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Sunday, July 29, 2012

R.E. Mason

Robert Eugene Mason b.6/19/1876 Centerville Michigan
Roberta "Bertie Scott" Scott Mason b.Tenn.


children:

1.Charles E Mason b. 3/31/1902 Tenn. d.1/1/1977 Seattle
2.Ralph Scott  Mason b.11/7/1903 Chehalis Co.,Wa. d.5/20/1990 Humboldt, Ca.
3.Dorothy Mason
4.Philip Rodney Mason
5.Ruth Reed Mason Milton 1913-1993
6.Robert A Mason


1910 Clearwater, Jefferson, Washington
1920 Clearwater, Jefferson, Washington
1930 Clearwater, Jefferson, Washington
1940 Queets, Jefferson, Washington


..."As I recall the first settlers on the Clearwater, first known as Little river, were these: The first place was C. J. Andrews, well known in Hoquiam, across the river was the Walter Fitch place, later owned by R. E. Mason and family."...


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1940 Quinault, Grays Harbor, Washington
Philip Rodney Mason
Mary Louise Adams Mason
m. 9/1/1935 Jefferson
children:
1.Philip R Mason b.1938~ Wa.
2.Judith K Mason b.1939~ Wa.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Bud Loomis of Humptulips

Bud's parents are Bryon Taylor Loomis and Julliette C. Kays

Nelson Taylor "BUD" Loomis  b.4/5/1873 Iowa  d.7/5/1957 Hoquiam
Emma Gertrude Kraft
m.8/14/1907 Grays Harbor


children:
Harry T. Loomis b. 5/4/1908 d.5/6/1992
Elva J Loomis Horn b.4/27/1912 Chehalis,Wa.

Bud was a logger for ?well-Loomis Logging Co. in Humptulips

In 1889, Kluck and Davidson opened the first store on the Prairie.
In 1890, Dave & Best erected another building (The Pioneer Hotel?)
In 1892, Fred Williams, purchased the Kluck & Davidson store and also the stock of the Best and Davis store.

the original store of Kluck & Davidson, later owned by Fred Williams, and then by
Bud Loomis.


..."There were two hotels doing a rushing business, as Humptulips was the overnight stop between Hoquiam and Quinault."...


The New York Hotel and The Pioneer Hotel

The Pioneer Hotel, built by Davis and Best

Monday, July 16, 2012

Kittredge


Henry Irving Kittredge 
b. 12/22/1890 Bethel, Vermont 
d. 11/28/1976 Centralia,Wa.

Maude Elvira Anderson Kittredge 
b. 7/3/1895 Wa.  d. 2/8/1979 Centralia, Wa.
m. 8/14/1919 Everett, Snohomish, Wa.

children:
Alice Christina Kittredge b.1921 Tacoma
Marion Lucille Kittredge Rancich b.1925~

1913 Hoquiam, Grays Harbor box mkr Posey Mnfg Co. 2416 Aberdeen av
1920 Evergreen, Jefferson, Wa.
1930 Evergreen, Jefferson, Wa.
1940 Queets,Jefferson, Wa.
1965
H.I. Kittredge
1505 Winsor Avenue
Centralia, Wa.

Harry I. Kittredge, a later Queets River resident, recalls that "a herd of about 100 head would be gathered from various farms, driven to the ocean and thence down the beach to Moclips, swimming the Quinault [River] en route. Cattle would graze in the woods if winters permitted". Settlers farming, hunted, trapped and fished to supplement the family food supply or earn cash

Proclamation 444

Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands in the Olympic Forest Reserve
April 7, 1900

William McKinley
 
By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation
Whereas The Olympic Forest Reserve, in the State of Washington, was established by proclamation dated February 22d, 1897, under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the act of Congress, approved March 3rd, 1891, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," which provides, "That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;"
And whereas it is further provided by the act of Congress, approved June 4th, 1897, entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1898 and for other purposes," that "The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;"

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, approved June 4th, 1897, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby withdrawn and excluded from the aforesaid Olympic Forest Reserve and restored to the public domain all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land particularly described as follows, to wit:

Townships twenty-eight (28)north, ranges thirteen (13)and fourteen (14) west, Willamette Base and Meridian, Washington; fractional township twenty-eight (28) north, range fifteen(15) west; sections one (1) to eighteen (18), both inclusive, townships twenty-nine (29) north, ranges three (3), four (4) and five (5) west; sections four (4), five (5), six (6), seven (7) and the north half of section eight (8), township twenty-nine (29) north, range twelve (12) west; all of township twenty-nine (29)north, range thirteen (13) west, except sections thirteen (13), twenty-three (23), twenty-four (24), twenty-five (25)and twenty-six (26);township twenty-nine (29)north, range fourteen (14) west; fractional township twenty-nine (29) north, range fifteen (15) west; sections one (1) to twelve (12), both inclusive, township thirty (30) north, range nine (9) west; sections twenty-seven (27) to thirty-four (34), both inclusive, township thirty (30) north, range ten (10) west; sections twenty-five (25) to thirty-six (36), both inclusive, township thirty (30) north, range eleven (11) west; sections seventeen (17) to thirty-six (36), both inclusive, township thirty (30) north, range twelve (12)west; townships thirty (30) north, ranges thirteen (13) and fourteen (14) west; and township thirty (30) north, range fifteen (15) west.

That the lands hereby restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this 7th day of April, A. D. 1900, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fourth.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
By the President:
JOHN HAY,
Secretary of State.


(June 19th 1899)
By 1901, 25 residents signed a petition to request exclusion from the Olympic Forest Reserve, and they included the P. Willoughby, W. Snell, the Moritz family, H. Milbourn, T. Schmidt, O. Crippen, P. Brandeberry, and F. Fisher. Of the people who left the area, no trace remained even by 1920.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Land Patents

alphabetical order...


AINSWORTH, ELIHU C 11/14/1905 156.25 acres
ANDREWS, CHARLES J 6/18/1901 159.65 acres
BANTA, JOHN J 3/17/1904 160 acres Grays Harbor
BANTA, JOHN J  10/4/1898 149 acres
BRANDEBERRY, PETER 5/14/1920 66.16 acres
BRANDEBERRY, PETER 12/16/1931 51.48
BROOKS, ISABELLE  2/5/1906 148.36 acres

COGHLAN, CHARLES J 10/10/1914 80.61 acres
COOPER, JOHN 2/19/1891 80 acres
COOPER, JOHN,COOPER, MARY 2/12/1903
CRIPPEN, OTIS F 10/4/1918 90.99 acres
DICKEY, ANNA 5/2/1898 164.35 acres
DONALDSON, JAMES 6/18/1901 162.95 acres
DONALDSON, JAMES 8/3/1904 120 acres
DONALDSON, JAMES 12/3/1908 3.80 acres
DONALDSON, JAMES 11/14/1913 164.35
FISHER, JAMES R 1/6/1908 68.85 acres
FITCH, JOHN E  1/14/1899  159.03 acres
GLOVER, CHARLES E  3/24/1899 90.65 acres
GLOVER SETH S  6/18/1901 160.40 acres

