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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 0138 (Accession No. 0138-001) Boyer, John E., 1866-1961 John E. Boyer papers 1860-1944 6 cubic feet (12 boxes) Collection materials are in English. Lawyer, businessman, army officer

Lawyer, businessman, army officer.

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.

The John E. Boyer papers mainly contain business and Boyer family correspondence. Notable items include the 1899 diary kept by Boyer during the Philippine Insurrection (1899) and several copies of a log of a trip to Alaska (1912), the original of which is illustrated with contemporary picture postcards and photographs.

Cite As: John E. Boyer papers, Manuscript collection 0138. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington.

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Purchased from Shorey's Bookstore, 11/30/1960.

Boyer, John E.--Archives Boyer family--Correspondence Boyer, Arthur A Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909 Garrecht, Francis A Smith, B. Frank Baker-Boyer National Bank (Walla Walla, Wash.) Interlaken Land Co., Seattle Philippines--History--Philippine American War, 1899-1902--Personal narratives Bankers--Washington (State)--Archives Businessmen--Washington (State)--Archives Lawyers--Washington (State)--Archives Real estate developers--Washington (State)--Archives Agricultural credit--Washington (State), Eastern Banks and banking--Washington (State)--Walla Walla Banks and banking--Washington (State) Real estate development--Washington (State)--Seattle Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Expeditions and Adventure Military Diaries Photographs Correspondence Picture postcards

