed his alarm with what, in his opinion, was a growing trend toward mismanagement and extravagance in city affairs. Promising a "square deal, " Bagley felt this could be changed with a business-like economy and management terminating in better, cleaner government. The election itself, with its many side issues, was unsettling for him as he associated political reporting with what he considered to be honestly partisan, and took exception to the methods used by 1910 newspapermen, not only in his own case but on behalf of all the candidates. He lost the election to Elbert F. Blaine, and explained that the loss was due to his association with the "City Hall Gang, " whom the voters had rejected completely. Until this point in his career, he appears to have been a public servant first and a historian second. Now his interest in historical writing resurfaced. He had begun two years previously to edit the manuscripts of William I. Marshall's Acquisition of Oregon. Marshall, whom Bagley had met in 1905, had devoted twenty years to disproving the "Whitman Saved Oregon" myth, and after his death in 1906, Bagley and Thompson Coit Elliott, both interested in seeing the work published, joined to edit the manuscript and to assist the widow financially. Despite feeling that his position with the Board of Public Works took too much time away from historical study, he stayed on as Secretary, editing Marshall's work for publication in his spare time; it appeared in 1911. This was followed by publication of articles in historical quarterlies and journals, and in 1916, The History of Seattle appeared, culminating more than two years of research. With publication of this work, Clarence Bagley's often-expressed dream of writing the history of his region was becoming a reality. He had little sympathy for writers who romanticized the facts of history into fiction that bore little or no resemblance to actuality. However, his view of "actuality" was restricted by rigid adherence to the "pioneer code" on the one hand and self-imposed limitations on the other, as he illustrated in a letter to Edmond S. Meany in 1911: "Sometime I shall write a history of Seattle, and while what I shall say will be the truth I shall not give all the truth. I shall rake up no old stories of evil. " His activities were not confined to writing. He gave his time freely in efforts to organize pioneer societies and similar groups, frequently being called upon for speeches and public appearances in connection with pioneer-inspired celebrations. In 1905 he had become deeply involved in a dispute between the historical societies of Seattle and Tacoma. Consolidation of effort and location under the aegis of the State was suggested by the Seattle group when its members (including Meany, Cornelius Hanford, Thomas Burke, Roger S. Greene and John P. Hoyt) decided that the Tacoma society was "dead. " Most of the members of the Seattle group had aided in founding the Washington State Historical Society in 1891. But the early years turned into a struggle for mere existence which Bagley et al regarded as a hindrance to accomplishment of the Society's original purposes of collection and preservation of historical source materials. This suggestion revitalized the slumbering rivalry of the two cities and the battle was joined. Bagley became the unofficial spokesman for the Washington University State Historical Society which had been newly founded. In a letter to Professor J.N. Bowman of the State Normal School in Bellingham, he explained: "Experience had proved that the Societies thus allied with State Universities have done the best work, and that this will be true here." Proposals of merger were not accepted by Tacoma, and the Washington State Historical Society remained a separate body. Unallied with the Tacoma group in either effort or ideals, Bagley was elected president of the Washington University State Historical Society, and under his leadership the work of collecting and preserving original data was begun. His vision of a central repository for historical research materials was challenged once again in 1915, when the King County Historical Society sought allocation of land on University-owned property. In a letter to Winlock W. Miller of Seattle, Bagley called for a "concert of action in historical efforts, " insisting that "I have seen so many similar efforts live a precarious existence and finally die from slow decay that I may be permitted to express doubts as to the long life or active work of the present one." In the public mind Bagley symbolized Pacific Northwest history in many ways. The post-office delivered letters to him addressed merely "Historian, Seattle, Washington;" newspapers of the city began to refer to him affectionately as "Pop, " and the Seattle Chamber of Commerce directed all of its inquiries on historical matters to his desk in City Hall. In 1929 he brought out his History of King County. With retirement, articles and pamphlets began to appear with regularity. Indian Myths of the Northwest, "compiled, annotated and expurgated" as he wrote to a friend, was published in 1930. Plans for future publications simmered. Clarence Bagley began 1932 with letters to friends expressing enthusiasm for his many historical projects, and often a small boast regarding his health. He was proud of the two-mile walk he took each day from his home on Seattle's Queen Anne hill "to town, rain or shine. " But a lingering cold developed into pneumonia, and on February 17, 1932, "Pop" Bagley died.

Harold Balazs (b. 1928) is a Spokane, Washington-based artist most well-known for his public projects located throughout the Pacific Northwest. Working mainly in sculpture, Balazs' works utilize a wide range of materials and media, including metal, wood, concrete, and more. In the 1950s, Balazs began collaborating with architects on murals and sculpture for both public and private spaces, and by the mid-1960s was considered a leader in public and architecturally-integrated art. His experience earned him three terms as a Washington State Art Commissioner. Many of Balazs' pieces can be seen throughout the city of Spokane, as well as in Seattle and across the region. His paintings and his signature enamels on steel are also featured at a number of galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest. Balazs graduated from Washington State University in 1951 with a Bachelor's degree in art.

Newspaper writer and editor Clarence M. Barton (1841-1893) was born in New Jersey and served in the Civil War from 1865 to1869. After the war, he lived in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Virginia, before settling in Tacoma around 1886. In Washington, he wrote articles for many local papers and magazines on a variety of topics, but mainly about the Pacific Northwest, including the great Seattle fire of 1889 and Washington's transition to statehood in that same year. Barton, who had been the city desk editor for the Tacoma Ledger for several years, was made managing editor of the Olympia Tribune in 1891. As secretary of the first state senate, he also created a handbook for the State of Washington, which chronicled the very first session of the legislature.

Walter Burges Beals (1876-1960) had a distinguished career as an attorney, army officer, and judge, but he also become one of the most prominent private collectors of manuscripts and rare books in the Pacific Northwest. He practiced law in Seattle, served in the military during the First World War, and worked as a King County judge, Washington State Supreme Court judge, and Chief Justice of the Court. Judge Beals was the Presiding Judge at the International Military Tribunal I, from 1946-1947. He retired in 1951.

Swedish immigrant Dagmar Willova Betzholtz (1873-1968) came to the United States in 1908 and resided mainly in Seattle, Washington until her death. Betzholtz declared her intention to become a citizen of the United States in 1936. Also known as "Willow," she worked as a landlady and was a maid at the Olympic Hotel for many years.

Although active in the real estate business in Seattle, John Edward Boyer (1866-1961) was a lawyer and businessman born in Walla Walla, Washington who also was engaged in agricultural financing and other family concerns in eastern Washington, principally the Baker-Boyer National Bank. It was Boyer's father, John F. Boyer (1824-1857), who, in 1870, had co-founded the bank, which grew out of a general store in Walla Walla that he ran initially for business partner D.S. Baker. Although he was the youngest of the five Boyer sons, it was John E. who oversaw most of the Boyer family businesses and finances in Washington State. In 1898, he volunteered for service in the Spanish-American War, becoming a Commissioned Officer in Company M of the First Washington Infantry, U.S.V. (United States Volunteers). Boyer kept a diary of his time in the Philippines. After the war, he lived in Seattle for many years, managing several properties as the president of the Interlaken Land Company (approximately 1907-1934). Boyer Avenue East in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle is named after his family.

James E. Bradford (1868-1958) was a lawyer, public official, and politician in Seattle during the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in Minnesota in 1868 and completed his law degree at the University of Minnesota in 1894. Bradford moved to Seattle in 1900. He began working for the city's Corporation Counsel in 1906 and was elected by the City Council to finish the incumbent's term in 1911. He successfully ran for the office in 1912. As Corporation Counsel, Bradford handled the city's litigation and the assessment and condemnation of property. He evinced a special interest in enforcing the minimum wage, regulating utility rates, and fighting graft and prostitution. He held this office until 1916. Bradford unsuccessfully ran for Washington State governor in 1916 and for mayor of Seattle in 1918 as a Progressive candidate (a reformist off-shoot of the Republican Party). He later acted as counsel for the Port of Seattle. During the Great Depression, he held state directorships of the National Recovery Act, the Federal Housing Administration, and the National Emergency Council. He retired from public service in 1936 and returned to private legal practice. He retired from the Bar in 1956, shortly before his death in Seattle in 1958.

The J.J. Brenner Oyster Co. was founded in 1893 by John Joseph Brenner in Olympia, Washington. The company flourished through the early part of the twentieth century, passing into the hands of J.J. Brenner's son, Earl G. Brenner (1893-1969). He sold many of his oyster beds in the 1960s, due to the economic woes afflicting oyster growers. In 1967, Earl G. Brenner's son, Earl R. Brenner (1921-2000), took over the family business.

Robert Bridges (1861-1921) was born in Scotland in 1861. He immigrated to the United States in 1881, moving first to Illinois, then to Iowa, and finally to Washington Territory in 1887. He was a coal miner and worked in the mines at Black Diamond in King County. During his time in the mines, Bridges was a union organizer and remained stoutly pro-labor and pro-union throughout his subsequent careers. He moved to Seattle in 1889, where he became a shop-keeper and taught himself to read and write. He also acted as the Assistant Superintendent of Sewer Construction. In 1893, he changed careers yet again to become a dairy farmer in the White River Valley. A member of the Democratic Party, and later a Populist, Bridges was elected State Land Commissioner in 1896 after refusing a free ticket from the railroad companies and walking to a convention in Ellensburg. With the formation of the Seattle Port Commission in 1911, Bridges became a port commissioner. In 1915, he became president of the Port Commission. He ran in the primaries for the United States Senate in 1916. Bridges resigned from the Port Commission in 1919, and ran for governor in 1920 on the newly-formed Farmer-Labor ticket. Throughout his political career, Bridges, who was frequently called "Bob Bridges," was an advocate of labor and municipal ownership of utilities and port facilities. He died on December 2, 1921 in Auburn, Washington.

Edwin J. "Doc" Brown (1864-1941) was a politician, dentist, lawyer, and journalist who served two terms as mayor of Seattle from 1922 to 1926. Born in Illinois, he moved to the Northwest in the early 1900s, where he set up a successful dental business. From 1911to 1912, he was also a journalist for the short-lived Seattle newspaper Socialist Voice and ran his first unsuccessful campaign for mayor on the Socialist platform in 1911. A charismatic and determined man, he won by more than 10,000 votes when he ran for mayor as a non-partisan candidate. His election came during Prohibition, which became a major law enforcement issue during his tenure due to Brown's own position of tolerance (in spite of his being a non-drinker). During his second term, impeachment proceedings were brought against Brown, though the proceedings never came to fruition. Brown ran for a third term in 1926 but was defeated by city councilwoman Bertha K. Landes, who became the first female mayor of a large city in the United States.

United States Forest Service employee and historian Nels Bruseth (1886-1957) wrote numerous articles about forestry; recreation; the town of Darrington, Washington; and the local history of the Snohomish County area. Born in 1886 in Stanwood, Washington, Bruseth joined the Forest Service in 1916 as a trail worker and became a lookout on Mt. Pugh. He later worked as a foreman and then the assistant to the District Ranger before retiring from the Forest Service in 1951. He was among the first to survey the Cascade Crest trail. He also was an amateur painter, anthropologist, photographer, botanist, geologist, and musician. He published a small book, Indian Stories and Legends of the Stillagaumish and Allied Tribes (1926), which went through several printings. Bruseth spent much of his adult life in Darrington, Washington, where he was considered the town historian. Many of his articles appeared in the Arlington Times during the 1940s and 1950s. In 1921, Bruseth married Beate Faulk (1898-1975), with whom he honeymooned on Mount Pugh; a brief account of their courtship is included in an article by Byron Fish.

Swedish American gold miner and amateur naturalist John Bufvers (1888-1979) was born on Buvenas farm in Bohslau, Sweden, on November 8, 1888. He served in the Swedish Cavalry between 1906 and 1909. Bufvers immigrated to the United States in 1910 and became a naturalized citizen in 1914. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1918 and served in the United States 14th Infantry during the First World War. Before and after his service in the army, Bufvers traveled throughout Alaska as a gold miner. He later worked for the United States Forest Service and the Ketchikan Pulp Company. In the 1960s, he settled in Seattle, Washington, where he wrote several accounts of his adventures in Alaska, some of which were published. Bufvers died in Issaquah, Washington on January 10, 1979.