HARTZELL, WILLIAM S 5/17/1897 175.75 acres
HEAD, DORAS 8/15/1898 152.50 acres
HIBBERD, GEORGE Y 8/1/1904 154.95 acres
HIGLEY, MARGARET 1/6/1908 40 acres
HOPKINS, RICHARD C 3/24/1899 168.05 acres
HUELSDONK, HENRY 5/8/1919 61.09 acres
KERR, DAVID 7/13/1904 156.40 acres
KERR, DAVID 8/3/1904 131.05 acres
KERR, MARY J 10/22/1904 40 acres
KESTNER, JOSEPH ANTONE  2/11/1913 158.25 acres
KILLEA, GERTRUDE M 1/6/1908 74.70 acres
KILLEA, MARTIN F 2/17/1908 160 acres
KILLEA, MARTIN F 3/9/1908 40 acres
KILLEA, WILLIAM M 11/14/1905 75.50 acres
KILLEA, WILLIAM M  1/16/1908 90.76 acres
KILLEA, WILLIAM M 2/13/1908 80.41 acres

KING, FRANK W 11/11/1898 165.90 acres
KITTREDGE, HENRY I 5/19/1922 31.80 acres
KNACK, FREDERICK 10/4/1900 154.75 acres
KRAUTKREMER, JOHN 5/3/1900 156.40 acres
LYMAN, HENRY B 5/2/1898 162.70 acres
MASON, ROBERT E  1/13/1910 159.03 acres
MAYHEW, HENRY K 5/3/1900 157.04 acres
MCKINNON, NEIL A  6/30/1905 163.35 acres

NELLIS, ADELBERT W 8/16/1897 159.40
NEWMAN, EDWARD G 2/12/1902 152.30 acres
NORTHUP, BENSON L 6/2/1904
NORTHUP, RAY A 6/16/1904 157.65 acres
NORTHUP, ROBLEY J 3/8/1907
PHELAN, GEORGE 5/2/1898 147.10 acres
PHELAN, PHILLIP 10/4/1898 127.95 acres
PRENTICE, WILLIAM 11/24/1903 127.50
ROBINSON, JOHN J 12/17/1900 135.70 acres

SCHAUPP, FRANK X 8/15/1898 155.85 acres
SHALE, CARRIE  10/1/1907 88.30 acres

SHALE, JOHN 10/1/1907 73 acres
SHALE, MARTHA  10/1/1907 77.45 acres
SORENSON, NILS S  11/14/1905 156.95 acres
STEEPLES, DANIEL P 8/3/1904 126.60 acres
STREATER, FREDERICK 2/12/1902 158 acres
STREATER, CHARLES F 7/13/1911 147.35 acres
STREATER, LEROY M 9/22/1915 80 acres
STREATER, JOHN N 9/24/1919 56.23 acres
WARTMAN BEARD ROSA 12/17/1900 154.55 acres
WARTMAN MURPHY, BERTHA 5/3/1900 147.35 acres

land patents http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx

Fitch

John E. Fitch
land claim 1/14/1899

There seems to be a mistake with this quote below... the man should be John Fitch, Walter being his son that died at 22 years old.

..."Donaldson had hired, through Banta, a man on the Queets named
Walter Fitch"...


..."There we learned from Mr. Fitch that he had not built our cabin or planted our garden. Greatly disappointed,..."

..."As I recall the first settlers on the Clearwater, first known as Little river, were these: The first place was C. J. Andrews, well known in Hoquiam; across' the river was the Walter Fitch place, later owned by R. E. Mason and family."...

Robert E Mason

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Arthur Marshall and Icy May Price Dunlap



Arthur Marshall Dunlap b.3/7/1874 Penn. d.10/27/1947 Cosmopolis, Wa.
Icy May Price Dunlap b.5/16/1878 Covington, Ind. d. Seattle
moved into the Quinault about 1907
m.7/2/1898 Grays Harbor

children:
Arthur Harvey Dunlap b.6/15/1899 Elma, Wa. d.2/19/1969 Seattle
Elora Mae Dunlap Kelso b.1901 Grays Harbor d. 5/5/1975 Aberdeen
Beatrice I Dunlap b.abt 1907

Icy, Arthur Marshall and Arthur Harvey worked at Polson Logging Co.

Kestner

Antone Kestner d.Jun 17, 1936 Quinault
Josepha "Josie" Koch Kestner b.1862 Bohemia d.Aug 22, 1937 Hoquiam


Joseph "Antone" Kestner b.Mar. 14, 1884 Texas Violin maker worked for the U.S. Forest Service
Otto Herman Kestner b.May 5,1889 Oakland,Ca.  d.May 21,1966 Quinault
Josephine Ida Kestner Dickey b.Jun 29, 1894 d.Feb 2, 1988
Carrie Mary Kestner Bryant b.Dec. 8,1897 d.Dec 1978 Redvale,Co.
John William Kestner b.Jan 26,1900 d.Jun 1972 Quinault
Clara Kestner Parr
Rose Mary Kestner Briem b.Feb. 24, 1905 Quinault d.Jul 15, 1994 Eugene, Or


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Antone's parents:
Josef Kestner
Margareta Verderber

sisters Carrie and Josephine  got married the same day

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Aberdeen Herald May 28, 1896
"The 7 year old son (Otto Kestner) of Antone Kistner met with a serious accident, last week, in chopping the forefinger of one hand entirely off and badly cutting the other."

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 "Josie and Otto Kestner boarded in Humptulips and attended school there. For several years school alternated between the upper and the lower Quinault schools."
..."In 1902, a spring term, from February 3 to April 25, was held at the Olson school, with James Norman, the teacher. Then Homer Dunning taught the lower school from April 28th to May 20th. He was followed by Edith Lucile Horr of Aberdeen. Her term ran from July 28th to October 17th."...

Josie Kestner says:
"In 1903 there were three months of school at the lower building, and in 1904 four months. Mrs. Smith taught those two years, and batched in the Norwood house. In 1905 we had five months with Katie Knack of Queets as teacher. 1908 was the last year school was held there.

By the fall of 1909 a new building had been erected on a piece of land purchased from Louis Haas, Sr. The property now belongs to the Grange. With the opening of this building, both the upper and the lower schools were abandoned, and a nine month term inaugurated.

This same year, 1909, the Kestner school was built. Miss Eunice Bonham was the first teacher.
 Frank Howen taught there in 1916-17."

Ovid

This poor family needs a break. There were so many misspellings,
to try and straighten it out was next to impossible.
The only thing that was a constant was the name Ovid.

The name variants in this family were...
Milborn, Milbourne, and Holston. The correct information is below.

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Horace Ovid Milbourn b.May 14, 1886 Elma,Wa. d.Jul 24, 1954 Harbor,Curry,Or.
wife Eleanor F. "Nellie" Holtine b.1/1895

and their son...
John Holtine Milbourn son b.Jul 21,1919 d.Dec. 1986 Kingston

Ovid was a part of the community at Quinault in the 1900's, he went on to become the Fire Warden in Forks Washington around the 1920's. And in 1926, he is listed as a "prospector" in Port Angeles.



Ovid Milbourn around 1905 at Quinault

..."They came down the river with Otto Kestner and George Underwood, an Indian boy,
while Ovid Milbourne (Horace Ovid Milbourn) went to stay with Dunlap's two children, Elora and Arthur. Somewhere along the river there was a huge log jam, probably a half mile long. Mrs. Dunlap and the baby girl lay in the bottom of the canoe while the men dragged it over the jam. When they reached Taholah they hired an Indian to bring them down to Moclips by wagon."...

Two Dark Days?


