FROM PIONEER TO PAPER MAN

The father of young Eugene was a vetern of the War of 1812 and a shipbuilder. John Smith died when Eugene was but a child of eight.

Smith went to sea as a youth of 16, spending 6 years sailing the eastern coast of America and European waters. By the age of 21, he was commander of a brig. But left that enterprise to come west via the Isthmus of Panama, arriving in Washington state at Port Gamble. Smith obtained employment at various logging camps for the next 4 years.

SMITH'S CARIBOU MINES EXPERIENCE

Idaho, the smallest of the Rocky Mountain States, possesses an enormous wealth of natural resources and a rugged beauty, which is still largely unspoiled. Idaho's nickname is the Gem State because it is one of only two places in the world where star garnets can be found (the other is the Himalaya Mountains, in India), and is the only place six pointed star garnets have been found. The mineral deposits opened up the state during the gold rush of the 1860's but ranchers; farmers and lumberjacks soon followed the prospectors.

In 1862, Eugene Smith worked mines in Caribou, a business venture which proved unproductive. Caribou Mines were named for Cariboo Mountain and the mining area established there in the summer of 1870. The district took its name from prospector Jesse Fairchild, called Cariboo Fairchild because he had worked earlier in the fabulously rich Cariboo mines of British Columbia. The Caribou National Forest was named for Cariboo Jack, who along with two friends, discovered the first gold in 1870 near what is now called Caribou Mountain.

By September, news of the discovery had reached the towns of Malad City, Idaho, and Corinne, Utah, and a small gold rush was on. The placer mining was rich enough at first for men to pan or sluice enough gravel to make as much as $20 per day.

Lode mining, which took enormous investment in labor and equipment to get ore out of solid rock and then to process it, was a later effort that probably cost more dollars than it made. Cariboo was one of the highest mountain mining districts in Idaho, with deep snow on its first Fourth of July celebration.

In the early years, potatoes were planted by hand in furrows made by walking plows pulled by horses. They were dug with shaker plows, and later by one row horse-drawn diggers, and then picked, bagged, and hauled to sell, or placed in cellars. In the gold mining days, potatoes were hauled to Caribou mountain to be fed to the Chinese miners.

The Chinese were the largest part of the labor force that built the railroads in the Pacific Northwest. Many Chinese also worked in salmon canneries on the Columbia River. The China bosses were labor contractors who obtained jobs for Chinese immigrants, while providing needed crews for the railroads and canneries. They took a large percentage of the workers� wages.

The development of internal combustion engines during the early 20th century enabled fishing boats to travel further in pursuit of fish and made it much easier for crews to handle large nets and catches. The invention of the so-called "iron chink" during the first decade of the century expanded the productive capacity of canneries by mechanizing the process of salmon butchering. ("Chink" was, of course, a derogatory word for Chinese. The "iron chink" was named and marketed as a machine that both replaced and improved upon the highly skilled Chinese salmon butchers who had occupied such an important position in the canneries.)

CHINESE LABOR AT THE NEWCASTLE MINES

On June 3, 1876, miners drive 40 Chinese mineworkers from the from the Newcastle mines. Newcastle is located in the Puget Sound region in east King County.

A coalminer, John McKnight, wrote to his wife Ellen on June 8, 1876:

"The miners at the Seattle mine [at Newcastle] drove all the Chinamen away from there Saturday last. I will send for you as soon as I poss. can, but I must say that I don't like the looks of this place so far, and I'm afraid you won't neither ..."

Earlier that year, on January 15, 1876, it was reported that the Seattle Coal Mines employed 300 men at Newcastle.

TACOMA'S LEGENDARY TUNNELS, SHANGHAIING & THE PAPER SONS

Longstanding legends of the Tacoma's underground catacomb of tunnels have existed for over 100 years in the Pacific Northwest. That some tunnels around the city existed is well documented, says Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room Librarian Brian Kamens. Rumor has it that during the last quarter of the 1800s, the more-than-a-few rough-and-tumble bars of Tacoma had trap doors in their saloon floors that sent drunken sailors and riff-raff to a secret basement, where the sailors would be kidnapped and smuggled to the trading ships waiting in Commencement Bay. Instead of creating incentive plans and signing bonuses as firms do today, shippers would pay a bounty to tavern owners to supply “sailors” in hopes the ships would set sail before the booze wore off. San Francisco and other port cities on the West Coast have similar stories. It was called Shanghaiing, largely because shippers crafted the practice in that Chinese city as a way to shuttle cheap labor to America to build the transcontinental railroad. A drunken sailor could also pass out one night in a bar in Seattle or Tacoma and wake up on a ship bound for Shanghai.

In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was enacted to seriously restrict Chinese immigration into the United States. Chinese merchants, and their families, were tolerated to allow U.S. to profit from the economic trade with China. To counter this discriminatory legislation, the Chinese created ways of illegal entry using false identification. Older Chinese who had worked in the U. S. and held merchant status but had no sons in China would nonetheless claim the existence of sons. They would then sell the immigration papers of their nonexistent sons to unrelated young men who wanted to come to America to seek their fortune on Gold Mountain.

Such imposters, called paper sons, would attempt to enter using their false inentification papers (gai chee). The San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906 had destroyed immigration records, fascilitating the claims of many of the Chinese that these sons had actually been reported at an earlier date.

In an effort to detect these paper sons and deny entry, immigration Officers asked detailed questions about the physical and social structure of the villages from which the immigrants allegedly came. Equally detailed questioning was also directed toward the family and relatives supposedly shared by the paper sons and their alleged fathers. Separate interrogations would be made of the paper sons seeking entry and of the fathers attempting to bring them into the country and inconsistencies between them would often be the basis for deportation.

Some of the earliest farmers employed Chinese laborers, especially to clear land and to help grow potatoes. The Chinese also developed their own small potato farms and some had laundries. Many of them returned to China with their meager earnings. With the series of Chinese Exclusion Acts beginning in 1882, there was also a brisk trade in smuggling Chinese into Dungeness harbor, then on to Seattle. A story passed down by several early settlers is that many Chinese drowned when the crew of a smuggling ship threw them overboard to avoid discovery by an approaching government revenue cutter.

THE STEAMER SHIP IDAHO

From nearby Sedro Wooley comes the following story:

One Sunday afternoon as Inspector Buchanan was riding down the wharf toward the steamer Idaho which was preparing to leave for up sound, he passed a suspicious looking individual carrying a valice [sic, valise] and a box and coat. When the stranger arrived at the end of the dock Mr. Buchanan saluted him and requested to be permitted to examine the packages, one of which he had observed already was tied with the invariable whipcord of opium traffic. Upon investigation it was found that the valice [valise] and box contained 58 cans of opium, together with a set of burglars tools, and the man, who gave his name as James Wilson, was taken into custody with his contraband goods and lodged in the city jail. On Monday the case was examined before U. S. Commissioner J. F. Ward, and James Wilson was bound over to the U. S. court. This makes the tenth man arrested by Inspector Buchanan in less than two years of service, and we believe no better showing can be made by an inspector.

LOGGING AT BROWN'S BAY

In the autumn of 1862, Smith was employed by a logging outfit on Brown's Bay, north of present day Edmonds, Washington. Here, as at other logging camps, Smith advanced rapidly, continuing to gain knowledge of the logging trade which became for him a successful business.

That logging operation that Smith engaged in, was the first of it's kind in the area employing oxen. The camp included 10 oxen and 15 men. (History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties).

THE SMITH & OTIS WILSON PARTNERSHIP

Twenty-five-year-old Maine native Eugene D. Smith (1837-1909) arrived with his partner Otis Wilson in September 1863 to set up a logging operation on the Snohomish River. At an angled bend in the Snohomish River, the water was deep and there was an undercurrent strong enough to hold logs. Smith knew this to be the ideal location to establish the first logging camp on the river.

There were no railroads in those days. The first oxen used as work animals were brought here to the valley by Jacob Fowler of Mukilteo. At first the oxen were used to pull the logs to the water's edge. There is one record of five yoke of oxen having been required to haul a 32 foot log, 89 inches in diameter, to the Snoqualmie river from the champs of Chisholm and Jewett.

In 1863, E.D. Smith began logging on the Snohomish River, where he had an original claim at Lowell, where he continued working. He took a break and went to Idaho for health reasons in the 1860's, where he formed a partnership with Otis Wilson for logging operations. Although Smith did not file a claim at this time, he took up squatters rights to the claims of two earlier settlers.

SMITH SENDS FOR MARGARET GETCHELL: THE GIRL HE'D LEFT BEHIND

In 1869, Smith sent to Maine for his childhood sweetheart, a young woman of Colonial American stock and cousin of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who wrote such well-loved poems as "Paul Revere's Ride," Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847), and "A Psalm of Life."

The following is an excerpt from one of his poems."

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real ! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal "

Smith's sweetheart's name was Margaret Getchell. Margaret was born in Marshfield, Maine on January 4, 1840 to George Stillman Getchell and Tahpenes Longfellow. Most references to Tahpenes spell her name "Taphenes", but her tombstone in Marshfield, Maine, uses "Tahpenes". Thus the tombstone spelling is used here. This branch of the Longfellow family derives from Edward Longfellow of England, born 1555, whose grandson came to Newbury, Massachusetts in 1636 and became the founder of the Longfellow family in America.

Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807, to Stephen Longfellow and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow in Portland, Maine,[1] and he grew up in what is now known as the Wadsworth-Longfellow House. His father was a lawyer, and his maternal grandfather, Peleg Wadsworth, was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a Member of Congress.[2] He was named after his mother's brother Henry Wadsworth, a Navy lieutenant who died only three years earlier at the Battle of Tripoli.[3] Young Longfellow was the second of eight children;[4] his siblings were Stephen (1805), Elizabeth (1808), Anne (1810), Alexander (1814), Mary (1816), Ellen (1818), and Samuel (1819).

Eugene Smith and Margaret had not seen one another for 11 years, and his business was prosperous enough by this time for him to think of marriage.

• 1. Deborah L. Getchell (1826 - 1833)
• 2. Ursula W. Getchell (1828 - 1845)
• 3. Mary A. Getchell (1830 - 1845)
• 4. Martin L. Getchell (1832 - 1862)
• 5. Antoinette M. Getchell (1834 - 1862)
• 6. Hannah L. Getchell (1836 - 1864)
• 7. Horace W. Getchell (1838 - 1871)
• 8. Margaret B. Getchell (1840 - 1868)
• 9. Tahpenes H. Getchell (1842 - 1843)
• Tahpenes LONGFELLOW 7 APR 1825.
• She was born 15 FEB 1805, and died 1 DEC 1888.
• 10. Joseph E. Getchell (1843 - 1869)
• 11. Laura U. Getchell (1845 - 1874)
• 12. Sarah A. Getchell (1847 - 1892)
• 13. Jacob Oscar Getchell (1851 - 1927)

Margaret was 29 years of age, when she made the trip west by schooner to marry her sweetheart Eugene, arriving in San Francisco where they were married on June 5, 1969. Following their wedding the young couple traveled to Lowell, Washington, where by 1870, Smith had built a log chute at the bend of the Snohomish River and a grocery store. A man of great "vision," E.D. Smith and wife Margaret The Smiths (E. D. and Margaret) and the Martin L. Getchell (born:15 March 1832-Machias, Maine) and Olive Ireland Getchell) filed the Lowell plat on May 8, 1873. The Martin and Olive Getchell children were named: Medora, (Married: Porter- Mount Vernon, Wa) Zella, (Married: Charles Lawry-Snohomish Co. Wa) Everett-Everett, Wa and Daisy-Everett, Wa. The plat consisted of 33 blocks with 60 by 120 foot lots. Smith built Lowell's first hotel in 1874, and continued to pour capital into Lowell to help make it a "town." In his lifetime, E.D. Smith owned 4000 acres of real estate in Snohomish County. By the late 1890's he built a $60,000 sawmill at Lowell, with a capacity of 75,000 feet per day and machinery for lathe and shingles.

