Seattle, Washington - History, 1891 (part 12 of 14)

Immediately after the close of his term as chief justice. Judge Lewis commenced tlie practice of law in Seattle and coutinucil iti a most active and lucrative business until 18H:t, when lie disposed of his library and retired from active practice, acting, however, as counsel in many important lases since that time. During his practice at Seattle he was eiiga^eil as counsel in the important litigation of Wells, l-argo & Co. with the Northern Pacific Kailroad company and ill the Port Madison mill cases, as well as ill many other important cor[X)ratioii cases. During the controversy between Seattle and the Nortlicrli Pacific railroad in ISH-i he was elected a memljcr of the territorial house of represintativfs to look after the interests of onr city and county in that body, ami served one term, lie was one of the committee of fifteen which uuilertook and consumiMated the organi/.^itioii of our present school system.

Judge Lewis, since the birth of the parly, has always l>een a Republican of the most pronounced kind, and for many years took a prominent part in politics, but has wholly ignored politics since the territorial convention of l.sHii at Tacoma, never attending any primaries or conventions since that time.

In 1KN:J he organized Ihe First National Bank of Y.ikima and served as its president until November, IHWI, when he dis|>oscil of his stock and resigned, but was again electeil president iu NovcmbiT, l-SlHi. lie also assisted in the organi/.ation of

In 1890 he was elected and served as a member of the Seattle charter commission and urged the dual government plan adopted by the commission and prepared the article on public works adopted by the commission. He was also one of the delegates from the chamber of commerce of Seattle to the Pacific coast board of commerce in San Francisco in September, 18iH).

Judge Lewis was married in January, 18^9, at Washington, Iowa, to Miss Mary A. Chapman, a native of Ohio and of Knglisli descent. They have two children, Howard W. Lewis of the firm of Lewis & Ledgerwood, Seattle, and Joseph C. Lewis, eighteen years of age.

The conspicuously notable attribute of Judge Lewis' character is steadfastness of purpose - once resolved on a course of action and convinced thfit he is right, nothing can move him from carrying out his plans in his own way. On no occasion did he ever lack the courage to stand alone, if need be, in the maintenance of a principle he believed to be right. His views on all (juestions are usually radical and always carnest. He has a thorough contempt for shams, which, with a combative temperament, has led to a habit of speaking his mind about men and things with a plain and piquant speech, and not infrequently with offense to those who find themselves, in the language of Bret Ilarte, " the individual who happens to be meant." As a judge he was always fearless; always positive; no uncertain language or words of compromise or demagogic attempts to conciliate the public marked his enunciation of a conclusion. He was one thing or the other, and hence he was at times the object of bitter partisan criticism, but that never swerved him from his chosen line of duty. He has none of the small arts of the so-called popular leader. Should success depend on fawning or l>ending the knee, he would stand erect and take defeat in preference to victory bought at sacrifice of nianlioo<l. Such are a few marked attributes which belong to Judge Le>\'is's character which have earned for him the deep and sincere respect of all who admire an honest, manly man, who has never courted popularity at a sacrifice of his convictions, or counted the cost or abated one jot of his earnestness in the espousal of any cause he believed to l>e right, and who has always cared more for the approval of his own conscience than for the applause of the majority.

I/'ELLOGG, DAVID. I*ew men have had a more varied and unique experience than the subject of this sketch. Naturally imbued with a love for adventure and a desire to see the world, he left his home at an early age and for several years thereafter led a life of almost constant oliange, traveling extensively through the newer parts of the country and gaining a most intimate knowledge of many phases of life, which in the rapid development of the country have long ceased to exist. He retains a most vivid recollection of his travels and experiences in the remote west during the period antedating the building of railroads, and recounts with genuine pleasure the many interesting events in which he bore a part when he was animated by no object

«tv« love for exdtiMueiit and ailveature. It forma a chapter in his lire whidi be recalls with no regret and which has been valaablc for the wide opportunity it gaie him for ittudyiiij; human charactCT.

He wns boru at Thomaslou. Maiue, in IxA't and is of Puritan ancestry. His father, Dr. David Kellogg, was a lineal descendant of Joseph Etllog^. a survet-ot bv (irofcBsion, who aettled in Hadley, Massachusetts, in 164(1. Ou the tiiaternal side, out triibject is descended from Elder John Prince, who in 1U33 settled in Hall. Masascha- KetlB, in which state many of hiH nnnierous descendants still reside, although a goollv nuuibCT are to be found scattered all over the United States. The boyhood of our subject was passed at the place of bis birlh until his twelfth year, mheu he accomp*- nicd bis parents to their new home in Waukegan, Illinois. Here he remained uotil he was aiKleen years of age, when he weiit to Chicago and was employed in a clerical caiMCity until he attained bis majority. TIhk was in ISTiO, a time of intense political excitement, when all the vital ([Uestions were being agitate<l which a few years later were settled by four 3-eBni of civil war. Mr, Kellogg became deeply inteiestC'd in the great issues of the day and upou the leading issue of the time, the admission of Kan- HM M8 a free or slave state, was radically axaiust the further extension of human Under the inlluence of the great encitement which prevailed over the sub- I jccl, be went lo Kansas in IS-W as a free state man and joined a company of free I rangers, participating iu the stirring scenes which followed, and which made the 1 Rilmjsston of Kansas into the Union a most memorable event in our national historf. | His experience during this exciting perioil served to intensify his love for adventure, i and from this time until he (iually settled in Seattle, his life was a series of almoat ^ constant changes. He visited many places, but with no purpose save to see the ct trj', remaining in no place except long enough to procure the means to move to nav scenes. One of the most intervating experiences during this period was hk * connection with a party of young men like himself, made up at Kansas City for the purpose of exploring, hunting and prospecting in the Rocky mountains. The eipedilion left Kansas City in the fall of IS-^jT and spent six months in the mountains, camping at the junction of Cherry creek aiul Platte river, where Denver city is now located, :it which time then- was not a white man residing within eight hundred miles of the site uow occupied by Colorado's great capital city. This novel experience Id the mountains was followed by brief periods of residence at Memphis, New Orleans anil Itostuu. From the latter city he shipped before the mast on a vessel bound fpr the I'acific coast, leaving liostoii July IH. l.S.')!l. .\fter a rough passage of five montlts, he arrived in San I'rauci^co. I'rom that time until the spring of IWI he remained in Ciilifornia, traveling extciisUcly over tlie state, hi March, Xsiil, he sailed north 10 Victoria where be remained a few mouth-., and in September, 18(52, arrived in Seattlethen a small village with live stores ami not more than fifty families. The natural be.uny of the site, its magiiiliccut facilities for commerce and the richness of its uiidiveloped tributary country all conspired to impress him. aud inspire within hiui a faith iu llic nliiuiatc destiny .if llie place as a great, rich and populous city, which IVdinu frrim Hint time t.i the present. Ibrough disasters, through fierce tonipetitioni

Mr. Kellogg remained at Seattle about a year, when he returned east and for five years was traveling salesman for a Chicago house. During this time, in 1868, he was married to Miss Anna Tull of Monroe, Michigan, after which he returned to Seattle and took up his permanent abode. For several years he was employed by Yesler & Co., but since 1879 he has been engaged in manufacturing business, although ever since he has been in Seattle real estate speculation has engrossed much of his time and attention, to which, through the exercise of unusual foresight, he owes almost entirely the comfortable fortune he now possesses.

Mr. Kellogg has been a Republican since the birth of the party and may be termed an intense partisan. He has always been a zealous worker in behalf of his party, but never with the hope of personal reward. During the war for the preservation of the Union he was a strong supporter of the Tuion cause, and while in California joined a company raised for the purpose of tendering its services to the government to aid in suppressing the rel)elli()n. This was done hut the government refused to send them to the front, deeming their services necessary to niaiutain f)eace and onler along the Pacific coast and to suppress Indian depredations.

During his long residence in Seattle Mr. Kellogg has been foremost in support of every movement to advance and promote the material welfare of the city, begrudging neither of his time or his means to that end. He has always been one of the city's most helpful and enthusiiistic friends. The times never looked so dark, adversities never came fast enough, nor were the combinations of wealth and power arrayed against the city ever strong enough to weaken his faith or to cause him to relax his energies in behalf of the city's growth and progress. It has been this spirit, such as Mr. Kellogg has shown, which has made Seattle what she is to-day, and which has given her at the right time in her career an impetus onward that will be felt for many years to come. Mr. Kellogg is a man of positive views, an aggressive, energetic worker, a man of the most exemplary habits, whose aid is exten<led to all worthy objects, and an excellent type of that sterling manhoo<l which is so strongly characteristic of the pioneer business men of Puget Sound.

I EARY, John, has been for twenty years and more, one of the most helpful and positive factors in all of those larger undertakings which have contributed to the present greatness, and have made certain the continued supremacy of Seattle. His active identification with the city began with its infancy and through all of its struggles and triumphs to its pre'Sent stalwart manhood, few have more thoroughly left the impress of their individual efforts on the progress of affairs. -

He was born in 188(), at St. Johns, New Hrunswick. His practical business experience began at an early age, and he soon developed unusual aptitude for business and a genius for the successful creation and management of large enterprises. From 1854 until 1867 he was extensively engaged in the manufacture and shipping of lumber, and was also a large dealer in general merchandise at St. Johns and the town of

Woodstock. New Brunswick, A high ilegree of success Followed his e llimlicnug, Rml iu early niaahood a modest fortune was secured, which was niifortU' ualely swept away by the repeal of the reciprocity treaty bctweeu the United S and Canada. Iu lK<i7 lie removed to HouUoo, Maine, where for a short time he also engaged in lumbering. The Tuget Sound region had at this time become famous as a lumbering center, and it was this fact, together with the much talked of railroad \ to the uorth Pacific coast, which induced Mr. Lesry to come to Washiugton Territory. He arrived iu Seattle in 18150. The place was then a mere straggling frontier village with not more than I.tlOfl iuhabitalits. He was then iu the very prime of manhood, had had an extensive experience in business aOairs aud was well prepared both by experience and keen business sagncity to take advantage of the undeveloped wealth i of natural resources which surrounded him.

