Rev. John F. Damon
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- Sep 26, 1872The First Teachers’ Institute: A Battle for Seattle’s SoulIn September 1872, the Territory’s top educators gathered in Seattle to debate everything from corporal punishment to the role of women in teaching, laying the groundwork for public education in Washington.Territorial University, Seattle, WA
- Jul 19, 1887A Community's Last Act for a Murdered ManWhen immigrant Julius Scherbring was killed for his meager savings, his German countrymen stepped in to ensure he received a proper burial rather than a pauper’s grave.Seattle, WA
- Jul 16, 1889The Cashier, the Milliner, and the Missing PayrollA Seattle steamboat cashier leaves his post—and a significant sum of company money—to elope with a milliner, triggering a city-wide sensation.Seattle, WA
- Feb 20, 1893Seattle Rising: The Blocks Going Up Where the Fire BurnedDexter Horton & Co. reopens on the same corner it held before the great fire, as new brick blocks, houses and excavations push out across the young city.Seattle, WA
- Jul 11, 1894He Chose the Altar Over the Jail CellA seduction warrant, a midnight minister, and a groom who nearly changed his mind.Seattle, WA
- Aug 27, 1894A Mountain of Coffins: Franklin Buries Its MinersAfter a mine fire killed 37 men, the coal town of Franklin held a day of funerals—five graves at Black Diamond, three Italian miners on a hillside, and widows whose grief doctors feared would kill them.Franklin Cemetery, Black Diamond, WA
- Aug 29, 1894A City Rallies for Its Miners: The Franklin Disaster Relief FundSeattle workers, unions, and businesses dig deep for families of miners killed in the Franklin mine explosion, pushing the relief fund past $1,000.Seattle, WA
- Sep 17, 1894From Vera Cruz to Seattle: The Improbable Life of Levi F. ComptonA Mexican War veteran, gold rusher, bridge builder and Odd Fellows patriarch died at his Spring Street home, leaving a civic record that stretched from Virginia slavery to a Chehalis reform school.211 Spring Street, Seattle, WA
- Sep 19, 1894The Pastor Broke Down: Seattle Buries the Pioneer Who Built Its Reform SchoolA crowded North Seattle church, a room full of old pioneers, and a eulogy so affecting that the minister — a friend since 1849 — had to stop and compose himself.Seattle, WA
- Jan 2, 1895The Pioneer Pastor Who Counted Seattle's Weddings and FuneralsRev. John F. Damon arrived in 1869 and spent a quarter-century marrying and burying Seattle—often without enough in return to cover his car fare.Seattle, WA
- Jan 21, 1895A Monster Rally Against Rome: Nativists Pack the Seattle ArmoryAnti-Catholic secret societies and the American Protective Association fill the Armory to protest 'papal interference' in American politics and to promise a fight at the ballot box.Seattle, WA