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Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections 4602 (Accession No. 4602-001) Bagley, Daniel, 1818-1905 Daniel Bagley papers .67 cubic feet (2 boxes) English Papers of a Washington State pioneer, Methodist pastor, businessman, and civic leader.

Daniel Bagley was a Washington State pioneer, Methodist pastor, businessman, and civic leader. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1818 and died in Seattle in 1905. His wife, Susannah Rogers Whipple, was born in Massachusetts in 1819 and died in Seattle in 1913. Bagley became a minister of the Methodist Church in 1842, and in 1852 he was chosen by its board of missions to represent its teachings in Oregon Territory. In the same wagon train with the Dexter Horton, Thomas Mercer, Aaron Mercer, William Shoudy, and John Pike families, Bagley left Illinois in 1852 and settled first in Salem, Oregon. In 1860 the family moved to Seattle.

In March 1861 the Washington territorial legislature appointed Bagley, John Webster, and Edmund Carr as commissioners of the newly established Territorial University. Bagley was named president of the commission and was one of those responsible for acquisition and sale of university lands. He was also actively involved in the functions of the Republican Party in the territory, and in the development of real estate in Seattle. In partnership with George F. Whitworth, Josiah Settle, and Clarence Bagley, he organized the Lake Washington Coal Company, which developed commercial coal mining in the area now known as Newcastle.

This collection is arranged in multiple series: incoming and outgoing correspondence (a total of 356 letters); financial miscellany; legal documents, including court papers, deeds, land agreements, indentures, memoranda, powers of attorney, and documents relating to the Lake Washington Coal Company; miscellany, including speeches, charts, etc.; and a Washington (Territory) University land sales record book.

Incoming correspondence is filed by name of author and given individual name folders when either quantity of letters or unique content indicated the importance of the correspondent. Remaining letters are filed alphabetically in miscellaneous name folders. Outgoing letters are filed chronologically. The remaining series are arranged in approximate chronological order.

Contains correspondence, legal documents, and other material documenting the enterprises of Daniel Bagley in nineteenth-century Washington Territory. Correspondents include Arthur Armstrong Denny.

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Daniel Bagley Papers, Accession No. 4602-001. Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington.

Gift of Clarence Booth Bagley.

The papers of Clarence Booth Bagley, Daniel Bagley's son, should be used in conjunction with the Daniel Bagley papers, as many of the enterprises which concerned both of them are more fully documented in the Clarence Bagley collection. The Clarence Bagley papers, Manuscript Collection 0036, are also available in the Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries.