Incoming letters 1883-1944 1/1 American Exchange Bank 1927 2 items 1/2 Ammann, C.E. 1903-1904 3 items 1/3 Anderson Land Co., Spokane 1905 2 items 1/4 Andrews, J.C. 1903-1905 10 items 1/5 "A" Miscellany 1904-1944 14 items 1/6 Baker & Baker Loans 1903-1909 16 items 1/7 Baker-Boyer National Bank 1891-1907 23 items 1/8 Baker-Boyer National Bank 1908-1935 13 items 1/9 Balfour, Guthrie & Co., Portland 1903-1906 2 items 1/10 Bayles, S.W. (1 of 2 folders) 1904-1907 16 items 1/11 Bayles, S.W. (2 of 2 folders) 1908-1909 22 items 1/12 Beales, M.C. 1903-1909 15 items 1/13 Bennett & Sinnott 1903-1914 14 items 1/14 Benton County 1911 2 items 1/15 Blanford High School, Walla Walla 1905-1909 5 items 1/16 Boose, Oscar L. 1920-1921 2 items 1/17 Boston Store, The, Cle Elum 1908 3 items 1/18 Boyer, Arthur A. (1 of 5 folders) 1899-1903 15 items 1/19 Boyer, Arthur A. (2 of 5 folders) 1904-1905 19 items 1/20 Boyer, Arthur A. (3 of 5 folders) 1906-1909 21 items 1/21 Boyer, Arthur A. (4 of 5 folders) 1915-1921 22 items 1/22 Boyer, Arthur A. (5 of 5 folders) Undated 7 items 1/23 Boyer, Arthur E. 1914-1931 9 items 1/24 Boyer, Charles 1889-1917 20 items 1/25 Boyer, Frank D. 1903-1914 17 items 1/26 Boyer, Imogen (1 of 5 folders) 1902-1906 17 items 1/27 Boyer, Imogen (2 of 5 folders) 1906-1908 21 items 1/28 Boyer, Imogen (3 of 5 folders) 1909-1918 17 items 1/29 Boyer, Imogen (4 of 5 folders) 1920 15 items 1/30 Boyer, Imogen (5 of 5 folders) Undated 24 items 1/31 Boyer, Isabel 1904-1918 18 items 1/32 Boyer, J.F. 1894 3 items 1/33 Boyer, Marguerite 1904-1908 11 items 1/34 Boyer, Sara E. 1895-1902, undated 6 items 1/35 Bradner Co. 1918-1919 2 items 1/36 Britton & Gray 1917-1918 6 items 1/37 Broberg & Schuler 1906-1908 15 items 1/38 Brown, Leo F. 1906-1908, undated 8 items 1/39 Broyles, T.L. 1904-1918 13 items 1/40 M.B. Bruggemann & Co. 1909 3 items 1/41 Buchner, W.F. 1908-1909 11 items 1/42 E.C. Burlingame Co., Ellensburg 1903-1916 8 items 1/43 Burwell & Morford, Inc. 1910-1927 11 items 1/44 "B" Miscellany (1 of 2 folders) 1889-1908 26 items 1/45 "B" Miscellany (2 of 2 folders) 1909-1937 16 items 2/1 Cahill, W.E. 1904-1905 2 items 2/2 Camp, Al 1905-1908 5 items 2/3 Campbell's Soil Culture Co., Lincoln, Neb. 1909 2 items 2/4 Catron, John B. 1905 3 items 2/5 Chaddock & Tilden 1903 2 items 2/6 Chamberlain Real Estate, Spokane 1906-1907 2 items 2/7 Clemens, H.N. 1903 1 item 2/8 Clemens, J.E. (1 of 3 folders) 1904-1905 19 items 2/9 Clemens, J.E. (2 of 3 folders) 1906-1907 19 items 2/10 Clemens, J.E. (3 of 3 folders) 1908-1909, undated 10 items 2/11 Columbia County (1 of 2 folders) 1904-1907 20 items 2/12 Columbia County (2 of 2 folders) 1908-1909 6 items 2/13 Cook & Clarke 1904-1905 4 items 2/14 Cox, J.E. and T.J. 1904-1907 4 items 2/15 Crocker, B.D. 1904 2 items 2/16 Cummings, S.E. 1905 2 items 2/17-2/18 "C" Miscellany 1883-1931 27 items 2/19 Daugherty, F.M. 1916 4 items 2/20 Davis-Kaiser Co. 1909 2 items 2/21 Davison, Hannah P. 1905-1919 2 items 2/22 Dayton, (Wash.) 1905-1908 5 items 2/23 Dean, Fay F. 1905 2 items 2/24 Dean-McLean Abstract Co., Walla Walla 1909 2 items 2/25 Dement Bros. Co. 1906-1909 5 items 2/26 Denny-Blaine Land Co. 1904 2 items 2/27 Denny Land Co. 1908-1916 3 items 2/28 Dickenson, J.B. 1904-1905 5 items 2/29 Dickson & Start 1904-1905 3 items 2/30 Dominion Commercial Co., Inc. 1918 2 items 2/31 Dorman, Orris & Bros. 1903 2 items 2/32 Dunphy, Evans & Garrecht (1 of 2 folders) 1907-1908 19 items 2/33 Dunphy, Evans & Garrecht (2 of 2 folders) 1909-1915 9 items 2/34 Dwinell, R.B. 1916-1917 5 items 2/35 "D" Miscellany 1903-1909 14 items 2/36 Electric Feed Mills 1907 6 items 2/37 Ellensburg Abstract Co. 1906 2 items 2/38 Elmendorf & Elmendorf 1904-1916 8 items 2/39 Estabrook, E. 1901-1902 4 items 2/40 Estes, Charles 1916-1918, undated 8 items 2/41 Exchange National Bank, Spokane 1904-1919 4 items 2/42 "E" Miscellany 1903-1940 8 items 2/43 Fairbanks, Morse & Co. 1916-1921 6 items 2/44 Fairfield Farmers' Alliance Warehouse & Elev., Fairfield, Wash. 1903-1909 8 items 2/45-2/46 Federal Land Bank of Spokane 1930-1934 27 items 2/47 Fennimore, W.L. 1904-1905 5 items 2/48 Fertig & Son 1907 7 items 2/49 Fleming, Omer M. 1904-1909 18 items 2/50 Franklin County 1904-1907 5 