The Eugene D. Smith's had 4 children, whose names are as follows:

• Lowell B. Smith, born in Lowell, Washington on 5 Apr 1877; He was a sea captain and a steamboat man at Everett. He married Charlotte Baker (Charlotte was a daughter of "Seattle pioneers. Lowell B. Smith died 2 years after the marriage.)
• John D. Smith, was born on 11 May 1879. He was associated with Everett Pulp and Paper in Lowell, Washington. Papermaking got an early start on the east coast. It began in Maine in the 1730s, when a small mill was built on the Presumpscot River in Westbrook. Maine's attraction for paper manufacturing was its rivers and streams-important sources of power and clean water for the manufacturing process. Wood was as yet unimportant to papermaking, which still used rags as its raw material. A contractor living at home. John D. Smith married Lillian Burke of Snohomish, and the couple had 1 child, named Eugene Phene L., who was a UW grad., who became a teacher, and married in 1911 John M. Buckley (born PA, to Sno Co 1903); 1 child, Margaret
• Phene Smith-listed as Tapatna in 1900 Census for Lowel.
• Cyrus Smith, was born on 11 Apr 1883, and died in infancy
• Lizzie Smith b: ABT 1868 in Washington Territory

In 1891 The Puget Sound Pulp & Paper Company in Lowell was built in 1891 by money invested by John D. Rockefeller to help establish the city of Everett. The construction for the mill began in 1891. The Great Northern Railway reached Lowell in 1893.

James J. Hill arrived in Saint Paul in 1856. He followed the massive flow of agricultural products south from Ontario. At age 17, he began working as a clerk at a steamboat landing.

In 1866, Hill got a job as an agent for the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad. During the 1870�s, he became involved in the Red River ox cart trade and gradually established a considerable network of the steamboat lines in the Upper Midwest.

In 1883, Hill became president of the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railroad Company. In 1890, he renamed it the Great Northern Railway.

In 1893, it reached the Puget Sound at Everett, Washington and Hill had created an empire that stretched from Saint Paul, Minnesota to the Pacific Ocean.

The mill in Lowell was sold by Rockefeller to two English brothers, William and Leonard Howarth for $25,000, and the name of the mill was changed to Everett Pulp & Paper.

Howarth began working for the mill in 1893, the same time as 17 year old Frank R Killien began work as a "cutter boy."

By 1896 Howarth was managing the mill which he and others had purchased from Rockefeller. Preparing for a great influx of people, he built a hotel in Lowell in 1874 and erected a sawmill in 1889. By the late 1890's, Smith had built a $60,000 saw mill with a capacity of 75,000 feet per day, and machinery for the production of lathe and cedar shakes.

The mill in Lowell built by Rockerfeller was sold to two English brothers, William and Leonard Howarth, who emigrated from England to Wisconsin, where Leonard secured a position as a clerk for Hewitt Son & Co Bank. Henry Hewitt Jr, the bank founders son, was English himself, and he was impressed with Leonards ability. Henry, who was said to have acquired more pine forest land than anyone in the world except the Czar of Russia, made Leonard his private secretary.

The Howarth brothers eventually purchased the Puget Sound Pulp & Paper Mill for $25,000 and changed the name of the mill to Everett Pulp & Paper. The blue eyes of young Frank Killien scanned the clouds silouetted against azure skies, marveling at the wingspan of an eagle in flight. His stepfather was bringing he and his 27 year old blind sister Lizzie, all the way from Calgary, Alberta in a covered wagon. The densely forested blue Cascade Mountains which form a portion of the Cascade Range, extend from British Columbia to California, it's lofty peaks rising majestically as a silent witness to the history the ancient Coast Salish region into which the Killien family came. Just ahead, lay such a life filled with joyous adventure, and the Southern Alberta census listed Frank Killien as just 14 years of age that marvellous year.

MEET EVERETT PULP & PAPER'S OWN FRANK R KILLIEN!

Frank R. Killien was born in Swift Co. Minnesota on Sept. 8, 1876. According to 1891 Alberta census records, his family attended the Reformed Church. His father William, a contractor, died when he was quite young. The Snohomish County biographies for 1926, (written while Frank Killien was alive) records his father's name as William Killien. His mother as "Eliza," according to these same records.

The Southern Alberta 1891 census records a William Killien, who may have been an uncle, or brother of his father, a Methodist, who works for CPR (Canadian Pacific Railroad) Frank Killien who was age 14 in 1891, an 11 year old Edward Killien was a brother of Frank who is listed in the 1891 census, and is listed in the obituary at the time of Frank Killien's death.

The 1891 census records a 6 year old named Frank (J) who later met and married Mable Nissler b: 11 Apr 1886 in Butte, Silver Bow Co, MT. Also residing at the Killien household in Alberta was 27 year old Georgia Killien, (a Methodist) and Frank's sister Elizabeth who was nicknamed "Lizzie Killien" is recorded by Canadian census authorities as living with the family in the Southern Alberta 1891 census records. The 27 year old Lizzie is listed as a cattle butcher, showing she was probably "sighted" at this time. From the family we know that at sometime Lizzie Killien became blind, and was residing in Lowell after the families move to Washington state.

THE KILLIENS & THE 1891 SOUTHERN ALBERTA CENSUS

Following his father's death, Frank Killien's mother married a man in his 50's, by the name of Robert Grey. Grey was a Presbyterian man, born in Scotland, and is listed in the Alberta 1891 census as a butcher by trade. His age at the time of the 1891 census would indicate that he was born in approximately 1837. Along with Grey there's also a 46 year old woman listed in the Alberta census, by the name of Elizabeth Grey, who is the only other person by the name of Grey in the area at that time. She attended the Reformed Church, and may have been a sister of Robert Grey.

Class photos shown here of Frank Killien and his schoolmates, were taken in Alberta, Canada, where Frank's family stated that he was the shortest boy in his class.

The Robert Grey's were not yet married, at the time the census was taken in 1891, so must have married sometime later that year. Then Robert and his young step son Frank, and Frank's blind sister Lizzie, (Elizabeth) undertook their immigration to the Pacific Northwest.

THE ROBERT GREY FAMILY MOVES FROM
CANADA TO LOWELL, WASHINGTON

In 1891, Frank and Lizzie Killien and their stepfather Robert Grey, gave their family and friends hugs and kisses goodbye. Then they packed up their wagon with the necessary supplies and left the familiar surroundings of Calgary, Alberta. Robert Grey planned to scout out a possible relocation for the Grey family in the state of Washington. His wife and other children remaining in Alberta, would follow after, when suitable work and accomodations could be secured.

Although emigrants are often portrayed as traveling in large Conestoga Wagons with their tilted front and rear, these wagons were more frequently preferred by merchants, who also traveled in wagon trains on occasion. The preferred method of transportation for emigrant families was the lightweight Prairie Schooner, that required fewer draft animals, reducing the expense of travel, but it had a maximum weight of 1600 pounds. Therefore, the driver of the wagon walked alongside the oxen and other family members walked beside or behind the wagon so they could pack more supplies without taxing the animals.

To pull their wagons, emigrants could choose between horses, mules and oxen. Horses were faster, but they required costly grains for feed and were easily stolen at night. Mules were hard-working creatures, but also more expensive. The most popular draft animal was oxen. Though sources vary in reporting the cost of draft animals, according to Time Life Books The Old West: The Pioneers, a mule cost $90 in the 1840s, but an Ox was only $50. Oxen were also slow movers and less likely to be stolen. Regardless of their choice of draft animals, most pioneers eventually made it safely to their destinations. To meet the constant needs for water, grass and fuel for campfires the trail followed various rivers and streams across the continent.

The pursuits of the Killien family, eventually led them to the Snohomish River milltown of Lowell, Washington, where the family found a place to stay at the local boarding house on South 2nd and Main. Robert Grey was quickly employed as a butcher in a local butcher shop.

Frank Killien's 27 year old blind sister Lizzie, (Elizabeth) is recorded in the census as working at the same butcher shop as her step-father.The town of Lowell was still quite new at that time. It's founders, Eugene and Margaret Smith, had officially platted the area into 33 town blocks in 1873.

By 1876, there was a two story hotel built. And by the 1890's an excellent school was established in Lowell, where Robert Grey's blind daughter Lizzie could receive an education at the school in Lowell.

Seventeen year old Frank worked for the Industrial Manufacturing Company in 1893. He also received early training at a mill working as a sawyer, and living for a time on Everett Avenue, Spithill Addition.

We don't know the exact date Robert Grey sent for his wife and children, but his wife, (Frank R. Killien's mother) and other siblings, Maggie, and Ted, arrived in the Snohomish area, in a covered wagon, according to Killien family members. The 1891 census for Southern Alberta, lists Frank Killien as age 14, and his blind sister Lizzie, still residing in the Alberta area at some portion of that year.

Originally a separate town, Lowell was annexed to the city of Everett in 1962, and still retains a distinct identity. The present day site of Lowell is the ancient possession of the local Snohomish tribe. Officially listed as a village, Lowell overlooks the scenic Snohomish River and verdant river valley so beautiful with the changing seasons of the year. The region is the natural habitat for an abundance of wildlife including cormorants, blue heron, osprey and bald eagles.

FRANK R. KILLIEN'S EARLY EMPLOYMENT & PAPER MILL TRAINING

The Killien family was residing in Alberta in 1891 when Frank was 14 years of age. The oral history told by the Killien family is that young Frank came to the Everett area at age 17, and this concurs with the employment records which list him for the first time as living in the area in 1894. This is also consistent with an obituary account of his having started as a "cutter boy" at the Everett Pulp & Paper Company at age 17.

Early employment records from the Everett-Lowell region list Frank R. Killien's employment at a meat-market between 1894-1895, the same type employment as his stepfather Robert Grey. Frank Killien worked at various other odd jobs between 1900-1903, such as "Washer, for Everett Pulp & Paper in 1903, Drainer in 1905-6, and Fireman for Everett Pulp & Paper in 1908. He all the while devoted his time also to the study of pulp and paper making.

In 1903, when he was 17, Frank was hired on by Everett Pulp & Paper. Performing such tasks as paper cutter, and paper winder or cleaning out the paper troughs, he proved himself an avid learner, quickly mastering a variety of skills. Within a brief time, Frank having shown himself to be a dependable employee, was appointed as superintendent of the machine shop. During this phase of his work, the leadership of the Everett Pulp & Paper Company in Lowell, Washington decided to invest in the training of this promising young man in every aspect of the paper making process. He was sent back east to participate in his education of the study of pulp and paper making.

With his career in the paper industry such as success, it was the perfect time in life for Frank to meet the a lovely dark haired young lady who was to be his future wife. Cora Jane Anderson she was born in Springport, Michigan, near Ripley. The Anderson family had built a large and attractive home in the downtown area of Everett. Frank Killien began visiting at the family home, getting to know Cora and the Anderson family. He purchased a ring at Burnett Jewelers in downtown Everett, Washington and asked Cora to marry him. The couple was married by the Rev. R.A.Parker in the parlor of the Anderson home. The wedding certificate was witnessed by Cora's oldest brother in law, William Henry Anderson and friend Leada Harris.

CORA KILLIEN'S FAMILY BACKGROUND

Cora's father, William David Anderson, was born on Oct. 23, 1864 to Samuel Anderson and Victoria Sophia Jane Edmunds.

William David Anderson was born near Jackson Co. West Virginia. His mother Victoria Sophia Jane Edmunds was born in Fairfax, Virginia in Dec. 6, 1840-42. Her father was Peter Edmunds born 1812 in Washington D.C. He married Margaret Hupp abt 1836 in Greenbrier, WVA. Her mother's name was Margaret (Sarah) Susan Hupp-born: abt 1822. The children of Peter & Margaret Edmunds are as follows: 1) Victoria Sophia Jane Edmunds 2) Mary Catharine Edmunds born: 17 August 1836-Greenbrier, WVA 3) Sam E Edmunds born: 1843-Greenbrier, WVA 4) Sarah Edmunds born: 1845-Greenbrier, WVA 5) Susan Edmundson born: 1848-Greenbrier, WVA 6) Julia Edmunds born: 1850-Greenbrier, WVA 7) John Edmunds born: 1857-Greenbrier, WVA 8) Edward Edmunds born: 1858-Greenbrier, WVA 9) Arfena Edmunds born: 1862-Greenbrier, WVA 10) Cornelia Edmunds born: 1864-Greenbrier, WVA Victoria Sophia Jane died in 1903 in West Virginia.

