History of Seattle from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 2S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1916 - Seattle (Wash.) |
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active Alaska appointed April August Avenue South Bagley Bailey Gatzert became born building built Captain Charles Chinese church citizens Club Columbia Commerce Company connection court December Denny Dexter Horton district early elected Elliott Bay engineer erected established factory February feet fire firm Furth George George W Hanford Henry hundred Illinois interests James January John Judge Greene Judge Hanford July June King county Kinnear Lake Union Lake Washington land later Leary Lodge March married mayor McGilvra Mercer mill National Bank North northwest November October Olympia Orange Jacobs Oregon organized Pacific Coast pioneer plat Port Port Madison Port Townsend Puget Sound Railroad railway Rainier Robert Moran San Francisco Seattle Seattle's Second Avenue secretary September ship Smith steamer steamship Street Struve Tacoma territory Thomas United vessels vice president Washington territory West West Seattle wife William Yesler
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Page 461 - Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 778 - He had held the office of Justice of the Peace for a number of years both before and after the war.
Page 722 - With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land, And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you— O you, who the wildest yearn For the old-time step and the glad return,— Think of him faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here...
Page 722 - I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away! With a cheery smile and a wave of the hand He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there...
Page 855 - ... and entered upon the discharge of the duties of the office. On the sixteenth day of July, Boxton resigned the office of mayor, and on the same day Edward R.
Page 796 - ... has been more faultless in honor, fearless in conduct or stainless in reputation than has that of Gilbert DB Hasbrouck.
Page 829 - At no time has his reading ever been confined to the limitation of the questions at issue. It has gone beyond and compassed every contingency and provided not alone for the expected but for the unexpected, which happens in the courts quite as frequently as out of them.
Page 744 - In 1874 he was elected grand master of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows in Oregon, which then embraced Washington and Idaho.
Page 762 - ... neither fear nor favor could swerve him from a course which he believed to be right.
Page 825 - Each office of the social hour To noble manners, as the flower And native growth of noble mind; Nor ever narrowness or spite, Or villain fancy fleeting by, Drew in the expression of an eye, Where God and Nature met in light; And thus he bore without abuse The grand old name of gentleman, Defamed by every charlatan, And soil'd with all ignoble use.