Thomas Burke papers, 1875-1925.

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Thomas Burke papers, 1875-1925.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77010214

The collection documents Thomas Burke's interests and activities, particularly as a lawyer in Seattle, Washington, in the 1880s through the mid 1920s. The papers include correspondence, speeches and writings, legal and financial documents, and clippings. The large number and wide variety of firms, companies, and organizations represented are an indicator of the scope of Burke's interests and activites. Each of Burke's law firms (except that of McGilvra and Burke) is also represented, largely by correspondence and also legal documents and other materials. Personal and corporate names represented in the papers include Lindley H. Hadley, Harry Ballinger, Henry Broderick, Francis W. Cushman, Daniel H. Gilman, James Jerome Hill, Samuel Hill, Wesley Livsey Jones, John Harte McGraw, Edmund Rice, John D. Rockefeller, Paul Schulze, Watson C. Squire, the Washington Democratic Party, the General Electric Company, the Great Northern Railway Company, the Japan Society of Seattle, the National Economic League, the Pacific Coast Company, the Rainier National Park Company, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the Seattle Golf Club, and the Seattle, Lake Shore, and Eastern Railway Company.

24.78 cubic feet (58 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8185091

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Schulze, Paul, active 1889-1894

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Hill, Samuel, 1857-1931

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Japan Society of Seattle

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Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937

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John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) was born in Richford, New York to William Avery Rockefeller and Eliza Davison. In 1853, he moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio where he studied bookkeeping. With partner Maurice B. Clark, Rockefeller built an oil refinery in 1863 and bought out his partner two years later. In 1864, he married Laura Celestia “Cettie” Spelman, with whom he had four children. Two years later, Rockefeller joined his brother William to establish Rockefeller, Andrews, & Flagler, wh...

Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)

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National Economic League (U.S.)

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Pacific Coast Company

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The Pacific Coast Company rail, shipping, and coal operations served the West coast from the mid-19th century until its last railways were abandoned or sold in the mid-20th century. Though the company was organized under the "Pacific Coast Company" name in late 1897, it comprised several existing organizations, most notably the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co., and the Pacific Coast Railway. In Seattle, the Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad, originally the Seattle & Wall...

Hadley, Lindley H. (Lindley Hoag), 1861-1948

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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...

Gilman, Daniel C.

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Daniel H. Gilman was born in Maine in 1845. After serving in the Civil War, he received a law degree from Columbia College of Law in 1877 and practiced in New York City. After moving to Seattle in 1883, he helped to found the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway. The line ran from downtown Seattle to the western Cascade Mountains and was linked to the Canadian Pacific in Sumas, Washington; however, it never succeeded in crossing the Cascades, and control of the line was assumed by the Norther...

McGraw, John Harte, -1910

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General Electric Company

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Founded 1892. Corporate interests include: Broadcasting; Electric Components; Household Appliances; Lighting Equipment; Motors; Telecommunications; Electromedical Industry. From the description of Technical records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84865339 Founded 1892. From the description of General Electric Company in Camden, N.J., collection, 1878-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979711 Schenectady, NY. From the description of Electr...

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...

Seattle Golf Club

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Seattle, Lake Shore, and Eastern Railway Company

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Incorporated in 1885 under the laws of Washington Territory, the company sold, under foreclosure, its line from Seattle to Sallal Prairie and from Woodinville to Sumas (Wash.), in 1896, to the Seattle and International Railway Company, and its line from Spokane to Davenport (Wash.) to the Spokane and Seattle Railway Company. It was stricken from the records of the state of Washington in 1909 for failure to pay annual license fees. From the description of Corporate records, 1885-1901....

Cushman, Francis W., 1867-1909

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Broderick, Henry, active 1777-1781

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American author. From the description of Letter of Henry Broderick to Virginia Moffett Fletcher Caldwell [manuscript] 1957 Oct. 25. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647939708 Henry Broderick arrived in Seattle in 1901 when he was 21 years old, and during the next ten years he successfully established himself as an expert in Seattle real estate. In 1908 he started his own business, Henry Broderick, Inc. Over the years, many of Seattle's Jewish entrepreneurs and f...

Ballinger, Harry, 1869-1965.

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Rice, Edmund, 1819-1889

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Hill, James Jerome 1838-1916

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Railroad financier. From the description of Addresses, 1902-1916. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29853289 Businessman and railroad executive, James J. Hill (1838-1916), was founder of the Great Northern Railway Company, which incorporated and extended an important transcontinental line, running from St. Paul, Minnesota to Seattle, Washington by 1893. Frequently called the "Empire Builder," Hill amassed a personal fortune through h...

Squire, Watson C. (Watson Carvosso), 1838-1926

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Watson C. Squire was born in 1838 in New York and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1859. He was principal of the Moravia Institute in New York when the Civil War began. Over the next two years he fought as a Union soldier in the New York Volunteers 19th Infantry Regiment and served at Harper's Ferry under Gen. Nathaniel Banks. Following his graduation from Cleveland Law School in 1862, he answered the call for more men, raised the 7th Independent Company of Ohio Sharpshooters, and was commi...

Democratic Party (Wash.)

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Rainier National Park Company

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Burke, Thomas, 1849-1925

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Judge Thomas Burke was for nearly fifty years a central figure in the political and economic life of Washington State and especially Seattle. Burke arrived in Seattle in 1875 to make his fortune. An astute lawyer and speculator, he acquired a reputation as a talented courtroom advocate. As the Democratic candidate for territorial delegate to Congress in 1880, Burke conducted a vigorous, though unsuccessful, campaign. In 1885 he and Seattle newcomer Daniel Gilman attracted Eastern capital and bui...