August 12, 1895:
WASHINGTON WOEFUL
A Fire Sweeps Over Chehalis County Doing Great Damage
By Associated Press to the Tribune.
Montesano, Wash., Aug. 10.--Word has been recieved here that a very destructive fire is sweeping over the eastern part of Chehalis county.



September 12, 1902, was a day those pioneers of both settlements would never forget. The sun rose as usual in the southwestern part of Washington. About 7:30 a.m. it gradually became darker and darker, until by noon lanterns were needed. ( The center of this phenomenon seemed to be at Tenino. People on the Queets were frightened, and many of them believed the world must be coming to an end. Mrs. Streater recalled that several neighboring families gathered at the Donaldson homestead that "Dark Day." Since no smoke was detected in the air, they had no way of knowing that a cloud of ash from great forest fires in Clark County, Washington, and in Oregon was obscuring the sun.


Thursday, July 5, 2012

Seth's Brother Charles family

1894 Chehalis County
Charles Glover b. Michigan 35yo
Mrs. Charles Glover 30yo
Eddie Glover 14 b. Michigan
Angelia Glover 11 b.Michigan
Cynthialee Glover 6 b.Michigan
Ruby Glover 1 b.Wa.
Seth Glover brother 33

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Master Timeline

1854 Chehalis County created (Grays Harbor County)
1856 Quinault River Treaty - 10,000 acres reservation near Taholah
1858 Government attempts to enforce laws against cutting timber on public lands
1859 Steamboats travel to Montesano
1860 Construction of Fort Chehalis at Westport
1861 First commercial oyster beds in Grays Harbor
1864 Chehalis Reservation (4,200 acres) created by executive order
1873 Northern Pacific Railroad reachs Tacoma
1882 Captain Asa Simpson and builds the North Western Mill
1882 Pope & Talbot buys lumber mill - Cosmopolis becomes a company town (Grays Harbor Commercial Co.)
1883 First newspaper in Grays Harbor County
1884 A.J. West lays foundation timbers for Aberdeen's first sawmill
1884 Aksel Seaborg builds salmon cannery in Aberdeen
1885 First train arrives in Montesano
1886 Montesano becomes seat of Chehalis County
1889 Washington becomes a State
1890 Aberdeen incorporated May 12
1890 Hoquiam incorporated May 24
1890 Northern Pacific Railroad's new Tacoma, Olympia & Chehalis Express goes into service.
1891 Cosmopolis incorporated
1892 Northern Pacific Railroad builds line from Chehalis to Grays Harbor; Ocosta is railroad's terminus
1892 Northern Pacific Railroad operations begin from Montesano to Ocosta, Washington. (24.6 miles)
1893 Quileute Reservation established on the Hoh River

1893 Queets The BIG Snow 4' deep
1893 April 20th Streater's cabin burned down and everything he had in it.
1894 FIRE
1895 November 7 Adam Matheny,as in Matheny Creek and Matheny Ridge, died
1896 The Olympic Penisula Railroad Company is incorporated.
1902 September 12 - “Dark Day” in Chehalis county as major forest fires blot out sunlight.
1903 Aberdeen fire destroys 22 city blocks
1906 Chehalis Tribe petitions federal government for payment for appropriated lands
1908 Aberdeen Daily World
1910 34 lumber and shingle mills line Aberdeen harbor and Chehalis River estuary
1914 Finns settle in the Grayland area and pioneer area's cranberry industry
1911-17 Grays Harbor booms with mills, canneries, and shipbuilding yards
1914 Westport incorporated
1914 The Taholah Agency was established
1915 Chehalis County changed to Grays Harbor County
1916 Grays Harbor jetties completed

1918 Apr 15 William Gowans dies age 83 Quinalt, Grays Harbor, Washington
1929 Grays Harbor Commercial Company in Cosmopolis closes, bought by Weyerhaeuser

@ the movies Aberdeen 1920's

Monday, July 2, 2012

Sorenson's

Nels S.Sorenson b.5/1854 Denmark Blacksmith
Anna Sorenson b.10/1855-6 Denmark midwife
arrived 1879


son:

Ivert F. Sorenson b.Jun. 20, 1893 d.Sep. 8, 1908 15 yo
Burial: Sunset Memorial Park
Hoquiam Grays Harbor County Washington, USA
Plot: Old Section


..."They moved to town and Ivert went swimming or something
and got Brach’s disease [muscular atrophy] and died."...



1900 ED 47 Pacific and Queets Precincts,​ Jefferson,​ Washington,​ United States
1900 ED 3 Big Canyon,​ Humptulips,​ Queets,​ and Queniult Precincts,​ Grays Harbor,​ Washington,​ United States
1900:Queets, Chehalis, Washington
1906 Queets
1908 Queets
1916 Queets


Tug Phoenix wrecked Nov.1 1911

Canned Salmon


Sunday, July 1, 2012

Captain Benham


..."Here he boarded the little steamer "Thistle" captained by H. A. Benham"...


Captain Henry Arthur Benham b.5/1867 Minnesota d.3/18/1944 Aberdeen
Annie A Down Benham wife m.12/18/1891 b.9/1874
Laura Alice Benham daughter b.4/1893 d.1968
Kathryn Elizabeth Benham daughter b.3/1900

1900 Chehalis Aberdeen Steam Boat Captain

1907 capt str Ranger res 214 North H Aberdeen

1910 Aberdeen Ward 3, Chehalis, Washington

1913 Aberdeen mgr Harbor Dock Co. 210 North H
Laura A Benham bkpr Welsh and Richards Co.

1920 Aberdeen Ward 4, Grays Harbor, Washington
       Steam Boat Commercial Dock Mgr.

1930 Aberdeen, Grays Harbor, Washington



Saturday, June 30, 2012

John J Banta

1890 Tacoma 1002 1/2 Tacoma ave.
1892 John Banta Jr, solicitor, res 2419 Adams Tacoma
1893 John J Banta farmer I303 8th Tacoma

         res w s Yakima ave bet 53rd and 54th Tacoma
1900 John J Banta solicitor, res The Florence Tacoma
1901 John J Banta artist, bds 412 S 17th Tacoma

links of Interest

http://www.pacificcohistory.org/sw2006_2.htm

Olympic National Park Info

Aberdeen Museum mills and industry

Hartzell

..."Our first school on the Queets was at the Hartzell place in their log cabin. Mrs. Hartzell taught two three-month terms. She was also our Sunday School teacher."...

..."The first one was Mrs. Laura Hartzell, who conducted classes in her home."...

William S. Hartzell b.1860~ Pa. d.4/1/1933 Seattle
buried:Thurston Co. Cemetery Masonic Memorial Park


Laura E. Hartzell b.1850~ Pa.
1892 Grays Harbor
1897 Tacoma Wm S. Hartzell clk D Jacob and co. r 1311 1/2 Tacoma av
1899 Tacoma  Wm S. Hartzell res 1524 South G Tacoma
1910 Tacoma Wm S. Hartzell merchant dry goods lodger Charles Parker
1917 Seattle Wm S (Laura E) salsmn 815 N 39th Seattle
1927 Seattle Wm S (Laura E) salsmn 815 N 39th Seattle


Friday, June 29, 2012

Minnie Crippen Postmaster

Minnie Otto Briggs Crippen  b.3/13/1873 Wisconsin d.12 Sep 1950 Seattle

Father August Otto
Mother Louise Mathews


Husband
Charles Bennett Crippen
b.Nov. 2, 1867 Potter County, Pa. d.10 Aug 1941 Hoquiam, Grays Harbor, Washington
district fire warden and dairy


Father George William Crippen
Mother Carrie Lane


children:

George W Crippen
Howard Lane Crippen b.5/27/1911 d.8/23/1999 Sequim10
Elizabeth L Crippen
?Frank Earl Briggs Minnie's son from a previous marriage?


