Warren Wood Diaries and Photo Album, 1870-1932.

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Warren Wood Diaries and Photo Album, 1870-1932.

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The photo album contains photographs (taken 1915-1930?) of Wood's activities with Ezra Meeker, G.N. Talcott of Olympia, W.P. Bonney of the Washington State Historical Society, and others in locating various famous historical sites in Washington and Oregon. It contains photographs of Seattle (including Alki Point, Totem Pole Place, downtown, Volunteer Park, Woodland Park, and a convicts ship exhibition); Tacoma (including the first cabin on the town site, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma Hotel, Wright Park, and the Ferry Museum); Olympia (including the end of the Oregon Trail marker and Priest Point Park); Fort Nisqually (including original buildings, Ezra Meeker, C.B. Bagley and other pioneers); various Indian missions in the state; and more. The diaries are one to each year (1870-1932) and of a 3 x 5" size. The entries are short and succinct with no elaborate narrative descriptions or commentary of those times and places. Wood was a pioneer surveyor of the Northwest from 1883 to 1932 who worked at or visited sites including the Puyallup Valley, Auburn, Fort Nisqually, St. Joseph's Mission near Yakima, Fort Simcoe, the Whitman Mission, Fort Dalles, Steilacoom, and other sites in Washington and Oregon. The collection consists of diaries and a photo album.

1 linear feet (4 boxes)

University of Puget Sound, Collins Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8120872

University of Puget Sound, Collins Memorial Library

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University of Puget Sound. Archives.

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Wood, Warren P., b. 1858

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Warren P. Wood (b. 1858) was an early surveyor of Washington and Oregon. Wood and his partner Nicholson are believed to be the original platters of the town of Auburn, Washington. Wood and Meeker checked the original location of Fort Nisqually, visited St. Joseph's Mission on the Ahtanum near Yakima, Washington, as well as Fort Simcoe. They also visited historical sites at the Whitman Mission, Fort Dalles, and the town of Steilacoom near Tacoma, Washington. Wood was the son of Joseph Warren and ...

Talcott, George Noyes, 1858-1949

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Meeker, Ezra, 1830-1928

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Meeker was a pioneer on the wagon trail. From the description of Letter : Los Angeles, Calif., to Rolland A. Vandegrift, University of Southern California, 1924 April 28. (Natural History Museum Foundation, Los Angeles County). WorldCat record id: 23367142 Ezra Meeker was an early pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox cart as a young man. Beginning in his 70s he worked tirelessly to memorialize the trail, repeatedly retracing the trip of his youth. Meeker was born in H...

Wood, Warren W.

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Warren P. Wood (b. 1858) was an early surveyor of Washington and Oregon. Wood and his partner Nicholson are believed to have done the original plats of the town of Auburn. Wood and Meeker checked the original location of Fort Nisqually, visited St. Joseph's Mission on the Ahtanum near Yakima, as well as Fort Simcoe. They also visited historical sites at the Whitman Mission, Fort Dalles, and the town of Steilacoom near Tacoma. Wood was the son of Joseph Warren and Mary (nee Wilson) Wood. He was b...

Bonney, W. P. (William Pierce), 1856-

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Edward Selig Salomon was a Prussian immigrant to the United States who served as a Union Brigadier general in the American Civil War, became the governor of the Washington Territory and a California legislator. Mr. Salomon was born in 1836. He immigrated to the United States in 1856 and settled in Chicgo, IL. He became one of the youngest elected aldermen of the Sixth Ward in 1861. During the Civil War, he served with great distinction. He became a hero during the Battle of Gettysburg because he...