Stimson Bullitt was born in 1919. He attended Yale University and the University of Washington Law School, and was admitted to the Washington State Bar in 1949. He served in the Navy during World War II and won a Purple Heart. In 1952 and in 1954 he made two attempts to run for Congress. He authored three books, To Be a Politician (1959), Ancestral Histories of Scott Bullitt and Dorothy Stimson (1994), and River Dark and Bright (1995). He served as President of the Bullitt Company from 1955-1965, and of the family's business, KING Broadcasting Co., from 1961-1971. He was president of Harbor Properties in Seattle from 1972-1996, and chaired its board from 1996-2001. Stim Bullitt passed away on April 19, 2009 at the age of 89.

Judge Thomas Burke (1849-1910) was a central figure in the political and economic life of Washington State and Seattle for nearly fifty years. Burke was born in New York on December 22, 1849. He received his law degree from the University of Michigan and was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1873. He moved to Seattle in 1875, where he opened a law office. In 1876, he married Caroline E. McGilvra and was elected to serve as a probate judge for King County, serving two terms. He was active in politics and was the Democratic candidate for Territorial delegate to Congress in 1880 and 1882. He opposed the anti-Chinese riots in 1886. In 1888, he was temporarily appointed to the Supreme Court of the Washington Territory and held the office until 1889. Burke was also a crucial figure in the development of Seattle's railroads. He helped to organize the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway with Daniel Gilman, which connected Seattle to the Union Pacific and the Canadian Pacific railroads. After the Great Northern Railway purchased the Burke-Gilman venture, Burke became the Western Counsel for the Great Northern Railway and was instrumental in making Seattle its western terminus. Burke was also active in mine development in Eastern Washington and in real estate in the greater Seattle area. He withdrew from the Democratic Party in 1896 over the silver question and joined the Republican Party a year later. He was interested in stimulating trade between Seattle and Asia and was among the originators of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition. In 1910, he unsuccessfully ran for United States Senate in the Republican primary. Burke was also active in establishing the Lake Washington Ship Canal, the Bremerton Naval Yard, Fort Lawton, the Port of Seattle, Seattle street railways, and Seattle City Light. He was active in charities and contributed heavily to the University of Washington and Whitman College, and also served as a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He died on December 4, 1925. The Burke Museum on the University of Washington's Seattle campus is named for him.

Charles "Tiny" Burnett (1888-1974) was a musician with the Pantages and Orpheum vaudeville circuits based in Seattle, Washington, from 1908 to 1933. Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, Burnett moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1908. Later that same year, he was employed as the manager of the Lois Theatre in Seattle, which was owned and operated as part of the Pantages Circuit. During this period, both dramatic productions (for example, the Pantages Players stock company) and vaudeville programs were presented at the Lois. After 1933, Burnett worked on Hollywood film soundtracks before moving to Bremerton, Washington in 1941. Burnett then became a restaurateur, operating Tiny's Restaurant in Bremerton until around 1949.

Iver W. Carlson (1895-1972) was a soldier in the First World War and a Seattle City Light employee who took an interest in veteran's affairs and military history. Born in Boulder, Colorado, Carlson moved between Washington state and Colorado several times during his childhood years. In 1915, he enrolled at the University of Washington as a pre-Law student. He joined the National Guard in 1916 and served in the United States Army during World War I in the 41st and then the 1st Infantry Division. Carlson was wounded in action in July 1918, for which he received a Purple Heart in 1945. After the war, he worked for Seattle City Light and resumed his studies at the University of Washington, graduating with a degree in business administration in 1922. Between 1930 and 1944, Carlson lived at the Veterans' Affairs facility at American Lake, Washington. He subsequently moved to Los Angeles, California, where he died in 1972.

The Central Seattle Community Council Federation represents a merger of the Central Area Community Council and the Jackson Street Community Council. The merger was formally approved in February 1967. The Jackson Street Community Council was formed in 1946 under United Good Neighbors (UGN) sponsorship to serve the needs of Seattle's International Area. The "self-help" approach of the Jackson Street Community Council, in combination with UGN support, proved to be extremely effective. As a result of its success, the Jackson Street Community Council received wide national attention as a paradigm of this type of organization. The Central Area Community Council was formed in 1962 as a volunteer organization designed to bring together representatives from all of the neighborhood and service organizations serving the Central District. The Central Area Motivation Program (CAMP) resulted from a proposal submitted to the Office of Economic Opportunity by this organization. The Central Seattle Community Council was formed to combine the area-wide representation of the Central Area Community Council with the intensive staff support of the Jackson Street Community Council.

The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway Company ran from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest. It was planned between 1901 and 1906, built between 1906 and 1909, and completed on March 29, 1909 when the final rail was placed at Snoqualmie Pass. It became the third railroad to connected Seattle to Eastern Washington. The railway was later renamed as the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway.

The City Panhellenic Association was founded in 1922 by Jessie E. Padelford (Sigma Kappa), who served as its president during its first two years of existence. The Association established a central office for all sorority alumnae groups on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. In its early years, City Panhellenic was concerned with sorority house standards and the welfare of their residents. As its membership grew, the organization became involved in numerous philanthropic activities.

In February 1922, Maurice Patrick Codd, a former medical student at Northwestern University, was charged with the murder of Frank P. Brinton. It was alleged that on February 1, 1922, Codd threw Brinton, a soldier, down three flights of stairs at a Spokane, Washington hotel. While he was found not guilty later that year, the trial spawned an additional trial in which sixteen people, including three defense attorneys, were charged with perjury or witness tampering. Seattle attorney Walter S. Fulton was brought to Spokane to prosecute these cases. Unrelated volumes were used to create the scrapbooks by pasting articles and headlines of the local Spokane press coverage onto the pages of the original text. Additionally, the scrapbook marks the dates of the articles throughout the volumes in print above or around the pasted articles and headlines, and newspaper headline and title clippings are pasted on the covers of the volumes to name the newspaper from which the clippings were taken and the Codd trial as the subject matter.

Hiram Boardman Conibear (1871-1917) was the athletic trainer and coach of the crew team at the University of Washington from 1906-1917. He introduced a new type of stroke labeled the Conibear stroke, which used a shorter stroke than the typical Oxford style. In 1913, Conibear and his crew team were the first West Coast team to compete in the prestigious Poughkeepsie Regatta. Prior to coming to the UW, he trained the successful Chicago White Sox baseball team in 1906. Conibear died at age 46 after falling out of a fruit tree at his Seattle home.

Businessman and newspaper columnist Charles Tallmadge Conover (1862-1961) was born in Esperance, New York, on August 7, 1862, the son of Abram and Harriet M. (Tallmadge) Conover. After working as a journalist in New York State for two years, Conover moved to British Columbia. He then worked briefly for the Tacoma Ledger (1887-1888) and even more briefly as the city editor for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In 1888, he formed Crawford & Connor with another P-I reporter, Samuel L. Crawford. Crawford & Conover were real estate and financial brokers, and after a slow start, became quite successful. In 1891, Conover married Mary Louise Burns. They had one child, Tallmadge. After Mary Louise Burns' death in 1914, Conover married his second wife, Idelle M. Conkling, in 1931. Crawford & Conover were responsible for a national campaign advertising Seattle and Washington State, and Conover is credited with coining "The Evergreen State" as Washington's nickname. He also advocated for the name Mount Rainier in 1917 before the United States Geographic Board. After retiring from real estate in 1941, Conover returned to writing and penned a column entitled "Just Cogitating" for the Seattle Times. Conover also authored several books, including Mirrors of Seattle (1923) and a biography of Judge Thomas Burke. He was a member of the Rainier Club, the Holland Society, the Sons of the American Revolution, and was active in the foundation of the Seattle Humane Society. Conover died in August 1961.

Samuel Goodlove Cosgrove (1847-1909) was the sixth governor of Washington State, although he served for only two months due to his death from illness. Born in Ohio, Cosgrove served as a Union officer in the Civil War and worked as a teacher before moving to Pomeroy, Washington, in 1882. He was mayor of Pomeroy for five terms, while also practicing the law. In 1908, he ran for governor of Washington State in the Republican primary and won after a tally of second-choice candidates showed he had the majority vote. Cosgrove won the gubernatorial election in November 1908, but shortly thereafter fell ill from Bright's disease. Cosgrove entered a therapeutic hospital in Paso Robles, California, but made the long train trip to Washington State for his inauguration on January 27, 1909. After appointing lieutenant governor, Marion E. Hay, to serve in his place during his leave of absence, he made the return trip to Paso Robles. Cosgrove succumbed to his disease on March 26, 1909, and his body was returned to Washington to be buried in the Masonic Cemetery in Olympia.

Crawford and Conover, Inc. was a Seattle real estate firm established in 1888 by two reporters from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Samuel L. Crawford and Charles T. Conover. Crawford and Conover engaged in real estate, rentals and property management, fire insurance, mortgage loans, and investments. Conover is credited with coining the nickname "The Evergreen State" as part of the company's national campaign advertising the state of Washington and the city of Seattle. After Crawford's death in 1916, Conover continued running the firm until his retirement in 1941.

Oregon native Samuel Leroy Crawford (1855-1916) had a varied career in journalism, politics, and real estate in Washington State and played an active role in the development of Seattle in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He got his start learning the printing trade with the Washington Standard newspaper in Olympia. In 1875, after being elected assistant clerk of the Washington Territorial House of Representatives, Crawford first visited Seattle as part of a delegation. He was impressed with the business opportunities offered by the city and decided to relocate, eventually taking a job as pressman on the Daily Intelligencer newspaper. Crawford remained associated with the paper for several years in a number of capacities, becoming half-owner with Thomas W. Prosch around 1879. Two years later, the Intelligencer merged with the Daily Post to become the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In 1888, Crawford left the newspaper business to start a lucrative real estate and financial firm, Crawford & Conover, with another former P-I journalist, Charles Tallmadge Conover. A lifelong Republican, Crawford became a philanthropist and also is credited with introducing professional baseball to Seattle. He continued to write about local history and remained active in Seattle's civic and social affairs until his death.

Born in Seattle in 1917, Paul Dubuar graduated from the UW in 1937 with a teaching degree. He enlisted in the Navy in 1942, but was found unfit for sea duty. He then enlisted in the Army Transport Service and spent the rest of World War II in the Pacific, including a visit to southeast Alaska. He was wounded in the Phillipines. In 1947, he entered graduate school at the UW where he studied education. He taught at a school for the blind in Vancouver, WA. In the 1970s he worked at the Bon Marche as a custodian and was a union representative. He retired in 1985 at age 72.

Clarence S. Edmundson (1886-1964) was a prominent track and field athlete and coach in the Pacific Northwest, and participated in the 1912 Olympic Games in the 800 and 400 meters. Upon his return from the games, Hec Edmundson became an athletic coach at his alma mater, the University of Idaho, from 1912 to 1915. Edmundson also briefly coached at Texas A & M University before accepting a permanent position as track and field coach at the University of Washington, where he would remain from 1919 until his retirement in 1954. While at UW, Edmundson also coached the basketball team from 1921-1947.

Belle Egge (1865-1959) was a Norwegian American dressmaker who spent much of her adult life in Washington State and took an interest in local history, with an emphasis on her pioneer heritage. Born as Isabelle (various spellings), but better known as Belle, she was raised on a farm near Albert Lea, Minnesota, on November 10, 1865, the daughter of Norwegian immigrants Ole P. and Barbara Egge. The Egge family first arrived in the Seattle area in October 1881, and purchased a house on 6th Avenue and Stewart Street, which was being rented at the time by a widow with five children. Rather than turn them out, the Egges let the family remain in what developed into a combined household. In 1884, Ole Egge took up a land claim near Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. He, his wife, and Belle lived on the island before disposing of the property, while the others remained in the Seattle house. Belle and her parents returned to Seattle around July 1889. After he and his wife returned from travels, Ole Egge built a new house in Seattle, where the family lived until 1894, when the property was seized for the construction of Westlake Boulevard. The Egge family next took up residence at a house on First Avenue West and Republican Street, which was sold by Belle after the rest of the relatives living with her had passed away. Belle Egge spent the final years of her life in the Ebenezer Home for the Aged in Poulsbo, Washington.

