Topic: Biographies
To longtime Puget Sound residents, Tacoma-born Murray Morgan was many things, including journalist, political commentator, theater and arts reviewer, political activist, freelance writer, and college ...
This reminiscence of Murray Morgan (1916-2000), the preeminent Northwest historian, is by Paul Dorpat, HistoryLink's principal historian, and an old friend of Murray Morgan's.
Morgan Morgans came to Washington Territory in 1885 as local superintendent for the Black Diamond Coal Mining Company. He would serve in that capacity until his retirement in 1904.This People's Histor...
Abraham Morris, a Pierce County coal operator and eponym of the coal town Morristown, was born in Wales and moved to the United States with his family at the age of 2. The family arrived in Washigton ...
Seattle Metropolitans center Bernie Morris's unlikely rise to hockey stardom belied an existence fraught with tragedy. Morris was unheralded and likely eyeing his final opportunity to better a desolat...
Ciscoe Morris (b. 1948) is a household name for many in the Pacific Northwest. A gardening guru with an inimitable personality, his enthusiasm for all growing things and his high energy have elevated ...
Eldridge Morse contributed to the growth of pioneer Snohomish County in myriad ways. Arriving in Washington Territory just after the Civil War, the Connecticut native settled in the riverside town of ...
Beginning in the early 1960s, Seattle-area radio listeners enjoyed the company of the amiable Jack Morton at home, in their cars, and at the beach on transistor radios. Disc jockeys were local celebri...
Marya D. Moses was raised within a Native American tribal culture that since time immemorial had included roles for both men and women to contribute to the gathering and preparing of salmon from local...
Harold Gene Moss was the first African American member of both the Tacoma City Council and the Pierce County Council, and Tacoma's first African American mayor. He became active in the civil-rights mo...
Mother Joseph of the Sisters of Providence gained posthumous recognition in 1980, when the U.S. Senate accepted her statue, a gift from Washington state, for inclusion in the national Statuary Hall Co...
D'Anne Mount (1948-2016) was a longtime employee of the City of Seattle, a supporter of the arts, and active in Democratic politics. She died in late 2016, and this remembrance of her is provided by S...