William David Anderson's father Samuel David Anderson was born in 1862 at Mason County, West Virginia. They were married on February 23, 1862 in West Virginia. The couple had the following children born in Jackson County, West Virginia.

• William David
• James Walter
• Alpina Margaret-born: 12 March 1873 died: 27 June 1933. She married: ELijah Sayre-Feb. 10, 1892
• Letitia Ellen
• Idelia Adelaide
• Verena Ernestine
• George Thomas
• Evalena

Samuel David Anderson died on May 21, 1883 at Lower Forks Cow Run, Jackson, WVA.

• Verina-born 1862-3
• William David Anderson-born 1864

William David Anderson was a tall, handsome man of English-Welsh ancestry. Prior to marriage, William David worked on the Ohio riverboats. He was a pleasant good-natured man, a fine story teller, and skilled whittler. He could carry a tune, played a Jews harp, and loved word games and riddles. William David died on Feb. 23, 1947, and is buried in Napavine Cemetery.

Cora Killien's mother, Emma Frances Jones Anderson, was born Sept. 25, 1868 to Lemuel Jones and Mary Jane Fisher. Her father died in her early years, so she experienced many hardships from a tender age. She was short of stature, being barely 5 feet tall, but she possessed an indomitable sense of humor.

While in Michigan, the Andersons heard of the glorious opportunities available in the great Pacific Northwest, and they decided to embark on the journey west. Working their way toward the great Pacific Northwest, William obtained employment on a railroad section crew. Sometime after 1894-5, that the Andersons left Pennsylvania for Sprague, Wa. with just $60 cash in their pocket which they'd diligently saved for their trip. The town of Sprague located in Lincoln County, was plotted in 1880 and named for former American Civil War Union general John Wilson Sprague. Today it has a population of 480 as of the 2000 census. Both at Sprague and Genesee, Idaho, William David worked as a teamster on harvest rigs, and Emma cooked meals for the crew.

Traveling with their wagon load of supplies, the young couple made their way on foot, over the Cascades. The two children rode in the wagon. At night, Cora and her brother slept under the wagon for protection from the harsh weather and wild animals lurking in the forests and prairie underbrush. Whenever a homestead could be found, the family asked permission for the pregnant Mrs Anderson to sleep in their hay-mound. She told her family later, that she fought off the barn swallows, but that it afforded her protection from the weather, and wild animals.

William David Anderson always said that when he left Michigan, he'd "burned his bridges." His wife felt differently about leaving the family and friends she'd always known and loved. It was more difficult for her, and she still felt home-sick at times. From Michigan to Idaho, they moved on toward Washington state arriving in the Everett area in 1896. William Anderson obtained employment as a teamster on landscaping,excavations, and road building contracts.

THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM DAVID & EMMA ANDERSON

There were 9 Anderson children, in all. Two were born in Pennsylvania prior to the families decision to relocate, and they rode in the wagon when they traveled west. One of these children was the daughter of William David & Emma Anderson, Cora Anderson Killien. Emma, as I stated earlier was pregnant with their third child, when she and David crossed the rugged Cascade Mountains on foot.

Perils along the way caused many would-be emigrants to turn back. Weather related dangers included thunderstorms, lethally large hailstones, lightning, tornadoes, and high winds. The intense heat of the deserts caused wood to shrink, and wagon wheels had to be soaked in rivers at night to keep their iron rims from rolling right off during the day. The dust on the Trail itself could be two or three inches deep and as fine as flour. Ox shoes fell off and hooves split, to be cured with hot tar. The emigrants' lips blistered and split in the dry air, and their only remedy was to rub axle grease on their lips. River crossings were often dangerous: even if the current was slow and the water shallow, wagon wheels could be damaged by unseen rocks or become mired in the muddy bottom. If dust or mud didn't slow the wagons, stampedes of domestic herd animals or wild buffalo often would.

The North Cascades contain some of America�s most breathtakingly beautiful scenery high jagged peaks, steep ridges, deep valleys, countless cascading waterfalls and over 300 glaciers within its 505,000 acres. Few fully know the intense and rugged beauty of the North Cascades jagged peaks, deep valleys, cascading waterfalls and over 700 glaciers.

The Barlow Road was the first established land path for U.S. settlers through the Cascade Range in 1845, and formed the final overland link for the Oregon Trail (previously, settlers had to raft down the treacherous rapids of the Columbia River). The Barlow Road left the Columbia at Hood River and passed along the south side of Mount Hood at Government Camp, terminating in Oregon City. There is an interpretive site there now at "The End of The Oregon Trail." The road was constructed as a toll road � $5/wagon � and was very successful.

Prior to the completion of North Cascades Highway, Native Americans used this corridor as a trading route from the Eastern Plateau country to the Pacific Coast, for over 8,000 years. Beginning in the mid 1800's white settlers arrived in search of gold, fur bearing animals, and the possibility of finding a new home.

In 1896 The State Road Commission, after surveying possible routes in the upper Skagit, concluded that the Skagit gorge was not a practical route. They settled upon the Cascade Pass route. In 1897 a road up the Cascade River was roughed out as far as Gilbert Landre's cabin. Although the wagon road never went any farther, it was shown on maps as State Highway #1 or the Cascade Wagon Road. Then in 1897 Floods took out most of the newly completed work along the Cascade River.

PIONEER COFFEE

Advice to prospective settlers: Fetch what coffee, sugar and such things you like, if you should be sick you need them." By the time the travelers were nearing their destination, coffee was sometimes the only provision left. One settler recalls: 'We still had coffees, and, making huge pot of this fragrant beverage, we gathered round the crackling camp fire--our last in the Cascade Mountains--and, sipping the nectar from rusty cups and eating salal berries gathered during the day, pitied folks who had no coffee.' The coffee pot holds over 1 qt.; I told him the quantity of coffee to 1 qt. He took that, filled the coffee pot with water then set it near, but not on the fire. I noticed it did not boil, but said nothing. When they drank it, they both looked rather solemn and only took one or two sips. I thought it was time to have an opinion upon it. I inquired how the coffee tasted. He acknowledged it was flat and weak, but insisted I did not give him proper directions. He consented to let me try it at supper time.' I was all impatience to try my skill in making coffee. I watched it anxiously until it was boiling and waited with the greatest solicitude and I must acknowledge some misgiving, for them to taste it. Oh, but I was rejoiced and relieved when they pronounced it very good.' Before making a cup of coffee, the green coffee beans had to be roasted in a skillet and then ground in a grinder. The names of the beans indicated their place or origin, and we find Rio, Havana, and Java coffee beans listed for sale in the mid- nineteenth century. If tea was preferred, the buyers chose from a list of brands that featured Gunpowder, Imperial, Young Hyson, Souchong, and Poushchongre. Not until after the Civil War did manuracturers devise good way of preserving the flavor of preroasted or ground coffee, sometiems referred to as essence of coffee. But from March 30, 1850, St. Louis Missouri Republican this ad suggests that they certainly tried. 'California Outfits. Ground Coffee--Put up in water-proof and air-tight packages and guaranteed to retain its strength and flavor for years.' The credit for a good roasted coffee goes to Arbuckle Brothers, whos offices were in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company patented a method of sealing in the raosted flavor by coating the beans with a mixture of egg white and sugar. Roasted coffee beans in paper bags were then shipped throughout the West, and Arbuckle coffee was the most popular brand."

BISCUITS FOR BISCUITS N GRAVY

Bryson City Cathead Biscuits 2 1/4 cups flour
1/3 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
5 tablespoons lard
1 cup buttermilk.
Sift and mix dry ingredients then blend with lard. Add buttermilk. For each biscuit, pinch off a portion of dough about the shape of a large egg and pat out with your hands. Bake in 350 degree F. oven in wood stove about 10 minutes. In a modern electric or gas oven, bake at 475 to 500 degrees." ---Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread, & Scuppernong Wine, Joseph E. Dabney [Cumberland House:Nashville TN] 1999 (p. 114-5)

"Sawmill gravy (or Logging gravy). In the years following the turn of the century, logging camps sprang up all over the Smoky Mountains where timber companies had bought up tracts of virgin timber. Lumberjacks and sawmillers by the hundreds came in to snake out the logs to nearby streams, sawmills, and newly built railheads. Entire families moved in with the men to the camps. To feed the multitude was a big challenge. Breakfasts usually consisted of coffee and meat plus flour-based gravies and large "cathead" biscuits. On e day, the story goes, the Tremont camp ran out of flour and had to substitute cornmeal in the gravy. Inquisitive loggers arriving before breakfast asked what kind of gravy was on the menu that day. "This gravy's made out of sawdust!" the cooks replied. The name stuck. The cheap, easy-to-fix cornmeal gravy caught on. While "sawmill gravy" was the popular nickname, some called itn "Logging Gravy." Others named it Poor Do or Life Everlasting, a reference to what many felt was its role in keeping them alive. This recipe adapation comes from Janice Miracle of Middlesboro, Kentucky...

"Life Everlasting" Sawmill Gravy
3 heaping tablespoons white cornmeal
1 tablespoon bacon drippings
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 cups milk
A dash of pepper
In a frying pan, combine cornmeal, bacon drippings, and salt. Stir until brown. Add milk and let boil until gravy thickens. Stir forcefully to keep gravy from pumping. Add pepper to taste."

EARLY EVERETT, WASHINGTON

At the turn of the century there was an economic boom which solidified Everett's form as an industrial city. Everett set aside most of its waterfront for industry that now included lumber and shingle mills, wood products manufacturers, iron works, shipbuilders, fisheries, and canneries.

The Lumber Mill, on the Everett Waterfront, began in the early 1900s. Permanent settlement by European descendants of what is now Everett started in 1861 when Dennis Brigham built a cabin on a 160 acre claim on the shore of Port Gardner Bay. Over the next several years, a handful of settlers moved to the area but it wasn't until 1890 that plans for platting a town were conceived.

In 1890, Henry Hewitt along with Charles Colby and Colgate Hoyt founded the Everett Land Company for the purpose of building the city of Everett, named after the son of Charles Colby, on some of the land surrendered by its original inhabitants under the 1855 http://www.goia.wa.gov/Treaties/Treaties/pointelliot.htm Treaty of Point Elliott.

Everett was officially incorporated on May 4, 1893, the year the Great Northern Railroad came to the town. Everett hoped that James Hill would make the town the terminus of his railroad. However Hill continued the railroad along the shore of Puget Sound to Seattle. Railroads and mines played a part in Everett's future. The mining community of Monte Cristo, depended on a railway for supplies. It was hoped that the railroad would cross the mountains and bring in traffic. For a while ore was smelted in Everett. Then sawmilling and port activity commenced. A dozen steam riverboats were built in Everett for the Yukon gold rush.

Once heralded as the "Pittsburgh of the West" and the "City of Smokestacks," Everett remains a dynamic city of industry.

THE ANDERSON HOME- EVERETT, WASHINGTON HISTORIC DISTRICT

After arriving and settling into the area, William David Anderson built their family home in Everett, Washington at 2201 Hoyt Street in about 1901, and it's still standing today, in this location. Historical narratives such as those in Polks Directory first list W.D. Anderson as residing at this residence in 1901-1902. In 1905, it lists Wm. H ANderson and Corasa Anderson and the structure is being utilized as a "boarding house."

Between 1900-1901 they saved enough to build their house. William David's first residence in Everett, was a squatters house at Second & Norton. They paid $20.00 to live there and could stay as long as they wanted.

