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Henry Yesler's Native American Daughter Julia Is Born on June 12 HistoryLink.org - the Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History Page 1 of 5 Search Encyclopedia Go Advanced Search Home About Us Contact Us Education Bookstore Tourism Advanced Search 7075 HistoryLink.org essays now available Timeline Library < Browse to Previous Essay | Browse to Next Essay > Donation system not supported by Safari Shortcuts Henry Yesler's Native American daughter Julia is born Libraries on June 12, 1855. Cyberpedias HistoryLink.org Essay 3396 : Printer-Friendly Format Timeline Essays On June 12, 1855, the Native American daughter of Seattle pioneer Henry Yesler (1810-1892) is born. Julia (Benson) Intermela (1855- People's Histories 1907) is the child of Susan, the daughter of Curly (Su-quardle) and Henry Yesler. Curly or Curly Jim was a hereditary chief of the Selected Collections Duwamish tribe. The evidence that the mixed race infant Julia was the Cities & Towns offspring of Curly's daughter Susan and Henry Yesler is here laid out by Kathie M. Zetterberg, of Renton, Washington, aided by Counties HistoryLink.org Staff Historian David Wilma. Zetterberg traces her Biographies ancestry to Julia (Benson) Intermela (1855-1907). Julia Yesler Benson Intermela (1855-1907), ca. 1875 Interactive Cybertours Kathie Zetterberg states, "Over the years my dad's family has passed Courtesy Kathie Zetterberg on the story of being descended from Henry L. Yesler and the Slideshows daughter of Chief Curly (Su-quardle), hereditary chief of the Public Ports Duwamish tribe. Their daughter was Julia, my great grandmother." Audio & Video Julia "Yesler's" Obituaries Research Shortcuts Julia (Benson) Intermela died on February 11, 1907. The Seattle Post- Map Searches Intelligencer and The Seattle Times described her as "Henry Yesler's Alphabetical Search Timeline Date Search eldest daughter." The P-I ran a photograph captioned "Julia Yesler Topic Search Intermela." The official record of Julia's death has room for the name and birthplace of her father. The name is left blank, but the father's Features Book of the Fortnight birthplace is Ohio. (Yesler moved to Seattle from Ohio, though his Audio/Video Enhanced actual birthplace was Maryland.) History Bookshelf Klondike Gold Rush Database Henry had left his wife Sarah Yesler (1822-1887) in Ohio with their Duvall Newspaper Index Wellington Scrapbook son Henry George Yesler. She came to Seattle in mid-July 1858, having left their son with relatives (he died there the next year). More History Kathie Zetterberg states, "According to our family tradition, when Washington FAQs Washington Milestones Sarah came, the Indian wife had to go. Yesler asked a person named Honor Rolls Benson to foster Julia for him." Columbia Basin Julia Benson and Charles Intermela, ca. 1890 Courtesy Helen and Daren Powell Everett Chief Curly and Yesler's Mill Olympia Seattle Spokane At the age of 41, Henry L. Yesler arrived in Seattle from Massillon, Tacoma Ohio, by way of California and Oregon. He had been looking around Walla Walla the West Coast for a site for the steam sawmill he wanted to build. He Roads & Rails selected the tiny settlement of Seattle on October 20, 1852. Claim sites were adjusted between Dr. David "Doc" Maynard and Carson Boren to make room for his mill on the water. As his business grew, his sawmill became the heart of the business district. Yesler's cookhouse was the community meeting hall. The mill cut lumber from the great stands of fir nearby and his main market was California. Yesler hired Indians as well as whites for the operation, and they all worked 12-hour days. This is where Henry first got to know Chief Curly, who worked for him at the mill. Mixed-Race Context of Pioneer Seattle Henry Yesler There are references in many accounts to Native American women Courtesy MOHAI who did much of the laundry, cooking and household chores in http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3396 6/2/2016 HistoryLink.org - the Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History Page 2 of 5 residence with white men. In her Indians in the Making , historian Alexandra Harmon writes: "Many a Boston [i.e., American] bachelor took a native wife. Because they were ignorant or careless of the social and economic obligations that came with sexual privileges in the women's society, or because they were intent on claiming the privileges that patriarchs enjoyed in their own society, some non-Indian men disappointed their native in-laws. But those who observed natives' norms often gained access to resources and a variety of services as well as companionship. In addition, men who The Seattle Daily Times , February 12, 1907 married Indians by American law -- an option available