Washington State banker Joel Edward Ferris (1874-1960) was born in Illinois in 1874. He was educated in California, attended Carthage College, and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois in 1895. From 1895 to 1897, he worked as a law clerk and a bank clerk. He then worked as an investment banker in Kansas City, St. Louis, and London. In 1908, Ferris came to Spokane, where he continued to work as a banker. He married Clara Hughes in 1914. He became the chairman of the Spokane and Eastern Division of the Seattle-First National Bank in 1945. He was state chairman for the first and second war bond drives. He was also affiliated with the Salvation Army, Whitman College, the Eastern Washington State Historical Society, and the Friends of the Library of Washington State University.

The Florence Crittenton Home of Seattle, which operated from 1899-1973, was a housing facility for single mothers located six miles south of Seattle. The facility was part of a chain of Florence Crittenton Homes, which were located in 50 cities across the U.S. The homes were founded by Charles Crittenton, a wealthy New York druggist who was part of a reform movement to end prostitution and moral vice. The Florence Crittenton Homes originally provided assistance to prostitutes, but later expanded its mission to include a wide variety of concerns, including homelessness, women's health, domestic abuse, and assistance for single, pregnant women and single mothers. The Florence Crittenton Home of Seattle served mainly as a maternity home, where young women would live during the latter parts of their pregnancies and up to three months after giving birth. Children born in the Florence Crittenton Home were either placed for adoption or were kept with their birth mothers. During the first half of the 20th century, the home's services were in high demand and the facility was expanded several times, operating at a maximum capacity of 200 in 1963. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, as the social stigma surrounding single parenthood lessened, the demand for the home's services decreased. In 1973, the United Way stopped funding the Florence Crittenton Home of Seattle because of lack of need. The facility closed on March 15, 1973.

William Clark Fonda (1858-1938), also known as "Skagway Bill," was an adventurer and early gold prospector during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896-1899. Born in the town of Fonda, New York, he left at age seven to help build the Erie Canal. By age nine, he was painting the Brooklyn Bridge, and by age 21, he owned a steam boat company operating on the Hudson River. In 1888, he took a job on a ship that sailed around the tip of South America to Seattle, where he settled and lived much of his life. When word of the discovery of gold in Alaska reached Seattle, Fonda headed to Skagway in 1897, where he developed much of the early city. While he never struck it rich, he spent many years in Alaska helping to build the Alaska Railroad, schools, and hospitals. In Seattle, he was a painting contractor and an active member of the Seattle chapter of the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers (AYP). He was also a fixture in the sourdough parade in Seattle, an annual event commemorating prospectors and the Gold Rush. Despite his lack of formal education, Fonda was known to be quite the writer and poet, contributing to several newspapers and publications. He is also famous for being the model for which artist Alonzo Victor Lewis made two sculptures: one, called The Prospector, stands outside of the Pioneer Home in Sitka, Alaska, and a smaller version, which is affiliated with the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park in Seattle.

Seattle attorney Horton Caumont Force was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 20, 1878. He attended Harvard University and received his L.L.B. from the Harvard Law School in 1903. Force then moved to Seattle, where he began practicing law in 1904. He served as an officer in the United States Army during World War I. He was also a member of the Episcopalian Church, the Seattle Municipal League, and a trustee of the Seattle Art Museum.

The Frederick & Nelson department store was founded in Seattle in 1890 by Donald E. Frederick and Nels B. Nelson. It began as a second-hand household furnishings business before expanding into a full-line department store by the early 1900s. The store was sold in 1929 and became a division of Chicago's Marshall Field & Company. Frederick & Nelson remained relatively autonomous until the 1960s, though Marshall Field moved in slowly, allowing it to expand across the Puget Sound region. From 1978 to 1980, the company grew quickly through acquisition and construction, from four stores in greater Seattle to fifteen in the Pacific Northwest. In 1982, Marshall Field & Co. was purchased by Batus, Inc., of Louisville, Kentucky. Batus sold Frederick & Nelson in 1986 to a partnership of Seattle investors, the F & N Acquisition Corp., headed by Basil D. Vyzis. In 1989, David A. Sabey, a Seattle real estate developer, purchased the company, which by that time consisted of eleven department stores and six clearance centers. Frederick & Nelson entered Chapter Eleven bankruptcy proceedings in 1991, and finally closed in 1992.

The Friends of the Market advocacy group was founded in 1964 by Robert Ashley, architect Victor Steinbrueck, and Allied Arts of Seattle in response to plans to raze the Pike Place Market and build garages and office buildings over the site. The Friends raised funds and campaigned to prevent the Market's demolition and to encourage its designation as a historic district in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Friends were later part of the Citizens' Alliance to Keep the Market Public during the 1989-1991 battle over the sale of the Market to the Urban Group. Two members of the Friends of the Market were appointed by the mayor to serve on the Market's Historic Commission, which has authority over design and use of space in the market, in order to maintain its historic character.

Walter Frisbie (1859-1946) was born in Sidney, Iowa, and moved with his family to the Kittitas Valley in 1872. He established his home in Winslow, Washington, in 1888, and farmed in the Fairview District for many years. In later years he owned and operated the old Forest House, a boarding house for visitors to Ellensburg. Walter's wife, Betty Drye Frisbie, died in April 1941 and he died at the age of 87 on July 26, 1946.

La Conner, Washington native Cora Mae Hall Gavett (1889-1976) was a Washington State school teacher who was married to G. Irving Gavett, a longtime University of Washington professor of mathematics. As Cora Mae Hall, she attended the University of Washington briefly as an undergraduate, but ultimately received her degree from Stanford University in 1914. Cora Mae apparently met Gavett in Seattle, Washington, where both belonged to the Mountaineers Club; the couple married in California in 1921. She worked as a teacher for several years, including a stint at the North Queen Anne elementary school, and was actively involved in community affairs in Skagit County in the years after her husband's death.

Harriet Geithmann (1884-1952) was a journalist, travel writer, photographer, and outdoor enthusiast who ventured west from her birthplace in Wisconsin and settled in Seattle, Washington, where she began writing for various magazines and newspapers such as Sunset and The Argus. In 1916, Geithmann worked briefly as a teacher in Honolulu, Hawaii, and wrote about her experience for The New York Herald. In 1917, she attended Woodcock Farm in New York State to chronicle the Women's Agricultural Camp, a training ground for women who would assume farm responsibilities for men serving in World War I. Upon her return to Seattle, Geithmann lead the Harvester's League, a similar organization designed to serve Washington farms during the war. In the late 1910s through 1920, she wrote automotive advertising copy and promotional pieces, publishing articles and brochures mainly for and about the Eldridge Buick Company of Seattle, where she served for a time as advertising manager. Geithmann applied for a passport in 1920 before an extensive journey to Europe and Asia, which would start a lifetime of travels and travel writing. As an active member of The Mountaineers, she also wrote extensively about America's National Parks, hiking, nature, and the outdoors, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.

Hiram C. Gill was the mayor of Seattle in 1910 and again from 1914 to 1918. He was recalled during his first term because of scandals involving graft, collusion with the Seattle Electric Company to raise electrical rates, and for his "open town" policies, which included an expansion of brothels, dance halls, saloons and gambling parlors. Dok was the pseudonym for J.R. Hager (1858-1932), who was a Seattle dentist-turned-cartoonist who was active in the early years of the 20th century. Hager created political cartoons, as well as the characters "Dippy Duck" and "Umbrella Man," which he drew for the Seattle Times until 1925.

Albert J. Goddard (1863-1958) was a prominent civic leader in Seattle, Washington, and an early adventurer during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 in Alaska and the Yukon. Born on a farm in Iowa, Goddard graduated in 1884 from the Norton Scientific Academy in Wilton, Iowa, and moved to Seattle in 1888, where he would live for the remainder of his life. In 1888, Goddard established Pacific Iron Works, a foundry in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle with his brother, Charles, and soon became active in city and state affairs. He was the mayor of Fremont before it became part of the city of Seattle in 1891. From 1892 to 1894, Goddard was a member of the Seattle City Council, and in 1894 and 1895, he was a member of the Washington State Legislature. When news of the gold rush reached Seattle in 1897, Goddard and his wife, Clara, headed to Alaska, where they would run a successful steamboat operation that carried prospectors to and from the Yukon Territory from 1897 to 1901. Upon his return to Seattle, he again became an active member of the Seattle City Council from 1908 to 1915, and was heavily involved in municipal development plans for the city. In Seattle, Goddard owned a banking company and was a building contractor throughout much of the 1920s and 1930s. Goddard was also an active member of the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers (AYP), an organization of early Alaska prospectors, and participated in many of the "sourdough" events, reunions and conferences.

William Hills Gorham (1861-1935) was born on February 19, 1861, in Sacramento, California. He was educated in Boston and Washington, D.C. He briefly worked as a time-keeper on the Canadian railroad and as a purser on a Fraser River steamship. Gorham read law with George H. Williams, a former Attorney General of the United States and candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court. After passing the bar exam, Gorham moved to Seattle in 1884. He first specialized in admiralty law and later turned to general practice. He died on April 6, 1935, at his office in Seattle.

Multifaceted journalist and editor Maxine Cushing Gray (1909-1987) was a passionate advocate for the arts in the Pacific Northwest. Born in Massachusetts, Maxine Cushing attended Stanford University, where she pursued her many interests, including writing and the performing arts. After graduating from Stanford in 1930, she joined a San Francisco theater company for a year to learn stage lighting techniques firsthand. During the 1930s, Cushing studied modern dance at Bennington and other venues. She brought her knowledge back to the Bay Area, where she wrote performing arts reviews in the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as for other local newspapers. Cushing also organized her own small dance company in San Francisco. In 1939, she worked as a publicist for Hurok Attractions, Inc., traveling across the country with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. She settled in Seattle, Washington, in the early 1940s, following her marriage in 1940 to engineer Stanley Gray (a Montana resident whom she had met during her travels). In short order, Maxine Cushing Gray, became a press agent for the Seattle Symphony and a prominent fixture on the Seattle arts scene. She served as the music critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1951-1953), was arts editor for the Argus (1954-1974), and tirelessly promoted the arts of the region in many national publications. In 1975, she began publishing and editing her own newsletter, Northwest Arts, which she continued to produce until her death. An outspoken believer in excellence in the arts, as well as in the need for their public funding, Gray also took strong positions against discrimination, especially the treatment of the indigenous people of the Northwest. Having studied modern dance herself, the subject remained a special focus of hers throughout her life.

United States Army officer, Washington State pioneer, and businessman Granville Owen Haller (1819-1897) was born in York, Pennsylvania, as the last of five children. Haller served in the Seminole War and the Mexican War, and attained the rank of captain before he was stationed in the Pacific Northwest, where he actively fought Native Americans in the 1854 campaign against the Snake Indians and the 1855 Winnass Expedition. He also participated in the occupation of San Juan Island during the boundary dispute with Great Britain. After leaving the Northwest in the 1860s, Haller served under Generals McClellan, Burnside, and Hooker during the Civil War. In 1863, on the basis of an accusatory letter from a navy officer, Haller was discharged from the army for disloyal conduct. During the period of his dismissal, Haller and his family resided in Washington Territory, where he involved himself in many business ventures, including a saw mill, farming, and a mercantile business. After sixteen years, an act of Congress finally got Haller a hearing. In 1879, he was exonerated and reinstated as a colonel. His new commission took him away from the Northwest for three years, but upon his retirement he settled in Seattle and lived there until his death. Haller, who had married Henrietta Maria Cox in 1849, had five children, including Theodore Newell Haller (1856-1930), who became a prominent businessman, and George Morris (1852-1889), who died in a drowning accident off the coast of Whidbey Island while duck hunting with his brother-in-law, Edward Louis Cox, and Dr. T.T. Minor of Seattle. G.O. Haller also was involved with numerous Seattle clubs and civic associations. He belonged to St. John's Lodge, the oldest Masonic lodge in Seattle, and held the rank of 32nd degree.