1910 - Hoquiam Ward 6, Chehalis, Washington
1911 - Grays Harbor, Washington, USA

1920 Clearwater, Jefferson, Washington
1930 - Clearwater, Jefferson, Washington
1932 - Port Angeles; Port Townsend, Washington, USA


Thursday, June 28, 2012

Phelan

Brothers Phillip and George

1892 Grays Harbor
1894 Grays Harbor

*if you have more information on this Phelan family, please contact me.


Monday, June 25, 2012

WWHI

WWHI stands for Western Washington Hospital for the Insane

I found that one of the Killea's from Queets was admitted there,as a patient.
And in 1900 I found out that several others from Queets became employed there.
The Dickey sisters, as nurses of course.
Fred H. Colby (Elsie's soon to be husband) was employed there.
Dora Head was Head Matron @ WWH for Insane
and...
John Krautkremer Shoemaker @ WWH for Insane

so we see that there are six Queets former residents moved to Steilacoom by 1900.

John Krautkremer (Jr.)

thee elusive Johnnie, his last name was misspelled so many times that it becomes a nightmare for anyone to research this guy, but alas, I found the needle in the haystack...

father John Krautkremer Sr.
mother Anna

John Krautkremer Jr.
Born: 1864 in Bickenbach, Rhineland, Germany
John Krautkremer b.7/1864 Germany d.7/10/1955 Centralia, Lewis, Washington
1889 arrived in the US
1893 to 1896 @ 1339 South C Tacoma Wa. John Krautkremer  shoemaker
1896 Pierce County *see photo below
1900 John Krautkremer Shoemkr WWH for Insane
1906 married Cora Wilcox
wife Cora E. Wilcox Krautkremer d.8/6/1957 Yakima
daughter Elma Mary Krautkremer b.1908 Wa.
daughter Cecilia Krautkremer b.1911 Wa.
daughter Evelyn Krautkremer b.1912 Wa.
m. 2/17/1938 to James Robert Monahan
son Victor Joseph Krautkremer b.3/15/1913 Yakima d.2/18/2005 Yakima
m. 5/1/1938 to Adelaide I. Johnson





Dora L. Head

aka Doras Head b. Jun 1866

Dora started a business in Tacoma with a Mary J Yeo as dressmakers in 1890
and in 1893 her title was listed as nurse. It can be safely assumed she sought the profession of nursing about this time and received her training in Tacoma.

Dora Head was nurse in Queets as well as the Dickey sisters.

She lived in Tacoma and in 1894 went to the Queets settlement.

We can see she stayed in Queets for only a year, more or less.

The Wm H Head below should be her brother.

It's confirmed that both are single and living their own lives.
Both brother William and sister Dora were born in Wisconsin.
Their Father being born in Wisconsin and their Mother born in Germany.
We see that Dora started out in Tacoma and came back, her brother William
stayed in Tacoma at least til 1912.


1890 Tacoma Business name Yeo & Head 1311 1/2 Tacoma Avenue
Mary J Yeo, Dora Head dressmakers
736 Steilacoom Helens Avenue
1891 Tacoma Dora Head furnished rooms 1311 1/2 S Tacoma Avenue
Wm Head clerk George W Traver boards same
1892 Tacoma Dora L Head, bds George W Traver, Edison
and Wm H Head
1893 Tacoma Miss Dora L Head, nurse, bds George W Traver, Edison
1894 Chehalis Grays Harbor Wa. Dora Head nurse 25 yo b. Wisconsin single
1895 Tacoma Dora Head, nurse, res 701 South J
1897 Tacoma matron WWH for I, Ft Steilacoom

1898 152.50 acres Queets homestead
1899 Tacoma matron WW Hospital for Insane, Ft. Steilacoom
1901 Tacoma Dora Head matron WWH for Insane
1904 Tacoma Wm H Head cook Donnelly Cafe r Olympic Hotel
1905 Tacoma Wm H Head cook Tacoma Hotel
1906 Tacoma Wm H Head cook Helm's Cafe
1908 Tacoma Wm Head Chef r 907 1/2 South C
1909 Tacoma Wm Head cook r 907 1/2 So C
1910 Tacoma Wm Head cook r 1502 So E
1910 Pierce County census Wm Head Chef Hotel 40 yo.
1910 census Tacoma W H Head boarder single 40yo b.Wisconsin
parents from Germany, cook
1912 Tacoma Wm Head cook r 1502 So E

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Ships used to get to and from Queets

Steamer "Garland" out of Seattle


Steamer "Lucy Lowe" Capt. McDonald
April 22, 1891 ..."colony set sail today on board the "Lucy Lowe"
carried fifty-six passengers on its first voyage to the mouth of the Queets.
April 29, 1891 ..."another unsuccessful attempt to get down to the Queets."
May 1, 1891 "Lucy Lowe" made a trip down the coast, anchored off the mouth of the Queets.
July 12, 1891 "Lucy Lowe" was chartered for a second trip to the Queets


this clipping on May 11, 1891?


two Lucy Lowes out of Tacoma???


I'll have to research further!














The steamer Lucy Lowe, Captain Jordan, from Roche Harbor for Tacoma struck a
sunken log in Deception Pass, April 4th, and was beached to save life.
The lime cargo then fired the vessel, which was scuttled in two fathoms of water
and became a total loss.
The Lucy Lowe was formerly a sealing schooner, built at Victoria in 1884.




Steamer "Mischief"
August 22, 1891 left Tacoma 17 passengers for Queets

Steamer "Progress" 35 foot, propeller, out of Aberdeen

Steamer "Quinault"

Steamer "Thistle"  Capt. Arthur Benham steamboated on Grays Harbor
47 feet, 9 foot beam, and a 3 feet 6 inches hold, out of Hoquiam

Sternwheeler "Harbor Queen" Aberdeen, Hoquiam

..."Boats on the Harbor, as I recall them, were the Printer and Traveler, bar tugs, the T.C. Reed, Harbor Queen, Montesano, Rustler, Iola, Thistle, Wilma, Alert, Curio, Progress, Fleetwood, Market Boy, Emogene and Maude S. The Maude S. was the first naphtha launch, I believe, on Grays Harbor. She carried passengers between Cosmopolis and Aberdeen. Some of the skippers on these boats were Captain Reed, Captain Sanborn, Captain Benham, Captain Erickson, Captain Pete Wilson, Captain Thompson, Captain Ed Smith, Captain M. Harrison, Captain Earl Kellogg, Captain George Byram, Captain George Stone, Captain Burrows and Captain Hansen."...

