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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1853-04 - 100 Years Ago on Duwamish RiverMg. AND MRS..JOSEPH FOSTER. She was Martha Jane ,Steele before "ilea' ,marriage in Tle Steele homestead was",across thei'Dsr ',Wamish from the. Foster place. ((Behr) ,THE JAMES STEELS the fa,eground at higqjut'whtch resembles a 'f is"the, ferry 1which•'Steele 'operate'd"„acress river.'Mr'and Mrk, J,'W. Steele ere in the bu a+dN t r 5 , a; • he Foster pntse lett succeeded James ar aeS fist cabin of cedar shakes. A. ilpilSix now oessop.et the site. This ,pie.'" Alga(fa bout 1'B90. Th'ese'photegrapha'0• bf owned by Mrs. H gory Foster,,, it k 'MO'RDA' C. 'SLAUS©N' ttiialld stopped paddling and •eat nr;eli n th. dugout. They cast a quick het W eta wh' Rt -red yyr req "f"ttd"'W1'ilta dome o in brilliant color, "he two brothers looked at eac'other, The sons Methodist minister had 'stetted west a "year Nothing In their strict training had pre. fjlll red t.I m lora frontier life, Still, they'd done well, They ,had gone over the Oregon Trail, seen Oregon California and come north, This was their first sight of lake Washington. II 'The next day,they staked their claims at the fork all Where the White and' .Black Rivera formed the Du• Jo'eep't11R.nd Stephen Foster built a cabin o1 otstar shakes end settled there,. .The place later was rwal'ned for them -the' town 91 Foster. an expert with an ax, once he arrived In Washing. IN her "Tale of a, Pioneer Family," Jano Fen.I:oI ton. In his younger days, It was said. that he could;",1 Kelly has ,written an Interesting account of aeb,;ol cut a tree from eight to ten feet In diameter In, less days during the 60'a,'', ;While her family wus living than an hour.','In the place now known' aa Allentown, she and tents "Joseph Foster was one of six men who'carried ^ walked three and a hall miles to the first school rn the first log Into the old Yesler mill on, hand spikes' iI,','the Van Aeselt homestead. ' The, others were his brother; Stephen, Abe Bryant The girls whiled away "the ^time by practicing; A. Tyler, W. F, Travers, and Doc Wright:" 'their spelling with such success that first Jun41and Joseph did not forget'rthe work hel,had;learned"! then Ella would' win the rl a eve,,; to the Y11Ust as a youth. In 1854 he made a weddin salt speller. Miss Edna hlptile a niece the first t Ilor d suit q " thes made , g , 'Ne the hell teScO the suit LB Wycoff's bleckamlth 'iy ep on made In Seattle. For Want Flret account of a'fatal o'nd subsequent settling o apt(. er, assisted by ere published In The e early 30s, oneer Family, ourney west I Duwamish River. aprinB deY wise "We walked`Itnee deep cloves trees In full bloom,' Jane recalled was the most wonderful men 1n all the world," TER did welhln the gold fl... . aelTwere mairiedabyAthe28, Rev 71, Jane and F. X. Fteturutal In JOthte_Ted' in a few Months to serve his drat term,u reach; heDpwareleh Valle from Seattle; was late because it waa diff%out III..,,,x ',II uuduum"illlli SEPH FOS he begin. Eighteen Triende•and relatives i rang and ntart Aeve moocrat, he peewee electetl, 1 ', it"ttee to ','°,!gokle Y oseberry'wedding dinner 01 rple,,4@sly aek p4 h'fidnake', kenil Washington Tweglslalure, e°rv1'ng;;22,yeara.,;;,otlterhomegrowndellear, ao'tiy III written Joseph I life b Mre. Jane the ;lyll,o died In 1931. Janes aunt, Martha particularrinterestntoeling County.- Inn Deet bey,'1Michael ;telly 'wan not yet 21 when he tiled u fu,11111 I III lYn d ' 1860, he Introduced a bill to bulld a roll' e a ltar„y road h1,1,e,f, f rntl , het was entitled wastmarried and the head I;lil'iIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Y.'"Man mementoesnag rowth Colville, hisbro road and watt the.lirst over, '-,18.172; he .and Jane and the drat ;b th aIle lea -Foster raby m On April 7, III III f veF v two families -Foster . al wtbh she development a q 1n''ta7 }'abs to "Fort 44 fMike named, 4b y °I III I ' '. p6 ll dull uW t 1(GI '1 I 'llllllhO ,,e DuwawlshYsfe wned by these the n. the moutans.'university a introduced j4 16111 to rpPtleph o lit,,,,g tend fro leadsto l}Ia l#'nd• ve loceilta ';,,,11111 °,r James Steele Susannah Steele Robbins i eek with also Tide resent ]husband. Milton Robbins ,land Susannah's Ca dont w,l., l„:0".0000/000luilll we n the"$otterle Jane Fenton Kelly "Tale of a Pioneer Family" Allentown museum za Yell LB Wycoff Stephen Foster Abe Bryant Foster A. Tyler WF Travers Doc Wright Edna Whipple Michael Kelly Van Asselt School 11 tiet sun hec old he q ra ha of the river when two sister's daughterstAn b a previous marriage, Jane Ella sn ®i l4k telatA a tq' ld l ere oZ r told a ° ( I , he has than b oty d eq througja the valley. r ,1 "Chs Ell'1u' ! gt n's 13Iea h moved tof that year the Field, .41' I It I Joseph Foster married Martha Steele h!! oW on eahlbtt at museum fa"'Josepti Foster's asap t as er ar a tee a une FF IBOS M th had thebefore; -1i1 i a 4oX; Yoagh woe eonelde;ed les° rntitaet Dn a 1g r P a trade/, and Foster''; broth n IS',^ ,` river from oe girls Ilulpmp u It "iNP en lt@dlbr leas phi to IIII'94# Wig, known as Bridges span the y7' till hro4bers,, his daughter4rOaetrelated the buw8mi yar a tloh. , atnd Mr,, mjtyhllua, ;;iterry members the'old Steele