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GLO Surveyor Personal Notes Copyright 2012 Jerry Olson 7/9/2012 Surveyor First Contract Year Politics Photos Bio Burial Tombstone Age Notes /Type* Abbott, Lewis Gallatin Contract 158 (with 1873 Rep See Jerry Died in 1829-1902 Born in Michigan, Lewis William Jameson) USDS Olson, from Olympia, apprenticed as a printer at age 11. (4/22/1873) book, Go To: WA, his wife He left for California to mine via the http://www.ols is buried in Oregon Trail in 1854, sent for his onengr.com/do Union family three years later, and then wnload/globios Cemetery, moved to Olympia in 1860, where he /abbottlewisgbi Tumwater,W worked as a printer. Lewis bought o.pdf A the Olympia "Pioneer and Democrat," and also started the "Gazette" in Seattle. He published the "Commercial Age" and "Echo" for a few years, finally selling out and retiring to his farm near Olympia until 1882. Lewis then opened and ran a grocery store there until 1889, and after that devoted his time to real estate speculation. He served one term as Thurston County Treasurer. Page 1 of 735 GLO Surveyor Personal Notes Copyright 2012 Jerry Olson 7/9/2012 Surveyor First Contract Year Politics Photos Bio Burial Tombstone Age Notes /Type* Prior to his joint GLO Contract with surveyor William Jameson, he had been a chainman for Freeman Brown on the Kalama River. William Jameson was not mentioned in the notes of the joint survey, but the oaths, both before and after the survey, were notarized in the field by Peter W. Crawford, an experienced U. S. Deputy Surveyor. Lewis was also elected Thurston County Surveyor in 1874. (biography) Abbott, Richard Aroy Clerk 1871 Dr/Clerk Died in 1835-1894 Born in Vermont, Richard was Waukegan, listed as a stonecutter in Vermont in Illinois 1860, and a builder in the 1870 census of Thurston County, WA. He served as a Clerk in the Surveyor General's office in Olympia in 1871, and was a claim agent in Michigan in 1880, living with his daughter. An R. A. Abbott fled from Portland in December 1871, leaving $16,000 in unpaid bills behind. He died in 1894 in Waukegan, Illinois. Page 2 of 735 GLO Surveyor Personal Notes Copyright 2012 Jerry Olson 7/9/2012 Surveyor First Contract Year Politics Photos Bio Burial Tombstone Age Notes /Type* Anderson, Charles Mineral Surveys 1883 Rep See Jerry See Jerry Died in 1858-1953 Charles' father was Professor A. McKay USDMS Olson Olson, from Seattle J. Anderson, who became head of USDS book, Go To: both Whitman College and The http://www.ols University of Washington at different onengr.com/do times. Charles graduated from wnload/globios Pacific University in Forest Grove, /andersoncharl Oregon in 1874, where his father esmbio.pdf taught at the time. After miscellaneous jobs, he taught mathematics at the University of Washington in 1878-81, and then opened up an engineering business in Seattle. He continued that business until he died, except for a brief spell in his brother's bank, and a winter as chair of mathematics at Whitman. He was King County Surveyor 1881-85, 1889-91, and again in 1891. From 1885-88 he was part of Anderson Bros. Engineering with his brother Oliver. Anderson also served as a Colonel in the Washington National Guard. His one Contract in 1889 required significant corrections in the field in 1891, and was not approved until 1892. He worked in Alaska at the time of the gold rush, and became Chief Engineer and an investor for the Alaska Central Railroad in 1902. Charldes made the survey for the RR in 1887-88. (biography) Page 3 of 735 GLO Surveyor Personal Notes Copyright 2012 Jerry Olson 7/9/2012 Surveyor First Contract Year Politics Photos Bio Burial Tombstone Age Notes /Type* Andersen, Christian Contract 454 1895 USDS see Jerry Buried in See Jerry 1860-1932 Christian Andersen immigrated (5/20/1895) Olson Lone Fir Olson from Denmark in 1885. From 1895- Cemetery, 1897 he surveyed 4 contracts, all in Portland, OR. GPS of Okanogan and Ferry county, except Section 12, gravestone by one township in western Skamania Lot 21. His Jerry Olson: County. His last contract was under wife Gertrude Special Instructions to finish the died in Los 45º31'03.6" survey by Reynolds and Pomeroy in Angeles in 122º38'34.6" 1897. He became the chief engineer 1951. ± 34 ft. for the dam and canals at Conconully, WA for the Okanogan Irrigation Project in 1902, and surveyed canals to irrigate 140,000 acres from Easton in Kittitas County in 1912. Christian resided in Portland, OR from at least 1898 to 1920, with an office as a civil engineer. In 1921, he worked for the Federal Highway Dept. Christian died in Portland. Page 4 of 735 GLO Surveyor Personal Notes Copyright 2012 Jerry Olson 7/9/2012 Surveyor First