Records, 1889-1897.

Ferry, Elisha P. (Elisha Peyre), 1825-1895

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Washington (State). Governor (1889-1893 : Ferry)

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Elisha Peyre Ferry was born in Monroe, Mich. in 1825, the son of Pierre Peyre Ferry, one of Napoleon's colonels of cavalry who emigrated from France in 1814. Elisha studied law and was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty. In 1848 he moved to Waukegan, Illinois, where he practiced law and was elected the first mayor of Waukegan. He was a member of the constitutional convention for Illinois in 1861, and from 1861 to 1863 he was bank commissioner for that state. During the Civil W...

McGraw, John Harte, -1910

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Washington (State). Governor (1893-1897 : McGraw)

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John McGraw was born in Penobscot County, Me., in 1850. After only the most elementary education he became the manager of a general store at the age of 17 and was a partner at 21. However, the store failed during the 1873 depression, and McGraw left for the Far West in 1876. After first going to San Francisco, he arrived in Seattle in Dec. 1876, penniless. His first job in Seattle was as a clerk at the Occidental Hotel. Not long afterwards he became the proprietor of the American Ho...

Washington State University. Press

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