The Polk's Directory records William D. Anderson as a concrete worker and a grading contractor from 1901-1906. Various members of the Anderson family resided in Everett for approximately 20 years. We can date the construction of the home as approximately 1901, by the fact that in the photo, a family member is holding baby Eva Lena, who was born Apr. 12, 1902.

This is a photograph of the William Anderson home, built with $500 worth of lumber.

Standing on the porch of the house in the photo are, (left to right) William Anderson, his wife Emma, their baby Eva Lena born April 12, 1902, Wert Francis, Cora Jane, Lottie Agnes, Nellie may, William David, and Clyde C, and the two children born after the picture was taken are George Walter, and Mary Ethel.

Some of William David & Emma Anderson's children were born to them during the years they lived in the large home that he built at 2201 Hoyt in Everett, Washington. Eva Lena was the first child born at their new residence, and she described her childhood as happy. Two more children were added to the family after Eva was born, both born at the house in Everett. Their names were: George Walter and Mary Ethyl. The names of all of the children in the Anderson household are as follows

• William Henry
  born: Oct. 18, 1886
  place: Angerone, Jackson Co. WVA
  married: 1920-22
  children: step-children
  died: October 1961

• Cora Jane
  born: Feb. 20, 1888
  Springport, Michigan
  Married: November 25, 1906
  Husband: Frank R. Killien
  Children: 4
  Died: February 1931
• Wert Francis
  born: May 9, 1890
  place: Jackson co. Michigan
  married: Sept. 28, 1917
  to: Gertrude Nolden
  

• Clyde C.
  born: May 1892
  place: Sprague, Wa.
  married: No
  died: 1913

• Nellie May
  born: May 5, 1895
  place: Genesee, Idaho
  Married: Rufus Churches
  Children: None
  died: March 1922
  place: Chehalis, Wa

• Lottie Agnes
  born: Feb. 21, 1900
  Married: 1921
  to Fred Blunt-Calif.
  Children: None
  died: Sept. 1951
  Longview, Wa

• Eva Lena
  born: April 12, 1902
  place: Everett, Wa
  married: June 30, 1920
  to: Clarence Shaver

• George Walter
  born: July 31, 1903
  place: Everett,Wa.
  married: Sept. 1924
  to: Veda Pannell
  died: Feb. 1984
  place: Longview, Wa
• Mary Ethel
  born: Oct. 4, 1912
  place: Everett, Wa
  married: 1938
  to: Albert Nelson
  died: July 1989

The Killien family tells of those early years in Lowell, and that a trolly carried people to Silver Lake. The family has a vintage panarama photograph of Lenore Killien as a flower girl in a wedding that took place at Silver Lake. They mention that it is possible that the wedding took place at the annual Paper Mill Picnic.

THE ANDERSON FAMILY'S MOVE TO NAPAVINE

In January 1915, William Anderson purchased property on the Napavine-Forest Road, and by spring with the help of his sons, William Henry and Wert Francis, had erected a new home in that area. Settlers began arriving in 1850 and named the area Napawyna after a Newaukum Indian tribal princess. The area was changed to its current name, Napavine, in 1883. It has also been noted that the name was derived in 1883 by Scottish immigrant, James Urquart, from the Indian world NAPAVOON meaning "small prairie."

At the time of the Anderson's move, the two eldest Anderson daughters, Cora Anderson Killien and Nellie Anderson Churches, were both married women with homes in Everett and Lowell, so they remained in the Everett, area. Their daughter Lottie (Shaffer) was a highschool student, so she finished out the school term, starting school in Napavine the following year. Eva Lena Anderson (Shaver) George Anderson, and Mary Ethel Anderson, (Nelson) who was age 2 at the time of the move, attended Forest School in Napavine. Clyde C. Anderson, died prior to the Andersons move. He was 20 years old, at the time he died on Dec. of 1913. When her husband died, Emma Anderson resided with her daughter, Mary Ethyl Nelson. Emma Frances Anderson died Oct. 1, 1961, at the age of 93, and is buried in Napavine Cemetery.

GREENE CO, PA & CORA KILLIEN'S GRANDMOTHER: MARY JANE FISHER

Cora Killien's grandmother was Mary Jane Fisher. Her mother was Emma Jones Anderson. Mary Jane Fisher, was a civil war widow, of German and Welsh descent and the daughter of John and Eliza Fisher. She was born in Green Co. PA, in 1842 and died July 21, 1913 in Hemlock, Jackson, WVa. For at least a portion of her life, Mary Jane Fisher lived at Rices Landing, Green County, Pa. She was widowed after just 5 years of marriage, having been married when she was 17 years of age, to 24 year old Thomas Crago, on January 15, 1859 in Carmichaels, Green County, Pa. (Pvt., Company F, PA Calvary) The Cragos were the parents of two young daughters:

• Sarah Eliza Crago born: Nov. 26, 1860 in Green Co. PA
• Nancy Elizabeth Crago born: 6 April 1863, near Alfrey's Mill, Greene County, PA.

  The Crago's baby girl was approximately one year old when her father died as a prisoner of war at Andersonville on Oct. 26, 1864. Her sister was between 3-4 years old.

Thomas was the son of Charles Crago born: 1800 in Greene County, Pa, and Sarah Kelley who was born: July 14, 1800, in Green County, Pa. Sarah Kelley died: Oct. 21, 1840, and is buried at Hewitt's Cemetery, Rice's Landing.

Charles Crago was the son of Thomas Crago born 1759, and Priscilla Thurman, both of Greene County, Pa. This other Thomas Crago in the 1700's is believed to have been killed by indians in 1770, as a young man, with a couple young male family members to care for. He'd returned to his father's land near Crucible during the Revolutionary War. Young Thomas also possessed a couple of cows. A neighbor told Thomas that he could borrow his churn. As he was returning to his cabin with the churn, he met up with an indian raiding party and was killed.

Howard Leckey, in his book "The Tenmile Country and It's Pioneer Families", wrote that Crawford and Crago served in Captain Evan Shelby's Company in Colonel Henry Boquet's Army. Howard Leckey deduced that the events recounted above probably took place around 1770 near the present-day town of Crucible. Coal beds lie along both sides of Tenmile Run (South Fork) upto Waynesburg, Muddy Creek, and Dunkard Creek. According to Lehky, the younger son Robert later served in the Cumberland County Militia, while the older son Thomas later returned to his father's land which was patented to him in 1835.

In his inaugural address on March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that it to be his duty to maintain the Union. Lincoln's statement, however, did not satisfy the Confederacy, and on April 12, 1891 they attacked Fort Sumter, a federal stronghold in Charleston, South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. And the Civil War began.

GREEN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA & THE CIVIL WAR YEARS

Greene County, Pennsylvania was named for Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. Permanent settlement of the area began in Greene County in 1764 after the last major Indian uprising. Located in the southwestern part of the state, it's bordered on the east by the Monongahela River, on the south by the Maso-Dixon Line at West Virginia, and on the west by the West Virginia Panhandle. Within 10 years of the birth of Mary Jane Fisher in 1842, the county grew to 80 dwellings. By 1900, it had grown to 350.

Mary Jane Fisher's husband Thomas Crago was born Dec 29, 1835 in Green Co. PA. Thomas Crago was mustered into the war as a Union cavalry soldier. He was captured by the Confederates and held as a prisoner of war at Andersonville, Georgia, a camp run by the Confederates to hold their Prisoners of War. The camp, built in 1864, was the most notorious Civil War stockade. Thomas Crago died of starvation at Andersonville prison in southwest Georgia, on Oct 26, 1864,

Sources:

1. Text: 1850 PA Census, Roll 783, p. 116
2. Text: Andersonville Prisoner Database, National
Park Service, Code #21565 , Grave #11565 Oct 26, is
the date from Adj. Gen's Office - 27th appears elsewhere.
3. Text: Andersonville Prisoner Database, National
Park Service, Code #21565 , Grave #11565
4. Text: US Pension Office; #104961 - Thomas Crago,
Co. F 1st PA Cav. - Two dates are listed, but this
one was certified by the Greene Co. J.P.

By the winter of 1863-64 the Confederacy neared the last of it's resources and manpower. Knowing this, Lt Gen. Ulysses S. Grant refused to continue the prisoner exchange agreement. This meant the death of a great number of Union prisoners who would otherwise have been exchanged., With the South barely able to feed it's own men, the prisoners, who were supposed to get the same rations as Confederate soldiers, starved, receiving rancid grain and perhaps a few tablespoons of mealy beans or peas. Capt. Henry Wirz, infamous prison commandant of the Civil War at Andersonville, was led to the same scaffold where co-conspirators of Abraham Lincoln were hanged 4 mos earlier, and hung. Clara Barton asisted the government in compiling a list of 12,912 Union prisoners who died at Andersonville. (Records: Andersonville Natl. Historic Site is a memorial to all Americans ever held as Prisoners of War. The 475 acre park established in 1970, consists of the national cemetery and prison site.

Following Thomas Crago's death at Andersonville, Ga, his widow, Mrs Mary Jane Fisher moved from Greene Co., Pa, to West Virginia where she met and married Lemuel Jones, who was born in Wales, in 1823. She was 32 years of age. This new home was near "The Anderson" place. A tailor by trade, Lemuel Jones, the husband of Mary Jane died in April 1877 Hemlock, Jackson County, West Virginia, when Emma Francis was just 7 years old. This left Mary Jane expecting a new baby and with two young children to care for.

When Emma Francis grew into a young woman of of 17 years of age, the tall and handsome William David Anderson came into her life. His people were Irish and English. Emma Francis married William David Anderson on January 4, 1886. Expecting a baby, the Andersons packed up and headed west with their two small children, William Henry and Cora Jane Anderson.

When widowed for the last time, the 66 year old Mary Jane Fisher married Calvin Stoats,(born abt 1819 in Macon Co, Virginia) on March 4, 1885 in Jackson County, West Virginia. She died on July 21, 1913 at Hemlock, Jackson, West Virginia.

MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS: THE ANDERSON FAMILY COLONIAL AMERICAN HERITAGE

Samuel Anderson, the father of Cora Jane Anderson's own father, William David Anderson, was born in Meigs Co, Ohio, across the river from Jackson co, Ohio. Samuel, whom historical documents records to have been a cobbler, married Charity Shinn who was born 1804. Their marriage took place on April 4, 1830-31, and they married at Harrison, WVA. (or January 11, 1831) She was the daughter of Samuel Shinn born 22 April 1776 in Frederick Co, Va; and Sarah Ann Hyde born 1781. He fought in the Indians Wars, and once lived in a Sycamore tree on the banks of the Ohio River. Samuel is buried in Shinn Cemetery, Rockcastle, Jackson Co. WVA.

The 1850 census lists Samuel Anderson's father William Andrew Anderson, born 1802 in Meigs Co, Ohio, with the occupation of "farmer" and his age as 48. Charity was 46 years old. The following children are listed: William Andrew Anderson's father Andrew Anderson was born 1760-1770 in Evitt's Cove, Cumberland County, MD. He married Chloe White born Mar 6, 1773 in New Jersey. Chloe White daughter of Benjamin and Phobe White is a direct descendant of Mayflower fame, Peregrine White. Peregrine grew up to be a military man. At age sixteen he volunteered for military duty and carried the troop standard against the Pequod Indians. By 1651 he is referred to in the records as "Lieutenant," and 1673 was a member of the war council, after which he is referred to as "Captain." He took part in King Philip's War, taking orders from his half-brother, Josiah Winslow. Resolved apparently was less involved. After the war, Peregrine and Resolved lived close to each other in Marshfield, where they looked after their mother, Susannah, and lived the Pilgrim history now documented in numerous texts and novels.

William White was born in 1590, at Leyden, Holland. He married in 1614 at Leydon to Susannah Fuller. She was born in 1594 at Redenhall, Norfolk, England. She died on October 1, 1680 at Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass. Her husband William White died on Feb. 21, 1620/21 at Plymouth, Mass.

