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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:
YEAR |
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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.
YEAR |
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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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