In 1871 he was admitted to the bar, and became a member of the law firm of , McNaught & Leary, coutiuuing such relationship until 1^78, when be entereil the i law firm of Struve & Haines, under the lirm name of Slruve, Haines & I^ar^'. In IMKl! he retired from active legal practice. During this time he served several terms as councilman aud iu 1SH4 was elected mayor of the city. It is, however, in conuectioH with great business enterprises that Mr, Leary had rendered couspicuous service and will be beat remembered. When be came to Seattle noue of the important enterprises which have made possible its present greatness had been inaugurated. The most vital period of the city's liistor^ had just begnn. Only men of the keenest foresight anticipated and prepared for a struggle, the issue of which meant the very existence of the city itself. No city so richly endowed by nature ever stood in such need of strong, brave and sagacious men, Mr. Learj- was aiuong the first to outline a course of action such as would preserve the supremacy of Seattle, and witli characteristic energy and foresight he threw himself into the work. A natural leader, he was soon at tlie head of all that whs goiug on, A pioneer among pioneers, it fell to his lot to bla/.e the way for what time has proveu to have been a wise and well directed move. When the Northern Pacific Railroad company sought to ignore and possibly to commercially destroy Scaltle, Mr. Leary became a leader of resolute men who heroically iiiidertook to build Up the city inilependently of the opposition of this powerful corporation. To this end the Seattle & Walla Walla railroad was built, an enterprise which at the time served a most useful purpose ill restoring confidence in the business future of the city, and which has ever since been a source of large reve. niie to the place. The history of the period which immediately preceded and followi.'<l the building and o{>eration of this road has been exhaustively treated in this volume. Throughout the entire stnigjjlf, which involved the very existence of Seattle. Mr,

[ii IHTlJMr. l.cary ill company wilh John Collins opene<l aud operated the Talbot coal mine. He also orj;.iiii/ed the company for supplying the city with gas, and was its prcsklcul iintil the works were sold in ]H7H. The present system of water works, now owned liy the city, was another enterprise which he was largely instrumental in

When Mr. I.eary cauie to Piiget Sound, mudi of Washington Territory was a i^rrii iiuogiiila. Little, if anything, was known as to the exleul of the coal deposits and nothing of its iron mines. Mr. Leary at a very considerable outlay and on his own responsibility, undertook to secure correct information in regard to the mineral resources of the country. During the years from 1S78 to 1H8<) he sent out exploring parties all along the west coast to Cape l*lattery, and on the Skagit and Similkimeen rivers, the Mount Baker district and several counties in Eastern Washington. The results of his explorations showed clearly that Western Washington abounded in coal and iron, and contained here and there valuable deposits of the precious metals. This was a great service to the state, Mr. Lc«Try doing in this connection what in other states had been done at the expense of the commonwealths themselves.

In 1882 Mr. Leary, being the principal owner of the Seattle Post (now consolidated with the Intelligencer under the present title of the Post-/ntelligenc/:r), undertook and accomplished the amalganiatioti of the morning papers under one management, and to provide suitable offices, erected what was known before the fire as tlie ** 7^5/ building." In 188,*{, in connection with Mr. Yesler, he built the Yesler-Leary block at a cost of more than ;f 1(HMHH>, which at the time was the finest business block in the city. This buihling was burned in the great lire of June, 188J).

There have been few enterprises connected with the development of Seattle which have not felt the stimulating influence of Mr. Leary's exertions. He took an active interest in the establishment of the Alaska mail service, which has been the means of building up a very large trade between that country and Seattle. His enterprise is proverbial and such is the confiilence in his business judgment that his connection with any project commands for it ready support. That his services are eagerly sought after in an executive capacity in connection with financial and business enterprises is but natural. Besides being president of the Chamber of Commerce, of which institution he was among the organizers, he is president of the Seattle Land and Improvement company ; president of the West Coast Improvement company ; president of the Seattle Warehouse and I^levator company; one of the directors of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Ivistcrn Railway company, and one of the promotors and directors of the West Street and North End Electric Railway, and the James Street and Broadway Cable and Electric Line. He is also president of the Rainier Club, the leading social organization of Seattle, and a regent of the University of Washington. He was also elected president of the Seattle National bank, recently organized, but was obliged to resign the position soon after his election on account of his numerous other duties.

In February, 1801, he organized the Columbia River and Puget Sound Navigation company with a paid up capital of $'')(K),(HK), and took one-fijflh of its capital stock. The steamers Telephone, Fleetivood and Bailey Gatzert are owned by this corporalion, and it is now building the Floyd at Portland. Two other steamers will also be ready for the Puget Sound and Victoria route in the spring of 1802.

It is a characteristic of Mr. Leary's make-up that he moves on large lines and is never so happy as when at the head of some great business enterprise. His very presence is stimulating. Bouyant and hopeful by nature, he imparts his own enthusiasm to those around him. He has not overlooked the importance of manufacturing interests to a city like vSeattle, and over and over again has encouraged and aided, often at a personal loss, in the establishment of manufacturing enterprises, having in this regard probably done more than any other citizen of Seattle. He has erer reragnUiid tmil ni^ted on Ihe priutiple thai properly has it* duties as well ili rights, and tlint nnc rrf its prime diilics m to aitl and btiild np Ihe commuiiity where the possessor has made his wealth. Tliere are few lucii iu the city, therefore, who, in the course of the last twenty years, have aided iu giving employment to a larger number of men than Mr. I.eary, ot whose individual efForts have contributed more of gooil to the general prosperity of Seattle,

He has now practically retired from active participation in business to enjoy well earniKl rcsL In the course of his residence in Seattle he has had the satisfaclion of seeing his brightest hopes for the city realized. He has seen Uie straggling frontier village of mm become the live, progressive city of upwards of 50,000 peopU.

UALL,, GKOKfiK W,, one of Seattle's earlier and best known ciliiens, was >x)in in 1K4(I in Jatkson iMunty, Vii^inia. where his parents were then residing. His father, Wni. Hall, H furnitvur manufacturer, was a native of Ohio, and a sou of one of the earliest settlers of Marietta. His mother, Mary Cohen, was a native of Virginia. Soon after the birth of our subjet^t the family moved to Lawrence county. Ohio, then n ne« and sparsely settled coinmnnity. Here his lioyhootl was passed. After leeeiv* ing a gooil comniou school education, he learned the pattern -mater's trade, servinK an apprenticeship of three years. Equipped «itli the means of earning a livelihood and de.siring to see and perhaps settle in the remote west he went to New Mexico in uses. From there, in INfW, he inigmted to Montana, and for nearly six ycam thereafter was engaged in mining in difltnnt parts of that territory. He was moderately successful in mining, hut Iht uucertninties ofsucli ;i life illy suited one of his temperament, and iu the fall of Isiii) in looking for a place in which to pennanenlly locate he came to Seattle, at that lime n small hiiiiilet with little to indicate that within two ilecsdes it would U'couie a great metropolis. DctetiriiiiiuK lo c^isl his fortunes with Hie city he at once Irecanic a po.sitivc Hictor in the development which had then harciy licgun. With D. R. Lord lie embarked in buililiiij- and contracting and was engaged in this line of work for some tw.> c.r three years, after which ami with R. C. Graves he engaged iu furniture maiiufai-tiirinti. being the pioiietr iu this branch of business in Seattle. Later on, with I'au! I'aulson. he established the H^ll ^t l-aulsoti furniture conipanv, which aftcrwanls Iwcame a slock couipauv in wliicli S. 1> l-'rocketland W. R. I'orrest also lK.-c.inie iuteresled. Tliis company, of which Mr. Hall was president and manager, largely through his elTorts soon dcve!o)>t-d into a lar^e and prospiTons concern, the output during rcccut years aviTiijiing over *l(>il.i""i annually. In LSKK Mr. Hall sold his interest and has since devoted hi-^ time and atleulion to the Uianayement and improvement of his realestate properly. I'.dilically -Mr. Mali has alw.-iys been a consislenl Republican, but never a ,ceker after jiolilic;.! olUce, The positions which be li.as filled have been >uob as fell «itliin the scope of his duty as a citi/en and which Ihe welfare of the city rather than Ins personal iuoliiiations imbued hiiu to aciepi, lor five terni> he has lH.-eu a mcmlier of the .ily council and has recently U-tu elecled for ani.lhet term. Hi-, record as a city oltici.d has been a most excellcid one and has received Ihe approbation of his constituents irrespective of party. I)urinj( the practical reorganization of the city since the fire of June, 1889, the extensive city improvements which have been carried on have given rise to many novel and perplexing questions, in the solution ot which the city council has been confronted with many and great difBculties. At no period in the history of the city has the council had to decide so many important questions affecting the present and future prosperity of the city. During this time of onerous service Mr. Hall has been a warm advocate of every measure to advance the city's welfare and unflincliingly on the side of the most progressive ideas in the management of city affairs. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and for seven years was g^and treasurer of the lodge.