John Lawrence Harper (1873-1961) was prominently involved in the mining industry, journalism, and other related businesses in Eastern Washington state during the first decade of the twentieth century. By 1912, he was manager of the Republic Mines Corporation, based out of Spokane, Washington, which was was reported to be the largest operating mine in Washington State. Harper also served as general manager of the North Washington Power and Reduction Company.

Florence M. Hartshorn (1869-1943) was an early Alaskan pioneer and a photographer's assistant during the Klondike Gold Rush. Born in Michigan, Florence married Albert K. Hartshorn and had one daughter, Hazel Hartshorn Goslie. Florence and Hazel arrived in Sitka, Alaska in 1898 at the peak of the Gold Rush, and reconnected with her husband who had gone ahead to establish a blacksmith shop at Lake Bennett, British Columbia, northeast of Sitka. At Lake Bennett, Florence began assisting photographer E.J. Hamacher in 1898. Over the next two decades, the Hartshorns lived in both Seattle and Canada. By the late 1920s, the Hartshorns were divorced and Florence moved permanently to Seattle, where she was an active member of the Ladies of the Golden North, an organization of early women pioneers in Alaska. From 1928 to 1929, Florence began a successful campaign to raise money for a monument to be placed at Dead Horse Gulch in the White Pass, commemorating the thousands of pack animals that died transporting supplies to the gold fields.

Mining company official Edwin Jay Kelly (1858-1918) was born in New York. In 1891, he married Minnie E. Vest (1868-1957), a native of Illinois. Edwin and Minnie settled in Washington State and had at least five children, not all of whom survived to adulthood. Edwin J. Kelly worked as an agent for the Le Roi Mining & Smelting Company, based in Spokane, which managed claims in Rossland, British Columbia.

Transportation and electric company official Arthur L. Kempster (1872-1924) was born in Canfield, Illinois, to Thomas L. and Martha M. (Hopkins) Kempster. In 1887, Kempster moved to King County, Washington. He started a job as an office boy in one of the early streetcar systems (later to become Seattle Consolidated Street Railway Company) in 1891. His position in the company rose as he advanced to the job of cashier and then to bookkeeper. In 1895, he was appointed as both auditor and secretary and remained in those positions until 1900. During that time the Seattle Consolidated Street Railway Company went out of business and was succeeded by the Seattle Traction Company, which then became part of the Seattle Electric Company. Kempster took the job of superintendent of transportation for the Seattle Electric Company in 1900 and remained there until 1911, when he was promoted to the position of general superintendent. In 1912, he became manager and was responsible for supervision of the street railways, the Diamond Ice & Storage Company of Seattle, a coal mine in Renton, and the light and power furnished by both the company in Seattle and the water power plants in Electron, White River, and Snoqualmie. In 1920, Kempster moved to New Orleans to head the New Orleans Railways and Light Company.

Arthur Irwin Launder (1895-1977) was a prominent Seattle engineer and patron of the arts who also was very active in promoting the development of the local classical music scene. A graduate of Stanford University, Launder worked for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company as a traffic facilities supervisor during the 1920s. In a professional capacity, he served as president of the Seattle Engineers Club and was a member of the American Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Among his accomplishments as a civic leader, Launder was a charter member and co-founder of the Seattle Philharmonic and Orchestra Society, chair of the founding committee of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra, and president of the Amphion Society, a Seattle choral group.

Born in Indiana, Mary Ellen Scoonover married Francis A. Le Sourd (born 1844) in 1874. The couple left Indiana soon after their marriage and were living in Kansas by 1880. They moved to Coupeville on Whidbey Island in Washington in 1884. Francis A. Le Sourd, a Civil War veteran who had been a member of Company K of the Twelfth Indiana Cavalry, became a successful farmer, prospector, and stock raiser on Whidbey Island. He served as Representative to the Washington Territorial and State Legislatures in District 50 (Island County) in 1911 and 1913 as a member of the Republican Party. The Le Sourds had two children, a daughter, Minerva (born 1887), and a son, Charles (born 1881). In 1904, Mary E. Le Sourd served as President of the Island and Snohomish Counties chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and later became State Chair of WCTU Washington. At the time of her death in 1940, she lived in Prairie, Island County, Washington.

In 1927, motion picture theater promoter Eugene Levy, along with his brother, Aubrey, and his brother-in-law, Isaac Cooper, formed the Republic Operating Company and built the Republic Building at Third Avenue and Pike Street. In 1945 and 1959, the income from this building was willed to three service organizations: the Jewish Welfare Society, the Caroline Kline Galland Home for the Aged, and the Seattle Orthopedic Hospital of Seattle.

Lincoln High School was built in 1906. At that time, Seattle's first high school, Broadway, had exceeded its capacity so another school was needed. The location on Interlake Avenue in Wallingford was chosen because of its central location and proximity to streetcars. The original buildings--a 30-room brick building, a study hall, and a gymnasium--were designed by James Stephen, with later additions by Edgar Blair in 1914 and Floyd Naramore in 1930. In 1959, an auditorium and gymnasium were added by the firm Naramore, Bain, Brady & Johanson. The school was named to honor former President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln High School opened its doors in September 1907 with 900 students from the University, Latona, Ravenna, Green Lake, Fremont, and Queen Anne districts. Lincoln was a three-year high school until 1971, but then changed into a four-year high school. The 1950s saw the height of Lincoln's enrollment. Lincoln dominated in sports, especially basketball and baseball, and it was one of the largest schools in Seattle. During the 1959-60 school year, Lincoln High School's enrollment was 2,800, making it the largest of any school in Seattle at the time. In later years, Lincoln continued to be a notable school. The school newspaper, "Totem," was rated All-American by the National Scholastic Press Association seven semesters in a row during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It also had both a well-regarded arts magnet and special education program. However, the school was shut down in 1981 due to declining enrollment, aging buildings, and small site size. Currently the school grounds serve as an interim location for other schools while their buildings undergo renovation.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born February 4, 1902, in Detroit, Michigan, to Charles August Lindbergh and Evangeline Lodge. Prior to his historic transatlantic flight, Lindbergh was an air mail pilot. He was the first pilot to make a successful non-stop transatlantic flight. Using a modified Ryan monoplane, which he called The Spirit of St. Louis, Lindbergh took off from New York on Friday, May 20, 1927 at 7:52 am and landed in Paris on Saturday, May 21st at 5:24 pm New York time, 10:24 pm Paris time. For this feat Lindbergh was awarded the $25,000 Orteig Prize. He was also given numerous awards from various countries, including the Cross of the Legion of Honor from France, the Air Force Cross from Britain, and the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded by President Coolidge. The success of his flight was a significant boost to the American aviation industry. Lindbergh married Anne Morrow on May 27, 1929. They had six children together. The kidnapping and murder of their first child, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. in 1932, was deemed "The Crime of the Century." Lindbergh died on August 26, 1974 in Maui, Hawaii.

Fred Lockley (1871-1958) was a journalist and author of many books on the history of the Pacific Northwest, especially Oregon. He was also an antiquarian book dealer. In the first decade of his life, Lockley lived in Salt Lake City, Utah; Walla Walla, Washington; and Butte, Montana with his parents, Elizabeth Metcalf Campbell and Frederic Lockley, a Civil War veteran and newspaper editor. In 1888, Lockley took a position in Salem, Oregon, as a compositor for the Capital Journal. He attended Oregon Agricultural College from 1889-1890, then later graduated from Willamette University in 1895 with a degree in education. Over the course of his career, he wrote for the Salem Statesman, Pacific Homestead magazine, the East Oregonian, Pacific Monthly magazine, and the Oregon Journal, among others, in addition to writing several books about Oregon history and culture.

Charles Franklin Luce was born on August 12, 1917, in Platteville, Wisconsin, the son of James and Wilma Luce. He earned his bachelors degree and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin and in 1942 received a masters degree in law from Yale. In 1943, Luce moved to the Pacific Northwest. He started practicing law in Walla Walla and was an attorney for the Bonneville Power Administration from 1944 until 1946. In 1961, President Kennedy named Luce to the job of administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration. During his time there, Luce led the negotiations with the governments of Canada and British Columbia to produce the Columbia River Treaty. In 1966, during the Johnson Administration, Luce went on to become the Undersecretary of the Interior. However, this position did not last long, as less than one year later Luce chose to become the chief executive of the New York utility, Consolidated Edison. In 1982, after 15 years of this job, he retired and moved back to the Pacific Northwest. He opened a law firm in Portland and briefly served as an outside director for the Washington Public Power Supply System. Luce later returned to New York, serving as a director of firms such as Metropolitan Life Insurance and United Airlines. He passed away on January 25, 2008 in California.

Russell V. Mack (1891-1960) was involved in journalism and politics in Washington State and served as a Representative from Washington's Third District from 1947-1960. Born in Hillman, Michigan on June 13, 1891, Mack moved to Aberdeen, Washington in 1895 with his parents. He attended Stanford University from 1913-1914 and the University of Washington from 1914-1915. During the First World War, Mack served as a corporal in the Thirty-ninth Field Artillery, Thirteenth Division. He started as a cub reporter at the Aberdeen Daily World in 1913 and was the paper's business manager from 1920 to 1934. In 1934, he became the owner and publisher of the Hoquiam Daily Washingtonian, a position he held until 1950. Mack ran unsuccessfully for United States Congress in 1934 and 1940. He was elected as a Republican to the House of Representatives in 1947 in order to fill the vacancy left by the death of the previous incumbent. He married Laura E. Prohaska the same year. While in Congress, he advocated for reducing the size of Olympic National Park, cutting taxes and foreign aid, universal military training, special training for diplomats, funds for highway construction, and tariffs on timber and fisheries. He opposed the Korean War and Communists holding office, and got involved in trade disputes and wrangles about the location of an Indian Bureau office and a Voice of America station (maintaining that both ought to be located in his home district). He continued to hold office until his death on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on March 28, 1960.

William Isaac Marshall was born on June 25, 1840, in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He moved to Montana Territory in 1866 and lived there until 1875. During his time in Montana, he became interested in Yellowstone and sold photographs of and conducted tours of the park. In 1875, he moved back to Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Marshall moved to Chicago in 1887 and became the principal of Gladstone School. He was also an amateur historian, and, later, a lecturer who took a particular interest in debunking the "Whitman Myth." He researched and wrote heavily on this topic, including numerous newspaper articles on "The Whitman Question," as well as at least three books: The Acquisition of Oregon: and the long suppressed evidence about Marcus Whitman (1905), The Hudson's Bay Company's Archives Furnish No Support To The Whitman Saved Oregon Story (1905), and History Vs. the Whitman Saved Oregon Story: Three Essays Towards a True History of the Acquisition of the Old Oregon Territory (1904). Marshall argued against the "Whitman Myth," believing that Whitman had nothing to do with Oregon becoming a state. Prior to his interest in Whitman, Marshall also wrote books about Yellowstone and the public education system. Marshall died on October 30, 1906 in Chicago, Illinois.

Lydia May McCutchen (1876-1966) worked at the University of Washington Library for 34 years. Born in Illinois, she graduated from the University of Iowa in 1902 and went on to become one of the first six graduates from the University of Washington Department of Library Economy with a Certificate in Librarianship in 1913. Her service to the Library began that same year and included working as a reference assistant and later heading the Binding Section of the Acquisitions Department from 1925 to 1947. Following her official retirement in 1947, she continued to work within the University of Washington Library for 17 years. In 1961 McCutchen was honored as the first recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Washington School of Librarianship.

