University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
PH0498
McMicken family
McMicken family
photograph collection
1845-1924
80 photographic prints
3 photographs : tintype
1 drawing
1 print : engraving
(1 box, 1 folder)
Collection
materials are in
English.
Photographs of
early Olympia, Washington, the William McMicken family, John G. Parker and his
wife Jerusha Jane Parker, and the Gilmore Hays family
William McMicken was born in Youngstown, New York in 1827 and learned
engineering from his father's firm. He moved to Wisconsin and then to
Minnesota. When the Civil War started, he joined the army, and was commissioned
first lieutenant in Company B of the Tenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, which
fought against the Sioux in 1862. He subsequently was assigned to the
Department of Tennessee, the Sixteenth Army Corps. After the war he returned to
Minnesota and was appointed assessor of internal revenue of the state's First
Congressional district. He moved to the Puget Sound region in 1871 for health
reasons and was eventually appointed the surveyor general for Washington
Territory. A distinguished Mason, he was accorded high Masonic Honors at his
funeral in 1899.
William McMicken married Rowena Ostrander. The 1878 wedding of their
son, Herbert McMicken to Helen Parker linked together the four families
represented in this collection: the McMickens, the Parkers, the Ostranders, and
the Hays. Herbert was related to the Ostranders through his mother, Rowena.
Helen was related to the Hays family though her mother, Jerusha Jane. The
families resided in the area of Washington Territory that later became Olympia,
Washington.
The collection consists of McMicken, Hays and Parker family portraits
and scenes in Olympia, Washington during the territorial period.
Photocopies of the oversize prints are included in Box 1.
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The McMicken Family Papers (Accession 0040-001) were originally
purchased from Shorey's Book Store and received June 15, 1959. The William
McMicken Papers (Accession No. 0434-001) were donated by Maurice McMicken.
Processed by Rebekah Dalby, 2005.
The photographs in this collection were relocated within the
repository from the McMicken Family Papers (Accession No. 0040-001) in April
1982 and from the William McMicken Papers (Accession No. 0434-001) in May
1982.
McMicken family--Photographs
McMicken, William, 1827-1899--Photographs
McMicken, Rowena J. Ostrander, 1835-1910--Photographs
McMicken, Maurice--Photographs
Parker, Jerusha Jane, 1835-1917--Photographs
Commercial buildings--Washington (State)--Olympia--Photographs
Families--Washington (State)--Olympia
Houses--Washington (State)--Olympia
Pioneers--Washington (State)--Olympia--Photographs
Frontier and pioneer life--Washington (State)--Photographs
Olympia (Wash.)--Photographs
Tintypes
Photographic prints
Engravings
Drawings
Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Photographs
Washington (State)
Pioneers
Home and Family
Olympia
Captain William McMicken
1/1
1-2
William McMicken
ca. 1860s
: Tintypes
1/1
3
William McMicken
ca. 1860s
1/1
4
William McMicken
ca. 1860s
Easton's Photographic Gallery, Rochester, Minn.
1/1
5
William McMicken
ca. 1860s
Beal's Art Gallery,
Minneapolis, Minn.
1/1
6
William McMicken
ca. 1860s
Geo. P. Hall, St. Louis,
Mo.
1/1
7
William McMicken
ca. 1880s
Howell,
Broadway
1/1
8-9
William McMicken
Sept. 1899
Rogers, Olympia,
Wash.
1/1
10
William McMicken
Sept. 1899
Same image as item 9.
Rowena Ostrander McMicken
1/2
11
Rowena McMicken
ca. 1860s
S.E. Curtiss, Waterloo,
Wis.
1/2
12
Rowena McMicken
ca. 1860s
Beal's Photographic Studio, Minneapolis, Minn.
1/2
13-14
Rowena McMicken
ca. 1860s
Easton's Photographic Gallery, Rochester, Minn.
1/2
15
Rowena McMicken and child
ca. 1860s
1/2
16
Rowena McMicken
ca. 1860s
1/2
17-18
Rowena McMicken
ca. 1870s
A.B. Woodard, Olympia,
Wash.