Peregrine White was the first child born to the Pilgrims in the New World. His parents, William and Susanna White, boarded the Mayflower with their young son Resolved.

THE WHITE & VASSALL FAMILIES IN AMERICA

Resolved White arrived in America aboard the Mayflower at about the age of five, with parents William and Susanna. The White's had been part of the English Separatist congregation in Leiden, Holland. He was raised by step-father Edward Winslow following the death of his father William and remarriage of his mother in 1621. They moved to Marshfield, Maine, in the 1630s, with the family relocating to Scituate where in 1640 at age 25, Resolved married Judith Vassall, the daughter of William and Ann (King) Vassall.

William Vassall was born in 1593 at Radcliffe, Stepney, Middlesex, England. (just east of London) William's father John Vasall, was a London alderman who served under Queen Elizabeth 1, equipping and commanding two ships in the battle against the Spanish Armada.

William's grandfather, who was also named John had been sent to England, by his own father who was also named John Vassall to escape religious persecution in France. ) John Vassall was the builder and owner of the Mayflower that brought the Pilgrims to the shores of Cape Cod. He possessed both position and security in England, and outfitted and commanded 2 ships, (Samuel and Tobey jr.) against the Spanish Armada, and was later a member of the Virginia Company. (Dictionary of American Biography, v.19, pg. 230) John described himself in his will as a mariner, of French extraction. His father John sent him to England during the religious troubles in France from his home in Normandy. He seems to have been recognized as an authority in questions of navigation, as we find him recommended to be examined by the judge of admiralty as to the skill of the pilot in a suit respecting the wreck of a vessel on the Goodwin sands in 1577. In 1588 he fitted out and commanded a vessel of 140 tons to serve against the Spanish Armada.

The French Vassall's were an ancient Catholic family of Normandy, which included two cardinals and a marshal of France; but Jean Vassall became a Huguenot and fled to England a few years before the massacre of St. Bartholomew. They were of the Episcopalian faith and supports of the revolution against the authority of King Charles. Most of the Vassals were loyal to the British crown during the American Revolution. In consequence the entire family was exiled and their estates confiscated. After their return to England in 1776 members of the family distinguished themselves in the British army and navy. The seven Mansions still standing (in 1917) in Brattle street, Cambridge, Mass. known as "Tory Row," which included the home of Longfellow and "Elmwood" the birthplace of James Russell Lowell, were in 1774 the homes of the Vassall family. - [1]

A De Vassall of the fifteenth century who was lord of Rinart near Cany in Normandy, sent his son to England 'on account of disturbances at home.' This John had a son John, who achieved wealth and distinction.' (further about John Vassall who married Anne Russell) 'Memorials of Marshfield' says: 'The Vassalls were of Italian origin. They came to London in the reign of James and Charles the First, and possessed great wealth and influence in that city. They also held immense estates in New England and the West Indies.' 'The Vassalls of New England', by E. D. Harris, says: 'He was a the descendant of an ancient French family, traced back, it is claimed, to the eleventh century, of the house of DuVassall, barons de Guerdenin in Querci, Perigord.' A note accompanying the will of John Vassall of Stepney says 'He is said to have been son of another John Vassall who came to England from France, a member of an ancient family of Rinart, by Cany, in Normandy.' Maps of France show no Rinart nor Cany in Normandy but there is a city named Caen.

Fortunately, John Vassall (William's grandfather) decided to emigrate to Protestant England from Normandy, France, before the persecution reached this fever pitch, settling in London.

William never knew his mother, Anne Russell Vassall; as she died shortly after he was born. She was 45 years old and may have died in childbirth.

Resolved White moved his family back to Marshfield in the early 1660s, and Judith died and was buried there on 3 April 1670. He then remarried to the widowed Abigail Lord in 1674 in Salem, was a soldier in King Philip's War of 1676, and became a freeman in Salem in 1680 before moving back to Marshfield a couple years later. He died sometime not too long after 1687, presumably in Marshfield, Maine.

Susanna White gave birth to Peregrine White before the end of November (Old Style calendar), 1620 while the Mayflower was still anchored in Provincetown Harbor, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Peregrine's birthdate is 20 Dec 1620. He married in 1646 to Sarah Bassett and died 20 Jul 1704, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts at 83 years of age. His occupation was that of farmer as well as politician. He served as "Captain, Militia,"

Peregrin White's descendant, Andrew Anderson, the father of William Andrew Anderson died during a Cholera outbreak in 1832 in Lebanon Twp, Meigs Co. Ohio, and is believed to be buried in a gravesite without any stone.

Here's the 1850 Census info for the William Andrew Anderson family:

• Catherine age 20
• Pruda/Prudence age 17, born: 1833/34 Jackson, WVa
• Samuel age 13, born: 4 Oct. 1835 Lower Fork Cow Run, Jackson, WVa
• Delila age 12, born: 1837 in Meigs Co, Ohio
• Isaac age 9, born: 1841 in Meigs Co. Ohio
• Molinda age 8, born: 1842/43 in Meigs Co, Ohio Cynthia age 4, born: 5 Cot 1843 in Angerona, WVa

EDWARD ANDERSON: VALLEY FORGE, THE ISLE OF SKY & BEYOND

Andrew Anderson's father Edward Anderson was born in 1735 in Valley Forge, Chester, Pa. He died in Washington Co, Pa. He moved to Buffalo Creek in Washington Co, Pa in 1772. His mother Agnes Ann was born in 1740 in Washington Co. Pa.

The father of Edward Anderson was James Anderson born in 1693 on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. He married Elizabeth Jerman, the daughter of a wealthy farmer and Quaker preacher, Thomas Jarmin. She was born 1692-6 and died in the 1740's.

In the year 1707, James Anderson emigrated to the shores of America. Among the pasengers going to the New World was the Scotch youth, James Anderson. Tradition, says he was poor. The custom for many of the poorer class who came to America at that of indentured service. They entered into the service of someone who a paid their "passage" and would bind himself to work for the person until the amount of indebtness was discharged. At this time, a Welsh farmer lived, by the name of Thomas Jerman. The history of Chester Valley, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, states that Thomas Jerman was a noted Quaker preacher. He was a farmer as well as preacher, who needed help on his farm, and when the ship which brought young Anderson to America arrived, Mr.Jerman searched among it's new-comers for a farm hand. He and Anderson struck a bargain, according to the custom mentioned above, and James Anderson became a member of Mr.Jerman's family.

Jerman is said to have been in comfortable circumstances, and had, an interesting and attractive daughter named Elizabeth. Young Anderson fell in love with her, and succeeded in winning her hand in marriage. A difficulty arose when her father failed to sanction the marriage. The young couple eloped, and Miss Elizabeth Jerman became the wife of James Anderson. Reconciliation was in time achieved, for, in 1713, six years after Anderson's arrival in America, Jerman advanced a part of the money with which Anderson bought a farm ... Anderson was the first to introduce garlic into Schuylkill Township. Following the Swedish custom of sowing it for early pasture for cows, he sowed it on his farm in 1730. From his place, it scattered over the adjoining farms. He was Supervisor of Highways in 1728.....

THE 1904 REFERENCE LETTER OF W.F. HOWARTH

In 1904, William Howarth dictated the following letter, prior to young Frank R. Killien's leaving for an extended trip to further his education in the paper industry, and to impart information that he knew to others involved in the paper mill business.

To Whom It May Concern:

The bearer, Mr Frank Killien (whose signature is at the foot) is the superintendent of this company, to which position he has advanced from a cutter boy, by his close application of duty; but realizing that knowledge is limited by environment and it's value by comparison, he has expressed a desire to take a vacation and visit eastern plants to acquire, as well as to impart information. We most respectfully commend him; and any courtesies shown him will be much appreciated; feeling on his return he will be better able to fulfill his duties with credit to us and benefit to himself.

Yours Very Truly,

W.F. Howarth

THE MARRIAGE OF FRANK KILLIEN TO CORA JANE ANDERSON

Frank Killien and Cora Jane Anderson, fell in love, and were married in the parlor of the teenage bride's parents home in downtown Everett. The young couple had many caring, supportive friends. Cora graduated from from business school about the time of her marriage to Frank. That year of 1906, Frank bought her a wedding ring in downtown Everett's Burnett Bros. Jewelers, and proposed to her, asking the beautiful raven haired Cora Jane Anderson to be his wife. They were married on November 25th of the year, by Rev. R.A. Parker. Cora's oldest brother William Henry Anderson, signed the wedding certificate as one of the witnesses. The other witness was Leada Faris. Frank Killien was 31 years of age and Cora Jane was 19.

THE KILLIENS & FRIENDS-EVERETT WASHINGTON BEACH

In a group photo of the Killien friends taken at a picnic at Everett Beach which is contained in the historical records of the Everett, Washington Register of Historic Places, the following names are listed Emma Anderson, Cora Killien, ? Helen Chapman,Maggie Killien, Lottie Anderson, Lizzie Killien. Lenore Killien, ? Eva Anderson, Helen Nichols, Francis Killien, and Dorothy Pearson. FRANK & CORA KILLIEN'S CRAFTSMAN PURCHASE OF THE
BUNGALOW COTTAGE ON SOUTH 2nd AVENUE-LOWELL, WASHINGTON

In Lowell, Washington at the turn of the century, owning a home was one of the first ambitions of mill workers. Two or three families would share a small cottage, each having several family members working at the mill. This provided a stable base attracting relatives from different parts of the country to work at the mill or to find other forms of suitable employment here in this area.

Working hard and saving money toward the purchase of their first house, Frank and Cora Killien were able to actualize their dream of owning their first home within 3 years, and on February 3, 1910, they purchased the mill workers cottage located on South 2nd Avenue, right next door to the historic Lowell Congregational Church built with lumber donated by Lowell town founder, E.D. Smith. Following the marriage, the Killien family became regular members of the Lowell COngregational Church.

Interestingly enough, the location of the Killien cottage was also approximately the same location as that of the boarding house where Frank resided with his stepfather and sister Lizzie, when they first came to the area in Lowell in 1891, when he was just seventeen. Little did he know that in almost that same amount of time again, after establishing himself in the a career at the local mill, he'd be marrying his sweetheart Cora Jane Anderson.

The cottage overlooking the Snohomish River was built by Everett Pulp & Paper, but at the time of purchase by the Killien's, was the property of Theodore H. MacDonald, and his wife Adelaide E. MacDonald, natives of San Francisco. MacDonald bought the home for $1.00 from EP&P and sold it to the Killiens for $1000.00. The garage and shed fruit trees, bushes and shrubs are noted on the deed. The real estate document bears the signature of County Auditor F. Lee, and Deputy Recorder L. M. Noland. of the State of California. The document recorded in Vol. 104, 220D, is "A Special Warrenty Deed" for the Theodore & Adelaide E. McDonald home in Lowell and documents speak of a deed having been originally written up between Theodore McDonald and Everett Pulp & Paper on March 5, 1907, while he resided in Lowell.

A more recent newspaper article states in an article on Lowell, that in 1889 and 1890, the town grew rapidly. E.D. Smith added a new wing to his general store, and constructed a new warehouse and new wharf and the great Northern Hotel. At the same time Ingersoll and "McDonald" built a grocery store and a lodging house. If this was the Theodore MacDonald who later purchased our cottage from Everett Pulp & paper, he was an early contractor in the Everett or Lowell, Washington area.

The home which Theodore & Adelaide MacDonald sold to the newly-weds Frank & Cora Killien in 1910, is a typical Craftsman Bungalow style cottage of 1 1/2 stories, was conveniently located on South 2nd Avenue and Main, across the street from, and in the same block as, the Everett Pulp & Paper mill office. MacDonald, during his stay in Lowell, had worked as a master mechanic for EP&P.

