THE BIOGRAPHY PROJECT - INTRO
THE BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
ABSTRACTED FROM PUBLISHED HISTORIES
County and regional histories usually contain "biographical sketches" of the area's residents. These "sketches" often provide information about an individual's birth date, birth place, parents' names, wife's name and children's names. Some sketches include extensive "personal history" - places where the person lived, fraternal organizations, etc. - these clues can often tell a researcher where to look for elusive information. For example, if an individual is described as a member of Odd Fellows, there's a good chance that he's buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery.

The Everett Public Library's Northwest Room has compiled a "master index" of published Snohomish County Biographies, using those county and regional histories they hold. This MASTER SURNAME INDEX is available online at the EPL's web site.

The Snohomish County USGenWeb Project is expanding on EPL's Bio Index - our goal is to ABSTRACT those biographies, sifting out the "bio frou-frou" and "hype", leaving, as Sgt. Friday used to say, "Just the facts, ma'am". In addition, resources not indexsd by EPL are being added to the BIOGRAPHY PROJECT.

The resources indexed by the Everett Public Library (and the "code" that EPL used for each book) are:

CODE/
YEAR
RESOURCE INFORMATION
NH 1889
15 bios		 Evans, Elwood; History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington; 2 volumes. Portland, Oregon: North Pacific History Company, 1889.
HH 1893
15 bios		 Hawthorne, Julian, ed. and G. D. Brewerton; History of Washington, the Evergreen State; 2 volumes. New York: American Historical Publishing Company, 1893.
HI 1893
3 bios		 Hines, Rev. Harvey Kimball; Illustrated History of the State of Washington; Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1893.
PHP 1903
94 bios		 Prosser, William Farrand; A History of the Puget Sound Country; 2 volumes. New York & Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1903.
IPC 1906
318 bios		 Shiach, William Sidney, ed; Illustrated History of Skagit & Snohomish Counties; Chicago: Interstate Publishing Company, 1906.
SH 1909
6 bios		 Snowden, Clinton A., editor; History of Washington; Rise & Progress of An American State; 6 volumes. New York: Century History Company, 1909.
HWW 1917
98 bios		 Hunt, Herbert and Kaylor, Floyd C. Washington West of the Cascades; 3 vol. Chicago, Seattle & Tacoma: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1917.
WW 1926
1000+ bios		 Whitfield, William, ed. History of Snohomish County, Washington; 2 volumes. Chicago: Pioneer Historical Publishing Company, 1926.
PH 1937
 		 Spencer, Lloyd and Pollard, Lancaster. A History of the State of Washington; 4 volumes. New York: American Historical Society, 1937.
BA 1939
 		 Barteau, Gordon, ed. Who�s Who in the State of Washington, 1939-1940; Seattle: 1939.

Other resources not indexed in the Everett Public Library project have been abstracted; these resources have their own Name Index. A researcher should check the EPL NAME INDEX and then the NAME INDEX - OTHER RESOURCES for target individuals.
CODE/
YEAR
RESOURCE INFORMATION
ATW 1903 
0 bios		 Atwood, A.; Glimpses in Pioneer Life on Puget Sound...; Washington Printing Company, 1903
SKA 1908
13 bios 		 Skarstedt, Ernst; Washington och dess svenska befolkning; Denny-Corvell Company, 1908
WHO 1926
3 bios		 Who's Who in Religious, Fraternal, Social, Civil and Commercial Life on the Pacific Coast; Searchlight Publishing Company, 1926-1927
WHO 1927
30 bios		 Who's Who in Washington State: Compilation of Biographical Sketches...; H. Allen, Publishers, 1927
WPA 1938
 		 Told by the Pioneers: Tales of Frontier Life; Vols 1, 2, 3. Works Progress Administration, 1938
STE 1957
31 bios		 Stewart, Edgar I.; Washington, Northwest Frontier; Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1957

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