Mr. Hall was married in 1872 to Miss Mary V. Bell, daughter of William N. Bell, one of the founders of Seattle. They have had four childreu, all of whom are living, their names in order of birth being as follows: I\dua, Ivy, Olive and Aidine.

Personally Mr. Hall is modest and retiring in (lisi)ositi()n, a man of sterling integrity of character and universally recognized as one of Seattle's most progressive and helpful citizens. From the infant days of the city's history to its present stalwart manhooil he has ever been a ready contributor to the city's prosperity and no one is held in esteem more deservedly than he.

/^^KORGK, JKSSK Wii.ij\M, for eighteen years a resident of Seattle and closely ^^^ allied with the growth and development of the <'ity, was born in Morgan county, Ohio, November 11, 1S.V), and is the second son of Presley and Mahala (Nickerson) George. His father was a native of Virginia but early in life migrated to Ohio, where he married and lived for forty years. The mother of our subject was a descendant of an old Puritan family of the Bay state, and in 1S17 removed with his family to Ohio. His grandfather on his father's side drew a pension for services as a soldier in the Revolutionary war.

In 18.')! Presley George, with his wife and three sons, Hugh N., Jesse W. and M. C. George, crossed the plains to Oregon, settling on a donation claim near Lebanon, Linn county, which is still known by his name. Here he developed a farm of great productiveness, reared his family and discharged to the utmost every obligation resting upon a good father, husband and citizen. During the latter end of his life he resided at Kast Portland where he celebrated his golden wedding in 1870, and where he died, December 2.'^, 1879, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. His widow survived him nearly eleven years, having passed away at the home of her .son in Seattle on December 20, 18iM). in her eighty-third year, retaining to the last her mental and physical vigor.

The subject of our sketch received his rudimentary education at the district school in his native county in Ohio, and after arriving in Oregon for a short time attended Santiam academy in Linn county. He remained at home engaged in farm labor until his twenty-fifth year, when he settled on a farm of his own near Lebanon. Here he remained taking prominent interest in local affairs and developing unusual business capacity until he removed to Seattle in 1872. During this perio<l he served for several yean as trustee of Sautintn acailemy and as a Republicaq took an actlvT part in political affaire. Upon locating in Seattle he at once entered actively into the business ilevelopment of the city, acquiring extensive real estate sud property interests. He was one of the three original organtzent of the Washington iron works, and actively assisted in the projection of the first railnwid from Seattle, being one of the committee to secure riglit of way from Seattle up the White river valley lo Puyalliir station. During latter years he has acted in a similar ca pud ty for the Union Pacific railroad company and at present is engaged in work oftlie same nature for the Sentllc & Montana railroad company. In July, 1K84, he was appointed by I'reiiident Arthur L'nited Slates niarsbal for the territory and served until nfler the change of admiui*- tration. During the great fite of June, ISWi. he suffered a considerable loss of jirop- -rty, but with the saine spirit which auimated so maiiy other citiM:iis after thai grcut rataatrophe, he at otice set about re-liuilding anil hat since i-onslructcil on the cornrt of South Second and Main streets a fine six-story brick building which forms one of the notable structures of the city.

Mr. George is a mauof sound business judgment and firmness of character, which, luiited to his high integrity, make liiin one of^eu consulted nnd whose opinions in regard to business enterprises are generally folluwcil. He 1ft niode»t and natumllf little incHued to be self-assertive, but his strong iind positive iudividuality has ncvrrtheless made him a well recognized power in the community. He was luarrieil in 18(W to Miss Cassandra Eekler. who came lo Washington Territory with her brotheis and sisters in IHItS. Her mother died in her infancy and her father on the trip arross the plains. They have had five children. rouroFwhom are living. Tlie eldest, Janel. is the wife of W. H. Llewellyn ofSeattte. The others in the order of their birth Mt Amy, Mark and Hugh George.

Mr. George's eldest brother, Hugh N. George, was for several years one of the prominent educator.s of Oregon, was a lawyer by profession and for a time was editor of the Mhany Join iial. He «a^ one of tlic presidential electors iu Oregon in l.-JH, and carried to Washington city the vote of the Stale in favor of the reelectionof Abraham Lincoln. He dio<l ILiy M, IS7I. The youngest brother, M, C. George, is one of the leading lawyers in Portland, Oregon. He has been a prominent figure in the political history of the stiile and for two terms was a nienil)er of Congress, siiifss men are prcrt-erbiallt Ihey hiivc built up a great they placed it that the ilisaslock ujion block of the Ixsl worth of property, w as but a le fire, the city is greater ami " " s pe,>].lt.

.> to death or victory, he is the heir to what is of infinitely greater ivincible courage and iron resolution of tliat great race of highiiher, Norman Mackintosh, emigrated to Canada and was married Ontario, in 1.S8J). Angus Mackintosh was born. The common schools -n little chance of a first class e<lucation, but what there was to be had he juired, and, having exhausted the curriculum, at the age of sixteen he l>ecame -ol teacher himself He then secured an entrance to Huntingdon academy at obec, studied there for a year, and again resumed the work of teaching in Ontario, wanada, however, was loo slow for his active mind. He acconlingly removed to Philadelphia, studied at the Commercial aca<lemy, an<l graduated in ISIJi Having joined the commissarial department of the Army, he was stationed at Arlington Heights until 18«vi, when, becoming disabled by sickness, he removed to Michigan, and entered into the lumber business there. Seven years later, at the age of thirtyone, he resolved to try his fortune on the shores of Puget Sound, whose wealth as a lumbering region was just then beginning to be known.

He arrived on the coast in 1870, but found it re(iuircd more capital than he had at his disposal to engage in the lumber trade. He cast about for something to do, and learning that no registry of titles existed in King county, he began preparing abstracts, and for nine years continued to make h.intlsome profits in indexing. In 1870 he organized the banking firm of Mackintosh & Reeves. In 1883 this was changed to the Merchants' National Hank, of which Mr. Mackintosh has since been president. Immediately after the cstablislinicnl of his bank he organized the Seattle Lumber and Commercial company, with a capital stock of 51(>,(MM). This company paid dividends of ten per cent. ])cr month for five years and then had a surplus capital of |liH),<XM), after passing through the great fire of June, 1SSJ». In 1.SK4 he organizecl the Safe Deposit and Trust company, of which he is i)resident and the principal stockholder. This company is one of the leading financial institutions of the new State of Washington, and owns a building and safe deposit vaults second to none of the kind found in the large eastern cities.

He was one of the promoters of the Seattle, Lake Shore ^ Iva.stern Railroad, which has done .so much to promote the welfare of Seattle. In IsTl he married Miss Peebles, a New York lady. They have two children.

Politically, Mr. Mackintosh has been aniliate<l with the Republi<:an party, but his connection has principally taken the sliai)e of hel])iiig to provide the sinews of war. His business has made too great a denian<l upon his time to afford him leisure to amuse himself with politics. To push himself to a position in the fore rank of the business men of the west neede<l all his time and energy, and to that task he has been devoted He has indeed been the architect of his own fortune, the builder of a proud estate for his children, to whom he will leave what is better than wealth - an untarnished name and a brave example of pluck and perse verence.

IX/EED, Dr. G. A., is one of the pioneer physicians of Seattle, having been prominently identified with the city during all the marvelous changes which have and which has every promise of becoming one of the great commercial and indnslri*! centers of our country. The story of the city's growth and progress for tlie last two decades, since Dr. Weed linked his fortunes witli its destiny, has already been toW. It covers a period the most eventftil in its history, and during all of these years he' has been a positive force in the moulding and shaping of events wliich have made possible the Seattle of to-day. Modestly and witli no desire to appear conspicuous he has given of his time, ability aud means to promote the city's good, and lo Dn extent of his p'lwer to do and to gtve, the city has had no more helpful or loyil friend Ihau he.

Both branches of Dr. Weed's family setlled in America at an etu'ly day. Bis materUHl ancestors came lo New Jersey in colonial limes and were among the eartlHl settlers of tliat state, Joseph Doty, bis grandfather on bis mother's side, served tn the war for independence from that state, and there many of hi* descendants still reside. On the paternal side, the Weed family from which our subject is desccoded originally settled in Daiibury. Connecticut, froui which point JonBthaa Weed, hb grandfather, removed to Western Mnssachusetli^. He also served in the continenlal array during the revolution.

Dr. Weed was bom in New Providence, New Jersey, in March, \KiS. He bcgi the study of medicine in New York City aud later graduated at Rush Medical College iu Chicago. In I8.5H. shortly after his marriage, he went to California, where be located and began his professional career. During tlie Washoe mining excitement he went to that lively camp, where he remained engager! in the practice of hi fesaion for nearly five years. He then lived in Tnickee for a year, from which pi he removed to Vallejo, California, where he was cugaged in professional work tml 18T(f, wtieu he came to Seattle.

The metropolis of the new State of Washington wa;; then but a hamlet with barely one thousand iuhabitants, but Dr. Weed w»s pleased with the situation and even then was convinced that from its unrivaled position it was destined to become the chief city of the Sound. He at ouce be^;au the practice of his profession aud carefully invested his earnings in real estiite. to which wise action he owes the comfortable fortune he now possesses. Shortly after the arrival of Dr. Weed in Seattle, the great struggle of iLs citizens for railroad connection was begun, which has been so fully treated of in preceding pages. When the very existence of the city was threatened by a powerful corporation, with its millions of acres, its eastern bankers, its Enropeau connections and its inflnence in Congress, Dr. Weed was among those resolute men who boldly defied the power of (be great company which would treat the territory and its people as its property. The result of the unequal fight has been told. The triumph of the people of Se.ittle, iltspite every obstacle which wealth and greed could devise, was signal and conipltle. Throughout the struggle Dr. Weeil was active and ^ver ready to do his full share of the work, cheerfully contributing of his time and means to promote the end iu view.