Steam tug PRINTER
Tug RANGER
Tug TRAVELER
T. C. REED
Stern-wheeler HARBOR QUEEN
Stern-wheeler MONTESANO Montesano
steamer RUSTLER  Hoquiam












Olympic Peninsula Brochure

http://milwaukeeroadarchives.com/Advertising/Olympic%20Peninsula%20Brochure%201930.pdf

    circa 1930

1930 United States Census Quinault Indian Reservation, Jefferson Co.,Washington

Dora Huelsdonk, Enumerator
April 18, 1930

Dwell#,Fam#,Name,Rel.,Rent,Own,Value,Sex,Race,Age,Marr.,Stat. Age 1st Marr. Born,Father Born,Mother Born,Occup,Indust.,Remarks


1 1 Welder, Ronald Head R 10 M W 27 M 23 Washington US US Civil Engineer State Road  
      Welder, Faustina Wife     F W 29 M 25 Texas Switzerland United States None    
      Welder, Ronald W. Son     M W 3 3/12 S   Washington Washington Texas None    
2 2 Cummins, Edward Head R 10 M W 28 S   Missouri Missouri Missouri Civil Engineer State Road  
      Troy, Floyd Lodger     M W 23 S   Kansas Iowa Wisconsin Engineer State Road  
3 3 Christie, Fred Head R 10 M W 57 D   Canada English Scotland Scotland Cook Survey Camp  
4 4 McGregor, Kenneth J. Head R 10 M W 22 S   Washington Canada English US Chainman Road Survey  
      Adams, Harry J. ?     M W 60 S   Illinois New Hampshire New York Gravel Checker State Road  
5 5 Harlow, Frank Head O 1600 M In 43 D   Washington Full Blood Queets Fisherman Salmon  
      Harlow, Ben Nephew     M In 36 D   Washington Full Blood Queets Fisherman Salmon  
2 2 Copoeman, Hans Head O 1000 M In ? M 37 Washington Mixed Blood Quinault Fisherman Salmon  
      Copoeman, Lena M. Wife     F In 40 M 15 Washington Mixed Blood Quinault None    
      Westlin, Elvira Step Daughter     F In 22 S   Washington Mixed Blood Quinault None    
      Charles, Elvin Stepson     M In 20 S   Washington Mixed Blood Quinault Fisherman Salmon  
      George, Mildred Stepdaughter     F In 17 S   Washington Mixed Blood Quinault None    
      George, Kitsap stepson     M In 7 S   Washington Mixed Blood Quinault None    
      Cultie, Charlotte Stepdaughter     F In 5 S   Washington Mixed Blood Quinault None    
      Copoeman, Virginia Daughter     F In 1 3/12 S   Washington Mixed Blood Quinault None    
      Copoeman, Harris J. Son     M In 1/12 S   Washington Mixed Blood Quinault None    
      Shenton, Edward J. Brother in Law     M In 45 D   Washington Mixed Blood Puyallup Laborer Odd Jobs  
3 3 Shale, John Head O 2000 M In 56 M 18 Washington Full Blood Queets Fisherman Salmon  
      Shale, Flora Wife     F In 30 M 17 Washington Full Blood Queets None    
      Shale, Jess E. Son     M In 12 S   Washington Full Blood Queets None    
      Shale, Helen D. Daughter     F In 7 S   Washington Full Blood Queets None  
      Shale, Hilda M. Daughter     F In 5 S   Washington Full Blood Queets None    
      Shale, John R. Jr. Son     M In 2 7/12 S   Washington Full Blood Queets None     

      Shale, William S. Son     M In 1 1/12 S   Washington Full Blood Queets None

Olson's

John Olson Oct 1861 Sweden
Caroline Olson May 1857 Sweden
Esther Caroline Olson Jun 12, 1895 Tacoma, Pierce Co,Washington


1900 Queets, Chehalis, Washington
1910 Evergreen Jefferson County


"Olson had a clearing on either side of the Salmon River at its junction with the Queets."

Monday, June 18, 2012

Prentice Family

sorry, I have to clean this post up. I've lost 10 hours or research before, so I tend to throw up the preliminary stuff, then tighten it up.

PRENTICE, GEORGE BLOIS
     
b.Jan. 27 Jan 1890         
Grand Forks County
North Dakota, USA

d.25 Jun 1970
Tacoma
Pierce County
Washington, USA
--
Neva La Brote Prentice
Birth:  1899
Wisconsin, USA
Death:  Mar. 26, 1995
Tacoma
Pierce County
Washington, USA

Neva L. Prentice, 96, died March 26, 1995. Neva was born in Wisconsin and lived in the Tacoma area 80 years. She had been retired from the telephone company and was a homemaker. She had been a member of the American Legion Auxiliary #138 and the Grandmother's Club. As a volunteer she gave time at the Veteran's hospital at American Lake. Survivors include her daughter, Marion Oehlerich of Olympia; numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren; many other relatives and friends.
--
William Henry Prentice Oct 1859 Pennsylvania Head
Emma "Emily" Alice Bloye Prentice Jun 1866 England Wife
Harry Raymond Prentice Jul 1888 St. Paul Minnesota Son d.Nov 23, 1958 Medford, Jackson, Oregon
m. Eva Butterfield
Blois Prentice Jan 27, 1890 Grand Forks N. Dakota Son
George Blois Prentice real name
m.Neva La Brote
child Blois Prentice b.5/15/1924 d.11/1985 Olympia
Alberta Theodora Prentice b.Jan 1899  Aberdeen, Wa. Daughter d.8 Apr 1980 in Eureka, Humboldt, California, USA.
m. Donald Albert Johnson
Russell Herbert Prentice b.12/7/1900 Aberdeen, Wa. d.4/14/1973 Aberdeen
m.Nona La Brote
Herbert Blois Mar 1867 England Brother-in-law
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1908 Grays Harbor
Blois G.
Harry R.
Wm. Prentice
1006 W 4th
Aberdeen Wa.
---
1910 Grays Harbor
H.R. Prentice Co.
Fancy and Family Grocers
211 South G
Aberdeen, Wa.
Tel 1411
*Dunlop, Frank H, Clk H R Prentice Co,
Blois G. carp
Harry R. mngr of his store
Wm. Prentice planerman
1006 W 4th
Aberdeen Wa.
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1913 Grays Harbor
Blois
Emily
Wm
@
1402 Aberdeen Ave.
Aberdeen, Wa.
and
705 Curtis on Wm. and bicycles
and Emily also @ 307 1/2 and 315 E. Market
Aberdeen

Sunday, June 17, 2012

H. K. Mayhew

1892 Grays Harbor County Census
Henry K Mayhew b.1857 Iowa Engineer
AND with a Adam Mathany!!!

see lines 29,30 and 31.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Adam Matheny...and his siblings

LEFT TO RIGHT

Adam M. Matheny
b.20 Dec 1820 in Owen Co. Ind.
d.7 Mar 1895.  buried at Queets Corridor Olympic Nat'l Park, Wa.
He was a Farmer

Isaiah Cooper Matheny
b.2 Dec 1826 in Edgar Co. Ill.
d.9 Mar 1906 in Seattle, King Co. Wa.
buried at Ashland Cem. Ashland, Jackson Co. Or.

Daniel Boone Matheny
b.5 Jan 1829 in Schuyler Co. Ill.
d.1889/90 in Wallowa Co. Wa.. He was a Farmer/Stockman.
buried at Elk Mountian Wallowa Co. Wa.

Jasper Newton Matheny
b. 4 Aug 1834 in Schuyler Co. Ill.
d. 15 Jun 1893 in on ship from Mexico to S.F. Ca.
He was a Ferryman/Sheriff.
buried at Masonic Cem. San Francisco, Ca.


