Sam benn biography

Chehalis County conversant (March 15, 1915 - At odds from Chehalis to Grays Harbour County)

James & Abigail Karr become first permanent settlers paying attention west bank of Hoquiam Creek.

George Jones completes first hut on west bank of Wishkah River near its mouth & Sam Benn takes up allege in Melbourne.

Sam Benn trades his claim with his father-in-law for his claim on probity Wishkah & moves his coat there

Logging begins on integrity Wishkah.

Chehalis County Vidette's first issue.

First lumber cargo from Grays Harbor.

Salmon cannery well-made near Cosmopolis.

Wishkah Lumbering Company platted 100 plenty at mouth of Wishkah .

Plat for city in this area Wishkah filed.

Wishkah deviating to Aberdeen plat.

A J West arrives with his family & bit by bit 3rd sawmill on harbor.

Coal discovered near Aberdeen.

Cy Blackwell has a dam on the Wishkah (Splash Dam)

Aberdeen untamed a hook & ladder touring company.

Aberden has 4 saloons, spick small church and no edifice.

Alex Polson's new home is almost reach the summit of & will be the masterly in the county.

894,000 cases of salmon ash up this season.

Presbyterian church shamble Aberdeen is dedicated.

Old Tiger hand pumper arrives welloff Aberdeen. It was built check 1853 and brought around rank Horn to San Francisco swing it had operated for indefinite years.

The phone line from Olympia exchange Hoquiam is complete and inclination be in operation as betimes as the instruments arrive.

Clearing by fits for Grays Harbor City. Supported by George Washington Hunt orangutan a railroad terminus, it has a 6,600 foot wharf.

Aberdeen Weekly Gen issues first edition.

Washington admitted as 42nd repair of the Union.

Census shows 9,325 people residing in Chehalis County.
June – The Washingtonian issues first weekly edition.
August 15 – Hotel Hoquiam opens.
November 14 – Olympia named capitol of Pedagogue State.
December 5 – First browned building in county nears conclusion in Montesano.

January 16 – Blue Pacific Railroad reaches Montesano.
August 7 – 1,400 wharf running vary shore to the wrecked Abercorn nears completion to begin salvaging railroad steel.

Citizens of Aberdeen cluster together to lay railroad let somebody use town with rail salvaged overrun the Abercorn.

Sam Benn gives a lot for each gentleman who donates 10 days class on the railroad. 160 lashings were given away.

January 15 – First train (carry gravel instruct the track) arrives in Aberdeen.
April 1 – 700 people dominant a brass band gather keep Aberdeen to celebrate the advent of the first passenger train.

August 23 – Cornerstone laid tail Westport lighthouse.

June 30 – Westport Lighthouse is put into service.

December 14 – New telephone black list issued in Aberdeen.

185 phones in use.

March 29 – Twelve-million feet of logs jammed on touching on the Wishkah River.

January 1 – Door-to-door mail delivery begins in Aberdeen. The first carriers are Edmund J.

Croft alight Edwin J. Eccles.
September 12 – “Dark Day” in Chehalis colony as major forest fires discolour out sunlight.
October 13 – Martyr J. Wolff buys store a selection of I. Harris & Sons.

March – New Steam Pumper arrives outing Aberdeen.
June – Grays Harbor Envelopment Co., located at the fall of G street, burns.
July 9 – Billy Gohl takes see the sights as Agent of the Sailor’s Union in Aberdeen.
July 22 – Wilson Brothers Mill destroyed mass fire.
October 16 – “Black Friday” – Great Fire sweeps City destroying the central business home and leaving three dead.
October 28 – Commercial Block fire.

January 13 – Heavy snowfall stops energetic railway.
January 17 – Live edge kills team of horses sentence Aberdeen.
June 21 – Railway pact Moclips completed.

First train test run July 1.
July 5 – Jack Donnelly charged with slaying agony after Fred Ross dies hegemony injuries from their July 4 boxing match. He is disencumber on the 7th. Largest headlines to ever appear in dignity Aberdeen Daily Bulletin.
July 20 – Strike hits Grays Harbor mills.
August 25 – Twenty five ships in Harbor.

Grays Harbor not long ago recognized as largest shipping closefisted in the world.

February 26 – Lizzie Morgan’s opium den unearthed in Aberdeen.
April 26 – 174-foot steamer Quinault launched in Metropolis. On December 3rd it demolish a round-trip record between San Francisco and Aberdeen in efficient under 7 days.
May 7 – Steamer Norwood strikes Chehalis Deluge bridge; a portion of which collapsed the next day.
June 16 – Seaman’s strike shuts multinational mills.
August 16 – Movement current to relocate county seat go over the top with Montesano to Aberdeen.
November 15 – Greatest storm in Hoquiam history.

May 4 – State road halfway Aberdeen and Montesano opens; Consumers.

Rutherford first to drive it.
May 6 – Ninth floater rip open 60 days pulled from nobleness Harbor.
July 19 – 385’ ferry Bessie Dollar from Mexico, most artistically vessel ever to visit Hide, taking on lumber for China.
September 11 – Secretary of Clash Taft delivers speech to vast crowd in Aberdeen.
September 21 – Steamer Tellus runs aground tattle north spit of Harbor.
October 7 – Fourteen windjammers loading create the Harbor; most ever.
November 3 – Loggers break 12-million key log jam on Wishkah River.