Donald Alexander McDonald (October 13, 1880-January 6, 1963) was a King County Superior Court judge and a Democratic Representative of the Washington State House from 1932-1938. Born in Napa, California, McDonald moved to Seattle with his family at the age of ten. He graduated from the University of Washington Law school in 1905 and received a degree from Yale University in 1906. He was an assistant district attorney from 1917-1918 and was a partner in the law firm Carkeek, McDonald, and Kapp. McDonald also served as president of the University of Washington Alumni Association and the Washington State Judges Association. After 19 years of service as a King County Superior Court judge, McDonald retired in 1956.

Seattle attorney John Jay McGilvra (1827-1903) was born in New York and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1853. In 1861, he was appointed U.S. attorney for Washington Territory, a post he held until 1865. After serving a single term as a Republican in the territorial legislature, McGilvra became involved in what ultimately proved a failed railroad venture, the Seattle & Walla Walla Railroad. During this time he became a vocal critic of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. McGilvra was one of the first attorneys in Seattle and served for a short time as city attorney. He also speculated in real estate and purchased land that later became Seattle's Madison Park neighborhood. An advocate of municipal improvement in Seattle, McGilvra remained active in civic affairs even after his retirement in 1893. He backed the Lake Washington Ship Canal and promoted the plan to bring Cedar River water to Seattle.

Maurice McMicken was born on October 12, 1860, in Dodge County, Minnesota, to General William and Rowena J. (Ostrander) McMicken. McMicken moved to the Pacific Northwest when he was 13 years old. In 1877, McMicken entered the University of California at Berkeley and decided to study law. He returned to Seattle in the late fall of 1881 and became a law clerk in the office of Struve & Haines. In July 1882, he was admitted to the bar and on July 1, 1883, McMicken was admitted to partnership under the firm name of Struve, Haines & McMicken. McMicken continued to work as a lawyer for almost 50 years. In addition to practicing law, McMicken was involved in various companies and clubs. He aided in incorporating and building the First Avenue and the Madison Street Cable Companies. He also played a role in preserving the North Seattle and South Seattle Street Railway Companies during the financial depression following the panic of 1893. Between 1899 and 1909, he held a considerable interest in the Post-Intelligencer company. He also held club membership with the Rainier, University, Seattle Golf and Country, Arctic, and Seattle Yacht Clubs. On March 11, 1885, McMicken married Alice F. Smith. They had three children together, Hallidie, William Erle, and Maurice Rey. McMicken passed away on January 31, 1940.

Edmond Stephen Meany (1862-1935) was an early settler of Seattle, Washington, who became a scholar of Pacific Northwest and Washington State history, a prominent writer and civic leader, and an integral proponent for the growth of the University of Washington and the region. Meany had a long association with the University of Washington and became a full professor and head of the Department of History in 1897. In addition to authoring many books, articles, and papers, as well as holding leadership roles in several historical societies, Meany collected significant documents and rare photographs of early Pacific Northwest history, which he donated to the University of Washington in 1929.

The USS General M.C. Meigs transported troops, civilians, and prisoners of war for the United States during both World War II and the Korean War. In 1972, while being towed to San Francisco, General M.C. Meigs ran aground just west of Cape Flattery, Washington, and broke up over the next four years.

Margaret Tucker Mitchell (1905-2001) was born in Iowa and moved with her family to Seattle around the time of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909. Shortly thereafter, her family purchased land in the Yakima Valley, where she spent the remainder of her childhood. After beginning her college career at Washington State College in Pullman, she transferred to the University of Washington to major in English and journalism. After graduating in 1928, she traveled to Calgary, Canada, to visit a friend and wrote briefly for the Calgary Herald. In June 1929, Margaret married M.B. "Mike" Mitchell, who was her former UW classmate, editor and publisher of the Ballard Tribune, and a Washington State representative. She and her husband settled in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Margaret was active in her community and had an avid interest in theater, staging regular productions at the Washington Athletic Club.

Eldridge Morse was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, on April 14, 1847. After graduating from law school and the University of Michigan, Morse and his family moved to Port Madison, Washington, before settling permanently in Snohomish on October 26, 1872. On January 15, 1876, Morse and Albert Folsom established the town and county's first newspaper, the Northern Star. The paper's final issue was on May 3, 1879. Morse died on January 5, 1914.

Richard H. Murphy (born 1918) served three terms as the State Representative for Washington's 32nd District, from 1941 to 1947. Murphy was born in Seattle and attended the University of Washington. Prior to his entry into politics at the age of 22, Murphy had been a shipyard worker. He was an active member of the Washington Commonwealth Federation, a radical political group that supported labor rights and sought to end poverty. In 1946, he unsuccessfully ran for Washington State Senate, but continued to be active in Democratic Party politics. In 1963, he ran for a State Assemblyman position in California's 23rd District, emphasizing his commitment to equal employment rights for the disabled and blind.

The Seattle Branch of the National League of American Pen Women--a society of professional women engaged in creative work in writing, music, and visual arts--was formed in 1923 and disbanded in 2009. Queena Davison Miller, who was a member for 42 years, was President of the Seattle Branch from 1944-1946 the fourth National Vice-President, 1946-1948, the State of Washington President, 1948-1950, and editor of The Whistling Swan for seventeen years.

Harold Oman was born on September 14, 1893, in Sweden. He moved to America in 1913. Oman collected mammoth tusks and fossils in Alaska and even aided the University of Alaska in collecting fossils during the 1930s. He married Ellen Newman Oman on March 10, 1951. Oman passed away in October 1979 in Port Angeles, Washington.

These scrapbooks were created by Carl Reiter, who was a vaudeville performer who became the manager of the Orpheum Creighton theatre in Omaha, Nebraska around 1904. He remained in Omaha until 1910, when he became the manager of the Orpheum in Seattle, Washington. Reiter went to Oregon to run the Portland Orpheum in 1914. He returned to Seattle by 1917, when the Moore Theatre joined the Orpheum Circuit and Reiter became its manager. The Orpheum Circuit was founded in San Francisco by Gustav Walter in 1887. In 1894, Walter and his partner, Louis Meyerfeld, opened a theater in Los Angeles. Meyerfeld subsequently opened theaters in Kansas City, Missouri and Omaha, Nebraska in 1898 so that performers would have something to do on the trip between the East Coast and California. An Orpheum Circuit theater opened in Portland, Oregon in 1908, and Seattle, Washington had its own Orpheum theater by 1911 at 3rd Avenue and Madison Street. Orpheum productions moved to the Alhambra Theatre at 5th Avenue and Pine Street in 1916, and then to the Moore Theatre in 1917. The Orpheum was incorporated in 1919, by which time Martin Beck had become the company's chairman. In 1928, it merged with another chain of theaters to become Keith-Albee-Orpheum, which became the motion picture studio RKO shortly thereafter.

Don Page was a writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the mid-twentieth century. His writings focused on marine and Port-based issues. He also served on the Port of Seattle Commission.

George Thomas Tillman Patterson (1848-1894) was born in Antrim, Guernsey County, Ohio and enlisted in the Ohio Light Artillery on July 6, 1863, at the age of 15. He was honorably discharged at the end of the Civil War. Patterson entered the United States Military Academy at West Point as a cadet in 1868 and, upon graduating in 1872, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Fourteenth Infantry, with whom he served in several campaigns in the Western United States. He was promoted to first lieutenant in 1883 and to a captain in 1892. As a captain, he was stationed at the Vancouver Barracks in Vancouver, Washington, from September 1892 to May 26, 1894. On August 14th, Patterson died of Bright's disease while on a sick leave of absence in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Patterson was married to Pauline Helen Patterson (born July 1850), the daughter of cotton merchant Alexander D. Brown (or Broun) of Newburyport. 1880 U.S. Census records indicate that the Pattersons were married by that date; they were married in either 1873 or 1875. After her husband's death, Mrs. Patterson appears to have returned to Massachusetts as the 1900 U.S. Census records show her residing with her parents.

C. E. (Clayton "Stumpy") Payne (1869-1963) was a prominent labor organizer who was born in Minnesota, but spent the majority of his life in the West. He was a charter member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and attended its founding convention in 1905. He wrote various pieces for the IWW cause including a pamphlet entitled "Industrial Government," the preface for the book The Everett Massacre: A History of the Class Struggle in the Lumber Industry (1920), and served as the editor of the New Solidarity.

Daniel Carleton Pearson was born in Stanwood in Washington's Snohomish County on September 12, 1877. He held various jobs and worked as a teacher, Island County auditor, editor and publisher of the Island County Times, shop owner, Stanwood postmaster, and Snohomish County treasurer. In later years, Pearson became a chiropractor and sold vitamins. Pearson married Jessie Hosom on April 10, 1900, in Coupeville on Whidbey Island. They had one daughter together, Merrill June. Pearson died in September 1971.

William Perkins was born in 1858 and died in Seattle in 1947. Perkins' varied career included dredging and mining, banking, Republican Party activities, and Masonic Lodge activities. He was one of the first to see the dredging possibilities of Alaska, and he was the one to provide the financial backing for the first Alaska dredge at Nome. He was Deputy Sovereign Inspector General for Washington and Alaska ca. 1910 for the Freemasons, and he held classes and was responsible for the establishment of the first Masonic lodges in Alaska. Perkins was an active member of the Republican Party in Alaska, and acted as Chairman of the Juneau convention in November 1907 and served as delegate to the National Republican Convention in Chicago in 1908. He was a University of Washington Regent from 1914 to 1922 and an active member of Seattle Masonic organizations.

Steel industry executive William Pigott (1860-1929) was born in New York City. After working in the local steel mill as a salesman for many years, business interests brought Pigott to Seattle in 1895. Pigott earned extreme success in Seattle and founded two of Seattle's major industrial enterprises, Seattle Steel Co. (later Bethlehem Steel Co. and Birmingham Steel Co.) and Seattle Car Manufacturing Co. (later Pacific Car and Foundry Co., PACCAR). He was also a member of the Foreign Trade Council of the National Foreign Trade Association, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and the Manufacturers' Association of Seattle. Pigott was also active in the community, and served as a member of the Seattle School Board for many years and as a member of the governor-appointed committee to draft a medical attendance amendment to the workmen's compensation fund. Pigott married Ada Clingan in 1894 and together they had two sons, William Pigott, Jr. and Paul Pigott.

Michael T. Powers (1863-1925) served as a police officer and law enforcement official in Seattle, Washington, in a career that spanned over thirty-three years, including a stint as the captain in charge of the Ballard station. Powers was born in San Francisco, California, where he trained as an iron moulder. He moved to Seattle in 1886 and initially found work with Moran Brothers; he also became a member of the volunteer fire department. In 1890, Powers was appointed as a patrolman on the Seattle police force. He became a detective in 1897, and was made sergeant in 1901 and captain in 1908. In 1923, he retired from the police force and worked briefly for the Seattle Times but left due to poor health. He then relocated to San Francisco for convalescence.

Thomas Wickham Prosch was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1850 to Charles and Susan Prosch. In 1855, he and his family moved to the Pacific Northwest. In 1872, Prosch became owner and publisher of the Pacific Tribune in Olympia. He moved the paper first to Tacoma and then to Seattle, but sold it in 1878. One year later, in 1879, Prosch, along with Samuel L. Crawford, bought the Seattle Intelligencer. In 1881, they merged the paper with the Post to form the Post-Intelligencer. Prosch sold the newspaper in 1886. Outside of newspapers, Prosch held a variety of jobs including the position of postmaster of Seattle between 1876 and 1878, and was a member of the Seattle School Board from 1891 through 1893. He was also a historian and wrote several books on Northwest history. Socially, Prosch was President of the Pioneers' Association and a member of the Good Templars Lodge in Steilacoom, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Sons of the American Revolution. In 1877, Prosch married Virginia McCarver Prosch, the daughter of General Morton and Julia Ann McCarver, the founders of Tacoma. They had six children together: five daughters (Julia, Genevieve, Beatrice, Phoebe and Edith) and one son, Arthur. Prosch and his wife were killed in a traffic accident on March 30, 1915.