LEFT TO RIGHT
 The Matheny female siblings


Charlotte Matheny
b. 5 May 1838 Platte Co. Mo.
d. 25 Nov 1926 Los Angeles, Ca.
buried at Hopewell Cem. Yamhill Co. Or.
Charlotte Matheny Kirkwood wrote the book INTO THE EYE OF THE SETTING SUN

Mary Matheny
b. 24 Apr 1832 Schuyler Co. Ill.
d. 1906 Portland, Multnomah, Or.
buried at  Hopewell Cem. Yamhill Co. Or.

Elizabeth Matheny


Racheal Matheny b. 9 Dec 1824 Owen Co. Ind.  d. 1 Aug 1828.



Johnson's

Clement and Hester Johnson's timeline:


1860 Troy, Monroe, Iowa

1870 Caldwell, Appanoose, Iowa
Clemment Johnson 58
Hester A Johnson 51
Wm T Dolson 21 farm hand

1880 Fremont, Colorado
Clement Johnson 68
Hester A. Johnson 64
Clara Noble 19 adopted daughter
W.A. Reed 42 son-in-law
Alice A. Reed 39 daughter

1900 Queets, Chehalis, Washington
Clemmen Johnson 88
Hesther Johnson 85
William C Reed 18

Clara Vincent Noble
Birth: 4 Sep 1860 in Albia, Monroe County, Iowa
Death: 12 Mar 1942 in Rifle, Garfield County, Colorado
Burial: Rose Hill Cemetery, Rifle, Garfield County, Colorado

About a year after coming to the Queets ('94 or '95) Mrs. Alice Banta passed away and was buried on the Matheny place beside Adam Matheny who had died a short time before. Hers was the first white woman's grave in the valley. In 1902 her father, Clement Johnson, passed away and was buried beside her. In 1908 her mother died in Hoquiam and is buried there.

Clara was claimed as an adopted daughter by Clement and Hester Johnson at the time of the 1880 census, He was a gardener in Fremont County, Colorado. He had come to Colorado from Monroe County, Iowa.
Source: "The Rifle Telegram", March 19, 1942
Mrs. Clara Armstrong died Thursday night, March 12, at 9 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Herbert Brosius, on Rifle Creek. Mrs. Armstrong known to her many friends as "Grandma George" had been seriously ill since last Nov. when a paralytic stroke made it impossible for her to leave her bed. She suffered a third stroke before her death and lapsed into unconsciousness.
Clara Vincent Noble was born at Albia, IA, Sep. 4, 1860 and passed this life Mar 12, 1942, at the age of 81 years 6 months and 8 days. She was the daughter of G.W. and Marietta Noble. Her mother having passed away when she was yet an infant of 18 months. Her father passed away in 1912.
Clara came to Colorado at the age of 18 years. She was married to Alfred George, March 18, 1886 at Emma, Colorado [town no longer exists]. To this union five children were born; Claude, Annie (who passed away in 1901), Harry, Margaret and Jasper.
The family had resided on Rifle Creek since the year of 1887, a period of 55 years. Several years after the death of Mr. George, Mrs. George married Jack Armstrong of Grand Junction who passed away 6 months later.
Mrs. George is survived by her four children, 20 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren, several nieces and nephews, and one sister, Fannie Manifold of Fort Morgan, Colorado. Her husband Alfred George, preceded her in death in 1928.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, March 15, at the Christian church with Rev. Otto B. Duckworth officiating. In the choir were Mrs. Harry Harp and Mrs. Wm Fulton, who sang Sweet Hour of Prayer, The Old Rugged Cross, and In The Garden, with Robert MacIntosh at the organ. Interment was in Rose Hill Cemetery. Sayer Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Some More of the Story - by Gene Homer George (1986)
Clara was actually 17 months old when her mother died at child birth, leaving the father with two small daughters to raise. He remarried two years later. As an adolescent she didn't get along well with her stepmother, so as a young teenager she went to live with the Johnsons, and lived with them until grown.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were the parents of her father's first wife and no blood kin to her. Clara referred to them as Auntie and Uncle Johnson and they called her their adopted daughter, but none of this was legally so. The 1880 census lists Clement and Hester A. Johnson as their names but the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel calls him L. B. Johnson and calls Clara his niece.
William "Will" A. Reed was a son in law of the Johnsons. His wife was Alice A. Johnson Reed.
Clara grew up and was educated in the Monroe County schools. Her education was pretty good for that time, as the Albia school system was good enough to allow graduates to receive their teaching certificates. No record is found of Clara receiving hers, although her sister did.
In the spring of 1879 after she was 17 years old, she left with a wagon train from Iowa to Colorado. They traveled across the prairie ending up in Canon City. She said the wagons were heavily loaded and that she walked most of the way. She was traveling in the company of the Johnsons and Reeds and also among these Iowans was Josie Bitsenhauffer a childhood companion. Josie would remain a part of the rest of her life. Josie married McCamble and they settled in the mining town of Victor, and they are the ones mentioned in other stories in this text.
One story told, after their arrival in Colorado, was that of a picnic near Canon City. It seemed the young women were shopping for husbands, and a man was noted walking down the road toward the picnic. Clara said she told the girls "that one is mine". It turned out the man was Al George. In later years when Al was asked why it took so long for him to decide to marry her, he replied, "I had to wait for her to grow up". She was 17 and he was 26 at the time.
She lived a few years in Canon City, but no record shows of her being employed. She was living with the Johnsons during this time and Mr. Johnson worked as a gardener. The next record found she is listed with the early homesteaders on the Roaring Fork. Of the twenty or so listed she is the only woman. How this tiny little woman managed to prove up on a homestead is a mystery to me. Her land bordered that of William Harris, one of the earliest settlers and a brother to Charles Harris, the first settler on the Roaring Fork. William Harris made numerous attempts to get her to marry him, but she claimed all he wanted was her land. Charles Harris later married her sister Rose.

The Wilds of North Western Washington

In 1902 I made my advent into the Wilds of North Western Washington where I remained for some 20 years; married and raised a family in those back woods. Only making a trip to the civilization once per year for a new stock of clothing and a years supply of previsions, consisting of such staples as flour, sugar, coffee, salt, etc. At the time this incident happened we had gone to the outside, as we referred to the nearest town some 60 or 70 miles away from the ranch. While there during the winter we acquired some much needed furniture including a piano. All our furniture up to that date was mostly home made, excepting chairs and stoves, wood stoves of course. The time about 1918. We had traveled back into the woods to the ranch again awaiting the furniture to be sent in on the boat which came into the mouth of the river, a gasoline sloop which brought previsions and such to the settlers of which there was about 200 counting the Indian families that existed at the mouth of the river.
Having heard that some of the furniture had arrived I prepared to go for it. My husband being away with several of the pack horses packing supplies for the state highway, which then was only a few miles from Lake Quiniault mearly a slashed out trail. Our oldest daughter was 12 years old at the time, 2 sons 10, 9, and a small girl 5 years. Leaving my daughter to care for everything I proceeded to hitch my cay ouse team weighing about 2500, to the wagon, no cars those days in there, only a rough road if one could call it such, many muddy ruts and crooks and turns where one had to be constantly on the alert and handling a small team was no small job. Between me and the mouth of this river was 29 miles with six river crossings, each crossing had to be made at the head of a rapid as the river was very swift, 900 ft. drop in 29 miles. I knew I must be gone close to 3 days so I prepared the children for it, children now days staying alone and knowing they had to care for cattle, pigs and chickens, cook for themselves and be careful of fires, as all cooking had to be done on wood stoves. They had been brought up to be trustworthy and still are very independent.
Well as I stated I started, made the mouth of the river where I stopped for the night, next day I had much help to the loaded up, load probably weighed 10 or 15 hundred lbs. But I knew my team, one was a little bay mare blind as a bat, the other a tough strawberry colored with blazed face and 4 white socks. Formally on the No. Beach rack track. I only went 9 miles that day, but rose early next a.m. determined to make home. Well it started to blow a chooneck wind which always melts the snow in the mountains. I urged the horses all I could, after making 2 crossings and noting how the river was rising, I was really worried, when at last arrived at the last crossing I stood a few minutes contemplating as this crossing was at the head of a mile long rapid which run between two bluffs, and no one could possibly come through it alive, I knew if I didn't make it, on the opposite bank, in just such a place we were gone, but again my babies was fore most in my mind, so, I took a long rope and lashed down the wagon box both to reach and standards, than as the team knew it was near home they were anxious to go, so I took the chance, guided my team up stream as far as they could pull the load against the current, I let them have rein and we hit for the other shore 85 yards away, I must say when the water hit right under the root of the horses tails and came into the wagon box I had a few misgivings and prayed for the little ones sakes to reach the other shore. If the wagon had not have been loaded so heavily I would never have made it. We surely would have gone over the rapids. But after what seemed hours we climbed the other bank where I let my poor little team rest for a half hour while I rubbed them poor little fellows were sure faithful, for that was a hard pull over those rocks and the high waters. I reached home one hour later much to the joy of the little folks and with a determination not to try such a stunt again. When my husband heard he 'said' he would not have done it, really commended me on my pluck which was a very dangerous one. I assure you I didn't have the piano that trip. I left that to the men folk.