items 2/51 Fry, Ernest 1917-1919 6 items 2/52 Fuller (W.P.) 1917-1919 2 items 2/53 "F" Miscellany 1905-1943 13 items 2/54 Garfield County 1906-1907 7 items 2/55-2/56 Garrecht & Dunphy 1905-1907 39 items 2/57 German Alliance Ins. Co., Cle Elum 1905-1906 2 items 2/58 Gillian, Mary 1906-1918 4 items 2/59 Gordon, (J.E.) & Gordon Bros. 1905-1908 4 items 2/60 Gose, (T.P. & C.C.) 1900-1909 19 items 2/61 Gose & Kuykendall 1904-1908 16 items 2/62 J.W. Graham & Co., Spokane 1918 4 items 2/63 Guie, E.H. 1902-1910 5 items 2/64 "G" Miscellany 1903-1928 12 items 3/1 Hager, H.E. 1915-1916 2 items 3/2 Hamble, Lund & Gilbert 1904 7 items 3/3 Hamil, J.N. 1918 2 items 3/4 Harper, Barge & Lighterage Co. 1918-1919 2 items 3/5 Harrower, Gary R. 1907-1908 3 items 3/6 Hartman Abstract Co., Pendelton, Ore. 1905 2 items 3/7 Hays, J.W. 1906-1907 9 items 3/8 Hever, Charles 1904-1906 7 items 3/9 Hever, Henry 1903-1907 29 items 3/10 Hitchings, W.F. 1916-1918 11 items 3/11 Hoffman, C.T. 1904 6 items 3/12 Holman, J.W. 1906 3 items 3/13 Horn, C.O. 1905-1909 4 items 3/14 Houser, W.M. 1906-1908 12 items 3/15 Hunt Bros. Co. 1904 3 items 3/16-3/17 "H" Miscellany 1900-1933 25 items 3/18 Interior Warehouse Co., Portland 1906-1909 14 items 3/19 "I" Miscellany 1903-1919 5 items 3/20 Jeremiah, J.H. 1903 3 items 3/21 Johnson (C.H.) & Co., Tacoma 1906 2 items 3/22 Johnson, (M.) & Gilliam, (W.) 1905-1906 3 items 3/23 Jones (Arthur D.) & Co., Spokane 1905-1918 5 items 3/24 Jones-Scott Co., Walla Walla 1905-1907 5 items 3/25 "J" Miscellany 1905-1918 8 items 3/26 Kalispell Flour Mill Co., Spokane 1906-1907 2 items 3/27 Kelley, D.E. 1905-1907 4 items 3/28 Kellogg, J.Y.C. 1911-1918 4 items 3/29 Keystone Lumber Co., Tacoma 1916-1917 6 items 3/30 King, George H. 1903-1904 3 items 3/31 King County Office of the Treasurer 1904-1930 7 items 3/32 "K" Miscellany 1902-1921 7 items 3/33 Laidlaw, J.D. 1904-1906 4 items 3/34 Langford Engineering Co., Sunnyside 1921-1924 2 items 3/35 Lewis (B.R.) Lumber Co., Dayton 1904 5 items 3/36 Litherland, N.E. 1916-1921 6 items 3/37 Lohnquist (A.) & Co. 1907 2 items 3/38 Lorenzen, A.L. 1907 2 items 3/39 Lumbermans Trust Co., Portland 1923-1925 7 items 3/40 "L" Miscellany 1903-1921 18 items 3/41 Mabton Bank, The 1917-1921 3 items 3/42 Mabton Real Estate Co. 1917-1921 5 items 3/43 Mack, R.A. 1904 2 items 3/44 Manweller, J.W. 1920-1921 5 items 3/45 Marshall & Glavis 1917-1918 2 items 3/46 Mauser & Mauser 1915 2 items 3/47 McCaw, W.O. 1906 2 items 3/48 McCrea & Merryweather 1907 4 items 3/49 McCroskey & Canfield 1906-1907 8 items 3/50 McDonald & Rupp 1906 3 items 3/51 McQueen Brothers 1904 2 items 3/52 Mendenhall, John 1920-1921 4 items 3/53 Merrill, F.S. 1903 5 items 3/54 Mickel, G.W. 1906 3 items 3/55 Miller & Logan 1903 2 items 3/56 Moore (M.C.) & Sons, Inc., Walla Walla 1902-1921 14 items 3/57 Morehead, B.H. 1908-1918 3 items 3/58 Mutual Realty Co. 1905 2 items 3/59-3/61 "M" Miscellany 1903-1937 37 items 3/62 Netherlands American Mortgage Bank, Spokane 1917-1935 9 items 3/63 Netherlands American Mortgage Bank, Yakima 1927 3 items 3/64 Nichols (A.F.) & Co. 1906 2 items 3/65 Northern Pacific Railway Co., Tacoma 1903-1907 8 items 3/66-3/69 Norton, Annie Isabel 1900-1918 49 items 3/70 Norton, Harrison 1887-1918, undated 15 items 3/71 "N" Miscellany 1902-1925 8 items 4/1 Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co., Portland 1904-1906 3 items 4/2 Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. [govt.] 1909 2 items 4/3 Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. [land bank] 1922-1923 2 items 4/4 Ormsbee, Richard H. 1904 2 items 4/5 "O" Miscellany 1905-1911 5 items 4/6 Pacific Coast Pipe Co., Spokane 1904-1917 18 items 4/7 Parlin & Orendorff Co., Kansas City, Mo. 1908-1909 5 items 4/8 Pacific Coast Elevator Co., La Crose, Wa. 1906-1909 22 items 4/9 Pearch, Herbert B. 1920 2 items 4/10 Peterson, O.M. 1919-1920 8 items 4/11 Phillips & Miller 1902-1903 5 items 4/12 Phillips & Mitchell 1910 9 items 4/13 Pierce, George 1920-1928 8 items 4/14 Pitts, Ben H. 1917-1918 2 items 4/15 Pond, William S. 1910 2 items 4/16 Powell, William P. 1904 2 items 4/17 "P" Miscellany 1903-1919 10 items 4/18 Ragan, W.S. 1906 9 items 4/19 Redmon Steel Tube Co., Yakima 