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 . L;UT of the depths of his mature wisdom Carlyle wrote,History is the essence of innumerable biographies. ^ Believing this to be the fact, there is no necessity ofadvancing any further reason for the compilation of ^ such a work as this, if reliable history is to be the<J)fi ultimate section of Washington embraced by this volume has sustainedwithin its confines men who have been prominent in the history of
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 . L;UT of the depths of his mature wisdom Carlyle wrote,History is the essence of innumerable biographies. ^ Believing this to be the fact, there is no necessity ofadvancing any further reason for the compilation of ^ such a work as this, if reliable history is to be the<J)fi ultimate section of Washington embraced by this volume has sustainedwithin its confines men who have been prominent in the history of thestate and even of the nation. The annals teem with the records ofstrong and noble manhood, and, as Sumner has said, the true grand-eur of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of theindividual. The final causes which shape the fortunes of individuals andthe destinies of states are often the same. They are usually remote andobscure, and their influence scarcely perceived until manifestly declared byresults. That nation is the greatest which produces the greatest and mostmanly men and faithful women; and the intrinsic safety of a communitydepends
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