Vivian Carkeek

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Vivian Carkeek
Vivian Carkeek, circa 1925 (MOHAI 4404).jpg
Vivian Carkeek, circa 1925
Born(1879-11-23)November 23, 1879
DiedDecember 29, 1934(1934-12-29) (aged 55)
Alma mater University of Washington
Occupation Attorney
Relatives Guendolen Plestcheeff (sister)
Sir Arthur Carkeek (uncle)
Bessie Westlake Carkeek (cousin)

Vivian Morgan Carkeek (November 23, 1879 - December 29, 1934) was an American attorney and businessman from Seattle, Washington.

Born to Morgan and Emily Carkeek, [1] one of the area's early pioneer families for whom Carkeek Park is named, Carkeek graduated from the University of Washington School of Law's inaugural class in 1901 (a classmate of Walter B. Beals and Walter M. French, who later married Vivian's cousin, Bessie Westlake Carkeek), and was a partner at the firm Carkeek, McDonald, Harris and Coryell. [2] From 1930 to 1931 he taught at the University of Washington School of Law. Carkeek was generally recognized as one of Seattle's powerful and influential civic personalities. [3] [4]

Carkeek, like his mother and sister, was passionately interested in the history of the Seattle area, and he served briefly as president of the Seattle Historic Society, which his mother had founded in 1911, and was a founding officer of the Associates of Eighty-Nine, which was established in 1919 to perpetuate remembrance of the Great Seattle Fire. In the early 1930s he financed the acquisition of theater historian J. Willis Sayre's private collection of 12,500 theatrical programs for the Seattle Public Library. Carkeek also established the "Vivian Carkeek Prize" which is annually awarded "for the best student contribution to the Washington Law Review on a point of Washington law or any point of peculiar interest to Washington attorneys". [5] [3] [6] [7]

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References

  1. Dorpat, Paul (August 19, 2005). "Celebrating in Style," Pacific NW Magazine, Seattle Times ("The Carkeeks were English immigrants, and their children, Guendolen and Vivian, kept the family's Anglo-Saxon flame lit. More than a student of the King Arthur legend, the lawyer Vivian Carkeek was a true believer, and for years the national president of the Knights of the Round Table. Guendolen was packed off to England as a teenager to go to school, although she wound up living in Paris and marrying a Russian count. Later, she returned to Seattle to help revive the historical society that her mother founded in 1911.")
  2. American Legal News (1915), vol. 26, p. 38 (Washington news: "Announcement has been made of the dissolution of the law firm of Carkeek, McDonald & Kapp, 1207 American Bank Building, Seattle, by the retirement of F.C. Kapp. Vivian M. Carkeek and Donald F. McDonald, with W. H. Harris, and George Coryell, Jr., have formed a new partnership known as Carkeek, McDonald, Harris & Coryell, 1162-1167 Empire building.") Google books; and Martindale's American Law Directory (1922), p 831 (Washington lawyers, entry for Vivian Carkeek, "a.v. rated.") Google books
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  6. Flom, Eric (2009). Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle. McFarland. pp. 11–12. ISBN   978-0786439089.
  7. "Associates of Eighty-Nine Will Celebrate June 6". Business Chronicle of the Pacific Northwest. May 31, 1919. Retrieved December 23, 2016.