Cornelius Hanford was born in 1849 in Winchester, Iowa. He migrated with his parents to the Pacific Northwest in 1853. From 1861 -1867 he lived in San Francisco and attended commercial college. He then took up a pre-emption claim in Walla Walla, but was forced to give it up due to health failure. In 1872 he returned to Seattle where he studied law in the office of George N. McConaha. He was appointed to the Territorial Legislative Council, 1877-1878. In 1878-1880 he formed a law partnership with Colonel Charles H. Larrabee. Hanford was appointed as Assistant U.S. Attornery for Washington in 1881. In 1883 he was elected city attorney of Seattle, and re-elected in 1884 and 1885. He served as chairman of the Republican Central Committee in 1888. Hanford was appointed Chief Justice of Washington Territory in 1889. He was the last Chief Justice of the territory and its first federal judge after statehood. He died in 1926.
The defeat of the Spanish by the United States in the Spanish- American War in 1898 ended Spanish rule in the Philippines, Cuba, Guam and Puerto Rico. The Philippine Islands, along with Guam and Puerto Rico, were ceded to the United States by Spain at the end of the Spanish- American War as part of the Treaty of Paris. This transfer of sovereignty was not recognized by Filipino leaders, whose troops were actually in charge of the entire archipelago, with the exception of the capital city of Manila, where the Spanish had been defeated by George Dewey and the city was occupied by American troops. The Philippine- American war began near Manila on February 4th, 1899. Emilio Aquinaldo’s army occupied a trench-line surrounding Manila, and shooting soon began along this ten mile line. United States troops quickly overwhelmed Filipino positions, pushing north into Central Luzon, the main Philippine Island. The conventional battle ended in 1899, but guerilla fighting continued, with ambushes, massacres and retaliations on both sides. From this point on, the war became particularly savage, with indiscriminate violence and the slaughter of civilians. The number of Filipino civilian deaths is estimated by some historians to be in the hundreds of thousands.
Photographs of American military forces in the Philippines and scenes of the Philippine American war. Includes scenes of military life and also battle scenes, with images portraying military officers General Frederick Funston, Brigadier General Lloyd Wheaton, Colonel Harry Clay Egbert, Major General Henry W. Lawton and others. Includes two photographs of soldiers from Washington State who may or may not have taken part in the war; and portraits of Judge C.H. Hanford.
An accompanying list provided descriptions of 66 photographs. Two of the photos that were numbered on the list as 33 and 37, were not found in the collection.
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Donor: Possibly, UW Law Library: 1/71, 4/74, 7/80; Lucile Hanford Showalter. Dayton, Ohio: 7/74, 1/1/1971.
Processed by Kaylynn Guerra, 2018.
The photographs may have been relocated from the Cornelius Holgate Hanford Papers, Manuscripts Accession No. 1512 in the repository, but there is no concrete evidence that they were originaly with the papers.
Photographs related to the companies that stopped in Hawaii on the way to the Philippines.
This is the second ship named
This is the first ship named
This is the first ship named
From accompanying material: An insurgent cook boiling rice for prisoners at Fort Santiago.
The building name in English, City Hall of Manila.
From accompanying material:"Old Glory" waving in front of the above building.
Occured at Fort San Antonio, and districts of Manila: Santa Mesa, Pasay, Santa Ana, Malate, Singalong (now San Andres), and Santolan.
From accompanying material: Insurgent killed in the protestant cemetery.
From accompanying material: Killed by one of Dyer's shells.
From accompanying material: Work of the 14th infantry near Fort San Antonio.
From accompanying material: These insurgents tried to get away with the 1st Idahos at Santa Ana [district].
From accompanying material: "The Long and Short of it." A composite [the photograph is a composite of two different images printed together], one killed near Malate and three near blockhouse 14, Singalong.
From accompanying material: Insurgent dead near blockhouse #14, Singalong.
From accompanying material: 1st Montana before Caloocan.
From accompanying material: The 20th Kansas are on the firing line; the 23 Infantry are reserves.
From accompanying material: Firing line of the 1st Montana.
From accompanying material: "Kansas and Utah Short Line Station" barricaded by insurgents.
Occured at districts: Santa Cruz, Binondo and Tondo.
From accompanying material: Native women bringing to Manila what they managed to save from their houses burned.
From accompanying material: Rounded up by the 13th Minnesota, Tondo.
Occured on the Pasig River and at San Pedro de Macati (now Makati City).
Written on verso: The "Laguna de Baya".
Written on verso: The Laguna de Bahia [Spanish for bay] in action up the river, a piece from San Pedro Macati.
Written on verso: Famous Riley's Battery at San Pedro Macati.
Written on verso of both items: Riley's battery in action, San Pedro Macati. Written en verso of item 52: Large officer with beard is Brig. General Lloyd Wheaton. Slender officer at far right is Captain Smith C.O. of my Company "K" 1st Wash.
While soldiers on their way to Malolos, battles occured at Malinta district, Manila, and at Tuliahan River, Malabon .
From accompanying material: The day they landed.
Written on verso: 1. Brig. [Brigadier] Gen. Wheaton. 2. Col. Egbert 22nd U.S. Infty. [Infantry] killed shorty after this picture was taken. 3. 1st Lieut. [Lieutenant] Howland 20th U.S. Infty. aide-de-camp to Gen. Wheaton. 4. Mr. McDonald correspondent to New York.
Written on verso: Brig. Gen. Wheaton. Lt. Howland aide-de-camp about to mount. Major George F. Shiels Brig-Surgeon 1st Brig. 1st Div. on the right. Pipe in mouth.
Views of Pasig River, Manila (its districts Quiapo and Malate), and Manolos, Bulacan.
Located at the entrance of Manila Bay.
Written on verso: Commencing at the left, Maj. Starr. Inspector general 1st Div., Major Gen. Lawton recently from Cuba, Commanding 1st Div., Mrs. Lawton, Major Clarence R. Edwards Asst. Adjt. [Adjutant] Gen. U.S.V. Brittish Consul's house in rear.
Tagalog refers to people of central Luzon or an Austronesian language.
From accompanying material: A cock fight.
From accompanying material: A Filipino sleeping machine.
Currently known as Quinta Market.
From accompanying material: Young America in Malate.
From accompanying material: A Malate fish market.
From accompanying material: Ruins of the Capital(?) at Malolos.
From accompanying material: Natives at Malolos the day after we took the town.
A season's greetings post card.
Written on verso: Taken at Marris on [illeg.]. By [illeg.] S.C. Houghton. N.E. Cor. Fifth and Julian Sts. San Jose, Cal.