By Edith Dinsmoor Hunter


I first saw Washington on October 6th, 1902. Having lived my 18 years in the East and Middle West, and read so much about the far West. It was a real thrill. As I came through Seattle, stopping at the old wooden depot with its huge totem pole beside it and only two train tracks I wondered where the city was, but on we went until we arrived in Aberdeen, what a sorry sight for mid western eyes, as I waited in that little depot with its pot bellyed stove, for my Uncle Winferd Dinsmoor to come, I was sure fed up, it was raining and literately snowing saw dust ,what a dirty town was my first thought. Truly if I would of had the price of a return ticket I would not have left the depot until I boarded a train back over the mountains. Thats 57 years ago and I am still in Washington. In the spring of 1903, I had a chance to go up North in the big sticks to work for Clarence Read and care for his inviled grandmother Mrs. Johnson in the Queets country. While in Aberdeen I became acquainted with a Mary Patton and her nephew Will Hunter. It was largely through her influence I went into the woods . She was homesteading a 160, about 25 miles from the ocean up the Queets river. She had proceeded me about 1 week, but left her nephew to accompany me. We left Aberdeen, May 1st and stayed in Hoquium over night so as to be on time for the mail man. He having a heavy wagon and a team of draft horses made the trip to Humptulips, in around 8 hours over a very rough cordory road. Mr. Evans was our driver, and of course Will accompanied me, he was a very bashful young man of 19 and I had no end of fun with him. We stayed all night at the Humptulips Hotel, and on arising early the next morning found the mail carrier from there to Quinault Lake, Ernest Paul, ready with horses for us to ride. Ernest was from the middle west too and we had much conversation as we walked by our horses and hurried the rest of them with the mail on their backs that was another hard day, for me. We stayed that night with Mr. and Mrs. Ewall at the little shake hotel over looking that beautiful lake with its snow capped peaks of heavily timbered mountains. Such a beautiful lake I had never seen, and when in the morning a tall blond man Arte Highby (Orte Higley) arrived and said he was the Queets mail carrier and that I would after crossing the lake have to walk. Arte was a very good natured person and I know I held him back, and with that huge pack of mail on his back too. Will was still with us and very faithfully carried my small pack, how little either of us thought than that we'd carry each others burden down a long long road. We arrived at the Read ranch about 4:30 p.m. Elta Young and her mother was there helping out besides a bunch of settlers to meet the mail. I was so exhausted I could not eat and found when I retired was too tired to sleep. I'll always remember, the old Evergreen Waltz, which Clarence played on his violin and Arte accompanied him. I was rather stiff and sore the next day as more tender feet are, but had the good luck to meet the Donaldson Girls, Marg, Reat, and Jeanie and their little sister Belle. They were Scottish folk and their mother and Grandparents, Grandpa and Grandma Gowan, were so quaint one could not help but to love them. Jean is still here, but the rest have been called to that great beyond, where none return. It took me quite some few weeks to get used to the ways of the woods. I found all provisions and such was brought in by a small boat Captain Tompson to the mouth of the river and each settler took an Indian dugout or hired some one to bring such up the river, of course I wanted to learn like Jean and Maggie to pole and paddle a canoe, it was all such a thrill to me. And there was always a bunch of young people around. For recreation there was a dance now and then at some settlers home. We had to go and come in the day light, for our only means of traveling was walking a trail or going ni a canoe when the boys around about were so nice as to take us, some had horses to ride too.

By Edith Dinsmore Hunter

Kerr

One of the saddest moments on the Queets is the death of this couple. 
Within a few months, they were taken together.

..." Kerr finally married a white girl. On their way in to the Clearwater, they stopped at the Indian hotel at the Agency (Taholah). There a tornado smashed the hotel and killed both Dave and his bride."...

..."He himself with his new wife lost their lives in a bad storm which blew down the Indian hotel at Taholah, where they were stoping in the winter of 1903 or 1904
Dale Northrop’s wife Eva’s sister Mary had been married to Dave Kerr of Clearwater. They were returning to their homestead on Clearwater from Hoquiam. They stopped overnight at Taholah with Harry Shale and his wife Jessie who were Indian friends of Dave’s. It was a stormy night and a tornado blew down the house and the Indian church nearby. They were sleeping up stairs and were killed instantly...."




Friday, June 15, 2012

Hibbards

Henry "Harry" G.Hibbard Father b.England
George Y. Hibbard Son b.4/1877 Missouri

George's parents from England



1892 Grays Harbor County
1894 Chehalis, Grays Harbor County Henry is listed as a "Moulder"
1900 Queets
1900 George moved in with Carrie McKinnon.
Big Canyon, Humptulips, Queets, and Queniult Precincts, Grays Harbor, Washington, United States


1904 Land patent HIBBERD, GEORGE Y 8/1/1904 154.95 acres


from "Recreation, Volume 17"
by American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsman 1902 George O. Shields

..."I see your readers can not agree as to how grouse drink. The fact of the matter is that in wet weather grouse take water from the leaves; and in dry weather drink from springs and streams. Last fall I camped at various spots along the Queets river in the Olympic mountains. One morning I went to a spring near camp to wash dough from a pan. While I stood silently watching a lot of salmon fry eat the dough, out came a grouse from the brush. dipped his bill in the water and drank. exactly as a barnyard fowl would do. Having got his fill, he took a dust bath in a spot where the loose, dry earth had been pawed by an elk. Then he returned to the spring, took another sip, and flew up the mountain side."...

G.Y.Hibbard, Queets, Wash.