1916-1917 3 items 4/20 Remington Typerwriter Co. 1903-1909 11 items 4/21-4/22 Ritz, Hattie M. &W.A. 1907-1908 18 items 4/23 Rogers Investment Co. 1903 2 items 4/24 Rose, Charles L. 1909 3 items 4/25 Ruark, G.J. 1903-1907 14 items 4/26 "R" Miscellany 1903-1941 4/27 Satterly, I.H. 1902 6 items 4/28 Schneckloth, J.H. 1906-1907 2 items 4/29 Scientific American 1906-1907 4 items 4/30 Scientific Farmer 1906-1907 6 items 4/31 Sears, Roebuck & Co. 1918 2 items 4/32 Seattle Chamber of Commerce 1906-1909 4 items 4/33 Seattle [government] 1900-1919 6 items 4/34 Seattle National City Bank 1915-1918 3 items 4/35 Seattle National Bank of Commerce 1908-1911 4 items 4/36 Seattle Pacific National Bank 1930 11 items 4/37 Security Bank, Dayton, Wa. 1904 3 items 4/38 Sharpstein & Sharpstein 1902 2 items 4/39 Sheppard, Burkheimer & Burkheimer 1915-1917 3 items 4/41 Sherman Clay & Co. 1911-1916 3 items 4/42 Slater & Slater 1904, undated 2 items 4/43-4/46 Smith, B. Frank 1903-1909 67 items 4/47 Smith, Frederick P. 1906 2 items 4/48 Snodgrass, O.F. 1903-1908 24 items 4/49 Spokane Abstract Title Insurance & Trust Co. 1904-1908 4 items 4/50 Spotswood & Veatch 1891-1904 10 items 4/51 Standard Oil, Tacoma 1919 5 items 4/52 Sturdevant, R.F. 1903-1909 14 items 4/53 Sunnyside Valley Irrigation District 1932-1936 7 items 4/54-4/55 "S" Miscellany 1902-1944 35 items 4/56 Tacoma Warehouse & Elevator Co., Spokane 1903 3 items 4/57 Title Trust Co. 1907-1919 15 items 4/58-4/61 Thompson, R.L. 1907-1919 72 items 4/62 Turner, L.T. 1898-1908 16 items 4/63 "T" Miscellany 1903-1930 17 items 5/1 Unden, Charles 1904 3 items 5/2 Umatilla County Sheriff 1905-1906 3 items 5/3 Union Central Life Insurance Co., Walla Walla 1908 3 items 5/4 Union Pacific Railroad Co., Chicago 1902 2 items 5/5 United States [government] 1900-1933 7 items 5/6 U.S. Department of Agriculture 1902-1906 6 items 5/7 U.S. Department of the Interior 1902-1919 10 items 5/8 U.S. Department of Internal Revenue Services 1904 5 items 5/9 G.W. Upper & Co. 1916-1918 11 items 5/10 "U" Miscellany 1916-1917 3 items 5/11 "V" Mixcellany 1905-1914 3 items 5/12 Walser, M. 1904-1906 5 items 5/13 Washington Pipe & Foundry Co., Spokane 1904 5 items 5/14 Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla 1907 4 items 5/15 Washington Title Insurance Co. 1916-1917 2 items 5/16 Wasmandorff, William G. 1909-1910 3 items 5/17 Weacock, J. Finley 1905-1906 2 items 5/18 Western Union Telegraph Co. 1905-1908 2 items 5/19 White & Bollard 1916-1918 5 items 5/20 White River Lumber Co., Mabton 1916-1918 3 items 5/21 Whitman College 1904-1918 4 items 5/22 Wiley & Wiley 1906-1908 7 items 5/23 Wilkin, Charles E. 1906 2 items 5/24 Williams, Bird 1906-1907 8 items 5/25 Williams, Frank 1909 3 items 5/26 Winchester Investment Co., Inc., Spokane 1906-1907 6 items 5/27 Windsor, Retta 1904 2 items 5/28 Woodlands Cemetary Co., Philadelphia 1904 2 items 5/29-5/30 "W" Miscellany 1903-1931 49 items 5/31 "Y" Miscellany 1907-1921 2 items General Correspondence / Miscellany 1872-1931 5/32 Miscellaneous correspondence between members of the Boyer Family 1872-1914, undated 16 items 5/33 Boyer, Arthur A. to Boyer, John F. 1891-1918 7 items 5/34 Arthur A. Boyer - Incoming 1903-1917 5 items 5/35 Boyer, Arthur A. - Outgoing 1903-1919, undated 11 items 5/36 Boyer, Charles S. 1890-1916 13 items 5/37 Boyer, Eugene 1898-1904 14 items 5/38 Boyer, F.D. - Incoming 1905, undated 3 items 5/39 Boyer, F.D. - Outgoing 1902-1907 55 items 5/40 Boyer, J.F. - Incoming 1890-1906 10 items 5/41 Boyer, J.F. - Outgoing 1894-1895 3 items 5/42 Red Cross Controversy 1931 24 items 5/43 Unsigned, incomplete or unintelligible Undated 15 items 5/44 Extra Copies Undated 9 items 5/45-5/46 Thomson, R.L. - Incoming 1916-1918 32 items 5/47-5/48 Thomson, R.L. - Outgoing 1916-1919 33 items 5/49-5/50 Johnson, John D. - Invention correspondence 1918 26 items 5/51 Johnson, John D. - Miscellaneous Undated 21 pages 5/52 Johnson, John D. - Financial Undated 20 pages 5/53 Johnson, John D. - Financial miscellaneous Undated 14 pages 5/54-5/55 Miscellaneous Undated Outgoing 1891-1940 6/1 Boyer, J.E. to Boyer A.A. 1907 2 pages 6/2-7/43 Boyer, J.E. to miscellaneous 1891-1940; Bulk 1902-1909. Roughly 1,000 items

