Arthur L. Kempster scrapbooks, 1897-1931.

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Arthur L. Kempster scrapbooks, 1897-1931.

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The Arthur L. Kempster scrapbooks primarily contain newspaper clippings in a roughly chronological order from the years of 1897 until 1931. These articles follow Kempster's career and therefore focus, first on street cars, then on the power company in Seattle and its subsidiaries (whose name changed many times over the years, from Seattle-Tacoma Power Company to The Seattle Electric Company to Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company (Seattle Division), and, finally, on New Orleans Railway and Light Company. During Kempster's time in Seattle these articles are taken mainly from Seattle newspapers, but occasionally are also from newspapers in Everett and Tacoma. After his move to New Orleans the articles move to New Orleans based newspapers. Nearly all of the articles are marked with a date and newspaper name and seem to have been collected by a newspaper clipping company. Articles about streetcars and railways, the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company and its subsidiaries, the New Orleans Railway and Light Company, the usefulness of electricity in the home, the current business climate and taxes are reoccurring themes in these volumes. A few pieces of ephemera related to Kempster's private life are also included in the scrapbooks.

8 v. ; 31-47 centimeters.

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Seattle Electric Company

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Puget Sound Power and Light Company

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Puget Sound Power & Light Company dominated the power and transportation business in the Pacific Northwest region during the first half of the twentieth century. The origins of "Puget Power" are connected to the early activities of Massachusetts-based Stone & Webster Engineering Consulting Corporation. In the first decade of the twentieth century, Stone & Webster initiated aggressive expansion of the company's interests in Washington State. Its acquistion and...

Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company. Seattle Division

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Kempster, Arthur L.

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Transportation and electric company official, Arthur L. Kempster (1872-1924), was born in Canfield, Illinois to Thomas L. and Martha M. (Hopkins) Kempster. In 1887, Kempster moved to King County, Washington. He started a job as an office boy in one of the early streetcar systems (later to become Seattle Consolidated Street Railway Company) in 1891. His position in the company rose as he advanced to the job of cashier and then to bookkeeper. In 1895, he was appointed as both auditor and secretary...