William Farrand Prosser (1834-1911) was born in Pennsylvania, where he was mainly self-educated and became a teacher and student of law. In 1854, he briefly moved to California to pursue a career in the mining industry before returning to Pennsylvania to enlist as a Union solider in the Civil War. After the war, he settled in Tennessee, where he served in various civil and political roles. In 1879, he was appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes to serve as a special agent in the Pacific Northwest for the United States Department of the Interior, and would remain a resident of Washington for the rest of his life. In 1880, he married, and briefly settled in the Yakima Valley, where he founded the town of Prosser, Washington. He was a delegate of the first Washington State Constitutional Convention in 1892 and one of the founding members of the Washington State Historical Society. He also authored a book, A History of the Puget Sound Country, in 1903.

In a career spanning thirty-five years, Marguerite Eleanor Putnam (1890-1966) served as Chief Acquisitions Librarian at the University of Washington and also was active in national and regional professional organizations. Born in Minnesota, she attended the University of Washington, where she completed her undergraduate degree in 1921 and continued her studies toward an MLS, which she received in 1923. After graduating, Putnam taught as a library science instructor at the University of Washington, later becoming an associate professor from 1930-1933. She was made the Head of the Acquisitions Division at the University of Washington Library in 1936. Her professional memberships and activities over the years included the Pacific Northwest Library Association (for which she served as Secretary), the American Library Association (including terms on its Committee on Library Equipment and Appliances), the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Washington Library Association. Following her retirement in 1956, she was appointed to become an honorary Consultant in Bibliography at the University of Washington.

John "Watermelon" Redington (1851-1935) was an Indian War scout, newspaper editor and writer, and humorist. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Redington worked as a printer's devil with the Cambridge University Press before enlisting in the United States Army in 1874 as a way to get to the West. After his discharge that same year, he settled briefly in Salem, Oregon, where he established a printing firm. Over the next few years, Redington traveled around the West, lending his printing expertise to communities in Oregon, Idaho, and Utah, before serving as a scout in the Nez Perce Indian War of 1877 and the Bannock Indian War of 1878. His small stature led General Oliver O. Howard to refer to him as the "original boy scout." After the war, Redington settled in Eastern Oregon where he married Nellie Meacham, daughter of Alfred B. Meacham, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and became publisher of the Heppner Gazette in 1883. He later published newspapers in Puyallup and Tacoma, Washington, where he settled with his wife and their four daughters. In his later years, he moved to California, where he lived in a home for veterans until his death in 1935. Printed on his stationery was the slogan: "California -- home of the December dandelion and the winter watermelon."

Dionis "Dio" George Reinig (1879-1972) was a prominent businessman and farmer in the Snoqualmie Valley. Born in Seattle, Reinig moved with his family in the late 1880s to a farm on lands that are now part of the Three Forks Natural Area in Snoqualmie. In 1902, he opened a general store with his brother, Otto. After a fire destroyed the store in 1908, the Reinig brothers rebuilt, and it remained in the family until 1945 when it was sold to another proprietor. In 1910, Dio Reinig married Hadasah Knapp. The couple had three children.

Educator, journalist, and local historian Charles Mason MacDougall Rice was born on April 28, 1898, in Snohomish, Washington. After a brief period of service in the military, he began his teaching career in 1921 in the elementary and secondary schools of Everett, Washington. In 1941, Rice became an Associate Professor of Industrial Arts at Western Washington State College (now Western Washington University), and worked there until his retirement in 1965. Rice also enjoyed history and was known as the "Snohomish Historian laureate." He wrote numerous historical articles for the Snohomish County Tribune. He passed away in Seattle in 1993.

Whatcom County lumber mill owner, businessman, and politician Henry Roeder (1824-1902) was born in Kasar, Germany, and moved with his family to America when he was seven years old. The Roeder family settled in Vermillion, Ohio. Following his career as a ship captain on the Great Lakes, Roeder decided to travel to California during the gold rush. After mixed success, he moved to Oregon to start a fishing business. Roeder and R.V. Peabody, seeing opportunity in the rising price of lumber after the 1851 San Francisco fire, went to Whatcom County and established the Whatcom Falls Mill in 1852. The mill was a success and Roeder went on to other successful business ventures, including mining, hotel management, and shipping. Roeder also became involved in politics and served one term in the territorial council, eight terms in the house, and four terms as county commissioner.

Forester and labor leader William C. Ruegnitz (1883-1944) was born in Alma Center, Wisconsin. Trained as a civil engineer, he came to Oregon in 1909 while working as Western representative for the Bates & Rogers Construction Company (1903-1915). He also was associated with the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen (4-L) from its beginning, serving as its secretary and manager from 1921 to 1926. He was president from 1926 until the time the organization disbanded in 1936. Ruegnitz later had positions with Columbia Basin Sawmills and Columbia Basin Loggers. Ruegnitz married Jet McCollom in 1909 and they had two children together.

Maude Ryder was a student at Auburn High School who went on to graduate from the University of Washington in 1924. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Cecilia Augspurger Schultz (1878-1971) was an influential impresario who managed the Moore Theatre from 1935-1949, helping to bring nationally- and world-renowned music and dance artists to Seattle, Washington. Born in Trenton, Ohio, she graduated from Illinois Wesleyan College of Music in Bloomington, Illinois, at the age of 17. She studied piano under composer Emil Liebling in Chicago and moved to Seattle in her thirties, teaching piano and playing in recitals. Schultz established a piano studio in 1919 and served for two years as the manager of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Moving on to concert promotion, she brought highly regarded actors, musicians, and dancers to the Moore Theatre. She also helped to organize the Northwest Grand Opera and served on the board of Allied Arts. Schultz died on Mercer Island on March 4, 1971.

The Seattle Advertising and Sales Club began in 1909 as the Seattle Advertising Club, before changing its name in 1936. It currently operates under the name Ad Club Seattle (ACS). The organization aims to provide networking resources and relevant information for professionals in the advertising field in Seattle, Washington. A subsidiary group, the Seattle Junior Ad Club, was formed in 1937 to specifically address the issues of young professionals starting to build their advertising careers.

The Seattle Area Chest X-Ray Program began in 1948. Sponsored by the King County Medical Society, the Anti-Tuberculosis League of King County, and the Department of Health, along with the cooperation of the U.S. Public Health Service and the Washington State Department of Health, its goal was to get chest x-rays of all residents of King County ages 15 and older in order to identify tuberculosis and other ailments. Buses traveled the county in rotation to provide mobile Public Health clinics where residents could receive their x-rays.Six years after its creation, the death rate from tuberculosis in Seattle was down by 82%. Tuberculosis cases continued to decline throughout t 1960s, and the last mobile x-ray unit in the state of Washington ceased operations in 1971.

The Seattle Civic Opera Association was founded by Mary Davenport Engberg and her son, Paul Engberg, in 1932. Their goal was to use local talent to produce grand opera. All of the work done for these operas was completed on a volunteer basis, and costs were covered through fundraising. The first opera produced by the Seattle Civic Opera was Wagner's Tannhauser on June 23, 1932. The company produced three operas each year until the mid-1930s, when it reduced that number to two each year. These productions were held in the Civic Auditorium, the Moore Theatre, the Music Hall, and the Metropolitan Theatre. After the founding of the Seattle Opera in 1963, the Seattle Civic Opera began to focus more on aiding aspiring singers in the community by holding annual competitions and sponsoring singers in monthly presentations.

The Seattle Lighting Department (later Seattle City Light), a municipally owned public power company, was established by a City Charter amendment in 1910. Under the control of Superintendent James D. Ross (1911-1939), the department grew and developed the Skagit River hydroelectric project. This project took more than 30 years to complete but created three dams to provide electric power to the people of Seattle. In 1951, the City of Seattle purchased the local private power company, the Puget Sound Power and Light Company, making the Seattle Lighting Department the sole supplier of electricity for Seattle. The current name of the agency, Seattle City Light, was adopted in 1978. As of 2007, City Light supplied electric power to approximately 395,000 customers in Seattle and neighboring areas.

The Seattle Repertory Playhouse was founded in 1928 by husband and wife Burton W. and Florence Bean James, who were theatre artists from New York City. The first two seasons of the Repertory were performed in makeshift venues, but in 1930 the Jameses were able to purchase a brick storehouse on the corner of 41st Avenue NE and University Way and convert it into a theatre. Their goal was to present socially relevant and engaging theatre, while also addressing local social concerns. Due to these liberal tendencies, the Jameses were targeted by the Washington State Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities (also known as the Canwell Committee) in 1948. Attendance began to drop during this period and the Playhouse went bankrupt. The building was sold to the University of Washington and the company's final production, "Pygmalion," closed on December 30, 1950.

The Seattle Star was a daily newspaper that ran from February 2, 1899, to August 13, 1947. Known as the "working man's" paper, it had the largest circulation of any newspaper in the Seattle region around 1900. However, this success did not last and by the 1940s the Seattle Star had the lowest circulation of the general dailies. Rising labor costs and a shortage of newsprint were cited as reasons for the sale of the paper in 1947.

The Seattle Society of Social and Moral Hygiene was founded in 1911 primarily to promote sexual health through educational reforms. Comprised of physicians, teachers, clergymen, and other prominent members of the community, the Seattle hygiene movement attempted to prevent the spread of venereal diseases by conducting extensive outreach campaigns to parents of school-aged children across the city to promote better sex education. Founding officers of the Society included University of Washington Department of Education professor Edward O. Sisson (President) and Dr. Sydney Strong (Secretary).

The Century 21 Exposition, also known as the Seattle World's Fair, was held from April 21 to October 21, 1962 on the grounds of the current Seattle Center.

The Seattle Art Museum grew out of the Seattle Fine Arts Society (organized 1905) and the Washington Arts Association (organized 1906). These two organizations merged in 1917, but retained the name Seattle Fine Arts Society. In 1931, the Society was renamed the Art Institute of Seattle. As the Art Institute, the art collection was displayed in Henry House, the former home of Horace C. Henry. Richard E. Fuller, president of the Seattle Fine Arts Society, became the driving force behind the new museum by donating money for the construction of a new facility. A site was eventually approved in Volunteer Park and the building, designed by Carl F. Gould, opened to the public in 1933.

Eugene Semple (1840-1908), the son of a U.S. senator from Illinois, moved to Portland, Oregon in 1863. Semple served as Oregon state printer from 1870 to 1874, and from 1883-1899, he operated an unsuccessful shingle mill called the Lucia Mill Company in Vancouver, Washington. President Grover Cleveland chose Semple, a Democrat, to replace Republican Watson Squire as governor of Washington Territory from 1887-1889, which was a period of turbulence and expansive growth in the Pacific Northwest. Semple lost his bid to become the first governor of the newly admitted state of Washington in 1889, but in 1890 he served as the Washington State Harbor Line commissioner. Semple was a major promoter and financier of the south Seattle ship canal, a project that started in 1895 to connect Lake Washington with the Seattle harbor in Puget Sound. The canal was never completed, and in 1903 Semple resigned as president of the Seattle and Lake Washington Waterway Company.

Alice Maude Smith was born in 1868. She was a M.D. and a writer. Dr. Smith was a member of the American Medical Association, the League of Women Writers, and the Woman's Legislative League of Washington. She practiced medicine in Tacoma for more than 40 years. She wrote under the pseudonyms of Alice Smith Scoville, Sutton Broome, Smith Sutton Brome, Scovill Smith and Scovill Smith Brome.