Although from the time he first came to Seattle he ha-^ occu|)ied a leailiiig poii' tion in his profession. Dr. Weed has always taken that interest in political affairs wliich i-very go<»l citi/en owes to bis felbiw>. in IST.') be wa> elected on a uou-p.irtisan ticket mayor <.f .Seattle and was ru-ckrled in the following year. His adnliniv traliou of city alfair^ was marked by a painslakiiiK elfort and was eminently practic.il and efficieut. During his term he instituted many reforms in the management of municipal matters, and earned the approval of citizens irrespective of party lines. For ten years he was a regent of the university of Washington. He has always been an earnest advocate of medical organization, and largely through his efforts the King county medical society was organized, and he was elected its first president. He was also one of the prime movers in the organization of the state medical society.

Dr. Weed was originally a member of the Republican party and supported its presidential candidates from Fremont to Garfield. Since 1H8(), however, he has been a Prohibitionist. He was married in the fall of IslT, a few months prior to his removal to the Pacific coast. His wife, formerly Miss Adeline M. Willis, of Marion, Iowa, is well known throughout our city, and has always been foremost in religious, philanthropic and moral reform work. She is a lady of ciiliure and possesses literary taste and ability of a high order. Her influence upon the social life of our city has been pronounced and in every way beneficial.

The married life of Dr. "Weed and wife has been one of singular congeniality and happiness. They have had two children, a son and a daughter, Henjamin and Mabel, both of whom are now attending the university of California. Dr. W^eed is an excellent type of a good citizen. His influence is always cast for whatever will add to the city's prosperity or improve the moral or physical good of his fellows. He is a firm and uncompromising supporter of law and order, and during the anti-Chinese riot did not hesitate to take his stand with the law abiding citizens of Seattle to protect the lives and rights of even a detested race. He is a man of p(.sitive views and nothing of a time-server, and his devotion to a principle he believes to be right is unchangeable. As a physician he has always enjoyed a most extensive and lucrative practice, and the success which has attended his professional labors has been highly gratifying. Naturally retiring and of a modest disposition, he dislikes publicity of any kind, and finds his chief pleasure within his own family circle or with old and congenial friends. No man in Seattle more fully or thoroughly enjoys the confidence of all who know him than Dr. Weed. Ivven those who radically differ from him on political or other questions admire his integrity of character, and the sincerity of purpose which has ever actuated him.

pAGLEY, Drf. Hknry B., was born near Auburn, New York, March 12, 1845, and is a son of Dr. Alvin Bagley, a well known medical practitioner in New York, Ohio and Michigan, who came to Seattle in 1872, where he died in 1885. Five years afler the birth of our subject, the family moved to Ohio, where his early boyhood was passed. At an early age he began the study of medicine under his father's direction, which was supplemented by a course of instruction at the Homeopathic Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio, from which institution he graduated in 1868. The following year he took a post graduate course in Bellevue Medical College, New York. In 1872 he was elected professor of the principles and practice of surgery in the Michigan Medical College, holding this position until 1875, when he resigned to remove to Washington Territory. During the same year he commenced the practice of medicine in Seattle, in which he has since continued with most gratifying success.

He at once took a prominent place in his proressioii itiid for iiiHiiy yeart, he has stood at the bead of his school of practice in Seattle. Iti IWili he was elected president of the King County Homeopathic Medical society, and in IfiWl was i-hoseu president of the Homeopathic Medical society of Wsshiogton. lu May, 1S5K1, lie was appointed ott the state board of meilical examiners.

Dr. Bagley has also been one of the most active promoters of Seattle's material prosperity. Possessed of excellent business judgment, he has been i-ery successful in Teal estate speculation and has acquired a comfortable forlune. He has been a memlier of the city council of Seattle. With D. T, Deuny, Cieorge Kiunear and E. M. Smithers he was the originator of the scheme to connect, by a caual. Lake Washington and I,ake Union. He is also president of the Seattle Improvement company and a director in the Washington National hank. Dnriu^ recent years the uiMuagement of private business affairs has usurped so much of Dr. Bagleys time as to cause t Krailually to relinquish tlie practice of his prafesaiou, and at the present time he ha* , virtually retired from active professional work.

Dr. Barley is a man of extreme modesty, and has always declined posiiiout i which would bring him conspicuously in pablic view. He has ever been reoily ta ' contribute his full share toward the material prosperity of the city, but has always ( preferred to perform his part in an unostcDtatious and quiet way. Both as a physician and a citizen he enjoy the couMenee aud respect of the entire comrnunity, and tl regarded as one of the substantial characters npon whom the present and futiiiv prosperity of Seattle so largely rests.

/GREENE, RociKR S. The de.scendants of many of the distinguished families of the Atlantic states have become the builders of our own communities. This i» particularly true of the New Knglaiid states, which have contributed a large army of their sons and daughters wlu)-* brain ami brawn have helped develop Ihe resources and build up au empire in that vast region west of the Rocky Mountains. The subject of this sketch, fnr several years tin- chief judicial officer of \Vashiu};toii Territory and now one of the ablest lawyers of the Si'atlle bar, is one of New England's soni whose high integrity, and wliose efforts to elevate the tone of society and keep pure the moral si-nlinii'iil c)f the lojiiniunity. make a double claim miou our respect and recognition. He conjesofold New England stock, and in bis character can l>e detecteil some of the strongest virlnes of his ancestry. On the maternal side he is a grandson of Roger Sherman, ime of llie signers of the Declaration of Indejiendence. His miilher, Mary l-;varls, was the daughter of Jeremiah Kvarls and a sister of William M, Kvarts. recenlly t'niled .-States Senator from New York, who for many years has licvn recognized as the ablest meniluT of the American bar. His father. Rev. David Crceue, a native of Stoneb.ini and long a resident of Boston, Mass., was for twenty years corresponding secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The family residence was at Rosbury, Mass., now a part of Itoslon. and lliere DecemlttT 14. 1«4", Roger Sherman C.rcene « as l>oru. Here his lioyhood was passed until his eighth year, when the family removed to Westliorougli. Massachu.

setts, and two years later to Windsor, Vermont. He received a most carefully conducted elementar>' education, and after completing an academic course entered Dartmouth college, from which institution he was graduated in 1859. Soon thereafter he began the study of law in the office of Rvarts, Southmayd & Choate in New York city, a firm composed of as brilliant men as ever adorned the bar of the metropolis of America, each of whom had at that time gained national renown. In this office as student and afterwards as managing clerk, he had an excellent opportunity of gaining a most valuable preliminary legal training. In May, 1S(>2, he was admitted to practice, but at this stage of his career the war for the overthrow of the Union had begun to assume the aspect of a great struggle, and his loyally to his country induced him to abandon the idea of beginning his professional career and to enter the service of his country. In September, 1862, he enlisted under coniniission of second lieutenant of Company I, Third Missouri Infantry. In March following he was promoted to first lieutenant in the same company, and in 1SI>.S was made captain of Company C, Fifty-first United States Colored Infantry, serving as such until honorably discharged by acceptance of his resignation in November, IS^m. He also served during this period as judge advocate of the District of Vicksburg at the close of \XVA and beginning of I860, and judge advocate of the Western Division of Louisiana from June, 1806 until retirement from service. He received a gunshot wound through the right arm in the general assault on Vicksburg, while in command of his company, May 22, 1863.

After the close of his military service. Judge (ireene was offered the position of Assistant United States District Attorney for the southern district of New York, but declined the office, and in January, 1S<)(», began the practice of his profession in Chicago, where he occupied the same ofiice with Perkin Bass, then United States Attorney, with whom he was ultimately associated in practice. He remaine<l in Chicago until his appointment by President Ciraiit as Associate Justice of the vSupreme Court of Washington Territory, when he settled at Olympia. He was twice reappointed, holding the office until January. 1S7'>, when he was comniissioncd chief justice, at which time he removed to Seattle, where he has since continued to reside. In 1883 he was reappointed chief justice and served until the close of his term in March, 1887. Upon retiring from the bench, Judge Greene formed a co-partnership in the practice of law with C. H. Hanford and John H. McGraw, which a few months later was dissolved and a new.firm formed under the style of CTreene, McNaught, Hanford & McGraw. A year later this firm was dissolved, at which time Judge Greene temporarily retired from practice. In June, 1889, he resumed his professional labors, and has since been associated as partner with J. J. Turner under the firm name of Greene & Turner.

