Papers, 1887-1931.

Winkenwerder, Hugo, 1878-

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Puget Lumber Company

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St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company.

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Northern Pacific Railroad Company

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These documents are duplicate copies from the papers of George A. Brackett, now part of the Northern Pacific Railroad collection at the Minnesota Historical Society. From the description of Papers. 1864-1914. (Tri-College Library). WorldCat record id: 18832082 Isaac "Ike" Gravelle was born in Canada in October 1871. He came to the United States in 1886. He was sent to the Montana State Prison in May 1891 on a conviction for horse stealing. After his release in 1893 he worked...

Washington Conservation Association

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Landes, Bertha Knight, 1868-1943

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Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (October 19, 1868 – November 29, 1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1926 to 1928. After years of civic activism, primarily with women's organizations, she was elected to the Seattle City Council in 1922 and became council president in 1924. Born Bertha Ethel Knight in Ware, Massachusetts, she attended Dix Street School and Classical High School in Worcester, Massachusetts before moving to Bloomingt...

Palmer, Edward B., 1866-

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Washington Mutual Savings Bank (Seattle, Wash.)

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Walker, Cyrus, 1827-1913

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Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen

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Jones, Wesley Livsey, 1863-1932

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Influential Washington State legislator, Wesley Livsey Jones (1863-1932), was involved in legislation to develop Alaska and to create levees in the Mississippi River Valley. Born near Bethany in Moultrie County, Illinois, Jones attended Southern Illinois College, studied law, and subsequently started a law practice in Decatur, Illinois. In 1889, Jones moved his law practice to North Yakima, Washington. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1899 as a Republican and serve...

Metropolitan Building Company (Seattle, Wash.)

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The Territorial University of Washington was established in 1861 on Denny's Knoll in Seattle, a 10-acre parcel of land donated by Arther A. Denny, Charles Terry and Edward Lander. In 1894, the University of Washingon relocated to its present site and the Board of Regents awarded a lease to develop and manage the Metropolitan Tract to James Moore, who transferred the lease to the Metropolitan Building Company in 1907. The property management company continued to administer the lease for the Metro...

Seattle (Wash.). Mayor

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Norman B. Rice was born 4 May 1943. He received his college education at the University of Washington, earning a bachelor's degree in communications and a Masters of Public Administration. Rice holds honorary degrees from Seattle University, the University of Puget Sound, and Whitman College. Before entering city government, he worked as a reporter at KOMO-TV News and KIXI Radio, served as assistant director of the Seattle Urban League, was executive assistant and director of government services...

Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills (Seattle, Wash.)

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Merrill, Edward F., 1883-

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Poindexter, Miles, 1868-1946

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U.S. senator and representative of Washington, lawyer, and jurist. From the description of Letters of Miles Poindexter, 1923-1928. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068226 Miles Poindexter came to Spokane in 1897 to practice law. In 1904 he was elected Superior Court judge and in 1911 to the U.S. Senate as a Republican. Poindexter was one of the foremost opponents of the Unites States entry into the League of Nations in 1919. An unsuccessful attempt for Senate office in 1927 ...

Puget Sound Navigation Company

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Puget Sound Tug Boat Company

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First National Bank (Port Townsend, Wash.)

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Walker, Emily Talbot, 1848-1922

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Puget Sound Commercial Company

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Bloedel, Julius H., 1864-

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Alaska Steamship Co.

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The Alaska Steamship Company, incorporated in 1894, shipped freight and passengers between Seattle and southeast Alaska, ca. 1901-1950. In 1953 the company expanded into container service, but due to increased fuel and insurance costs, strong competition from other types of container vessels such as barges and tugboats, and union demands, the Alaska Steamship Company ceased operations in 1971. From the description of Alaska Steamship Company photograph collection, 1939-1971 (bulk 195...

Western Forestry and Conservation Association (U.S.)

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The Western Forestry and Conservation Association was founded in 1909. It was originally composed of "three private forestry and forest fire associations and two conservation associations in the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana." The purpose of the organization was to work for better fire laws, and to protect forests against fire losses. Moreover, it worked for forest progress in legislation; it advocated better forest management, and called for progress in practical fire work. Si...

Johnson, Albert, 1869-1957

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Born in Vasa, Minn. on August 9, 1865. Taught school in Dakota Territory, worked railroad construction for the Great Northern Railway, and bonanza farming. Moved to Portland, Or. (1887); attended Univ. of Oregon Law School; admitted to bar (1891); returned to Minn. (1901). In his spare time, conducted historical research on pioneer life, western trails, and Indian wars; collector of Indian photographs; resided in Marine-On-St. Croix, Minn. From the description of Albert W. Johnson pa...

Talbot, Frederick C., 1894-

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Port Blakely Mill Company

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Seattle Chamber of Commerce

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Established in 1882, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce was responsible for establishing railroad terminals in Seattle and developing the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge, and the commerce of the Columbia River Basin. The chamber addressed its goals through committees that focused on areas such as Alaska, city affairs, county affairs, foreign and domestic affairs, logged-off lands and irrigation, mercantile issues, rivers and harbors, state affairs and legislation, and transpo...

