. 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. the Arney family are: John, the manager of thedairy farm at Blaine; Rodney Jesse, an Episcopal minister at Seattle;Edward, a civil engineer at Perth, Australia; and George, a minister in theMethodist church and now located at Bremerton, Washington. AUSTIN P. BURWELL. Austin Peck Burwell, \\ho for se\eral years has been the president ofthe Seattle Cracker & Candy Company, occupies a foremost position in com-mercial cir
. 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. the Arney family are: John, the manager of thedairy farm at Blaine; Rodney Jesse, an Episcopal minister at Seattle;Edward, a civil engineer at Perth, Australia; and George, a minister in theMethodist church and now located at Bremerton, Washington. AUSTIN P. BURWELL. Austin Peck Burwell, \\ho for se\eral years has been the president ofthe Seattle Cracker & Candy Company, occupies a foremost position in com-mercial circles in this city, having achieved splendid success through businessmethods that will bear the closest investigation and scrutiny. He is a na-tive of Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred in the city of fiercer, in]\lercer county, January 31, 1848. He is of English ancestry and the lineof descent in this country can be traced back to John Burwell, who came to^Massachusetts when the ]\laviiower made its second vovasfe. He locatednear ^Nliddletown, Connecticut, and Eiias Burwell. the grandfather of oursubject, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. When he had arrived at. SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY. 275 mans estate he married Miss Amy Piatt, of Milford, Connecticut, In theCharter Oak state lie engaged in business as a manufacturer of clocks. Heheld membership in the Congregational church and lived an upright life, butwas called to his final rest at the early age of thirty-three years, dying ofpneumonia. His wife long survived him and attained the advanced age ofeighty-two years. Their son, Austin Smith Burwell, the father of our sub-ject, was born on the 12th of February, 1814, and married Miss Susan Peck,of Orange, Connecticut. He, too, engaged in the manufacture of clocks andalso conducted a cabinet-making business in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. In1847 li^ remoN^ed to Mercer, that state, where he opened a large general mer-cantile establishment, continuing in business there until 1871
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