George Kinnear was an early Seattle real estate developer, responsible for some of the early residential development of Queen Anne Hill. He also had a brief military career.
Henry Alexander Chadwick was an American journalist; from 1894 until his death, he was the editor, owner and publisher of The Argus, a weekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington.
Jacob Furth was an Austrian Empire-born American entrepreneur and prominent Seattle banker. He played a key role in consolidating Seattle's electric power and public transportation infrastructure, and was a member of Ohaveth Sholum Congregation, Seattle's first synagogue. Bill Speidel called him "the city's leading citizen for thirty years," adding that Furth "may even have been the most important citizen Seattle ever had."
The Seattle Construction and Drydock Company was a shipbuilding company based in Seattle, Washington. Between 1911 and 1918, it produced a substantial number of ships for both commercial and military uses. In the beginning of the 20th century, until its significance was diluted by the emergence of a number of shipyards during the World War I shipbuilding boom, it was the largest of its kind in Seattle and one of the few significant ship yards along the West Coast of the United States, second only to the Union Iron Works in San Francisco.
Edgar Ray Butterworth was an American funeral director, believed to have coined the professional terms mortuary and mortician.
Monsignor Francis Xavier Prefontaine (1838–1909) was a French Canadian priest and missionary, an early resident in the pioneer days of Seattle, Washington, and a figure in the history of Seattle and the Puget Sound region of Washington State. He was Seattle's first resident Roman Catholic priest and built Seattle's first Catholic church.
The Sanctuary is a townhouse project located at 1519 East Denny Way / 1841 16th Avenue on the corner of East Denny Way and 16th Avenue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. It was created out of an historic church building known as First Church of Christ, Scientist, Seattle.
The Swedes in Omaha, Nebraska are a long-standing ethnic group in the city with important economic, social, and political ties.
Whitstran is a small, unincorporated community in Benton County, Washington, located approximately four miles Northeast of Prosser and approximately ten miles west of Benton City. The focal point of the community is at the intersection of North Rothrock Road and Foisy Road, where there is a small grocery store, and nearby Whitstran Elementary School.
Louise Plessner Pollock was an influential early advocate of the kindergarten movement in 19th-century America.
Masajiro Furuya, founder of the Furuya Company, was a Japanese American banker, merchant, and manufacturer, whose career took place largely in Seattle, Washington, United States. Gary Iwamoto described him in 2005 as "perhaps the most prominent local [Seattle] businessman of the early 20th Century" and "certainly the top businessman among Japanese on the Pacific Coast" during that period.
Wilmot Gladstone Whitfield was a Methodist minister who served in Alaska and Washington state during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Frank Hanford was an American politician and businessman in the state of Washington. He was elected to the Seattle City Council in 1890 and the Washington House of Representatives in 1895.
Daniel Bagley was a pioneer preacher, educational booster, and industrialist in Seattle, Washington. Arriving in Seattle in 1860, he was instrumental in the founding of the Territorial University of Washington. A Methodist minister, in 1865 he founded the Little Brown Church, formally known as the First Methodist Protestant Church of Seattle. He also managed the Newcastle coal mines and helped run the Lake Washington Coal Company for a time. His son, Clarence B. Bagley (1843-1932), was a prominent early Washington historian.
John Tenny Jordan was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Seattle from 1871 to 1872 and again in 1873. Jordan arrived in Seattle around 1860 to work as a stonemason and plasterer, playing a key role in building the first campus of the University of Washington in modern Downtown Seattle. He was elected as the city's first police marshal in 1869 and served on the common council in 1870.
Moses R. Maddocks was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Seattle in 1873.
William H. Shoudy was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Seattle from 1886 to 1887.
Horace Greely "Harry" White (1859–1940) was an American real estate broker and politician who served as the Mayor of Seattle from 1890 to 1891.
John Plummer Derwent Lloyd was an Episcopal cleric bearing the title of the Reverend who served in a number of churches across the United States and Canada. Of English descent, Lloyd worked at or rectored churches in Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, and Washington, and was the Episcopal Dean of Nova Scotia. Lloyd was an active resident of Seattle, Washington, inspiring public movements and taking part in the city's intellectual development through the presidency of the Public Library board of trustees. Under his supervision, the Seattle St. Mark's church and its premises were renewed and improved, and the number of people in the congregation considerably increased. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, Lloyd was a rector of the All Saints Church. He was a Halifax Explosion survivor, and during the tragedy actively participated in search and rescue missions, closely worked with the city's authorities and consoled the victims.
George Frederick Frye was one of Seattle's first developers and businessmen and an active City Council member. He played a significant role in Seattle's conversion from a small settlement into a modern city.
