Junius Rochester

Jesse Epstein's seminal project, which later became a model for the nation, was Seattle's Yesler Terrace.  The hill's modest, racially integrated bungalows, many with sweeping views of Elliott Bay and downtown Seattle, remain vibrant today.

Columbus came from illiterate Genoese stock, mostly weavers, clothiers, and cheesemongers. He might have been Jewish.

Seattle shipyards boomed, and 40,000 men worked for good wages ($5 a day) in the yards and building a canal from the University of Washington campus to Lake Union. 

Patent medicines, often liberally laced with opium and alcohol, purveyed such nostrums as Kickapoo Indian Sagwa, Hamlin's Wizard Oil, the Balms of Gilead, Anodyne Cordials, and Swamp Root. 

Ledyard's knowledge and excitement about the lands west of the Rockies may have helped Jefferson later plan and implement the Lewis & Clark expedition.

In the 1890 Seattle City Directory this area was called "Madison Street Pavilion," although the 21 acres McGilvra set aside for public use were popularly referred to as "Madison Park."

Many local prose writers flourish in the Northwest, as do historians and newspaper scribes. But the Pacific Northwest also has a solid tradition of poets and their publications, starting with the pioneers.

One of the most popular teachers on campus because of his "Socratic" classroom method, Vernon Parrington quietly pursued his research, tended his garden, raised two daughters and a son with his wife Julia, and wrote prodigiously.

Following Bering's discovery of sea-otter riches, an almost endless train of adventurers and brigands struck out from Asia for North America with wild dreams of staggering wealth.

Locally, the debate over Smith's book became so acrimonious (shades of today's attack on "woke" academies) that several state legislators in 1915 introduced an amendment to a University Appropriations Bill abolishing Smith's department.