Cecil H. Smith (1905-1988), credited with being the first attorney to open his own office in the city of Bellevue, Washington, earned a law degree from the University of Washington while simultaneously supporting himself as the leader of a popular local dance band during the Depression. Born Cecil Haven Smith on June 15, 1905, in Bellingham, Washington, Smith played drums in the Whatcom High School band and spent several years following his graduation from high school working in a factory by day and playing in dance bands at night. In 1926, he entered the University of Washington's School of Architecture, but abandoned his studies after a year, finding it more profitable to continue working as a musician, generally using the name Cec Smith. He re-enrolled at the University in 1929 after deciding to pursue a degree in business, but continued to maintain a very active schedule with his band, which went by several names, including the Planters (after the Plantation Café, where they frequently performed). Smith's bands played at most of the important social events on campus and went on two tours of Asia during summer vacations. Smith eventually received a law degree and passed the Washington State bar examination in 1936. He worked as a title examiner and for the War Labor Board before moving with his wife, Bernice (a longtime interlibrary loan librarian at the University of Washington), to Bellevue, setting up a practice downtown in the Jenkins Building after the Second World War. After the move, Smith continued to lead a band that played frequently at Eastside social functions until the mid-1950s, when he became interested in local politics. In later life, Smith continued to be active in local civic and fraternal organizations, including the Bellevue Kiwanis Club and the Shrine (playing in the Shrine Band and writing arrangements). An avid traveler and amateur photographer, Smith frequently gave travel lectures, illustrated with his own slides, in the years before his death on July 15, 1988.

Charles Jackson Smith (1854-1924) was a highly-successful Seattle businessman and civic leader who served as one of the organizers of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Born in Nicholasville, Kentucky, Smith grew up in Kansas City, where he found employment in the railroad industry after graduating from Blackburn University in 1870. He first came to the Pacific Northwest in 1880 as an assistant comptroller for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, but later moved to New York as he advanced within the company. He returned to the Pacific Northwest in 1889, relocating to Portland, Oregon, to serve as the General Manager of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, but moved to Seattle the following year to become Vice President and General Manager of the Oregon Improvement Company (OIC), remaining in that role through 1897. When the OIC was purchased by the Pacific Coast Company in December 1897, Smith was receiver and continued as General Manager of the new company. By 1898, he had gone into business for himself, amassing a fortune through shrewd real estate investments and numerous other business and banking ventures. Smith was active in many organizations, including the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the Rainier Club. In 1880, he married Elizabeth McMillan (1859-1930) in Kansas City. The couple had five children. Smith, who also was a patron of the arts, was acknowledged to have a fine tenor voice and enjoyed singing at social gatherings and other public occasions.

Seattle attorney and judge Edward Everett Smith (1862-1933) was born in Derby, Connecticut. After graduating from Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, Connecticut in 1879, Smith enrolled at Yale University. He graduated from Yale in 1883, but went back for two more years to earn his law degree in 1885. Smith then moved to Seattle and began practicing as an attorney. In 1912, he was appointed to serve on the King County Superior Court and served in this position until 1933. Smith was an active advocate for troubled youth both off and on the bench.

James Allen Smith (1860-1926) was a professor of political science at the University of Washington from 1892-1924 and served as a graduate school dean from 1911 to 1920. Prior to his work at University of Washington, he was a professor of economics and sociology at Marietta College from 1895 to 1897. Smith Hall on the UW campus is named in his honor.

Yakima lawyer and politician Henry J. Snively (1856-1930) was born in Virginia to Ambrose and Elizabeth (Harritt) Snively. In 1879, he received his law degree from the University of Virginia and subsequently practiced law in West Virginia for seven years. In 1886, Snively moved to North Yakima and continued to practice law there. Additionally, Snively was an active Democrat and was elected as the district attorney for Yakima and Kittitas counties in both 1886 and 1888. He also successfully ran for state legislature in 1891. His campaigns for the positions of Washington Attorney General in 1889 and Washington Governor in 1892, however, were not successful.

Bernice F. Stern was a civic leader and public official in King County, Washington. Stern was an active member of the Council of Jewish Women and a member of the King County Council (1970-1979). She was concerned with women's issues as well as environmental and community planning.

George Wellington Stoddard (1896-1967) was a prominent Seattle-area architect who specialized in residential architecture early in his career, but later received several notable public commissions, including Overlake High School (1946), Memorial Stadium (1947), Green Lake Aqua Theatre (1950), and the South Stands at Husky Stadium (1950). Stoddard trained at the University of Illinois, served in the military during the First World War, and joined his father's architectural firm in Seattle (which was renamed Stoddard and Son) after the war. Following his father's death in 1929, he began George Wellington Stoddard & Associates. In 1955, he went into partnership with Francis E. Huggard as George W. Stoddard-Huggard & Associates, Architects and Engineers. Stoddard was a member of the Washington State Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and served as president of the chapter in 1946-1947. He retired from practice in 1960.

Seattle and Tacoma streetcar employees of the Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Company went on strike on July 16, 1917. The strike was in protest of the firing of seven Tacoma streetcar workers who were involved with union activities. Striking employees demanded recognition of their union and better working conditions, including an eight-hour working day, the elimination of swing runs, and a pay increase. On several occasions, the Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Company tried to continue running streetcars throughout the strike, but their attempts were not successful. The company brought in drivers from the East, but many of these new drivers, seeing the conditions, also decided to join the strike. Additionally, public support lay behind the streetcar employees, as an estimated 80 to 90 percent of citizens supported this strike. Eventually, many of the issues between the two parties were solved through an arbitration board. The Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Company recognized the right of its employees to affiliate with the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees around October 1, 1917.

Annie Hall Strong, the second wife of former Alaska governor J.F.A. Strong, was born Anna Hall in Nevada City, California in 1870. After graduating from Seattle High School in 1888, she went to France and Germany to study music. In 1896, she married John Franklin Alexander Strong. Together they participated in the Klondike and Nome gold rushes. Between the years of 1913 and 1918, Strong served as the first lady of Alaska Territory. After the death of her husband, Strong was based in Seattle and continued to travel the world. She often participated in speaking engagements at venues throughout the Puget Sound area in which she lectured about her travel experiences. Strong passed away on April 23, 1947.

Henry G. Struve was born in Germany in 1836. He came to the United States in 1853, where he lived in New York City and California before moving to Vancouver, Washington in 1860. In 1865, he was first elected to the house of the territorial legislature and later worked as the secretary of Washington Territory. In 1879, Struve moved to Seattle, where he formed the law partnership Struve & Leary, which changed names and partners a number of times throughout its existence. He was elected mayor of Seattle in both 1882 and 1883.Struve was also interested in historical research, and was active in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was married to Lascelle Knighton and had four children, Harry, Helen, Frederick, and Mary. He died while traveling in New York City on June 13, 1905.

Henry Suzzallo was president of the University of Washington from 1915 to 1926; president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching from 1913 to1933; arbitrator of the National War Labor Policies Board; and chairman of the Washington State Council of Defense from 1917 to1918. He also worked toward the adoption of better living and working conditions for loggers in the lumber industry. He died in 1933. Glenn Hughes, who founded the University of Washington (UW) Dramatic Art Department under Henry Suzzallo, described him as “a brilliant man, small and dynamic--the Napoleon of higher education.” The characterization was apt; Suzzallo’s career was marked by both tremendous achievement and bitter controversies. He was born in 1875 to Croatian immigrants. Following a sickly childhood, Suzzallo began college at the State Normal School in his home town of San Jose, California, lacking both the money and the grades to attend his first choice, Stanford. After two years he graduated, taking a teaching job in a two-room school in Alviso, California. His degree from the Normal School and money from teaching removed the academic and financial barriers, allowing him to attend Stanford. For the next eighteen years, Suzzallo would shuffle between Stanford and Columbia, first pursuing his education, and later as a faculty member at both institutions. During this time, he managed to win himself an increasingly prestigious reputation. When the UW began searching for a new president in 1914, Suzzallo’s name was on the short list of candidates. In 1914, the UW was a small frontier college undergoing the first growing pains of becoming a major university. It claimed an enrollment of more than 3,000 students, small by the standards of the major American universities of the time, but still a tremendous increase over previous years. It also suffered from a less-than-robust budget. James R. Angell, the Regents’ first choice for president, declined the job, primarily because he considered the UW underfunded. Suzzallo was the Regents’ second choice, and he accepted the challenge. Even though money never flowed freely, he did prove remarkably adept at squeezing funding from both private donors and the Legislature. Plans for a magnificent new library, patterned after a medieval cathedral, symbolized his success in expanding the size of the campus and the prestige of the university. (The library would eventually bear his name). During this time, enrollment had burgeoned to over 10,000. Suzzallo further augmented his stature in the state during World War I, when he was president of the Washington Council of Defense, which had primary responsibility for the state’s war effort. The “Napoleon of higher education” was not to be spared his Waterloo, however. The 1924 election of governor Roland Hartley would shatter the relative calm of Suzzallo’s presidency. Hartley won on a platform promising government retrenchment and lower taxes. He also had a record of long-standing antagonism towards the UW, which he saw as a hotbed of socialism. “Education is a fine thing,” he acknowledged, “but that is not all there is to the game of life.” The year of the election, Suzzallo had published his book Our Faith in Education, written primarily to present the case for higher education against those who wanted to limit it in favor of tax reduction. Not surprisingly, Hartley’s parsimony quickly conflicted with Suzzallo’s educational vision. Suzzallo’s high salary--$18,000 a year, larger than any other state official--made him and the University especially vulnerable to attack. Not only did Hartley want to curtail university expenditures, he also proposed overhauling the funding and administration system for the state’s colleges and universities. Suzzallo did nothing to hide his strong objections to the governor’s agenda. The battle spread to the Legislature and the Board of Regents, both Suzzallo allies. Each camp insisted adamantly, if implausibly, that it represented a political virtue intent on rescuing higher education from the political machinations of its opponents. Hartley overcame the obstacle of the recalcitrant Regents by removing members supportive of Suzzallo. The Board, now dominated by Hartley’s new appointees, put Suzzallo on indefinite leave-of-absence when he refused to resign. Suzzallo’s ouster created a political firestorm, although a petition drive for a gubernatorial recall election, despite early momentum, sputtered, and failed to collect the required number of signatures. Suzzallo was flooded immediately with job offers. He decided to accept election as chairman of the board of the Carnegie Foundation. He remained affiliated with the Carnegie Foundation until complications following a heart attack in Seattle claimed his life on September 25, 1933.

The Swedish Tercentenary Association of Seattle and Vicinity was formed in 1937 to plan local area celebrations in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the first Swedish settlement in the United States at Delaware. The group initially was comprised of fifty-eight Swedish churches, lodges, and other organizations. The main events of the festival, which took place on July 9 and 10, 1938, included a large pageant at the Civic Auditorium in Seattle and an outdoor celebration held at the Vasa park resort on Lake Sammamish.

Reginald Heber Thomson (1856-1949) served multiple terms as Seattle City Engineer from 1883 to 1886, from 1892 to 1911, and from 1930 to 1931. He was born in Hanover, Indiana in 1856, and graduated from Hanover College in 1877 with a doctorate in philosophy. After graduating, Thomson moved to Oakland, California and briefly taught mathematics at the Healdsburg Institute (later known as Pacific Union College). Thomson arrived in Seattle on September 25, 1881. During his tenure as Seattle City Engineer, he constructed much of Seattle's municipal infrastructure, including the city sewer system, the paving and regrading of downtown Seattle streets, and the construction of the Great Northern Tunnel. He was also instrumental in creating the Cedar River watershed, City Light, the Port of Seattle, and the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. The Seattle Board of Public Works removed Thomson from office briefly in February 1894, but Mayor James T. Ronald reversed the decision, instead removing two members of the Board and reinstating Thomson. From 1916 to 1922, Thomson was a member of the Seattle City Council, yet he continued as an engineering consultant during this time, working on projects including the Lake Washington Floating Bridge and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Immediately prior to his death, Thomson wrote his autobiography, That Man Thomson, which was published posthumously. Thomson died in Seattle in 1949.

