Keyword(s): Frank Chesley
Trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Raymond B. Allen served as president of University of Washington (UW) from 1946 to 1951. Although his time at the UW was a relatively brief stop in a career that took ...
Jack Benaroya was a real-estate developer, civic leader, and philanthropist. He was a pioneer in the development and packaging of industrial parks in the Pacific Northwest and sold his holdings in 198...
Homer T. Bone, a Democratic senator representing Washington in the United States Congress (1932-1944) and later a Judge in the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1944-1956), has been dubbed...
Herbert M. "Herb" Bridge lived a full, well-traveled life as a successful businessman, a naval officer in two wars, and a Seattle civic leader and philanthropist whose boundless energies earned him th...
Jeffrey and Susan Brotman were long one of the most dynamic public-spirited couples contributing to the region’s well being, their efforts ranging over the arts, health care, education, and dive...
Maude Eliza Kimball Butler, born 1880, was a pioneer teacher-educator who devoted her life to public service and her family, a fidelity she inherited from her mother and bequeathed to her children and...
Ruby Chow was dubbed a "living legend" (Rhodes) for her 50-year career as a restaurateur, Chinese community pioneer, civic activist, public official, and a major bridge between Seattle's Chinese commu...
Gordon C. Culp came out of Auburn, Washington, during the Great Depression, and never forgot his roots or his old friends. He went on to become a counsel to United States Senator Henry M. Jackson (191...
Michael Dederer -- "Mike" to his closest friends -- devoted his life to the Seattle Fur Exchange, building it into one of the foremost fur auctions in the country and an international presence in the ...
Ron Dunlap served three terms as a Washington State Representative and 10 months as King County Executive, appointed to fill the term of the county's first Executive, John D. Spellman (1926-2018), who...
John M. Fluke Sr., was founder of the John Fluke Engineering Co., later known as Fluke Corp., and was a pioneer in the Pacific Northwest electronics industry. He also was deeply involved in a wide ran...
In this People's History, Frank Chesley (1929-2010) recalls his six years working for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as a TV columnist. From 2003 until his retirement in 2009, Frank was a staff histor...
Goon Dip was a phenomenon -- a visionary and wealthy entrepreneur, public servant, philanthropist, and the most influential Chinese in the Pacific Coast during the early years of the twentieth century...
Saul Haas left the New York ghetto for the Pacific Northwest with ambitious dreams that he realized more than most in a full, occasionally controversial life as a journalist, political activist, and p...
On March 9, 1891, the Washington State Legislature approves the Puyallup Agriculture Experiment Station. It will be part of the new State College of Washington in Pullman. It becomes a reality in 1894...
On September 8, 1933, the Washington State Supreme Court declares the state's one-year-old, citizen-approved income tax unconstitutional. Some legal scholars call the reasoning behind the 5-4 decision...
On March 17, 1934, Puyallup Valley bulb farmers sponsor their first Daffodil Parade to promote their crop. The parade is a modest procession of automobiles and bicycles festooned with daffodils. The v...
On March 25, 1935, Governor Clarence D. Martin (1884-1955), a conservative Democrat, signs the Revenue Act of 1935, the most comprehensive tax overhaul in the state's history. It has remained the stat...
On March 13, 1939, the Seattle City Council passes a resolution establishing the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) and eight months later signs an agreement under which the SHA will provide housing for ...
On December 17, 1943, the Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943 -- aka the Magnuson Act -- is signed into law, permitting Chinese immigration for the first time since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882....
In April 1949, John Thun (1917-2006) buys a rock-strewn airstrip and the surrounding 350 acres of land six miles south of Puyallup. Thun lengthens and paves the strip and opens a private airport, staf...
At 6:45 p.m., on September 10, 1951, Charles H. Herring Jr. (1922-2006), stood before KING-TV's studio camera to launch television news in the Pacific Northwest. The Seattle station had been on the a...
On September 2, 1972, Washington State University's cooperative extension agents unveil a Master Gardener Program at Tacoma Mall and seed an international urban-horticulture institution. The program w...
On March 8, 1991, a King County Superior Court jury finds the former president of the Alaska Cannery Workers Union Local 37, Constantine "Tony" Baruso (1928-2008) of Tacoma, guilty of aggravated first...
On March 23-29, 1992, Seattle activists Larry Gossett (b. 1945), Roberto Maestas (1938-2010), Robert "Bob" Santos (1934-2016), and Bernie Whitebear (1937-2000), known as the Gang of Four, join Childre...
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Building at 815 Airport Way S is sold on April 11, 2008, for $4.4 million in an online auction to INS Holdings LLC, a group of Seattle-area develo...