Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . he people of Olympia, and by all the citizens of Wash-ington, it has been my good fortune to meet during my brief term of office. Ishall always cherish among the pleasant experiences of my life the sevenmonths passed here as Washingtons last territorial governor. To your governor-elect you need no introduction; if not a pioneer, he is atleast an old settler. It is a graceful tribute to this class that one of theirnumber was selected to be the first governor of the state. It affords me ple
Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . he people of Olympia, and by all the citizens of Wash-ington, it has been my good fortune to meet during my brief term of office. Ishall always cherish among the pleasant experiences of my life the sevenmonths passed here as Washingtons last territorial governor. To your governor-elect you need no introduction; if not a pioneer, he is atleast an old settler. It is a graceful tribute to this class that one of theirnumber was selected to be the first governor of the state. It affords me pleasureto testify to his thorough and absolute devotion to its interests. His every thoughtis instinct with love for the fair young state. I bespeak for him your generousco-operation and assistance. With Governor Moores address as last Territorial governor, this volume mayfittingly close. The development of the Territory there so vividly summarizedby him, has continued and has indeed exceeded all forecasts during the twenty-eight years of statehood, from 1889 to 1917. BIOGRAPHICAL >^t Nt; <^H i^^K. ^^ ^^ ^^.^3^^^ Old Walla Walla County BIOGRAPHICAL WILLIAM PARKHURST WINANS. No history of Walla Walla would be complete without extended reference toWilliam Parkhurst Winans, who was an octogenarian at the time of his had long been identified with the northwest and his life was one of great use-fulness and activity. He was of Holland ancestry, descended from an ancientfamily belonging to the Holland nobility. The ancestral line is traced back toJean Winants, who was a lawyer at Antwerp, living in 1580. The line comesdown through Goswin Wynants, who was bom March 22,1630, and was pensionaryadviser for the province of Limbourg in 1666 and was afterward a member ofthe high council of Brabant by letter patent April 16, 1668. Goswin Arnould,Comte de Wynants, was bom July 20, 1661, was a member of the council ofBrabant by letters patent August 20, 1692, and in 1716 became a
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