In the life record of one who has served the public in positions of responsibility and been an actor in important public events, it is proper to give a just estimate of the man and describe the qualities of his nature and the principles which have guided his conduct. To do so fairly without bestowing fulsome eulogism on the one hand, nor disparaging by faint praise on the other, it becomes necessary to survey the field of his labor, and consider the weight and importance of the duties which he has undertaken to perform, the difficulties encountered, the measure of his success and the con- temporaneous and subsequent criticisms or plaudits of his behavior Thus, to estimate and describe the character, igualities and principles of a fiiend is the somcwbat delicate task assumed by the writer. And aav to begin: No court on eartb possesses a wider range of jurisdiction than the district courts and supreme court to which Congress and the territorial legislature gave cognizance. eiUier original or appellate, of every case which could possibly be a subject for judicial determination within the hoDDds of Washington, a territory which by reason of its situation and geographical features, and the infinite variety of its natural resources necessarily became during the period of its development, the -scat of transactions and occurrences giving rise to new questions ander every branch and classi5catiou of law affecting the rights of either citizens or aliens on land, at sea, or in mines deep beneath the surface. The same men were required to preside as judges of the nisi pHui courts, and also review the decisions and rulings made by each other when sitting in ianr as a» appellate tribunal. Among the qualities requisite for the performance of anch duties are - a natural sense of justice, honesty, fairmjndeduess, firmness, courage, caution, induatry, knowledge, a good memory, habits of close o1>servation and accuracy, clearness of menta] vision, quickness of perception and a physical coualitution able to endnre hard labor and unceasing mental strain; in brief, the position requires a man having a combination of all the highest and Wst attributes of manhood. To such a position Judge Greene was called in his thirtieth year, and for seventeen years thereafter he filled it in a manner to satisfy the people and gain for himself a reputation among the lawyers of the nation as an able, upright and fearless judge. His first appointment was for Q term of four years as associate justice and judge of the Second judicial district, including all the counties west of tlie Cascade mountains and south of Pierce, Kitiap and Jefferson. At that time he was a non-resident and unknown in the territory. He at once came with his family, established his permanent hottie In the territor)-, and with enthusiasm joined Uis new townsmen and neighbors in all plans and efTort.i towards material, social, mtellectual and religioi

Besides performing all official duti and laboring with his own hands in enterprise in initiating railroad cons by delivering lectures Kratuilnusly churches and Sundi At the expiratif ation of the bar of Uis diitrict. President Grant re-appoiutei! him for a second term of four years; al the end of Ihat period upon like rerommeudatioii. President Hayes again re-appointed him and ui>on the retirement of Chief Justice Lewis in 187'.), he becamechicf justice of the territory ami judge of the Third judicial district. In l.'<>13 President Arthur gave hiui an appointment for a second term, and he continued lo serve until relieved by Kioliard A. Jones iu March. 1SK7,

In the performance of his ofiici^il duties, Judge Greene did not spare himself ]abor. He ga\-c to every case a patient and thorough investigation. Besides the supreme court, he hehl ten terms of the district court each year, and at each term delivered a carefully prepared wrillen charge lo the f;ran<l jury. In deciding the new and important questions which were constantly l>eiug submitted to him he generally committed his views to writing licfiire announcing them, and yet the delays suffered by litigants were only in a slight degree, if at all, due to the withholding of decisions for the sake of time to prepare opinions. He was always prompt in the dispatch of business, and after a question had been submitted his decision followed quickly. He has been criticised for laxity in administering the criminal law, but the criticisms were not merited, for while Judge Greene gave to every person arraigned before him a fair trial, and although his heart was full of sympathy and free from malice towards transgressors, yet the records of his court will show that in sentencing convicts he dealt out punishment with greater severity than most judges do.

While it will not be said that his judgments are free from error or that as a judge he was infallible, still it is true that after giving credit for the good, debiting him for all errors and striking a balance, his record is above the average of good judges. All who have known him agree that all his judgments were intelligent and conscientiously rendered.

Since returning to practice as a ineinber of the bar, Judge Greene has l)een successful in securing the confidence and esteem of a large number of desirable clients and building up a large practice. He is a scholarly, experienced and skillful lawyer, just in the prime of his manhood apparently, with many years in which to be useful yet before him.

Up>on becoming chief justice of the territory in ISTH, Judge Greene changed his residence to Seattle, and from that time this city has not had among all her loyal sons a more ardent lover or useful citizen. It is something to be thankful for that so glorious a city, with all her other advantages and resources, is so richly endowed in the talents of a large number of her citizens who may be relied upon to aid in her future progression.

DURKE, Thomas. Few citizens of Seattle have done more to advance the growth of the city and to elevate it to its jiresent enviable position than Judge Thomas Burke. For more than fifteen years he has been one of the acknowledged leaders of its bar. During this entire period his influence upon both the moral and commercial development of the city has been great and constantly increasing. He has ever been a power. His efforts have ever been put forth in the cause of progress, lK)th material and intellectual. No well-directed movement, having in view the goo<l of the city or its people, has been without his active assistance. No great enterprise has been inaugurated without his co-operation and advice.

Judge Burke has been a resident of Seattle during almost the entire period of his active life. He was l)orn in Clinton county, New York, December ±i, 1849. In 1861 he removed, with his parents to Iowa, where he resided four years. In the summer of 18H8 he went to Ypsilanti, Mich., and for a time got work on a farm near town, until he had earned money enough to pay for his tuition and maintenance at the seminary. He continued at the seminary part of each year, teaching school in the meantime, and was graduated in 1870. In the fall of the same year he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, remaining six months, and then being obliged to teach school for about the same length of time in order to obtain means for continuing his studies. The following year he alternated between teaching and attending the l^w Deparlinenl of the UuiTersity. In IH'il, be went to Marshal], Micb., whet*: he studied law for two years when he was admitted to the bar. In May, I87o, reached Seattle, and ftt ouce began the practice of his profession.

Jndge Burke's abilities were soou recognized by the people of Seattle. In less than two years after his arrival he was elected probate judge of Kiog county. In IHW and again iu 18A2 he was uominatei] for delegate in Congress by Che Democratic party, of which he was already the HcknowledKcd leader iu the territory. Tlie Republican tnajorily was too great to be overcome, however, and on both occasions Judge Burke was defeated, although the large vote cast in hia favor attested his popularity in all parts of the commonwealth. Since ltiH'2 Judge Burke has not been a candidate before the people for any office. He has conliuued. however, to take a warm interest in politics and has l>ecu numbered amoug^ the ablest and most aggressive champ!' of Democracy

While he has thus taken a deep interest in public alTaire, however. Ju<ige Burke did not neglect his profession to which he devoted lioth his time and his aliili the lavishne&,4 of au enthusiasL His career at tlie bar has l>een a notable one. He it a wise and prudeut counselor, a logical reasoner and a convincing and jinpa^! pleader. He was earlj" regarded as one of the ablest lawyers of Washington, and fatt quickly won and has constantly maintained a poKJlion as one of the leaders of which numbered among its members such men as Heiiry G. Struve, James McNaughti Klisha P. Ferry, John C. Haines, Joseph R, Lewis, Orange Jacobs and Roger Si Greene, In 18SII he formed a pflrluership with Unit M. Rasin, and the firm, which was soon one of the best known legal firms in the northwest, was known by the name of Burke & Rasin. In 1KK5 this iirui was dissolved and Judge Burke soon aflerwarrls formed a partnership with G. Morris Haller uuder the firm uame of Burke & Haller. This connection was ended by the death of Mr. Haller in 1839. and in the following year the firm of Burke, Sbepard it Woods was formed, Thomas R, Shepard and Andrew Woods being associated witli Judge Burke, This firm nnnibcre among its clients many of the strongest and most imjjort.inl corporations operating in Wasfi-

A sketch of Judne Uurke's his short but notable career .i district court "f the Ihivd judi plight. tJwiug to the sickness become crowded almost to the untouched, and for almost thr litigants were in despair, Iu tl Rurke for assi,-:tancc, t'naiii: urged hiu

;)"iil career would lie incomplete without reference to chief justice of Washington Territory, In 1.SS4 the al district of Wiishingtou Territory w.is in a doleful iu.i death of two successive justices, the docket had jint of hopelessness. For almost a year it had l>een r years no civil case had been tried. Attorneys and li emergency the meml)ers of the bar turned to Judge nee, rnaiimiously and wilhoul regard to party aifiliations they :epl the position of chief justice. He consented to serve fur a few months on condition that he then lie perniiltcil to retire. He was appointed by I'resident Cleveland iu Uecember, IHhh, and resif;ned iu the following April, During these few months. Imwever, he brought order out of chaos. The overburdened docket was greatly relieved and many of the most important coses were disposed of Judge Burke dispatched the business of bis court easily and quickly. His decisions were sontid, and he graced the bench to as great a degree as he had graced the bar. As all

Judge Burke was among the promoters and organizers of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern railroad. To him also, more than to any other man, is due the og^nization of the Seattle & Montana railroad and the selection of Seattle as the Pacific terminus of the Great Northern system.

Throughout his career Judge Burke has been actively enlisted in every movement having for its object the advancement of the interests of Seattle. During the long struggle of Seattle for existence he was one of its most hopeful and courageous citizens. He was one of the leaders in its protest against the aggressions of the Northern Pacific, and he has ever l^en in complete accord with the most advanced thought of its people. In every respect he has been a Seattle man, and his name must be enrolled among the names of those who have ina<lc the city great.

Judge Burke is a man of broad culture. He is a diligent and discriminating reader and his mind is stored with the riches which he has gleaned in many fields of thought. He is an ardent lover of hooks, and he frecjuently expresses his regret that his life is too busy to permit hitn to devote to literature as much time as he desires. He is particularly strong iu the Kuglish classics. He knows no keener delight than to be alone with his favorite books and to allow his thoughts to mingle with those of the masters who built at once the English language and the English character. He is possessed of the oratorical temperament in a rare degree. As a si)eaker he is fiuent and impassioned. He is never at a loss for a word and his words are always correctly - chosen and elegantly sj)oken. He has complete control of an audience, and he is justly regarded as one of the ablest political speakers of the Pacific coast.

IV/lcGRAW, John H. The life of John H. McCiraw, president of the Pirst National Bank of Seattle and one of the most prominent and influential residents of the city, conveys, as few lives convey, the lesson that to an American citizen endowed with honesty, ability and energy all things are possible. During the fifteen years he has lived in Seattle he has advanced steadily from poverty and comparative obscurity until he has attained a position among the foremost men of Washington.

