Percy Rochester
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- Oct 21, 1892Seattle's Money for the Roslyn Widows and OrphansA citizens' committee reports nearly $3,000 raised for families of the Roslyn mine explosion, places five Catholic children in the House of the Good Shepherd, and sends the final check to Roslyn.Seattle, WA
- Mar 21, 1893The World's Fair Statistical FiascoKing County scrambled to prove its economic worth to the Chicago World’s Fair commission, while local officials grumbled about the impossibility of gathering honest numbers from suspicious business owners.Seattle, WA
- Feb 17, 1895The Town That Was Never Filed: A Buyer Sues Over Columbia's Missing PlatRobert Blackburn paid for a lot in a heavily promoted new Seattle townsite, then discovered that no plat of Columbia had ever been recorded with the county auditor.Columbia City, Seattle, WA