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 . S».„. /^a-l^^J- (^^ OV-l^-T^-T^^ SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY. 249 pioneer citizens of Seattle, wliere he is engaged in the Hvery business, hav-ing his place of business at 21O/ Western avenue. As before stated, hecame to the territory of Washington in 1857, and Seattle has been continu-ously his home from the year 1869, when it was a straggling village of themost primitive sort, and he still owns land here which he purchas
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 . S».„. /^a-l^^J- (^^ OV-l^-T^-T^^ SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY. 249 pioneer citizens of Seattle, wliere he is engaged in the Hvery business, hav-ing his place of business at 21O/ Western avenue. As before stated, hecame to the territory of Washington in 1857, and Seattle has been continu-ously his home from the year 1869, when it was a straggling village of themost primitive sort, and he still owns land here which he purchased thirty-sixyears ago. The brave, energetic and loyal old pioneers are fast passingaway, and it is a pleasure to yet be able to meet one of the hardy band of theformer days, to listen to the tales of adventure and privation borne withoutflinching, and it is a duty to perpetuate their records insofar as possible, thatfuture generations may have appreciation of their lives and labors when allshall have been summoned to that undiscovered country from whose bourneno traveler returns. Robert Abrams comes of stanch New England stock of Scotch-Irishtype, and he claims the old Bay st
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