Washington Forest Fire Association

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Parry, Will H., 1864-1917

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Puget Sound Cedar & Lumber Company (Seattle, Wash.)

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Admiralty Tug Boat Company

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Drummond Lighterage Company (Seattle, Wash.)

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China Club of Seattle

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Republican National Committee (U.S.)

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Landon was the 1936 Republican presidential nominee. He lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt, but had the second highest number of votes out of a number of contenders for the position. He was governor of Kanses, 1933-1937. From the description of Campaign Pamphlets, [1935]. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 42033301 ...

Admiralty Logging Company

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Dexter Horton National Bank (Seattle, Wash.)

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Grays Harbor Commercial Company

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Metropolitan National Bank (Seattle, Wash.)

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Humphrey, William E. (William Ewart), 1862-1934

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Lawyer, U.S. representative from Washington, and member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. From the description of William E. Humphrey papers, 1903-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78618752 Biographical Note 1862, Mar. 31 Born, near Alamo, Montgomery County, Ind. 1887 Gradua...

Pope, George A., 1864-1942

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Bagley, Clarence, 1843-1932

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Charles Booth Bagley (1843-1932), the son of a prominent Washington State pioneer, is best remembered for his influential work as an author and historian, which includes the groundbreaking books, History of Seattle from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (1916) and History of King County, Washington (1929), both of which were informed by the unique combination of meticulous research and firsthand experience Bagley brought to his writing. Born in Troy Grove, Illi...

Pope & Talbot.

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Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau

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Talbot, William H., 1858-1930

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Freemasons.

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Rainier Investment Company

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Walker, Talbot C. (Talbot Cyrus), 1886-

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Condon and Wright (Seattle, Wash.)

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Weyerhaeuser Timber Company

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The Weyerhaeuser Company, founded in 1900 as the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, is one of the largest forest product companies in the world. Weyerhaueser had timber and logging operations in Klamath County until the mid-1990s. Timber cruising is a process for measuring forest stands to determine number and species of trees, average tree size and volume, and timber quality. From the description of Klamath County timber cruising records, 1952-1955. (Eugene Public Library). WorldCat recor...

Puget Trading Company

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Ames, Edwin Gardner, 1856-1935

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Lumber company executive, banker and political activist of Seattle, Washington, Edwin Ames (1856-1935), was manager of the Pope & Talbot interests in the Puget Sound region and a leading figure in the Seattle business community of the early twentieth century. Born in Maine, he was a cousin of Captain William Talbot, co-owner of the Pope & Talbot companies; and he went to work for Pope & Talbot's subsidiary, the Puget Mill Company at Port Gamble, Washington in 1881. He married Maud Wa...

Carroll, Patrick P. (Patrick Pittman), 1844-

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Brown, Edward J. (Edward James), 1909-1991

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Pioneer in the academic study of Russian literature in the United States. Brown taught at Brown University from 1947 to 1965, then at Indiana University in the late 1960s when he was also president of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages and of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1970; he retired in 1975 but continued to teach. He died in 1991. From the description of Papers, 1946-1...

Pacific Pine Lumber Company

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National Bank of Commerce (Seattle, Wash.)

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Allen, John Beard, 1845-1903

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Walker, William, 1840-

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Ames, John Keller

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Union Savings and Trust Company (Seattle, Wash.)

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Plummer, George E.

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Donworth, George, 1861-

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Davey, Martin L. (Martin Luther), 1884-1946

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Furth, Jacob, 1840-

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National Lumber Manufacturers Association

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West Coast Lumbermen's Association

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Miller, John Franklin, 1862-1936

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Attorney, Republican Congressman from Seattle, city and county official. John Franklin Miller, born in 1862, served as a member of Congress from Seattle from 1917 to 1931. Born near South Bend, Indiana, he graduated from the law department at Valparaiso and in 1888 moved to Seattle, where he practiced law. Miller was the first prosecuting attorney of King County after statehood, serving from 1890 to 1894. In 1908 he was elected mayor of Seattle, and in 1916, he ran for C...

Reed, Mark E. (Mark Edward), 1866-1933

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Lumberman, politician, financier, and Washington State Representative. Reed was hired to run the Simpson Logging Company's store in Shelton, Washington in 1897, and took over management of the company upon Sol Simpson's death in 1906. Reed expanded the firm, and strove to build a company that could survive the turbulent timber industry. He resisted the unionization of his labor force, but sought to reduce turnover by continually improving conditions in his logging camps....

Condon, Richard W. (Richard William), 1867-

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Beckman, Victor H.

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McGilvra, John J. (John Jay), 1827-1903

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John J. McGilvra, a lawyer, businessman, politician, and Seattle pioneer, began his law career in Chicago, where he became friends with Abraham Lincoln. In 1861, Lincoln appointed him U.S. attorney for Washington Territory, at which time he relocated with his family to the Pacific Northwest. The McGilvras were the first settlers in what is now the Madison Park area of Seattle. From the description of John J. McGilvra family photograph collection, circa 1880s-1920s [graphic]. (Unknown...

Puget Mill Company

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Ames, Sarah Albee, 1856-

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Grays Harbor Mill Company

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