Mr. McGraw was born at Barker Plantation, Penobscot county, Maine, on October 4th, 1850. When he was little more than two years old his father was drowned in the Penobscot river. His mother was left with three small children and, as he expresses it, "poverty in abundance." The outlook was not a promising one for her or for her young family and she doubtless looked upon the future with little hope and less confidence.

When young McGraw was eight years old his mother married a second time. His home life after this event was not altogether a pleasant one, and when he was fourteen years old he left home because of a disagreement with his step- father. This step, which was taken with his mother's consent brought him face to face with the world at a time when fortitude and self-reliance are not usually numbered among a boy's characteristics. Thereafter he was compelled to rely entirely upon his own exertions. His equipment for the struggle before him was not what it should have been. His education had been acquiml during a few terms' attendance at a country school, nod it WHS no more thorough than tlie education of a lively American boy of fonrtcen might reasonably be expected to lie. In spite of all disadvantages, however, he BUcceeded in maintaiuiug himself, and when he was seventeen years old be waj employed as manner of a general merchandise store. He coutinaed in this position for four years, and then embarked in a similar business in company with a brother older than himself. Tliia business occupied his attention for the next few years, although it docs not appear to have engrossed him entirely, for he was married on October 12th, 1874. In the winter of 1KT5-7H, the tirm of McGraw BrothetB was numbered among the victims of the business depression then prevailing, and John H, was once more thrown altogether upon his own resources. This reverse disgusted him with the bosiuess opportunities offered by his native state, and on July Ittth, 1876, be arrived in San Francisco, and live mouths later. Decemlier 28th. 1^76. he landed in Seattle, which he had previously determined to make his home.

Mr, McCraw's situation on arriving at Seattle was scarcely better than it had been when he left the house of his step-fnther twelve years before. He was nmong strauger«. If not penniles=, he was much nearer that condition than is reconcilable with feelings of comfort He had no thought of discouragement, howei-er. On the contrary, he turned with eager hopefulness to the new life before him. Hit HrH employment iu Seattle was as clerk at the Occidental hotel. He next kept the American house, a small hotel located near Yesler's wharf. His misfortunes hod not ended, however, for this hotel mas destroyed by fire aud he was again compelled to seek employment. He solicited and obtained a position on the police force of Seattle - then consisting of four men.

Mr. McGraw's fortunes were now apparently at the lowest ebb. He doubtlesi thought as he paced his beat at midnight that his fate was a hard one and that hen-as doonieil to poverty and obscurity. Ill reality, however, the tide in his fortunes had turned. A favorable current had set iu. Unknowingly he had entered upon a career which was to give him a position among the foremost men of the Pacific Northwest. His abilities attracted the people of Seattle. In July, 1S79, they elected him city marshal and the city couucil also chose him as chief of police. He filled these offices, being re-elecle<l in L'Wil and IWtl. until February, 1MM2, when he was elected sheriff of King county to fill tuc unexpired term of I.. V. WycVoff. He was re-elected to this position in November. 1W2. and again in IX'^i. During his third term occurred the anti-Chinese agitation with its accompanying disturbance of the peace. He promptly made knowu his intention to uphold the laws and maintain the peace of the county at any cost, aud it was owing to this positive altitude, as well as to the tact and good judgment which he rlisplavf d that the city was enabled to pass through this orileal without a disastrous conflict between the law-abi<ling and the law-defying citi-

Connncmlablc as was Sheriff McGraw's course during this time o however, it detracted scriouslv from his popubirily for a time. He incurred the hostility of all wbr. -.yuipalbi/cd wilh the agitation in its lawless phase, and when be was nominated for rc-cltction in November, lS«i. he was defeated, together with all the othir caiidid^itcs who bad been nominated for comity officus by his parly.

his spare time to the study of the law and had been admitted to the bar. Shortly after his retirement to private life in March, 1887, he entered into partnership with Roger S. Greene, who had formerly been chief justice of Washington Territory, and C. H. Hanford, at present United States district judge for the district of Washington, and began the practice of law. Shortly afterwards Joseph P. McNaught entered the firm, and under the name of Greene, Hanford, McNaught & McGraw it became one of the foremost legal firms of Washington.

Mr. McGraw, however, continued in the active practice of the law for less than two years. As the election of 1888 approached, his friends insisted that he should once more become a candidate for sheriff. They urged that it was necessary for him to do this in order that the people might have an opportunity to show that in their calmer moments they approved his course during the anti-Chinese riots, which, by his former defeat, they had appeared to condemn. lie consented to l>ecorae a candidate for the office and was elected by an overwhelming majority. During this term the county was undisturbed by riot or agitation, and nobody had the slightest criticism to make upon Mr. McGraw's official course. In ISJHJ he positively refused to be a candidate for re-election, and on the expiration of his term retired to devote himself to the service of the First National bank of which institution he had some months before been chosen president.

In politics Mr. McGraw is an ardent Republican, and he is one of the acknowledged leaders of his party in the state of Washington. He has been a member of the state central committee for several years and the chairmanship of that body was urged upon him by a large majority of the delegates to the state convention of 1890. This position, however, he refused to accept. In the senatorial contest of 1891, he was the central figure. He supported Senator Watson C. Squire for re-election, and to his faithful and intelligent work the success of that gentleman was largely due. Mr. McGraw was many times during the canvass urged to become a candidate for the senatorship himself, and there is every reason to believe that he could have been elected without difficulty. He was faithful in his support of Senator Squire, however, and peremptorily refused to permit the use of his name.

So severe were Mr. McGraw's exertions during this memorable senatorial contest that his health was badly shattered, and he determined to go to California to secure the rest which was necessary for its restoration. A few days before his departure he was presented by his fellow Republicans of Seattle with a magnificent silver service in acknowledgement of the valuable services which he had rendered to his party. In referring to this presentation the Post- Intelligencer^ on the following morning, February oth, 18H1, said editorially:

The presentation made to Mr. John H. McGraw last evening by a number of his Republican friends was a heartfelt though necessarily inadequate expression of the honor in which he is held by his fellow citizens. More particularly an acknowledgement of his able, honorable and successful leadership in the recent senatorial contest, it was none the less a tribute to his worth as a man and a citizen.

The present is a proper time to testify to the manner in which Senator Squire's canvass was conducted by Mr. McGraw. That his generalship was able, that he was vigorous, keen and resourceful, the result of the battle sufficiently attests. More than this, however, he was open and honorable in his methods, and he comes out of the fight with the respect and friendship of all fair minded men - even of those who were among the supporters of the cause which he overthrew.

Mr, McGraw occupies an enviable position ia the»tate of Washington. Honored ' and respected b_v men of all parlies, enthusiastically supported by his Repcblican friends, he is unconsciously a typical representative of what is strongest anil best in American citizenship. That he may soon be restored to health, that tie tnay letum to the slate of his adoption strengthened and rein Wgora ted, u* the wish of the thousands wlio are gXail to call themselves his friends.

Air. McCraw has more than supplied the deliciencies of his early education. Though he makes no pretension to scholarship, he is exceedingly well read, and his literary taste is diEcriminaliug and correct. He is extremely modest aud it seeniE< impossible for him to appreciate his personal and political successes as they should be appreciated. -'Of a career so barreu of results not much can trntlifully be said,'" was his reply to a letter a.sl:ing for a sketch of his life. In spile of his moiiesly, however, his fellow citijiens value him at his true worth aud hejuslly holds a position ot iuftdence and honor among the people of Washington.

governor of Washington Territory and at prc-"«nt seriing s senator from the newly create<i State of Washing- New York, in 1S3S. His father was a Methoilisl 1 young Squire was early thrown upon his own By industry and perseverance he gained an education, passing with credit through the academies at I'ultou and I'airfleld, New York, and graduating from Wesleyan University at Middlelown, Cnnueclicut. He took a high rank at all of the institutions which he attended in spite of the interruptions which were rendered neccjuar; by his exertions to gain & livelihood and to procure means for continuing his course. His education was in the strictest sense won by himself. Teaching and such other honorable employment as he coidd obtain occupieil his time during his vacations and gained the umuey which enabled him to be self-supportiu;;.

I'pon his graiiuatioti in \X-'i'.i. Mr. Siiuire liecame principal of the Moravia Institute at Moravia, New York. lie held this ])osition until the breaking out of the reliellion. when he immediately began to arrange his affairs with a view of entering the army. On May 7, IHtil, lc*.s th;m two months after the l)onihardment of Fort Sumter, he enlisted as a private in a New York regiment. He was soon after choiien by the members of his comjiaiiy to act as tlicir captain, but iie declined to accept that rank and was suKsequently commi.ssioned a first lienlenaut. He strved with his regiment aliout Washington aud .Maryland and Northern Yirginia until it was mnsterc'i out in October, ISiil, K-iug, during the greater portion of the time, in command of his company, the captain having returned to his home after a few weeks' ft the service Mr. Squire went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he si IS r. Raiiney mid w;is ailmitled lo llie bar. The war continuing, lined I., go to the front oiici- more. He accordingly raiso.1 a con rs, which wiis one of ten detached companies raised in Ohio a ompaiiics «itv attached to no regiuunlal or brigade organii'atioi ic entire period of their service. eoniuian.Uil l>y Captain S.jn Captain S<iuire and his sharpshooters joined the army of Rost immediately after the battle of Stoue river. He was promoted for gallant service, first to the rank of major, then to that of lieutenant-colonel, and retired from the service with the brevet rank of colonel.

