Governors of Washington, territorial and state . GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE NO. XV.—ELISHA PEYRE FERRY Gov. Ferry has the distinction of being the onlygovernor of territorial days to be elected to thatoffice after or upon attaining statehood. He wasthe first governor of the new state. His biographywas published in the territorial group as No. X. (75) JOHN HARTE McGRAW JOHN H. McGRAW Second State Governor1893 to 1897. NO. XVI.—JOHN HARTE McGRAW The second governor of the state of Washington may be said to have been a graduate of the Uni-versity of Hard Knocks. Born at Barkers planta-tion, Penobsco
Governors of Washington, territorial and state . GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE NO. XV.—ELISHA PEYRE FERRY Gov. Ferry has the distinction of being the onlygovernor of territorial days to be elected to thatoffice after or upon attaining statehood. He wasthe first governor of the new state. His biographywas published in the territorial group as No. X. (75) JOHN HARTE McGRAW JOHN H. McGRAW Second State Governor1893 to 1897. NO. XVI.—JOHN HARTE McGRAW The second governor of the state of Washington may be said to have been a graduate of the Uni-versity of Hard Knocks. Born at Barkers planta-tion, Penobscot county, Me., on October 4, 1850, hehad but scant schooling- in that far northeastern cor-ner of the Union. The story was told that one coldwinter day, when the boys were made to toe a line,he was ordered to step forward, and later to stepback again, before the teacher found that the littlefellow was wearing cast-off boots much too largefor him. His father was drowned and, the mothermarrying again, the boy struck out for himself at14 years of age. At 17 he was manager of a generalstore, and on reaching his twenty-first birthday neformed a partnership with his brother. Throughno fault of the brothers, the business failed in1876, and John H. McGraw started immediately forthe Far West. A few months Were spent in SanFrancisco, and on December 28, 1876, he landed inSeattle, which city became his home for the
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