The passing of a Snoqualmie Valley pioneer
A well-known farmer and early settler has died at the age of 50, leaving behind a legacy in the Snoqualmie Valley.
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Mr. Kimball, a well-known farmer of Falls City, died early yesterday morning at Providence Hospital of one of the city's private sanitariums. Mr. Kimball was an owner of the first settlement in the Snoqualmie Valley and spent the greater portion of his life there. He was fifty years of age and leaves a family. Mr. Kimball was well known and universally respected.
“Mr. Kimball was well known and universally respected.”
This notice marks the quiet end of a pioneer life in the Snoqualmie Valley, an area that has since transformed from a frontier of settlers into a vital landscape of conservation and suburban expansion. It highlights the fleeting nature of 'pioneer' fame in the rapidly changing geography of the Pacific Northwest.
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