Contract Year Politics Photos Bio Burial Tombstone Age Notes /Type* Anderson, Ernest Ivan Mineral Surveys 1895 USDMS Died in 1866-1931 Ernest was born in Ohio and Harbor began his career as a surveyor and Heights, King engineer in Chelan and Kittitas County, WA. Counties in 1888. He was Kittitas Possibly County Surveyor from 1891-95 and buried in 1898-1902, where he surveyed family plot at several town plats and 9 mining Woodbine claims in the Swauk Mining District. Cemetery in Ernest was in Olympia in 1905 and Puyallup. Tacoma in 1910. In 1930 he was an engineer in Island County, WA. He died in Harbor Heights, King County, WA. Andrews, Lyman T. Contract 66 1862 Rep see Jerry By Jerry Lake View See Jerry 1829-1913 Lyman was born in New York, Beach USDS Olson Olson, Go To: Cemetery, Olson attended an academy, and http://www.ols Seattle, WA., apprenticed as a machinist at age 16. onengr.com/do Section 177. GPS of He worked in various foundries and wnload/globios Tombstone RR shops until 1854 when he went to /andrewslyman by Jerry Minnesota and took up farming. In tbbio.pdf Olson: 1859, he left for California with his family via New York and Panama, 47°37'59.7" ending in San Francisco, where he 122°18'58.3" worked in machine shops. In 1860 ± 7' he came to Seattle and opened a machine shop. Page 5 of 735 GLO Surveyor Personal Notes Copyright 2012 Jerry Olson 7/9/2012 Surveyor First Contract Year Politics Photos Bio Burial Tombstone Age Notes /Type* He prospected for coal, discovered the Gilman Mine in 1863, and filed a 400 ac. homestead at its location, East of Seattle. An active Republican, he was awarded his GLO contract in 1862 by Republican Anson Henry, and used Deputy Surveyor Edwin Richardson as Compassman. His contract included Duwamish Head, Alki Point and Three Tree Point, and was just west of Seattle. Lyman had no known survey experience. He was Clerk to the United States District Court from 1865-75, member of Washington Territorial House of Representatives from 1865-1866, on the Seattle City Council from 1871-73, and in the State House of Rep. from 1891- 1892. He was Chief Clerk to the Washington House of Representatives in 1868. Also from 1899 to 1902, Andrews served in the Washington State Senate . (biography) Page 6 of 735 GLO Surveyor Personal Notes Copyright 2012 Jerry Olson 7/9/2012 Surveyor First Contract Year Politics Photos Bio Burial Tombstone Age Notes /Type* Angell, Homer Daniel Contract 607 1904 Rep see Jerry See Jerry Portland See Jerry 1875-1968 Homer was a short man, but (3/22/1904) USDS Olson Olson, from Memorial Olson played football for the U. of Oregon. web: Go To: Funeral He was born and received his early http://www.ols Home and education in the Wasco Independent onengr.com/do Mausoleum Academy in The Dalles, Oregon. He wnload/globios became a U. S. Deputy Surveyor /angellhomerdb just after finishing Columbia Law io.pdf School, performing contracts in 1904 and 1905in OR, WA, and ID. Three were joint contracts with Clyde W. Riddell, who was a childhood neighbor and played football at the University of Oregon with Homer. Robert Omeg was a chainman on several townships and contracts. Homer practiced law the rest of his career and became Republican Oregon State Rep. from 1929-1936, Oregon State Senator in 1937, and U. S. Congressman from Oregon from 1938-1954, losing the primary to Tom McCall. Growing up near The Dalles, OR, he was a neighbor and cousin of W. A., Charles L., George R. and Roy T. Campbell. (biography) Page 7 of 735 GLO Surveyor Personal Notes Copyright 2012 Jerry Olson 7/9/2012 Surveyor First Contract Year Politics Photos Bio Burial Tombstone Age Notes /Type* Applegate, Elisha Lindsay Oregon Surveyor 1865 Rep Buried in See Jerry 1832-1897 Elisha was born in Missouri and "Lish" General SG Ashland Olson came across the Oregon Trail with Cemetery, his family in 1843. He was the son Ashland, of Lindsay Applegate and the nephew Oregon of Jesse Applegate, a pioneer surveyor. He survived an accident on the Columbia River involving an overturned boat that drowned his brother, a cousin, and a friend. In 1863 he was a Brigadier General in the State Militia. He was editor of the People's Free Press, a Republican paper, influential in the election of Abraham Lincoln. He worked in the U. S. Customs Service in Portland, and for a time was the Indian Agent on the Klamath Reservation. His appointment as Oregon Surveyor General came just before Lincoln was assasinated in 1865 and lasted until 1870. Page 8 of 735 GLO Surveyor Personal Notes Copyright 2012 Jerry Olson 7/9/2012 Surveyor First Contract Year Politics Photos Bio Burial Tombstone Age Notes /Type* Archer, Stevenson Special Instructions 1858 Dem Last in 1818-1902+ R.