Barringtons

Barrington, Joseph Hook  b.abt 1848 England
Florence Adeline/ADELAIDE Vaughan Barrington b.Chicago, Ill d.11/22/1940 Seattle
m.9/3/1873 Cook,Ill.
Florence's parents are William Vaughan/VAUGHN and Florence A. Fellows


children:

1.Charles E Barrington

2.Florence A. Barrington b.Chicago
m. John Young 11/1/1898


3.Gertrude Maude Barrington musician
m.9/1/1898 Thomas Newton Rathbone
m.5/28/1901 John Dyke, Jr. Seaman Port Townsend

4.Mabel "May" Edith Barrington Simpson Tibbles/Tibbals White

b.3/6/1882 Des Moines Twp, Pocahontas, Iowa
m.James E. Simpson 11/8/1901 Seattle
Mabelle Tibbals and Harry C. Tibbals b.1860 Wa
Mabel E. Tibbals/
m. Robert J. White 8/14/1934 Kitsap County

5.Arthur M. Barrington b.La Conner, Wa  d.8/24/1958 Painter/musician orchestra/roofer/carpenter
m.Leah E Dougherty 3/14/1908 Seattle Seamstress

6.Frederick William Barrington b.5/26/1886 Mt. Vernon, Washington d.4/23/1957 Seattle

Rancher in Clearwater
Conductor
Seattle Transit - Operator
m. Lydia Crites 4/5/1913 Seattle


Joseph and Florence timeline:

1851 Devon, England
arrival 1870
1873 m.9/3/1873 Cook,Ill.
1880 West Bend, Palo Alto, Iowa
1885 Skagit
1889 Skagit
1910 Evergreen, Jefferson, Washington
1913 Clearwater, Wa.
1920 Juanita, King, Wa.
1927 @ 1811 Lane Seattle
1928 @ 1811 Lane Seattle
1929 @ 1516 E Prospect Seattle
1930 Seattle they had a female japanese servant 18yo Lillian Sumi Arai
1934 Mabel is a widow @ 1516 E Prospect Seattle
1938 Florence A is a widow in Seattle
living with Harry L. and Mabelle E. Tibbals
@ 1516 E Prospect Seattle

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

1920 Quinault, Grays Harbor, Washington

partial listings

Albert Pruce abt 1856 England
Frank Pruce 1869 New York Brother
Irvin Mcmaster Head
John Mcmaster Son
Raymond Mcmaster Son
Ransome L Higley
Margaret Higley
Annie O Higley daughter
Isabelle Gowans 1863 Scotland
John C Rambo shingle mill laborer
Mary E Rambo
Clair Rambo Son
John E Aaker
Ort L Higley
Helen F Higley
Helen B Higley
Orlo R Higley
Leroy M Streeter
Constance Streeter
Marion Streeter
Herbert V Olson
Julia Olson
Richard V Olson brother

Gowans

William Gowans b.3/22/1834 - Bathgate,​ West Lothian,​ Scotland
d. 4/18/1918 Quinault, Grays Harbor, Washington
Father James Gowans

Mother Jane Fleming

Isabella Dick b.abt 1836 - Scotland
Arrival: 1888



Isabella Gowans b.5/20/1860 Bathgate,​ West Lothian,​ Scotland
Anna Jane Arthur Gowans b.3/3/1862 Bathgate,​ West Lothian,​ Scotland
John Gowans  b.7/30/1864 Bathgate,​ West Lothian,​ Scotland


Jane Donaldson says:
"In 1901 my maternal grandparents, the Gowans, came from Scotland to live with us. As they were then about sixty-five years of age, it was quite an experience for them. Once when wolves came into the clearing the dog barked and barked until they went back. Then one wolf attacked the dog. Grandpa Gowans thought it was just another dog fighting ours, so he chased it off with his cane. But our poor dog died from his wounds. And the next day we saw the tracks of a wolf. The Gowans lived in the eighties."...

..."Mr. and Mrs. William Gowans, were born and married near Bathget, not far from Edinborough. Three children were born to them: Isabel, Annie Jane (my mother) in 1862, and John."...

Aaker

John B Aaker b.6/30/1858 Norway  d.11/13/1942 Aberdeen
Father: Berent Aaker
Mother:Betha Akistad
1882 Arrival
1884 Nov 11 Whatcom County Clerk, Naturalization Records Declaration of Intention
1920:Quinault, Grays Harbor, Washington
1930:Quinaielt, Grays Harbor, Washington


I tried to run his parents, but to no avail...

1900 United States Federal Census Queets, Chehalis, Washington

*please note that there are "2" 1900 Census'.

The other is for Queets, Jefferson County

*note the boarders and whom they stayed with...

the other is on this blog...

1900 United States Federal Census Queets, Chehalis, Washington

Clemmen Johnson May 1812 Maryland Head
Hesther Johnson Nov 1816 Maryland Wife
William C Reed Dec 1881 Colorado Grandson
Frederick Streater Dec 1849 New Hampshire Head
Elizabeth Streater Jun 1857 New York Wife
Leroy Streater Mar 1886 Colorado Son
John Streater Aug 1887 Colorado Son
Ruby Streater Feb 1893 Washington Daughter
George Streater Apr 1895 Washington Son
Otto Streater Jun 1897 Washington Son
Edward Newman Jan 1864 New York Head
Anna Newman Sep 1865 Iowa Wife
Ethel Newman Jul 1892 Washington Daughter
Ruth A Newman Feb 1898 Washington Daughter
Guy E Newman Apr 1900 Washington Son
Nels Sorensen May 1854 Denmark Head
Anna Sorensen Oct 1855 Denmark Wife
Iverdt F Sorensen Jun 1893 Washington Son
John B Aaker Jun 1858 Norway Head
Thomas Killea May 1864 Pennsylvania Head
Martin Killea Nov 1865 Pennsylvania Brother
George Whitaker Sep 1828 England Head
May H Patten Dec 1863 Illinois Head
Margaret Donaldson May 1884 Scotland Boarder
Jane T Donaldson Apr 1886 Scotland Boarder
John Olson Oct 1861 Sweden Head
Caroline Olson May 1857 Sweden Wife
Esther Caroline Olson Jun 1895 Washington Daughter
Carrie Mckinnon Apr 1861 Minnesota Head
George Hibberd Apr 1877 Missouri Boarder
Joseph Northrop Mar 1846 Illinois Head

McKinnons

Husband and wife

Neil A. McKinnon b.abt 1857 Canada Farmer
Carrie R. McKinnon b. Apr 1861 Wisconsin Housekeeper
married in 1884

Carrie was the first postmaster of the village of Queets in 1892
Neil and Carrie later had a store in their home.
The post office, then located in a general store,
served the native Americans on the reservation as well as the white settlers.
Carries parents are from Vermont
..."Mrs. McKinnon was not a rugged pioneer. She owned a poodle dog named "Tippy Toodles". One day Mrs. McKinnon came to see mother at the same time that Mrs. Donaldson came with her big shepherd dog. When Mrs. McKinnon left, both Mama and Mrs. Donaldson walked across the clearing with her. At the edge of the woods the shepherd dog bit or somehow hurt the little poodle slightly. When he let out a yelp, Mrs. McKinnon cried, "Oh, my poor Tippy Toodels" and was on the verge of tears"...

below is what I believe to be my subject Neil as the unnamed McKinnon on line # 5262
and I believe line #5256 is related to him, either a brother or sister.
All the dates and ages and localities line up nearly flawlessly.
I've done close to 2,000 people thus far, and I feel extremely confident that this is our man.
Or speaking in a percentile,...99.99% accurate.


if anyone has more information on this couple, I'd really like to hear from you.
shoot me a comment below, it would be greatly appreciated.