From the time that Frank and Cora purchased their new home on South 2nd Avenue and Main Street, Frank immensely enjoyed living in such close proximity to the mill, and being able to come home for lunch. Cora's blind sister Lizzie, also lived in their home. Cora was frequently accompanied by her youngest sister, Emma Radamaker, who stands beside her and her son Frances Gray Killien, in this photo taken of them all together. He came home for lunch, and Cora served his meals in the cheerful dining room, which had plate rails on one wall, holding the family china collection, and where the warmth of the wood stove melted away the chill of those Northwest winters. A post office across the street, and a grocery on the same side of the street as the house was, were additional neighborhood conveniences.

The family greatly enjoyed the paper mill company picnics. Family members relate how paper mill boss, Mr. Jordan often commented on Mrs Killien's fine cooking, participating meal items the family prepared for sharing at these events. The Killiens state that when Frank R Killien lived and worked at the mill, Jordan lived in the same block as the Killiens, in the old Bell house at the end of the block.

God had blessed the Killien family, and family members yet tell of the depression years, and how grateful the Frank and Cora were, to be able to share with those less fortunate. During these difficult years, they would bring extra picnic fare that could be shared, those extra things or hard to obtain items, and other difficult to get food items, whenever picnics and outings were held.

THE 3 CHILDREN OF FRANK & CORA KILLIEN

The three Killien children were all born at the original Lowell home on South 2nd Avenue. The children's names are as follows:

• Francis Gray Killien
• Lenore Elizabeth Killien (Linden)
• William Alva Killien

The children of Frank & Cora Killien were all born in the downstairs bedroom during the time they lived in the cottage on South 2nd Avenue, in Lowell, Washington, and Frank worked at the mill. The couple's two sons and 1 daughter attended Lowell School, and the family were members of the Lowell Congregational Church which was built in 1888 on land donated by Lowell's founder, E.D. Smith, next door to their cottage on South 2nd Avenue. The presiding pastor at that time, was Rev. Cunningham. Acting as mill superintendant 18 monthes, Frank Killien became asst. plant superintendant of the Lowell mill.

As their family grew, the Killiens needed more room and sold the cottage on South 2nd Avenue which was their first home and where they'd lived for over 20 years. They purchased their second home, a Colonial Revival style house at 4918 South 3rd, also in the town of Lowell in around 1923.

THE PASSING OF FRANK & CORA KILLIEN

Cora Killien developed a serious illness and died on Feb 22, 1931. Her husband Frank Killien passed on not long after her, on Dec. 1, 1932, at the age of 56. The newspaper obituary states that Killien received a common school education, and at the age of 17 years entered the employ of the paper company. Like the proverbial "small town boy who made good", Frank Killien worked his way up the ladder of success from a youth that cleaned the paper troughs to a highly respected man who served the Everett Pulp & Paper Mill as it's asst superintendent, a position which he held for many years, and according to the reporter who wrote the newspaper obituary, Frank Killien also served the mill as the superintendent for a period of 18 monthes, according to a newspaper clipping submitted by local historian Gail Chism.

The kid who was "the shortest kid in his class, grew into a "a giant of a man," whose kindness, generosity and strength of character were described by the president of Everett Pulp & Paper, William Howarth, who said this of him: "All I can say is that he was of the very best." Killien been a member of the Lowell School Board. He founded the Lowell 30 Year Club, acting as president.

The newspaper referred to Frank R. Killien as "a Pioneer" who served in the Everett Pulp and Paper Company for 28 years. When Mr. Killien died, newspaper obituaries quote William Howarth as saying this of him: He was a hard worker, well liked and had a special faculty to endear himself to both his associates and subordinates. His place can be filled only with the greatest of difficulty."

The funeral of Frank Killien was held at John F. Jerred's Chapel. Frank and Cora Killien were laid to rest in Evergreen Cemetery, near Lowell where they'd lived, worked and raised their 3 children. Several Killien family members resided in Lowell, at the time Frank died, such as the couples three children, Francis Grey Killien, William Killien, and Mrs Charles (Lenore Killien) Linden, a brother Edward and a sister Elizabeth Killien. The Campbells began research on their house in 1989, traveling to other Washington cities to interview Killien family members as part of their application to place the home on the Everett Historic Register.

THE DECLINE OF THE HISTORIC LOWELL PAPER MILL

The Everett Pulp & Paper Mill was purchased by Simpson in 1951, who changed it's name to the Simpson-Lee Mill and began a process of modernization and expansion, to 15 tons per day under Howarth. Expansion in the late 1950's cost $4,000,000. By the late 1960's pollution sounded the death knell. State officials gave the ultimatum to Simpson to reduce the smelly sulfur compounds by 96% within a 5 year period. By the late 1960's, the mill was already running at a loss of $100,000 per year.

In the autumn of 1972 the saga which began with the era of men like E.D. Smith and Henry Hewitt came to an end. Hewitt's fondest dream was that of smokestacks. The new generation recoiled at the black smoke belching columns. The cry of the ecology minded people of Everett was to clean up the air, and water and to protect our natural resources, such as timber, through the reforesting of trees.

The Everett Pulp & Paper Mill had been one of four major industries upon which the Everett development was initially built. While the other three had short lives, EP&P continued for more than 80 years, closing it's operation in the early 1970s.

Today, in 2007, we continue to value the Everett Pulp & Paper Mill heritage, an industry that located many of the families in this area, and helped to shape our lives and memories.

PURCHASE OF KILLIEN HOUSE BY THE CAMPBELL'S

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Tom and Alana Campbell purchased the Killien cottage in the summer of 1989, from home owner Connie Trier, when their daughter Ami Nicole, was two years old. Among the real estate brochures and other house papers, Connie left out for her prospective buyers, she included some historic research she'd personally done on the home and it's original occupants.

With the purchase, Connie contributed the restoration and historical research she'd done on the Frank R. Killien house. Among the papers was a letter to one of the Killien daughters, Lenore Linden, dated February 2, 1986. Connie wrote of her interest in the history and restoration of the home, stating: "Dear Mrs Linden: Two years ago, I fell in love with and bought the house next door to the church in Lowell. I am now in the process of restoring it but there are so many things I need to know about it... I have been told that your family lived here for some time and I am hoping you weren't too young to remember what the house looked like originally. I would like to meet and talk with you, but if that is inconvenient I would appreciate a drawing of the downstairs floor plan as you remember it. Thankyou."

Mrs Charles (Lenore) Linden responded by return mail dated February 13, 1986, that she and her husband were wintering in Arizona, but would return in March. She would be glad to come to the house and answer any questions. The house she said was virtually unchanged except for the door into the bathroom which was changed. With her letter, Lenore sent her drawing of the original floor plan. Lenore stated:

"I have had a stroke so my drawing and writing is not good. I can walk without a cane now. There were 3 children in our family all born in the side room. Francis (78) Lenore (75) and Bill (deceased)"

She signed her letter Mrs Charles Linden.

ADDING TO THE HISTORICAL RESEARCH
THE CAMPBELL'S

On June 13, 1990, we attended the monthly meeting of the Everett Historic Commission where Tom Campbell described the home and it's history and original owner. Our application which was in for the home to be considered for the Everett Register of Historic Places, was pending at that time. The home was placed on the register within the year.

We drove to Chehalis, Washington, where we interviewed Eva Lena, the 88 year old sister of Cora Jane Killien, and her daughter, a niece of Cora Anderson Killien. We also interviewed Margaret Killien, the wife of the Frank R Killien's son, William Alva Killien. In addition to this we spoke to Martha Killien, a cousin. As well as Mrs Ruth Buckley a dear friend of Leenore Killien Linden who resided at Sunrise Retirement Center. We also conducted research at the Everett Public Library, including the following sources:

• Polk's Directory-Years 1893-1932 and looked for information on the following people in connection with the house.
• Frank R. Killien
• Robert Gray
• William David Anderson
• Theorore H MacDonald
• The Lowell Story-Author Don Berry
• Other library sources
• Internet research-Mayflower research of William Vassal, shipbuilder of the Mayflower and other ancestors.

The Campbells who have owned the home for 20 years now, remain the present owners. They have served on the board of the Lowell Civic Association, and other volunteer positions, enjoying participating in various community events. Of the six Campbell children, three have lived in Lowell. The couple's son who was 12 at the time they moved in, their older daughter and their younger daughter have all lived in their house in Lowell.

HISTORIC LOWELL TROLLEY TOURS

Although the Frank Killien home has been on the Lowell Historic Trolley Tour for many years, this past year, as part of the Lowell Days 2003 celebration, the Killien House had it's first open house of the home's interior in July 2003. The Campbells greatly appreciate opportunities to meet neighbors of surrounding communities and visitors who participate in the Lowell Days Historic Milltown celebration, because of their interest in historic Lowell. The present community of Lowell remains rural, yet in many ways unchanged. It is located moments from hub of the Everett Town Center, and the new Everett Train Station, which offers Sounder Commuter Rail service, and houses an extension university on the facilities upper stories.

SKYLARK'S WHITE ROSE COTTAGE

The official name of the historic cottage is the Frank R. Killien House, after the well-loved young man that struck out bravely with his step Dad, traveling from Calgary Alberta to Lowell, Washington where he found suitable employment, worked his way up the ladder of success to asst. supt.and later superintendant of the historic Everett Pulp & Paper Mill in Lowell.

Tom and Alana also affectionately call their 1905 Craftsman Bungalow cottage the Skylark's Nest, Skylark Studio or The Skylark's White Rose Cottage, after Alana Campbell's Danish grandmother, Amy Christensen-Laughlin, born in the South Pacific where her parents colonized in the 1850's. Over the years, Tom, who is a stone mason has brought side jobs home and fabricated them on saw-horses in the back yard. Alana can be seen oil painting at her easel in the foyer, stopping work when friends and neighbors stop and call a friendly hello through the open doorway.

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WHERE'D WE COME FROM?
TOM & ALANA CAMPBELL & FAMILY BACKGROUND

Tom and Alana Campbell, the current owners of the historic Killien Cottage, have lived in the home for nearly 20 years, having raised their children in the house. Tom was born in Bellingham and spent his growing up years there and in Edmonds, Washington, where he attended Meadowdale High. In Bellingham, Tom's Dad, who lives in Edmonds, was vice-president in charge of sales for Pacific American Fisheries, whose building in Bellingham now houses the Greyhound and Amtrak train depots.

Tom's first job in the stone trade was in the Fremont District of Seattle, and here he learned the trade. Alana's Dad was an attorney, and mother also in the legal field. She was born in Los Angeles and grew up on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle.

Prior to moving to Lowell, for two years after their marriage, the Campbell's lived briefly in South Seattle and in Bothell, Washington in a rented Victorian house on two acres.

Although the kids are mostly grown with families of their own, there's no "empty nest" syndrone at the busy Campbell household, with homeschooling the youngest of their six children, ministry to the community as chaplains and the families interesting careers. Tom Campbell is a busy professional craftsman himself in the stone trade, with about 35 years experience in the commercial and residencial fields. Tom Campbell also has interesting ancestors. His Jewish grandfather, Victor Hugo Hoppe, was drama coach at Western for 45 years, and one of his students "Angus Bomer" founded the Ashland Oregon Shakespearean Festival. Other ancestors of Tom's, include a Jewish rabbai, Bernhard Hoppe, Abigail Fitch whose ancestry goes back to 12th century England, Abigail Adams, Freegrace Adams, Capt. Ephraim Kimberly and Irish Quaker Susannah Lightfoot on his great-grandfather's side. His great grandmother, like Alana's was Danish.

Alana Campbell is an artist in oils, acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and pen and ink. She is the daughter of an Attorney Galen Hunt and Maude Laughlin Hunt, who was the daughter of Alana's Scotch-Irish grandfather, Rev. William Andrew Laughlin, who was a Presbyterian minister with a pastorate in historic Virginia City, Nevada. He lovingly referred to his artist wife Amy as his "White Rose." She was a Danish born immigrant who grew up in the 30 Mile Bush of New Zealand where her parents were invited to help colonize, and the family started a dairy farm, and a family member adopted a Maori child. Alana relates that her Grandfather Laughlin was a real spiritual reformer, and the skylark, called in Britain the "Orange Lark," has long been the symbol of spiritual reformers. The "White Rose" was the name of an early sailing vessel, to New Zealand where Amy Christensen was born, and also the name of an anti-Nazi movement, in the 1940's, among students who fought enslavement to tyranny.