until the territorial legislature proscribed it in 1855 -- were entitled to double the size of their Donation Land Act claims." Indiana native Nicholas Sheffer recalled in 1909 for The Lynden Tribune: “Most of the white men on Puget Sound then, whose wives were not with them, had Indian women for housekeepers, clam diggers, etc.” Some white settlers viewed the associations of whites and Indians with disapproval tinged with racism. On June 21, 1854, the Rev. David Blaine (1824-1900) complained in a letter to relatives in the East: "We have in our community many of the most intelligent and better class of persons, many of whom have moved Seattle Post-Intelligencer , February 12, 1907 in refined society at home, who have been moral and Courtesy Seattle Public Library upright until they came to the Pacific Coast, but now they show no respect for religion nor regard for the Sabbath. They live with savages and live as savages. When they left the states their only aim was to get rich, and to secure the wealth they seek. They violate every moral principle with the utmost recklessness and profess all kinds of infidelity to quiet their consciences and pollute and excuse their wickedness." On January 1, 1854, Reverend Blaine's wife Catharine Blaine (1829- 1908) wrote: "Quite a number of our neighbors were in the states members of churches, but are now Universalists or infidels in theory and in practice no better. The intercourse the whites have with the Indians is such as to debase both. The Indians at best are but a poor degraded HistoryLink.org lampoon of Henry Yesler s frontier improprieties, August 9-15, 2001 This race, far inferior to even the lowest among you." [Note: Week update In the nineteenth century the word "intercourse" was HistoryLink graphic by Chris Goodman, 2001 commonly used in non-sexual ways to mean "interactions" or "associations."] Chief Curly During the Indian War There are many different versions of what happened during the Battle of Seattle in the Indian War of 1855-1856. Settlers around Puget Sound were attacked by warring tribes not satified with treaty promises not met. Yakamas came from Eastern Washington and the Nisquallys led by Chief Leschi came from the south. The attack on Seattle took place on January 26, 1856 (Julia would have been 7 months old). Most of the local Indians were on their reservations at this time. Chief Seattle was across the sound at Port Madison (Suquamish). Many people have been credited with saving the white settlers of Seattle. Some said Catherine Maynard, Doc Maynard's wife, hid in a canoe and was transported by Indians from Port Madison to warn the settlers. Princess Angeline, Chief Seattle's daughter, also has been credited with the feat. But in an article in The Puget Sound Gazetteer titled "The Daughter of Old Chief Seattle" (September 1888) Yesler http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3396 6/2/2016 HistoryLink.org - the Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History Page 3 of 5 recounted how old Curly was fishing in his canoe when he met an old woman on her way to Old Man House, on Chief Seattle's reservation. She told Curly that the Duwamish Indians under Chief Claycum had gone with Chief Leschi and the Puyallup Indians to fight the people of Seattle to wipe them out of existence. Curly brought this information to Yesler's office and Yesler took the report to Captain Guert Gansevoort aboard the sloop-of-war Decatur . Nicholas Sheffer confirms the story that Curly warned the settlers in Seattle. Sheffer also provides information on Yesler's baby girl: "During the war and at about this time the U.S. man-of- war Decatur cast anchor in the bay off Seattle and spread her protecting wings over Seattle. I think she had eight guns, if I remember aright, three on each side and one aft and one in the bow -- all cast iron cannons. They looked awfully good in those days though I suppose they were laughing at us now. "The Indians were pressing us pretty close and it was considered the part of wisdom to put the women and children aboard the war ship. I was in Seattle that day [January 26, 1856]. Mr. Yesler's woman did not take kindly to the idea of going on the ship to live, but was at last prevailed upon to do it on account of the baby girl of which the father was very fond. Yesler was a good man, never making himself conspicuous, never crowding himself forward, but his opinion or advice when given was generally about right. He was not married to the Indian woman but when his wife came he did not do like many others, drive the girl back to her tribe. He provided for the Indian woman and looked out for her welfare and for that of his daughter by her. He gave the daughter as good an education as circumstances would permit.
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