1/2
19
Rowena McMicken
ca. 1870s
Moore Portrait Photographers, Seattle, Wash.
1/2
20-22
Rowena McMicken
1905
1/2
23
Rowena McMicken
ca. 1905
Davies, Portland,
Or.
[Maurice McMicken?]
1/3
24
[Maurice McMicken?]
undated
Taber, San Francisco,
Calif.
1/3
25
[Maurice McMicken?]
undated
OS3
26
[Maurice McMicken?]
undated
Grady, Seattle,
Wash.
Unidentified McMicken Family Members
1/4
27
Baby
ca. 1860s
Clark, Olympia,
Wash.
1/4
28
Elderly woman
ca. 1860s
Elmer & Tenney,
Winona, Minn.
1/4
29
Elderly man
ca. 1860s
Walter C. North, Utica,
N.Y.
1/4
30
Woman
ca. 1860s
A.B. Woodard, Olympia,
Wash.
1/4
31
Man
ca. 1870s
Rockwood, 17 Union
Square
1/4
32
Woman
ca. 1870s
Rockwood, 17 Union
Square
1/4
33
Woman
undated
Curtis
Hays Family
1/5
34
Major Gilmore Hays
ca. 1845
Copy from a daguerreotype.
1/5
35
Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore Hays, Lexington,
Mo.
1845
Copy from a daguerreotype.
OS3
36
Major Gilmore Hays
ca. 1870s
1/5
37
Charles M. Hays, Boise,
Idaho
1899
Parker Family
1/6
38
Captain John G. Parker
undated
Born in 1829 and died in 1908.
1/6
39
Jerusha Jane Parker
undated
Born in 1835 and died in 1917.
1/6
40
Jerusha Jane Parker
undated
A.L. Jackson, Tacoma,
Wash.
1/6
41
Jerusha Parker, Mrs. Gilmore Parker,
Mrs. Judge Struve, and Mrs. William Harrington, Tacoma, Wash.
undated
Olympia, Washington, Residences
Various
1/7
42
"Barber" Brown's house
1921
1/7
43
Crosby house
1921
1/7
44
Diamond house
Oct. 1921
1/7
45
Nathan Eaton house
1921
1/7
46
Farquhar house
Feb. 1922
1/7
47-48
Gilbert house
1921
1/7
49
Judge Hewitt's house
1921
1/7
50-51
"Old Huries place," with original
home
1921
1/7
52
"Old Huries place," new home called
"Fleetwood Place"
undated
1/7
53
"Old John's place," Bush
Praire
1922
1/7
54
Lawson house
1924
1/7
55
Littlejohn house
Oct. 1921
1/7
56
O'Brian house, Swan Town
ca. 1922
1/7
57
Dr. N. Ostrander house
undated
1/7
58
Ovelette house
Feb. 1922
1/7
59
Ovelette house
1923
1/7
60
Frank Owen house
1921
1/7
61
T.M. Reed house
1924
Later the site of the Theatre Liberty.
1/7
62
Rosenthal house
ca. 1921
Later the C.S. Church.
1/7
63-66
Governor Stevens's house
1918
1/7
67
Sylvester house
Feb. 1922
McMicken House
1/8
68-70
McMicken house
undated
Formerly the Tilton house.
1/8
71
McMicken house
ca. 1890
1/8
72
McMicken house
ca. 1908-1912
Olympia, Washington, Locations
1/9
73
Main Street
1868
1/9
74
West Side Bridge
1870
1/9
75
Scully's second-hand store
undated
1/9
76
New England House
1918
1/9
77
Businesses on Main Street
undated
1/9
78
Old maple tree by the Littlejohn
residence
Oct. 1921
1/9
79
Billing's cherry tree
ca. 1921
1/9
80
Old maple trees near Steve Ruddel
residence
ca. 1921
1/9
81
Old printing office
1924
1/9
82
J.C. Percival's warehouse
1924
1/9
83
George Blankenship outside Carlton
Hotel
1924
1/9
84
Kendall Warehouse, Olympia
waterfront
1924
Tacoma, Washington
1/10
85
Job Carr's cabin
1865