Immediately after the war Colonel Squire entered the employ of the Remington Arms company, and his connection with that j^reat enterprise continued without interruption for eleven years, during five of which he was the agent of the company at New York, and during the remaining six its general manager. It waa he who established the Remington agency at New York and to him is due in a very large measure the phenomenal success of the company during the fifteen years succeeding the close of the rebellion. He made large contracts for the furnishing of ammunition with the goverments of Mexico, the Argentine Republic, the United States of Colombia, Denmark, France, Spain, Sweden, Egypt and other countries of Europe and South America, as well as with the United Stales, and the state of New York. He armed the entire Spanish army with Remington rifles, besides furnishing 20<),(KX) for use in Cuba, personaly visiting Madrid in connection with this contract. His dealings with other governments were on a similarly large scale.

The crowning achievement of this portion of Colonel Squire's career, however, was his great transaction with the French government. This was the largest transaction ol the kind that had taken place up to that time, and it is probably the largest that has ever taken place when the rapi<lity with which the arms and munitions were furnished is taken into consideration. The value of the purchases of the French government was about fourteen million dollars, among the articles purchased in this country and shippe<l to TVance by Colonel Squire being fifty six-gun batteries, with harness, cai.ssons and all accoutrements complete. After the successful performance of this great work Colonel Squire met the committe on contracts of the French chamber of deputies at Versailles and received their thanks for the manner in which the contract had been fulfilled.

In 1877 Colonel Squire's failing health warned him that the duties of his position were too arduous to be longer borne. He accordingly severed his connection with the Remington company and went to Euro|x?, where he remained for two years. On returning to the United States he visited the Pacific coast. He had already made large investments in Seattle, though he had never visited the city. So pleased was he with the city, its prospects and the possibilities of the country surrounding it, that he determined to make it his home. His career since tliat time is well known. He first devoted himself to farming operations at Renton, but soon began to improve his Seattle property, and since that time has been recognized as one of the foremost and most public spirited of Seattle's business men.

On July 2, 1884, Colonel S(iuire was appointed by President Arthur, Governor of Washington Territory. The news of the appointment was received in the territory with the greatest satisfaction, not only because of the high esteem in which Colonel Squire was held by his neighbors and fellow citizens, but l)ecause his selection marked a new departure in the appointment of territorial ofiicials. Previous to that time such officials had almost invaribly been chosen from among the aspiring politicians of the eastern states. The appointment of (xovernor Squire was the first one made under this new policy - a policy which was naturally popular among the citizens of the territories. This fact was, however, not the only cause which made the Bppoiutiuent a popular oue. Colon«l Squire had far Gve years beeu a dtiren of the territory. His interests were thorouglily idcHlifieil with those of its iwople. He was recoguiied as a iiublic-spiriterl anil enterprising citiien who coiilil be relied npon to use his official aod persoual influence for the upbuilding of the commonwealth of which he was the official head . It is not surprising, therefore, that Governor Squire's sdiiiiDistrBtion opened auspiciously or that the people almost withont regard to partj gave it an earnest and enthusiastic support.

The lirBt notable act of Governor Squire's official career waa the eoinpilatioa of his annual report which was rendered to the Secretary of the Interior in Noi.-ember, 1884. Previous to this time the rule of the interior department requiring governors of territories to render annual reports liad, so far as Washington was concemeil, been virtually disregarded. Previous reports had been exceedingly brief, and Governor Squire's immediate predecessor had failed to reuder any at all. It is not surprising, therefore, that the information concerning Wo.'thington Territory possessed by the people of the east was vagrie anil un^tisfaclory. Governor Squire perceived the necessity of a full statement of the resonrccs, conditions and prospects of the territory, and he accordingly prepared a report which he designed to cover as nearly as possible, the vast subject which it was his duty to diBCiiss,

This report placed the advantages of Washington before the people of the East fts they had never been placed Iwfore, Cuming with the official stamp, it was accepted as correct by mnuv who had looked upon nil former reports concerning Washington, however truthful Uiey might have been, as wild flights of the imagination. There was little concerning the tlien condition of the territory that was not discuiised. Its climate, its resources, its geological formations, its growth and development, the character of its people, in fact everythiug which concerued the territory or its welfare was presented as fully as possible.

The influence of tliis report is not to l>e o ve rest i mated. II was eagerly read in the E.ist, and the people accepted its slaleuieuls as they had never before accepleil statements concerning the territory. The edition of this report issued by the government was totallj' ina<le(|uate to the denian<l. and thousands of copies were printed and circulated by private enterprise. The annual report of I'^'*-") wa.i only less comprehensive than that of lKfi4. It contaiiied in addition to valuable statistical matter an earnest appeal for the more strict euforceiiienl of the Chinese Uxchuiou -Act. The evils itiseparably connected with tile presence of Chinese were presented in forcible language, which placed Governor Squire diri-clly in line with the l>est thought of the I'acific co.-ist on this great question. He advised a revision of the restriction act such as woulil more ciTectively prevent the introduction of this much dete6ti.'<l race. A few months after his report was issued came the anti-Chinese agitation which shook the social organizations of the territory to its center. During this great crisis, iuto a discussion of which it is scarcely necessary to enter, Governor Squire w,i> conservative, dignified and lirm. Ilis sympathies were i)ii itn- side of .Vuiericau lal>or, but he was uuallcrably oppose.! to lawlessness or violence in ,iny form, and h<- slaked everything on the inaiiileiiance of the law ihroujihout the ti-rrilory. lie came out of this trying ordeal, which i^ fully dealt with iu prcccdinj; payes, with ihc re sped of

Upon the inauguration of President Cleveland, Governor Squire promptly notified him that his resignation would be handed in whenever it was requested. So creditable had been his official career, however, that he was retained in office for two years after the accession of the Democratic administration, though it was well known that he held ultra Republican views and that his political course had always been consistent with these convictions. He was the last territorial governor who was retained in office by President Cleveland. It is but fair to say that his administration of his office was of real and substantial benefit to Washington. By his voluminous and valuable reports and by his firm and consistent course at a time of great public excitement, he strengthened confidence in the territory and its government, and invited immigration and the investment of capital.

Upon retiring from the governorship Colonel Squire returned to Seattle and devoted his entire time to his growing business interests. After the great fire, in which he was among the largest losers, he was amoug the first to declare his intention to rebuild, and his courageous words and more courageous example did much to inspire the citizens uith new hope and to make possible the rapid recovery of the city from the ruin which had overtaken it.

Governor Squire had been prominent in the agitation which preceded the admission of Washington as a state. He was chairman of the statehood convention which was held at Ellensburg in March, 1S<SU, and until the passage of the admission bill he was untiring in his efforts to secure the entrance of Washington into the sisterhood of states. When admission was finally secured he at once became a prominent candidate for United States senator, and when the legislature assembled he was elected to that position by a decided majority of the voters of both houses. Having drawn the short terra, his period of service expired at the end of one year, and at that time, so satisfactorily to the people had been his discharge of the duties of his high office, that the demand for his re-election was all but universal. In obedience to this demand the state legislature, in January, ISDI, again elected him to the United States senate for a full term of six years. His short period of service demonstrated his eminent fitness for the position and if he continues to labor as zealously and effectively for the interests of Washiiigton in the future as he has in the past he will be entitled to the grateful thanks of the people he has been called to represent.

piNEHART, WiLUAM v., was born December 28, IHHTy, at Clark's Hill, Tippecanoe county, Indiana. He was raised on a farm and educated at Farmer's Institute, a Quaker school located eight miles from La Fayette, Indiana. At the age of eighteen, he crossed the plains, driving an ox team, and entered the gold mines at Downieville, California, August 25, 1854. In March, 185(3, he removed to Aulthouse creek mines, in Josephine county, in southern Oregon, arriving there in the midst of the Rogue river Indian war, and assisted in the protection of the settlers against Indian depredations, being one of the miners to help build the stockades for the protection of the families located in Illinois valley. In 18^')9 he left the mines and entered the general store of A. R. Mcllwaine, at Sailor Diggings, now the town of Waldo.

When the war of the rebellion coiniiiencKtl, the regular troops were withdrawn from tlie different military posts in eastern Oregon, leaving the counlrj' with its scattered populatiOD subject to Iniliau ilepredalioiis. The settlere were tliercfore obliged to rely npou tlicmaelvps for protecliou. lu this emergency Mr, Rinetaan w«» prompt to respond to tile call of iluly. In December, ISBI, he assisted in recruiting Company P, First Oregon Cavalry, at Kirhyville, Oregon, anil was muatered in as iti Pirst LieuteuBUt. January 2, IS()2, His promotion on account of eminent (itncM qnickly followed. April ^8, imi:;, lie was made Regimental Adjutant: GapUin, Det^mbcr 22, lSti3, and Major of the First Oregon Infautry. Jnne :i4. 1)*I1J>. acn-ing in tile latter capacity as commandant of Fori Klamatb nntil it was garrisoncil by rega- Ur troops. August a5, IHtHi.

One intimately acqufliuted with tlie services rendered by Major Riuehart during this period, bears the following testimony to his soldierly qaalities : " ilc always bad the reputation of being a cool, daring and hrave nma. He was well acquainted with thr Indian character, his mode of warfare ami habits of life, and no more fit pcnon coald have been selected to fill the important position he occupied during this period of danger. His prompt and thorongh measures for the protection of the exposed settlers kept the Indians in subjection and prevented any serious depredations."