Correspondence is organized chronologically.

Diary 1899-1912 8/1 Philippine Insurrection 1899 26 pages 8/1 General Orders no. 15; Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office 1899 31 pages 8/2-8/7 The Log of our trip to Alaska Panhandle, Aug. 6-18, 1912 1912 6 copies, 45 pages each 8/9-8/12 Miscellaneous Notes and Writing 1904-1935 8/12 Notebooks Undated 2 notebooks Financial Records / Miscellany 1890-1928 8/13-8/14 Financial Records/ Miscellany 1889-1928, undated 8/15 Payroll Leger 1916 8/16 Tax Statements 1890-1926 8/17 Rainier Club Annual Reports 1909-1912 2 items 8/18 Advertisements 1907-1942, undated 20 items 8/19 Clippings 1897-1908, undated 25 items 8/20 Genealogy of Alexander Baker Undated 8 pages 8/21 Photographs Undated 20 photographs 9/1 Abstracts 1888-1912 5 items 9/2 Advertising agreements and other contracts 1915 20 items 9/3 Miscellaneous blueprints and drawings Undated 9 items 9/4-9/6 Legal documents/Miscellany 1905-1933, undated 34 items 9/7 Miscellaneous documents 1893-1920 31 items 10 Legal documents / Miscellany 1860-1938, undated 262 items 11 Miscellaneous business 1895-1910 Interlaken Land Co. 12/1 Interlaken Land Co. - Outgoing correspondence 1907, undated 7 items 12/2 Interlaken Land Co. - Miscellaneous correspondence 1907-1922 17 items 12/3 Interlaken Land Co. - Court papers 1907-1915 4 items 12/4 Interlaken Land Co. - Maps Undated 7 items 12/5-12/15 John E. Boyer Agency 1906-1916