A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away . Id. Ayoung Inisiness man. unassuming and unpretentious, he has. nevertheless,won the respect and contidence of those with whom he has been associated inbusiness relations and has gained the warm friendship of many with whomhe has cotuc in contact. RUFLS \\TLL.\RD, M. D. Among the most successful ])hysicians and surgeons of the city of Seat-tle is numbered Rufus Willard, who has made his home here since Decem-ber, 1880,
A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away . Id. Ayoung Inisiness man. unassuming and unpretentious, he has. nevertheless,won the respect and contidence of those with whom he has been associated inbusiness relations and has gained the warm friendship of many with whomhe has cotuc in contact. RUFLS \\TLL.\RD, M. D. Among the most successful ])hysicians and surgeons of the city of Seat-tle is numbered Rufus Willard, who has made his home here since Decem-ber, 1880, and has been a resident of the state for fifty years. He standshigh in the estimation of his professi(jnal brethren, and his opinions havegreat weight in thir councils. The first of the Willard family to establisha home in .^merica was Simon \\illard. who came to this country from Eng-land just sixteen years after the landing of the Mayflower and was one ofthe founders of Concord, He purchased land of the Indians,and was major in the colonial troops of Massachusetts. He became thefather of sixteen childixn. foiu-teen .sons and two daughters. The paternal. /cLvk>c-i uBiJUL<^i/rT9(. Ihu ^ SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY. 625 great-graixlfather of our suljject, Rufiis Willanl. was a soldier in the Revo-lutionary war, and was a farmer by occupatiim. while the grandfather of oursubject, also named Rufus, was a soldier in the war of 1812. Dr. G. the father of hiin whose name introduces this review, New York to Illinois, and in the latter commonwealth was engaged inthe practice of medicine until 1852, in which year he crossed the plains toWashington, taking up his abode in Olympia. where he followed his chosencalling until his death in 1S66. He received his education principally in tlieEmpire state, and was also a graduate of the Transylvania University ofLexington, Kentucky, bor his wife he chose ]\Iiss Eleanor D. Smith, andthey became the paren
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