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 . 1842, leaving himwith four children. He afterward married again and by the second unionhad six children. The second wife, a daughter and four grandchildren werelost in the great Johnstown flood, one of the most terrible disasters which hasever occurred in the history of the country. Colonel Prossers brother,IMajor A. Sidney Prosser, died at Knoxville. Tennessee. He was a valiantsoldier in the Union army, sen-ing in the
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 . 1842, leaving himwith four children. He afterward married again and by the second unionhad six children. The second wife, a daughter and four grandchildren werelost in the great Johnstown flood, one of the most terrible disasters which hasever occurred in the history of the country. Colonel Prossers brother,IMajor A. Sidney Prosser, died at Knoxville. Tennessee. He was a valiantsoldier in the Union army, sen-ing in the Second Tennessee Cavalry, andwas a successful and distinguished practitioner of law at Knoxville at thetime of his death. John G. Prosser, another brother of the Colonel, is arailroad man of Nebraska. In taking up the personal history of our subject we present to our readersI he life record of one highly esteemed in the northwest. He was educated inthe public schools of his native state and in the Johnstown Academy. Fortwo years he engaged in teaching school in Cambria coiuity, Pennsylvania,and because of ill health he sought a change of climate, crossing the plains in. lJU£C<^^^c-f~C^ SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY. 553 1854. On tlie 1st of IVIay of that year he left Independence, Missouri, witlia i)art\- of twelve youno- men, all from Pennsylvania. They made the j(jumeywith ox teams and on the wa\- the Colonel stood guard c\-ery night from halfpast ten until half past one. The journey was a long and arduous one andthey experienced some trouble with the Indians. In California they stoppedtirst at Dutch Flat in Placer county, where the Colonel ate his first good mealafter leaving Missouri. From that place he proceeded to the Middle Fork, of the American river and was engaged in placer mining during the re-mainder of the year, but met with very moderate success. He then went toSacramento and afterward to San Francisco and in the spring of 1855 hemade his way to Trinity county to t
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