The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-06-07

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GANG To California in 1S49, where he
usinesi gold and worked on Pacific Mail
steamers foHr years. In 1888 he set
lied 81 Whatronl, where he took do
nation claim, and has since been farm
ing. He has been in the legisla-
fufe five times, was member at large
81 the state constitutional convention.
and has been probate judge OF his
county
Mrs. Eidridge Was the first white
woman settler in Whatsom county
o. G. sHoREY
Came to California in fS5s. and to
Steilacoom in lsSs. He followed min
ing in the Golden State. but in this
Territory has been carpenter. con-
tractor, furniture maker. undertaken,
county treasurer. city councilman.
school director, etc. His wife came to
this country in 1852 They have been
living in Seattle twenty-five years,
They have two children: q son engaged
in railroad work. and daughter. the
wife vi DIR. T.. &. kilbourne.
HILLoRy BrTLER
Arrived in Seattle in 1853. and has
lived here ever since. He worked
hard for many years in timbering and
1-.-.- Il .a~txv x.xu<s H.. - ~ eha~s N
81 King county for three years; was
deputy provost marshal during the re-
beilisn. and after the war agent for the
Muckleshute and Port Madison In
dian-. Mr.. Butler was leading actor
during the Indian war OF 1856.
c. u. BAGLEY
Came with his parents in 1852, and
lived with them in Salem and Seattle
until 1876. He then went to Olympia,
where he remained for nearly twenty
years. He WAS clerk in the Surveyor
Generals Office, was Deputy Collector
Of Internal Revenue thirteen years.
public printer twelve years, and pub
fisher OF the Courier twelve years. In
1856, after returning to Seattle. he was
engaged as manager Of the PosT-IS-
rELfIaExcER. He is now in the job
printing line. Mr. Bagley was associ-
ated with the first coal mining enter
prise In King county. With George
+. Whitworth. josiah Settle and Dam
iel Bagiey he opened the Newcastle
mine about twenty years ago. They
spent all their own money and all the
money they coHld borrow in the work,
opened roads, carried out the first
coal on the backs of men, and later
built tram road and barge, on which
they brought the product of their
mine to Seattle. They got so far as to
sell the coal to steam vessels and to
make small shipments abroad, when
they sold out to Densmore 4 Shattuck
in ISL.
ORANGE JACOBS
Was born in New York in Is29. In
1881 he went TO Michigan, taking his
father and mother along. There he
grew up, and there he studied law. In
1852 he got two horse teum and went
to Oregon, settling in the southern
part of the state, where, excepting four
years spent in the Willamette valley.
he mined for gold, taught school and
edited newspaper, and practiced law
Of and on for seventeen years. In
iS9 he was appointed by. President
Grant associate Justice of the supreme
court OF Washington Territory, in
1870 was appointed chief justice, and
in 1874 reappointed. In the latter year
he was nominated for delegate to con-
gress by the Republicans, and elected I;
being also renoninated and reelected
| in 1876. Upon his return from con-
gress he resumed his residence in Seat
tie, and in 1879 was elected mayor of
| the city. From that time to this he
has practiced law. For ten years he
has been regent of the University,
and was treasurer Of the board all that
time. In 1895 he was elected to the
legislative council. He is a partial
owner of the Newcastle coal mine, and
one of the owners of the Denny iron
mine. The Judge has wife and eight
| children.
n. r. MADpocKs
Came from California to Port Gamble
in ISIS. where he loggei for the com
pany six years. In 1864 he moved to
SEATTLE, and in company with Amos
Brown and John Condor started the
Occidental hotel, which, from very
| unpretentious, modest concern. has
| since grown to the immense and pala-
| tial structure now adjoining the bust
ness heart of the city. After few
years OF hotel life, Mr.. Maddocks tried
| drugs, in which line of trade he cons
tinued sixteen years. He has been a
| county commissioner, a city council
| man and u legislator. but is now liv-
ing quietly il the enjoyment OF fine
farm in White River valley and of
the rents from q number of buildings
owned by him in the city.
@. HaLLER.
In is3a. entered the Unitesl States
Army, and served through the Fiori-
| ia and Mexican wars with distinction
| coming ont OF the latter with the title
| of Major by breyet. In lS5, he and
his company were sent On war YES
sci around Cape Horn To the Coiunbia
| river, and stationed st Fort palleS.
Tie remained in that neighhorhoogl
until the termination of the Indian
war He made a number of expesIi-
tons in various directions. and caught
and hanged several sayages who had
been numbering whites. With 80 men
he met the Chiefs kamiakim and Pue-
pue-ipoS-moS, with 300 hostile<.
! They fought him and his Et.le COM
mand three days when he cut his way
out. In 1877 he built Fort Townsend
aud IN 1879 was sent to san Juan
Island. lie was ordered next TO Fort
Moisye and san Diego, and AT
the breaking cat of the rchel-
lion was sent East. He was Pro-
yost Marshal u Maryland. was Com
nnarssialli Of the General Headquarters
o. the Army Of the Potomac. with
| Che Ninety-tlird New York a. guard.
and vas Major OF the seventh Regu-
lars. He took an sctiye and pronii-
men, part in resisting the advance into
Pennsylvania OF General Lee in June
and July. 1854, and vas on the staff az
Governor Curtin az Gettysburg. Al.
ter the war he came tn u-e. sound
and na0e lass home on Mhislby IL
and, " here he lsscagse = farmer anil n
merchant. For sixteen years be lived
| there, when, a. tire result eli 4 earefni
examination, the charges tha. had
t'ac kenet his name and fame during
the var we're proved rroundlcss. and
BE aas reirs;a,ed in the array. with
Tire rsnk ~ C0loael and command OF
the 1weotrthirst Infantry, In isSg
be was Tejsress. having rachel the age
~ Of wears. lie has hehl a number al
hons.sa,'ie and FesI.gas il,ie local trusts
ia eiFti life. He j. nov a citizen q
seattle. snsi i President nj the n
s,''err Association OF Washington
Territory.
G. u. HtIIER
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