After the close of his military career he entered mercantile life, but his nalnral qualities of leadership soon made him a promiueitt figure in publiij affairs, and oat I of the most active Republicans in eastern Oregon. In 18118 he made a thorough canvass of Grant county in behalf of his party, and two years later made the race forstalE senator in the interest of Hon. George H. Williams for the Duiled Sutes senate, but was defeated hy a close vote. He was postmaster at Canyon City from ISOW to IMTl. And Indian agent at Ualheui. Oregon, from 187(1 to ISK^ and during the entin period of his residence in Eastern Oregon, was one of its foremost citizens.

has made him universally respected. He has for many years taken an active interest in the Masonic order and is now grand high priest of Royal Arch Masons of Washington, and also eminent commander of Seattle Commandary No. 2, K. T., the leading commandary of this jurisdiction.

D ALLARD, W. R., banker and capitalist, of Seattle, was horn in Richland county, Ohio. August 12th, 1847, and is a son of Dr. Levi W. and Phnebe (McConnell) Ballard. His father was born in New Hampshire, ami after acquiring his profession began the practice of medicine in Richland county, where he married. One year after the birth of our subject his mother died, after which he and an elder brother, Irving, for a few years resided with their j^randparents. In l.Hr>l Dr. Ballard went to California, where he remained one year. He then returned to Ohio and in 1858 again crossed the plains and located in Orej^on serving as arniv surgeon in the Rogne River Valley during the Indian war in 1S.V). In 1S.')() he returned to Ohio and, accompanied by his two sons, Irving and the subject of this sketch, removed to Chester. New York. Here, after his boys had spent a year at school, the father remarried and with his family started for Oregon in 1H.')7, making the journey by water on the Northern Light and Brother Jonathan. They located on a farm near Roseburg, where they remained until ISfJl. Then, in order that his sons might enjoy better educational advantages, Dr. Ballard removed to Wilbur, where Umpqua College is located. Here for four years, his sons attended college and received an excellent academic education. In lS6o the family removed to Puget Sound, settling on unimproved land, now the site of Slaughter. The reduction of this land to a state of cultivation was no easy task, and of the hard labor necessary to such an undertaking both sons gained full knowledge. In the uianagenicnt of this farm our subject was actively employed until the winter of ISfi.s, when he attended the University of Washington, remaining until the spring of IHGH. when for two years following he taught school in King, Pierce and Thurston counties. He had always evinced a great fervidness and aptness for mathematics, and at school and college had particularly excelled in this branch. His attention was therefore naturalh^ directed towafd surveying and during the summer of 1873 he took up surveying in Pierce county, and so rapidly did he become proficient in this line of work, that in 1874 he received a contract to survey for the government the Yakima Indian reservation.

Upon finishing the work some complication arose in regard to payment, and to secure a settlement he was obliged to go to Washington in the fall of 1875, where he remained attending to this matter and other business until the following summer. He then returned to Washington Territory and accepted the position of mate on the steamer Zephyr ^ a passenger vessel running between Olympia and Seattle, owned by his brother. A few months thereafter, in April, 1877, he was made captain, and in 1881 became part owner of the vessel with George Harris and John Leary, and two years later became sole owner. It was through the operations of this steamer, which Captain Baljard ran until he sold her in June, 1887, that he laid the foundation of the hondBome fortune lie now possesses. He did a Urge and prafitable busiaeis, Uie individual earuings of tlic Zephyr exceedioK tlioae of anj otlier local steamer an tlie Sound during the samv period.

At the beginuiiig of his steamboat career Captain Ballard located at Seattle ami early began to speculate in real estate. Perbupii bis most fortunate investment wus in 1K83, wbeu, with Judge Thomas BurlLe and Johu Leary, lie purchased seven linndred acres ofland oa Salmon bay, upon which is now locateil the prosperous suburb of Sesttle known as BsUanl. This property, which was purchased for only a few dollars per acre, has uow become verj' valuable, portion* of it having alreatly been siild at the rateoffti.lKNI per acre. Captaiu Bullard, with his original pnrtnera in this purcliase, stitl owus the larger part of this property, which is udw held by the corporation known as the West Coast Juiproveinent coniptiuy. of which Cuplain Ballard has been manager since it« iucorporatinn m ISST. The work incident to the luanagenient of IhiH company has largely occupied his time and attention from that time to tlie pre^ eot. but be has lieen active iu olbcr directions, lie was one of the organizers of the Seattle National Bank which began business in Pehmary, IWXI. with a capital of $250,1>I)0, ot which he has since been vice- president and manager. This bank ha« erected on the corner of Si>uth Second and Vesler avenue a six-atori' stone and brick building which is one of tbe finest bank buildings on the Pacific coast. He is also . president of the Finit National bank of WaLerville, Washington, and one of the director) of the North Rnil tiank, S«attle. and the Fairbaven National bank.

Captain Ballard is also vice-president of the West Street and North End Blectric Railway company, and a large stockholder and a director of the Teimiual Railway and Elevator company. In the business afiairs of Seattle, it will be seen, be occupies a position of prominence and responsibility. He is a man of liue business jndgment, progressive in his ideas and ofgreat public spirit. He is positive aud aggressive and when conviuced that a certain course is the right one to pursue can not be easily turned from (he purpose he has in view. No one h.is j;reatcr faith and confiiUnre than he in the growth and dcvtlopiiient of Seattle, nor is more willin;; to vxtvml a helping hand to further any enterprise to promote the general gooil of the city. His success lias been won by welLdirt-cted efforts and his pl.ice among the foreiuoM of Seattle's business tnen is vuiiversally couc-,iv.l. His father is still living, a hij;lilv honored and res[>ected L-iti.:en of Slaughlei. His brother, Irving B:,ll;.r,i. nitntione-i in the fore part of this ski-toli, was adtnilted to the bar ;U Seattle and r;ipidly n.-e Ui bcoueorthe most pruminiiit attitrncys of Ibi- city and ti-rrilory, lie was eletti-a prosecuting attorney and was re-elected for another term. I>iit diid iu 1>-mi. a short linie tiefore his second term would have lie.yun. He was not only a man of great ability as a lawyer but of a wliole-sonlcd, yenial nature which niaile him greatly beloved and one of the ni..st popidar cili/cns Seattle t/er had, .Mtliougb he die.1 in earlv manhiM>d, he had aobievfd not only a liigh deg.ec .if sucres:- in liis profr-Mim but had accnmnlaled i-iMisi.kralile pr..|nTty. and, had In* lived lo o.irry ont liis i>l,iii-, he wotdd have taken high rank amou.i; the ni.isl su^-cessful l.nsiness inoi. of S,-,,tll.-.

IV/IINOR, Thomas T. One of the most distinguished citizens of Seattle during the period of the city's most rapid growth was Dr. Thomas Taylor Minor. During the eight years of his residence in the city he held a position of the greatest prominence and responsibility. No movement, social or commercial was inaugurated without his counsel and support. In many respects he was the foremost resident of the city, and the sorrow at his untimely death, the sense of almost personal l>ereavement which was felt by the entire population, attest the love and honor with which he was regarded by his fellow citizens.

Dr. Minor's father was a distinguishe<l minister of the Congregationalist church, and ser\'ed as a missionary to Inclia for twenty years. In 1S44 he was holding the position of United States consul at Colombo, Ceylon, and it was there that Dr. Minor was born. He was brought back to America by his parcMits when he was twelve years old, and was placed in school at New Haven, Connecticut.

He was attracted to the study of medicine, and was engaged in it when the tocsin of war wiis sounded, and his patriotic spirit moved hiin, though but seventeen, to enlist as a private in the Seventh Connecticut Regiment, commanded by Colonel Joseph R. Hawley. Hut his surgical and medical knowledge were more valuable to the government than his services as a soldier, and he was detailed for duty in the hospitals. In IHVhi he became assistant surgeon in South Carolina, and his cheerful, kindly, affable manners won the love and esteem of all with whom he came in contact. He was present at several important engagements, but his indefatigable attention to the sick and wounded was in the end too much for his strength, and he was mustered out of the service on account of ill health.

On the restoration of his health he was sent to Nebraska by the government to attend to the Indians, and he was there when he was chosen a member of a commission organized by the vSniithsonian Institute to visit Alaska. The expedition sailed from San Francisco for Alaska in isijs on board a United States revenue cutter. On the way Puget Sound was visited, and Dr. Minor was impressed with the possibilities which it offers for commercial greatness. On his return from .\laska he resolved to remain on Puget Souncl, and he located at Port Townsend. He was for many years the mayor of that city, and was numbered among its best known and most popular citizens.

During his residence at Port Townsend he acquired extensive property interests in Seattle, and in 18H2 he determined to remove to the latter city. His coming to vSeattle was followed bv almost innnediate success in everv direction in which he exerted his abilities. He at once took a foremost place in his profession and attracted an extensive practice which he retained until his death. As has been said he was interested in every important commercial project, and he was soon recognized as a positive factor in the development of the city. Indeed, he was generally looked upon as Seattle's foremost citizen, and this distinction he never lost. In 1878 he was elected mayor, and he served in that position for one year with credit to himself and to the citv.

The circumstances of Dr. Minor's tragic death are related at length in another chapter. In December, 1889, he started, accompanied by two friends, on a duck shooting expedition. The entire party were drowned by the capsizing of their canoes while they were endeavoring to make the passage from the mouth of the Stillaguamish river to Whidby Island. Tile news of the disaster was received with the utmosl SOT- J rotr by the people of tlic entire state, and every mark of respect was shown for the , memory of Dr. Minor and his unfortunate companions.