Best known for managing the Nisqually farm of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company (an agricultural subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Company) , Dr. William Fraser Tolmie played a key role in the Company's development of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia in the mid-nineteenth century. His personal observations about the region's landscape, plant life, and Native Americans have endured as a rich primary source of regional history. Tolmie was born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1812, where he received a classical education. He went on to Glasgow University where he became doctor of medicine in 1832 at the age of twenty. Although medicine was his profession, botany was his hobby and is a prevalent theme in his writings. After receiving his medical degree, Tolmie went to work for the Hudson's Bay Company at Ft. Vancouver in what is now Washington State. In 1833 he was one of three doctors at the fort, leaving little for him to do medically. During this time Tolmie pursued other interests in botany and religion and has been credited with giving the region's Native Americans their first formal religious instruction. Supervisors at Ft. Vancouver had recognized that the young doctor possessed valuable leadership skills in addition to his medical knowledge, and within a few months gave him leadership roles outside Vancouver that shaped the rest of his long career with the Hudson's Bay Company and its subsidiary, the Puget Sound Agricultural Company (PSAC). The Company first sent Tolmie to Nisqually, south of Puget Sound, where he was based from August until December of 1833. During his stay there, Tolmie was the first white man to attempt to climb Mt. Rainier and recorded the expedition in his journal. After his service at Nisqually, Tolmie was sent to Ft. McLoughlin on Milbank Sound (now part of British Columbia) as a trader, doctor, and Indian affairs man. Tolmie took an interest in the Native Americans and soon learned to speak many of their dialects. He stayed at Ft. McLoughlin until February 1836, except for two absences. In May 1834 he accompanied an expedition led by Peter Ogden on the Stickine River, and in 1834 he spent the summer at Ft. Simpson in northern British Columbia. Also while he was at Ft. McLoughlin, Tolmie started the first circulating library in the region. In 1836, Tolmie returned to Ft. Vancouver, where he again lacked patients but developed his skills as a shrewd and skillful trader with Native Americans. He stayed at Vancouver for four years and acted as a trouble shooter whenever conflicts developed between the Company and nearby settlers. In 1841 Tolmie took a two-year leave of absence to return to Europe where he studied new developments in medicine and learned to speak Spanish. After his return to Ft. Vancouver in 1843, Tolmie received an appointment as superintendent of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company's Nisqually farm. He received the post largely because of his agricultural interests and leadership skills, and soon implemented a hierarchical labor system with Native Americans and European indentured servants. Troubles between the British-owned Nisqually farm and the American settlers became a constant problem for Tolmie, especially after the farm became part of American territory after 1846. In 1856 Tolmie was promoted to Chief Factor of Ft. Nisqually, although he had been doing commensurate work all along. In 1859 the Hudson's Bay Company transferred Tolmie to Victoria at the time of gold excitement on the Fraser River, but he still remained the Chief Factor and business head of the Nisqually farm until the PSAC sold the farm to the US in 1870. At Victoria he was in charge of the farms on Vancouver Island, was elected to the board of management of the Hudson's Bay Company, and at the same time conducted Nisqually's business affairs by mail. Tolmie also began focusing more of his attention on his family and politics. He had married the daughter of a Hudson's Bay Company's Chief Factor and had seven children, including Simon Fraser, who later became Premier of British Columbia. Tolmie's political career had begun at Nisqually in 1846 when he represented Lewis County at the Oregon legislature. In 1860 Tolmie became a member of the House of Legislature Assembly and when the Province of British Columbia was created he represented Victoria in the Legislature until ending his political career in 1878. He had officially retired from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870, after 37 years of service. Tolmie passed his remaining years on an 11,000 acre farm outside Victoria named Cloverdale. There he raised a large herd of cattle and engaged in considerable agricultural activity. He also was credited with introducing the dahlia, acacia, and the strawberry to this region. He died in 1886 at the age of 74.

Walter Harold Tuesley (1892-1972) was born in Tacoma, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1917 with a degree in journalism. He later worked as a salmon broker for the Kelley-Clarke Company in Seattle, where he eventually became a partner. As a member of the History Committee, he was a co-author of the anniversary publication entitled History of the University Club of Seattle (1963).

During World War I, the Federal government established the Federal Fuel Administration by Executive Order 2690. Among other activities, the Federal Fuel Administration managed the use of coal and oil, introduced daylight savings time, shortened the work weeks for civilian goods factories, and encouraged Heatless Mondays.

Born in 1871, John J. Underwood traveled the world and spent over 14 years in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Based on these experiences, he wrote the book Alaska: An Empire in the Making. A descriptive travel narrative about Alaska and its customs, the book was published in 1913. Underwood later moved to Seattle and wrote for the Seattle Daily Times and was a representative for the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.

Dillis Burgess Ward (1838-1922) was one of the early pioneers of the Pacific Northwest. Born in Kentucky, he moved with his family to Arkansas in 1844, then traveled with them across the plains to Salem, Oregon in 1853. Ward would later write about this experience in Across the Plains in 1853 (1911). After six years of working on his father's farm, Ward moved to Seattle in 1859. He accepted his first job at the Yesler sawmill, and later worked hauling lime and stone materials to the Territorial University of Washington campus for its first building. Ward would eventually attend the university as student. Ward also held many other positions throughout his career. With his brothers, Ward started both the Seattle Chronicle and the Post, the predecessors of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. For seven years, he headed the Industrial School at the Skokomish Indian Reservation. He also served a term on the Territorial Legislature in 1879. Ward was heavily involved in the real estate and development of Seattle, and was hired to promote Washington State at the Trans Mississippi International Exposition, held in Omaha, Nebraska in 1898. Ward was also appointed high bailiff to the Superior Court under Judge R.B. Albertson in 1905, a position he held for over 15 years. He married Sarah Isabella Byles in 1863 and they had six children. Their eldest daughter, Sarah Elizabeth "Lizzie" Ward, would later marry University of Washington professor, Edmond S. Meany.

Pioneering photographer Arthur Churchill Warner (1864-1943) was born in Granby, Massachusetts. Growing up in Minnesota, he studied photography and, in 1886, moved to the West Coast as a photographer for the Northern Pacific Railway. Warner settled in Seattle and began taking and selling photographs of the growing city. In 1888, he joined a Mount Rainier climbing expedition with John Muir. Warner was the first person to use a camera to record the summit of Mount Rainier. His account of the ascent was posthumously published in "The Mountaineer" in 1956. Warner continued working in photography for the greater part of his life, and many of his photographs are held by the University of Washington Libraries.

The University of Washington's Ambulance Corps formed shortly after the United States entered World War I in 1917. It was organized by University of Washington students in the spring of 1917 as a volunteer Red Cross unit, Ambulance Company 12, with D.C. Hall as commanding officer. Ambulance Co. 12 was reorganized into three Sections of the United States Army Ambulance Service. Section 571, with 1st Lieutenant Frederick G. Beattie, departed for France on August 29, 1918, and subsequently served at various points along the Western Front. They returned to the United States in April 1919, and were demobilized in May 1919. Frederick G. Beattie enlisted in the U.S. Army on June 17, 1917. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in September and was subsequently made the commanding officer of 571 Section United States Army Ambulance Service. He served at St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne as part of the American Expeditionary Forces from June 1918 to April 1919. He received an honorable discharge in May 1919, and subsequently settled in Michigan.

Created in 1950 by Raymond B. Allen, the Bureau of Community Development was an experimental program that provided a community consultant to and guidelines for Community Study Groups. The Bureau was part of the Division of Adult Education, and was headed by Richard W. Poston. As part of this program, communities would form groups to study themselves, assess problems, and propose solutions.

The University of Washington's School of Forestry was established in 1907 and became the College of Forestry in 1911. It accepted its first Ph. D. candidates in 1933, and awarded its first doctorate in 1936. In 1967, it became the College of Forest Resources and began to shift its focus to natural resources.

Built in 1896, Lewis Hall originally housed men. Clark Hall, which was built in the same year, was for women students. In 1922, Lewis Hall also became a women's dormitory. In 1939, Lewis Hall was renovated into classrooms and offices.

For its first fifty years, the University of Washington library had been housed in a succession of temporary spaces culminating in a series of inadequate quarters in Denny Hall. It was then moved to a building originally constructed in 1909 for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, but considerably remodeled to accommodate a collection of 40,000 books. Ground was broken for President Suzzallo's proposed library in April 1923 and the new library was opened in January 1927, with 175,000 volumes and a spectacular reading room. The South Wing was completed in 1935, but the original plan for a 300 foot high carillon book tower was finally abandoned. More space was gained in building projects in 1947 and 1963. The most recent addition was the massive addition of the Kenneth S. Allen Library in 1990, necessary to house the multi-million volume collection and various public and technical services.

The School of Librarianship was established at the University of Washington in 1911 and has been accredited continuously by the American Library Association since 1926. The School was the first librarianship program established west of the Mississippi and the first to establish a law librarianship program (in 1939.) On August 23rd, 1983 the School adopted the Graduate School of Library and Information Science as its new title. The School offered two new programs in the Fall of 2000, a B.S. in Informatics and a Ph.D. in Information Science, in addition to moving its quarters to Mary Gates Hall. The School officially changed its name to the "Information School" on July 1st, 2001 and became the UW's sixteenth separately organized school and college. Previously, the School had been located within the Graduate School.

The University of Washington School of Nursing was only the second school of nursing in the United States to be based in a university, and the first on the West Coast. As a result of the need for nurses in World War I, University of Washington President Henry Suzzallo recommended the development of a nursing education program, which began in 1918. Elizabeth Sterling Soule organized the Department of Nursing in the College of Science in 1921. The Department began offering a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing in 1923. In 1932, the department received its own building on campus. In 1934 the Department of Nursing became a School of Nursing Education in the College of Arts and Sciences. Master of Nursing and Master of Science in Nursing degrees were approved in 1936. In 1945, Nursing became an independent school in the Division of Health Sciences with Elizabeth Soule as the first dean.

Members of the Young Naturalists Society founded the Museum in order to house their growing collection of natural history artifacts. In 1899, the Washington State Legislature designated it the Washington State Museum, and it became a museum of natural history and culture. In 1962, it was renamed the Burke Museum in honor of Judge Thomas Burke.

Puget Sound ferry service started in the early 1900s with routes provided by a number of companies. By 1935, however, only one company, the Puget Sound Navigation Company (commonly known as the Black Ball Line), was still providing ferry service. In 1951, the Puget Sound Navigation Company sold most of its terminals and ferries to the Washington Toll Bridge Authority (currently Washington State Ferries (WSF). In its first year of service, the state-operated ferry system carried approximately four million passengers. As of 2012, WSF was the largest ferry system in the United States with 10 routes and 20 terminals served by 28 vessels.

Journalist and humorist C. Douglass Welch (1906-1968) was best known for his syndicated column, "The Squirrel Cage," which was carried locally by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Born in Boston, Welch grew up in Tacoma, where his father was managing editor of the Tacoma News-Tribune. He attended the University of Washington and briefly worked for the Cleveland Plain Dealer upon graduating in 1928, but soon returned to Seattle where he worked as a reporter and feature writer first for the Seattle Times, and later for the Post-Intelligencer. "The Squirrel Cage," syndicated by King Features, ran in the Post-Intelligencer from 1958 until his death in 1968. Two posthumous collections of these columns, The Squirrel Cage (1976) and Neighbors and Other People (1978), were edited by his wife, Ruth Hecht Welch. In addition to his newspaper journalism, Welch wrote a large number of comic stories and pieces which were published in national magazines. Stories featuring the character of newspaper photographer "Happy" Digby subsequently were collected in a book, Mr. Digby (1945), and several of Welch's short pieces were adapted for radio and television.

Leigh Whitford (1919-1988) was a World War II veteran and a member of the Pacific Northwest Cycling Association. Along with Rex Clark, in 1947 he refurbished the SS Atlanta, which was moored in Seattle's Lake Union, to serve as temporary housing for members of the American Youth Hostels Inc. and a meeting place for the University Cycle Club and the Pacific Northwest Cycling Association. He later lived in Tacoma, Washington.