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Incoming correspondence Individual correspondents 1/1 Alvord, Thomas M., 1832- 1868 3 items 1/2 Bagley, Clarence Booth, 1843-1932 1874 1 item 1/3 Bagley, Susannah Whipple, 1819-1913 1867-1870 17 items 1/4 Bagley, William 1892-1902 7 items 1/5 Barnard, William E. 1866-1867 8 items 1/6 Blinn, Marshall 1883 1 item 1/7 Brannan, Joseph, 1825- and Sara V. 1888-1897 9 items 1/8 Brents, Thomas Hurley, 1840- 1888 1 item 1/9 Carr, Edmund 1868-1870 3 items 1/10 Carr, J. Tyler 1869-1870 3 items 1/11 Car, Ossian J. 1866-1875 11 items 1/12 Denny, Arthur Armstrong, 1822-1899 1863-1882 18 items 1/13 Evans, Elwood 1887 1 item 1/14 Garfielde, Selucius, 1822-1881 1866-1875 4 items 1/15 Givler, M. 1887, 1891 3 items 1/16 Gowey, John F. 1885, 1887 4 items 1/17 Horton, Dexter, 1825-1904 1868 1 item 1/18 Jacobs, Orange, 1827-1914 1876-1878 5 items 1/19 Jenner, Charles Kirkham, 1846- 1881-1882 4 items 1/20 Lansdale, R. H. 1886, 1887, 1892 8 items 1/21 Leary,. John, 1837-1905 1897, undated 2 items 1/22 Longsworth, M. A. 1895-1899 4 items 1/23 McGuire, Mary Ann 1892, 1896 4 items 1/24 McNaught, Ferry & McNaught, Seattle, Washington 1880-1881 2 items 1/25 Mitchell and Lewis Company, Portland Oregon 1891 3 items 1/26 Mix, James D. 1870-1871 4 items 1/27 Moore, Phillip D. 1868 1 item 1/28 Newell, William A, 1817-1901 1884 1 item 1/29 Turney, L. Jay S. 1861 1 item 1/30 United States General Land Office 1882, 1887, 1892 3 items 1/31 United States Indian Affairs Office 1883-1890 8 items 1/32 United States Land Office, Olympia, Washington 1866-1883 12 items 1/33 United States Land Office, Vancouver, Washington 1864-1882 4 items 1/34 Whitworth, George F., 1816- 1886 1 item 1/35 Yantis, J. V. 1886, 1889 2 items 1/36 Yesler, Henry L. 1810-1892 1867 1 item Miscellaneous correspondents 1/37 Abbott, L. G. 1869 1/37 Abbott, S. B. 1866 1/37 Affley, Eva B. undated 1/37 Allen, J. R. 1867 1/37 Anthony, B. W. 1888 1/38 Bagley, Mr. and Mrs., and Agnes 1898 1/38 Bagley, A. H. 1896 1/38 Bagley, Adella 1903 1/38 Bagley, Ellen 1898 1/38 Bagley, Josiah 1893 1/38 Bagley, Myrta 1883 1/38 Bagley, O. H. and L. J. 1870 1/38 Bagley, Rena undated 1/38 Beach, L. P. 1869 1/38 Bell, John 1869 2 items 1/38 Bell, W. N. 1867 1/38 Brown, Beriah F. 1869 1/38 Browning, John T. 1867 1/38 Bryan, H. E. A. 1867, 1870 3 items 1/38 Brygges, Anna S. 1898 1/38 [Bullins?], George W. 1894 1/38 Byles, C. N. 1866 1/38 Bywater, C. M. 1881 1/39 Caton, H. S. 1884 1/39 Coe, B. W. 1878 1/39 Cook, S. M. 1892 1/39 Chambers, A. J. 1894 1/39 Clymer, C. 1868 1/39 Coombs, Samuel F. 1891 1/40 Denny, David T. 1883 1/40 Dickenson, Obediah 1870, 1890 2 items 1/40 Dodge, John 1867 1/40 Donohoe, Kelly & Company, San Francisco, California 1873 1/40 Edis, Rhoda A. undated 1/40 Edwards, George 1876 1/40 Edwards, O. W. 1886 1/40 Ferry, Elisha Peyre 1889 1/40 Fletcher, Thomas P. 1871 1/40 Freemasons, General Grand Secretary 1871 1/40 Freemasons, Grand Lodge of Washington 1896 1/40 Freemasons, St. John's Lodge, No. 9 1889, 1870 2 items 1/41 Graves, Franklin P. 1898 1/41 Guye, F. M. 1880 1/41 Hale, Henry C. 1897 1/41 Hallowell, Henry G. 1885, 1893 2 items 1/41 Hammond, Eliza A. 1899 1/41 Hammond, William 1890 1/41 Hayes, P. C. 1838 1/41 Hewitt, R. H. 1866 1/41 Hill, B. A. 1877 1/41 Holgate, L. J. 1838 1/41 Hunter, W. H. 1869 