Grandfather Laughlin pastored, and lectured on the Chattaqua circuit. He wrote and published poems about his love for his wife, the mother of his 4 children, Mariane, Maude, Merle and Bill. Alana's mother, one of the 3 Laughlin daughters resided with them at the Killien cottage in the 1990's, and there were many happy times as a family, as their daughter Amber was growing up.

Recently Alana has been researching the French side of her father's European family, and some of their French surnames: Rittenour/Fortineau, who lived and worked in maritime France. Her Dad was a Chicago attorney during the prohibition years.

One of the Campbell's sons, named David Gabriel, also has Acadien French ancestors.

If you are interested in tracing your family history, you can find excellent resources at the Public Library of on the Internet! Alana paints 5-6 foot murals in oils, from historic photos or sketches, and can create watercolour art of your historic house, church, ancestors etc. also transforming them into holiday greeting cards, or notecards if you like. The Campbells are ordained ministers, who have been ministers in the Lowell Community since 1990.

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THE ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN CRAFTSMAN BUNGALOW COTTAGE

A bungalow (Gujarati: બંગલો baṅglo, Hindi: बंगला baṅglā) is a type of single-story house that originated in India. The word derives from the Gujarati word baṅglo, which in turn came from Hindustani baṅglā. It means "Bengali", used elliptically for a "house in the Bengal style".[1] Such houses were traditionally small, only one story, thatched and had a wide veranda.[2] Bungalows today are a type of house that is usually single story or one and a half stories, and can be quite large.

In India and Pakistan, the term bungalow refers to any single-family unit (i.e., a house), as opposed to an apartment building, which is the norm for Indian and Pakistani middle-class city living. The Indian sub-continent usage is different from the North American and United Kingdom usage insofar as a bungalow can be a quite large, multi-storied building which houses a single extended family. In India and Pakistan, owning a bungalow is a highly significant status symbol.

In Singapore and Malaysia, the term bungalow was originally made popular by the British who popularized this building typology (though the British use of Bungalow strictly refers to single-story houses). It is now used to refer to a detached, single family residential dwelling usually of two to three story with its own compound.

In South Africa, the term bungalow never refers to a residential house but means a small holiday house, a small log house or a wooden beach house.The origin of the bungalow has its roots in the Indian province of Bengal. There, the common native dwelling and the geographic area both had the same root word, bangla or bangala. Eighteenth century huts of one story with thatched roofs were adapted by the British, who used them as houses for colonial administrators in summer retreats in the Himalayas and in compounds outside Indian cities. Also taking inspiration from the army tent, the English cottage, and sources as the Persian verandah, early bungalow designers clustered dining rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, and bathrooms around central living rooms and, thereby, created the essential floor plan of the bungalow, leaving only a few refinements to be worked out by later designers.

The Craftsman bungalow is typically one to one-and-a-half stories, with a long sloping roof line and a wide, sheltering overhang that makes the house appear to nestle into the earth. This tie to the earth is often exaggerated by using a foundation and porch pillars that broaden at the base.

The porch is wide enough to feel like an outside room. The woodwork is still heavy and dark, but is usually square or simple rather than ornately built-up in layers or with gingerbread and spindles as in Victorian times. High style and less derivative versions of the Bungalow often have beamed ceilings, oak wainscotting in the dining room, built-in buffets with hand wrought iron or dark-patinated brass hardware, cozy yellow lanterns hanging from the ceiling wood work or as sconces on the porch or hallway walls.

Since the fireplace and hearth were so important as the center of the home and family, it has received special attention. Made of brick, tile or rustic river stone the fireplace was often framed by symmetric bookshelves or even benches to create a cozy inglenook.

THE KILLIEN COTTAGE &
IT'S HERITAGE IN THE COMMUNITY OF LOWELL, WASHINGTON

The historic Frank R Killien Home is located in historic district of Lowell, a suburb of South Everett, in Washington state. It was here in 1863, that lumberman E. D. Smith set up a logging camp at the bend of the Snohomish River.

The local elementary school has a mural that depicts the historic homes of the area, and our cottage is included in this artwork by well-known northwest artist Bernie Webber. The house is included in historic photos of the book the Lowell Story.

As part of the Centennial Celebration, Betty Hammer, a Lowell resident, together with several Lowell neighborhood residents, including Alana Campbell, created a story quilt of Lowells founders, and historic sites. The quilt was displayed at Everett Public Library, and is now on display a glass case in Lowell Congregational Church, in Lowell. The quilt depicts E.D. Smith and his wife, and various historic sites in Lowell, including the Frank R. Killien house.

The Frank R. Killien House has now been on the Everett Historic Register for over 18 years.

THE KILLIEN HOUSE & THE WILLIAM F. BROWN AWARD

On May 13, 1989, the previous owner of the Frank R. Killien House, a licensed real estate agent by the name of Connie Trier, was honored with the Brown Award, in special recognition by the Everett Historic Commission of the restoration work she did on the home. William F. Brown was an early engineer and surveyor responsible for laying out most of the east side of the present city, and he made the first known attempt toward historic preservation when he sought to preserve and commemorate the cabin of an early settler. The William F. Brown Program was established in 1977 to recognize efforts made in areas of historic preservation of old Everett buildings and in fostering a greater understanding of local historic artifacts.

The restorative work Ms Connie Trier completed between 1985-1989 included the installation of a new post and pier foundation, as well as a new cedar shake roof, and restorative work on the carved roof rafter-tails located just under the roof line. New gutters and downspouts were also added. This restorative work has been documented and remains on file with the Everett, Washington Register of Historic Places.

THE MONTE CRISTO AWARD

In 2002, at the Eighth Annual Monte Cristo Award night, the Frank R Killien home was awarded the Monte Cristo Award. This award is presented to the home-owners of property that "consistently looks it's best. These homes shine with the efforts of the owners or occupants who take great pride in their property and whose high standards for home and yard maintenance contribute to the character of the neighborhood. These homes, not necessarily the biggest, nor most expensive, reflect the loving attention and care that make them the jewels of the neighborhood.

A PRESENT DAY DESCRIPTION OF OUR HOME IN HISTORIC LOWELL

The Frank R. Killien house is a one and a half story hipped roof bungalow. There's a front porch supported by two large pillars and wide low dormers project from the front and sides of the roof.

The home's original first growth fir floors downstairs, were refurbished by the Campbells in 2001, as part of a concerted restoration project of 2-3 years duration. Did you know that 90% of real estate agents surveyed stated that a home with wood flooring will sell more quickly and for a higher amount of money than a comparable home with any other type of flooring. Early photos of the timber processed by the local logging industry, show teams of 12 oxen used, due to the girth of that first growth timber. This wood from trees 300-800 years old is very dense. Mahogany is another of similar quality. Planks do not "cup."

The "L" shaped country kitchen of the Frank R Killien home has 4 fir sash windows. To the side of the kitchen is a glassed in area containing a skywall of windows on the west, north and south. This is all original, and can be seen in a historic photo dated circa 1912.

Of note in the books we used to research Craftsman Bungalow restoration, they state that the vintage windows are not only part of a valuable investment, but are the eyes of a home.

Although vinyl window salesmen abound, remember that part of what makes a historic home valuable is it's original wood windows. If a lower wood sash is deteriorated, it's wiser to have this small portion of your window replaced so that you can preserve the window itself. Repair the deteriorated portion with a hardwood like your original old or first growth window sash is. If you don't have a piece of wood and can't buy one where you are, use mahogany or some other hard wood.

The kitchen counter tops are made of white cararra marble, the sink is a vintage Kohler, with an oil rubbed bronze faucet and the kitchen has a white KitchenAid refrigerator. The home's second brick chimney is located in the center of the kitchen. This second chimney like the first is visible in historic photos of the home. (Circa 1912 or earlier)

The kitchen contains a pantry and laundry area, for storing canned and dry goods. The kitchen counter over-looks the side yard of Lowell Church, which the Killien family attended. Cora Anderson could keep an eye on her children playing in the yard as she worked.

During a renovation prior to 1989, an Indian head penny was found in the north wall of kitchen. It's dated 18--, with the last two numbers difficult to read, but between 1880-1899. Probably 1889. It was common for construction workers to place a coin with the date of construction in a wall , to accurately date a structure such as a home or business. Other buildings or homes in the area date at the latter 1800's, s, such as Lowell Congregational Church, next door to the Killien House. The auditor's office lists the house as 1900.

The Killien cottage is built of Northwest fir thoughout, even down to the diagonally laid sub flooring, which is comprised of fir ship lathe. To fully appreciate the mill cottages of Lowell, you must possess an understanding of the value a home built entirely of natural materials, in a current era of pre-fab. The Killien Cottage's original northwest fir lathe and 3 coat lime plaster walls, are worth over $100,000 by today's standards, and professional plasters prices per square foot. There are original 6 inch wide fir mouldings, and original fir baseboards, and 10 foot high plaster ceilings. First growth or old growth fir floors are an extremely valuable asset of any home today, where replacement of floor damage should always be salvaged first growth fir although pricing of this old growth material runs 75% more than new wood of this sort. Ours represent a current value of $50,000 or more. Remember that when the original first growth lumber was milled, those trees had been standing in a that forest for hundreds of years before loggers came to work in the area.

Second growth wood from newer trees is much ofter and far less durable or valuable. If you have original wood windows, stiffle the urge to replace them with vinyl. You may have hand blown glass in your Bungalow. But even if you don't, there are numerous reasons to remain them, rather than replace them. For more info, read: "Bungalow Details: Exterior," by Jane Powell, Linda Svendsen, who has owned 7 or 8 Craftsman Bungalows in her lifetime.

Our cottage's leaded and beveled glass windows and front door glass afford a lovely view of the Snohomish River. The foyer's 4 lofty ivory floor to ceiling fir wood columns decorated with beaded molding, lead to the living room with large windows which overlook the scenic Snohomish River. The living room contains a bay-shaped window-seat facing the river, white French door, with brass hardware and clear glass knob, leading to the Campbell families home office. The office ow downstairs north bedroom has a narrow built-in wainscotted cupboard, with shelves and a small door.

The dining room hearth is set off by a backsplash of foot long terra cotta pomegranate and flower relief tiles, an ivory woodstove with glass doors, and an arched wainscotted wall niche set into the south hearth wall. The house has two original chimneys, and one of them is in the fining room. The chimneys are visible in the historic area photographs of the home. Such as the circa 1912 picture.

The baby sister of Cora Killien told us that the dining room was originally graced with a plate rail on one wall. Like the rest of the house, the dining room floors are the original old growth fir that came with the house when it was built.

THE GROUNDS FLOWER BEDS OR & GARDEN

At the street entrance of the home, are two 8 foot river rock pillars, with a matching 3 foot high river rock wall complemented by a white picket fence. A historic weeping willow tree grows in the back yard at the rear of the home, near the garage and beside the rock and brick stairs leading from it, lined on either side of the cement stairs with borders of deep green boxwood. The stately willow is visible in early photos of the neighborhood, such as a circa 1912 panarama picture that we have in our possession.

Historic trees also guard the front entrance to the home. On the left of the entrance stands a mighty and majestic Red Cedar in which the bluejays, and other birds nest and love to perch. To the right side of the front yard is a very old Norway Spruce, a favorite of the squirrels, who leap from it's branches onto the hipped roof and run to collect sprice berries which fall. Both of these trees are approximately 70-80 feet high, according to professional gardeners. There is a very large holly tree which sports an abundance of berries in the fall and winter monthes. And a marvellous birch that is taller than the house itself.

Smaller trees such as apple, cherry, and fig grow on the south side of the house. An ornamental weeping cherry tree also flanks the south yard, while a deep double french lilac, lemon lilac, and various shades of rhodadendron bushes abound in the back, front and side yards.