1/41 Island Company, Washington Territory Auditor v. 1893 1/42 Johnson, Jasper W. 1900 1/42 Johnson, W. W. 1863 1/42 Jones, R. S. 1900 1/42 Keach, Philip 1866 1/42 Keally, W. F. 1886 1/42 Kendrick, Rodney 1892 1/42 Littlejohn, H. J. 1889 1/42 Longsworth, B. N. 1891, 1892 2 items 1/43 McCracken, John 1869 2 items 1/43 McCullough, Robert 1879 1/43 McElroy G. B. 1886 1/43 McNaught, James 1889 1/43 Mann, S. H. undated 1/43 Maple, E. P. undated 1/43 Maple, J. W. 1893 1/43 Meany, Edmond S. 1894 1/43 Mercer, Annie E 1883 1/43 Metcalf, Adeline I. 1891, 1892 2 items 1/43 Methodist Protestant Board of Publication, Baltimore, Maryland 1886 1/43 Moore, C. W. 1891 1/43 Mullan, John 1890 1/43 Munson, J. S. C. 1837 2 items 1/44 Neyce, J. H. 1869 1/44 Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Pacific Division 1876 1/44 Pacific Mason magazine 1896 1/44 Phillips, L. S. 1869 1/44 Page, Emily H. undated 1/44 Pike, F. E. 1898 1/44 Pincus, Isaac 1890 1/44 Price, P. S. 1870 1/44 Puget Mill Company, Port Gamble, Washington 1864 1/45 Renton, William 1866 1/45 Richardson, Edwin 1866 2 items 1/45 Robbins, Joseph 1887 1/45 Roberts, T. F. 1892, 1896 2 items 1/45 Sanderlin F. M. 1898 1/45 Seattle Lumber & Commercial Company 1883 1/45 Shattuck, Charles B. 1875 1/45 Shields, H. E. 1896 1/45 Smith, Jesse 1901 1/45 Stacy, M. V. B. 1884 2 items 1/45 Stone & Burnett, Seattle, Washington 1870 1/46 Taylor, Fred E. 1905 1/46 Tibbetts, George W. 1893 1/46 United States Land Office, Seattle, Washington 1888 1/46 United States Treasury Department 1864 1/46 Washington Territory Supreme and District Court Clerk 1877 1/46 Washington Territory Surveyor General 1874 2 items 1/46 Washington Mill Company, Seabeck, Washington 1875 1/46 Ward, Dillis B. 1869, 1883 2 items 1/46 Webb, Thomas 1893 1/46 Webster, H. A. 1876 1/46 Weed, G. A. 1870 1/46 West, M. F. 1870 1/46 West Coast Improvement Company, Seattle, Washington 1899 1/46 Whipple, A. J. 1904 1/46 Whitworth, F. H. 1881 1/46 Winsor, Charles F. 1868 2 items 1/46 Winsor, H. 1868 1/46 Zack, James C. 1876 1/47 Letters introducing Bagley 2 items 1/47 Bailey Gatzert to A. Schwabacher, San Francisco, California 21 November 1870 1/47 N. Andrew Chilberg to E. A. Holbrook, Chicago 12 May 1888 1/48 Letters in which Bagley is referred to 1864-1890 4 items 1/48 J. M. Edmunds (General Land Office) to Register, Olympia, Washington 2 April 1864 1/48 Treasury Department to Andrew B. Young 7 March 1879 1/48 M. V. B. Stacy to Dexter Horton & Company 18 October 1884 1/48 Wilfred M. Kellogg to Rolland S. Denny 1 November 1899 1/49 Letters from unidentified parties 1865-1869, 1890 6 items 2/1,2 Outgoing correspondence 1859-1897 63 items 2/1-2 Bagley to Marshall Blinn, Seabeck, Washington 1861-1866 8 items 2/1-2 Bagley to Selucius Garfielde 1868 1 item 2/1-2 Bagley to William Pickering, Jr., photostat letter 1869 2/3 Financial miscellany circa 1867-1898 10 items Legal documents circa 1861-1902 2/4 Court papers 1871-1898 13 items 2/5 Deeds, land agreements, mortgages, etc. 1861-1892 15 items 2/6 Indentures 1873-1902 26 items 2/7 Memoranda, powers of attorney, etc. 1885-1894 14 items 2/8 Documents relating to the Lake Washington Coal Company 1867 2 items 2/9 Miscellany, speeches, charts, etc. 25 items 2/10, 11 Washington Territory University, land sale record book circa 1861-1888 2 volumes