Across the front yard grow a profusion of of favorite antique roses of ours such as cabbage rose bushes, climbing roses and florabundas. As well as various other types of ornamental shrubs and bushes, as well as a miriad of bulbs, such as crocus, tulips, daffodil, snowcrop, lily of the valley, and grape hyacynth, calla lilies, morning glories, bridal veil and blue and lime hydrangeas, hostas, which provide a profusion of colour in the spring.

THE HOME'S ORIGINAL VENETIAN PLASTER & HISTORIC WALLPAPER

The plastered hallway with it's high ceiling and ivory coloured fir wood lathe and original 3 coat Venetian lime plaster walls, and original fir floors leads to the wood staircase, which opens into an ample stair loft or landing. The original wall surface surviving throughout the home at the time we purchased it is fir lathe and 3 coat lime Venetian plaster to which tints of garnet, sage, gold and terra cotta were added to the final layer of plaster.

Over this we discovered no less than 6 layers of wallpaper. The layer of wallpaper immediately covering the Venetian plaster was Lincrusta, a raised or relief paper in a floral scroll pattern. Since Everett Pulp & Paper sent their promising young employee back east to train him in every aspect of the paper making trade, it is likely that the Lincrusta paper is an early example of the regions paper trade.

Lincrusta was invented in 1877 to bring the ornate plaster work so loved by wealthy Victorians to those of more modest means. More than a century later, Lincrusta, still produced by its original manufacturer in Lancashire, England, is popular once again for its looks and durability.

The hallway of the Killien Cottage leads to the home's 1 bath, with a butlers closet lined with fir bead board. An original ornate ivory enameled metal Craftsman double candle-sconce decorates the lime plaster wall. The bath has a hexagon porcelain tile floor, vintage-style brass sink and tub fixtures, and white cararra marble counter top with an ornate marble backsplash.

The upstairs upstairs bedroom of the home faces South 2nd Street, with quaint sloped ceilings of original fir lathe and 3 coat lime plaster, and plaster walls, original northwest fir wood windows that afford a spectacular view of the Snohomish River. An original ivory metal Craftsman double candle-sconce, adorns the plastered east wall. The front dormer encloses the original balcony sided with beveled siding. There's a stepped out side window supported by decorative braces and the rafter ends are carved. The houses original door handles are brass and copper Craftsman-style fixtures.

The original divided lite fir wood windows of the stair loft and north facing bedroom are shorter, and are divided into 4 smaller sized windows, and take up the entire width of the wall. The large north bedroom overlooks the side lawn, with it's flower beds filled with antique rose bushes, hydrangeas, calla lilies, lilacs, an herb garden just outside the kitchen door, and the apple, weeping willow, cedar and fig trees. The upstairs bedrooms all have walk in closets lined with decorative fir bead board.

The back of the house has 3/4 skywall of windows on the north, east and west sides from which the trees and flowering shrubs of the yard can be seen. A fir wood paneled door leads to the backyard.

THE ORIGINAL KILLIEN HOUSE GARAGE & SHED

The Killien House property contains two original outbuildings, a garage and shed, mentioned in the deed or transfer from Theodore H MacDonald to Frank R Killien. The original 16X20 garage which is located behind the house, is also comprised of first growth or old growth fir, from the turn of the century. The ceiling appears to be between 8-9 feet. The construction of this building was part of a real estate boom as E.D. Smith , the father or founder of this area, built a mill and additional buildings to form the 1863 town of Lowell, Washington.

The Killien house's garage siding appears to be hand beveled siding. There are two windows on the east side of the structure. The ceiling of the roof covering is tongue and groove wood. The flooring was constructed of 2X10 planks.

The newly roofed 10X16 shed exterior with a ceiling of approximately 7 feet, is built from local old growth fir with custom beveled siding which matches that of the home's garage. The original structure has an opening for a west window that was walled up at the time we purchased the home. This shed, like that of the garage are clearly visible in historic photographs of the property, such as a circa 1912 panarama picture in our possession.

These original outbuildings can be clearly observed in a historic photograph (circa 1912) which shows these matching buildings. Innumerable interesting features distinguish this historic home of approximately 105 years.

Local artist Bernie Webber painted a mural of Lowell which includes the Frank R. Killien House.

Velton's Coffee Roasting Co, 5205 S 2nd Ave, Everett, WA, 98203-4114, 425/259-6756, coffee mills (mfrs)

LOWELL PARK

4605 S. 3rd Ave. Everett, WA 98203

Size 10 acres

AMENITIES

• Picnic/BBQ
  
• Playground
  
• Tennis
  
• Basketball
  
• Baseball/softball
  
• Picnic shelter
  
• Restrooms
  
• Off-leash area-The Dog Park at Lowell will be temporarily closed
  from Sept. 9-Oct. 22 for renovation. Patrons during this time are encouraged to use the temporary off-leash, fenced area at the south end of the park.
  

  Park hours

• 6 a.m. till 10 p.m.

LOWELL RIVER FRONT PARK

With plenty of parking, the Lowell Riverfront Park puts walkers, hikers and bikers in the center of the Lowell Riverfont Trail. This 1.75-mile, multi-use trail features a 10-foot-wide paved path that includes views of Mt. Baker, Rainier and the Cascades, as well as numerous wildlife habitats. The trailhead is located just off Lenora Street.

Location
Lowell-Snohomish River Rd.
Everett, WA

Amenities

• Picnic/BBQ
  
• Trails
  
• Viewpoint
  
• Fishing
  

• Park hours 6 a.m. till 10 p.m.

Adopt a park Lowell Riverfront Park was adopted by Crystal Lite Foundation Employees.

THE HISTORIC LOWELL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH NEXT DOOR

Historic homes and buildings of the Lowell, Washington area, dating from the early 1890's, include:

• In 1882, when a desire for permanent religious services was evident, pioneer, resident E.D. Smith, donated two lots, and with help from the Washington COngregational Union, dinners, pledges, etc the first building was erected by 1888, with Rev. R.A. Rowley as pastor. E.D. Smith donated lumber from his sawmill. The organ and bell were also donated. At first the building stood on a hill consisting of what is now the sanctuary and primary dept. But due to it's growth, the lower floor was added, by raising the church about half a story and the basement excavated out of the hill.

  Organized in 1889 by Rev. G.G. Lewis, the congregation first met in Smith Hall until the present structure was completed late in 1891 on land donated by town founder E.D. Smith with lumber from his mill. It is Everett's oldest building and was first called The Congregational Church. On New Years Eve of 1984, at about 2 a.m., the historic church was severely damaged by a arson fire. At the time of the fire, Pastor Frank & Virginia Stipek were in Alaska, visiting family members. The congregation was thankful for many things, but especially these two. 1) Noone had been injured in the blaze. 2) As fire-fighters battled the fire, firemen stepped outside to get a larger hose, just before the tall south side roof collapsed, so these men were not injured.

  Temporary services were held in the church annex church as the congregation, it's friends, and neighbors rebuilt it through valient community effort of money, goods, time and services. A pulpit, altar and fourteen pews were donated from a mukilteo church that was installing new ones.

  OTHER HISTORIC SITES IN LOWELL

• E.D. Smith Mercantile Store built in 1870. In 1890 Smith added a new wing to his store.
• Smith's 2000-foot logging flume from the top of the hill to the river built to facilitate logging operations.
• The wharf built by E.D. Smith.
• Lowell School #1) The original Lowell school taught by Charles Baker who was also the town store-keeper. The only two youngsters in the village were Everett Getchell and Wesley Giddings and they received instruction for an hour per day from Baker.
• Lowell School # 2) The first regular school established in 1872 in a small building donated for the purpose by E.D. Smith, with teachers Mrs Hyrcanus Blackman as teacher and six student. It stood at the foot of Main Street.
• Lowell School #3) The school built in 1880 at Second & Zillah Streets on land donated by E.D> Smith. Hattie Merwin was employed as the teache of six students. In 1893 the school was destroyed by fire. Until another school could be built, classes convened in the Great Northern Hotel with teachers R.E> & Stella Friars.
• Lowell School #4) An 8 room schoolhouse built on the top of the hill above town in 1894. The building cost $23,000 and 80 students were enrolled.
• The Lowell Dance Hall on the Snohomish River.
• The original two-story Lowell Hotel built in 1876.
• The Lowell blacksmith shop built about 1876.
• The Fiber Hotel on South 2nd Avenue, began as a boarding house for mill workers of the 1890's. It was located where the Everett Post office building now stands.
• The Lowell Post Office was established in 1871 and for the next 21 years, E.D. Smith was it's postmaster.
• The 3-S Railroad was built through Lowell in 1891 and the Great Northern in 1892.
• The area's first newspaper established in 1891 was the Port Gardener News.
• The early 1900's Charles Edman Residence at 4632 South 3rd Avenue
• The Craftsman style Sumner House, at 4100 South 3rd Avenue
• The 1892 A.E. Prudden House at 2216 Main St where excavations were haulted at the building of this home when native artifacts were discovered.

(Left) A panel from artist Bernie Weber's mural which is displayed on the wall of the Lowell Elementary School.

OTHER LOWELL, WASHINGTON SITES

• The 1891 W.E. Chase House at 2216 South 52nd Street which was self built.
• LeClere House at 5101 South 3rd Avenue
• The 1893 Freese House at 5202 South 2nd Avenue which was the home of mill mgr. Charles Freese.
• Smith House built in 1931 at 5110 Lowell Larimer Road built for Lowell founder E.D. Smith's son John Smith.
• The 1939 Lowell Fire Hall at 5213 South 2nd Avenue
• Dick's Service at 5301 South 2nd Avenue, owned and operated by Dick Frazier, a mechanic for the Lowell Fire Dept. An addition was added in 1935. Dick serviced the fire trucks and served as a volunteer fireman.
• Lowell Fire Dept. was built in 1939 by funding from WPA, (Works Progress Administration, created by President Roosevelt during the Depression. Many of the mill workers were volunteer firemen, and could leave their jobs if the fire bell sounded. The station also housed the Lowell Water District.
• The Everett Pulp & Paper Mill Office is the last remaining building of the Everett Pulp & Paper. It later became Simpson Lee, then Simpsons. Following this, for many years it houses the Plumber & Steam Fitter's Union Local 265. Presently it is the site of the Lowell art gallery, with a coffee roasting company downstairs in the building.
• The Mill Times Building, the Everett Pulp & Paper office at 5205 South 2nd Avenue, where workers clocked their time cards for the mill at 5203 South 2nd Avenue
• The Lowell Confectionary at 5206 South 2nd Avenue which later became "Al's Joint."
• The old Lowell Restaurant at 5208 South 2nd Avenue
• Millworkers cottages designed by architect Frederickton, at 5013, 5014, 5018, and 5102 3rd Avenue
• The 1880's Martin & Olive Getchell Farm across the river
• The Harriet Olsen's House at 5106 South 3rd Avenue.
• The original farm and homestead of Martin & Olive Getchell. Martin's sister, Margaret married Lowell's founder, E.D. Smith. It is on the State Historical Register and remains in the Getchell family today as the Alexander Farm across from Lowell on the Snohomish River.

LINKS

• Historic Everett, Washington
• The Campbell Family Heritage Album
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• Arts & Evangelism: The Influence of Culture On Artists
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• The Artist As Prophet
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• Everett, Washington
• Hazel Clark
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• Devita Stipek: Writer
• Art For Glory & For Beauty
• Hiram of Tyre
• Judeo-Christian Monotheism
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• Life of An Artist
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• Where Are The Bellingham Campus Students Now?
• Hoppe Homeland Page
• The Joseph Anointing
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• Living On The Mountain
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• Hearing Voices
• Western Libraries: Philip Thomas Campbell's Biography (Tom Campbell's Father)
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The Historic Frank R. Killien House
Everett, Washington Skylark Studio On The Snohomish 5214 South 2nd Avenue,
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