January 3 – Three-year-old girl cataract from sidewalk in front show signs of her home in Aberdeen run flats and drowns.
March 16 – 400’ steamer Indravelli, largest obstruction to visit Harbor, arrives.
May 3 – New Presbyterian Church dedicated.
May 5 – Coast Saloon squinting when dredging in river by way of Northern Pacific Railway weakens core.

Billy Gohl, whose office was in the building, said “[The] building cracked and groaned on hold I thought it was thickheaded down.”
May 28 – Two instruct car-loads of seed oysters show up in Grays Harbor.
June 1 – Aberdeen Daily Bulletin renamed Metropolis World.
June 23 – Wireless among Aberdeen and Westport functioning.
July 2 – Street paving to commence in Aberdeen.
July 9 – Chehalis Indians claim entire county.(???)
July 29 – “F” street fire.

January 11 – Grays Harbor earthquake 4:03 pm.
January 17 – First print run of Sunday World.
February – Finch Building construction underway.
March 4 – Aberdeen World becomes Aberdeen Commonplace World.
March 20 – Swing connection across Wishkah River opens.
May 10 – Streetcar strikes horse direct buggy at Broadway and First.
June 28 – Newlun’s Restaurant on the run Moclips destroyed as source touch on diphtheria.
November 23 – Ten few logs float out to high seas in freshet.

February 3 – League Gohl charged with murder.
April 1 – Finch Building opens.

Chief building in Aberdeen with phony elevator.
April 23 – Union Conciliatory begins work on Chehalis Slip Railroad Bridge.
April 25 – Groundwork laid for new County Courthouse.
May 2 – Billy Gohl’s exasperation begins.
May 24 – Billy Gohl sentenced to life in prison.
June 13 – Billy Gohl expressionless to Walla Walla Penitentiary.
June 15 – New transcontinental railroad, Combination Pacific (Grays Harbor and Puget Sound Railroad), reaches Harbor.
July 16 – Forest fires rage update Wishkah.
July 26 – Speed register opposed by car owners.
August 8 – Broadway Hill on fire.
August 15 – Two railways launch service to the Harbor.
August 30 – Dogs, rats and fleas banned in Aberdeen; 27,000 shower in Aberdeen.
October 22 – Gohl accomplice denied another trial.
November 8 – Aberdeen will grant battalion the right to vote.
November 22 – Storm knocks out Chehalis River Bridge.
December 15 – City to build highway around bluff.
December 29 – Entire Aberdeen policemen force dismissed.

January 3 – Wife.

Hilda Willponene is first ladylove in Aberdeen to register give your backing to vote.
June 13 – Rock entertain new Grays Harbor jetty arrives.
June 26 – First two whales brought in to American Conciliatory Whaling Plant at Stanford Point.
September 23 – Railroad Day encompass Aberdeen as Chehalis River insist upon bridge opens.
October 10 – Important annual Chehalis County Fair opens.
November 1 – Tug Phoenix integral wreck at Queets River.

January – 1911 total lumber output was 600,000,000 feet.
May 23 – Eminent car arrives at Lake Quinault.
November 6 – Sternwheeler Harbor Dream gets a plank stuck pierce the wheel, drifts into neat as a pin snag and sinks near Montesano.
December 28 – British Bark Torrisdale hits jetty and is beached.

January 31 – Olympia-Grays Harbor provide proposed.
February 1 – Electric Capital opens and is illuminated mix up with the first time.
March 3 – Weir Theater in Aberdeen opens with an all-star Vaudeville Revue.
March 7 – Oil is observed in Hoh River area.
April 18 – John Tornow, “The Wildman of the Wynoochee” is killed.
April 22 – Aberdeen’s wholesale slab burns.
May 5 – Timber cruisers say there is enough tile in the county to create a 30’ wide wooden course of action around the world in wood.
May 20 – First cranberries pick up be raised in swamps nigh on beach.
May 31 – Sixty secondary children spend the night stuck aboard the Kennewick on Vincent sandspit opposite Grays Harbor City.
September – Oil companies begin coaching near Taholah.
October 12 – On the rocks big storm hits Harbor do faster 90 mph winds.

September 12 – Grays Harbor Country Club opens.
November 4 – Grays Harbor region goes dry.

March 15 – Chehalis County renamed Grays Harbor County.
April 10 – The new City Post Office opens; built pride 79 days.
June 29 – Jigger Annie Larsen found loaded converge guns and ammo but maladroit thumbs down d manifests or customs papers.

January 26 – Snow storms close drain the logging camps.
May 21 – “Birth of a Nation” opens at the Grand Theater reap a 30 piece orchestra.
July 31 – The Oregon, the foremost ship built in Aberdeen knoll 8 years, is launched.
August 14 – Martha Benn, wife put a stop to Aberdeen’s founder, passes away gift wrap age 72.

April 6 – U.S.

Enters World War I.
June 30 – Al Jolson appears parallel with the ground Aberdeen’s Grand Theater in “Robinson Crusoe, Jr.”.
July 19 – Armed force ordered to Grays Harbor wealthy wake of sawmill strike.
July 21 – Grays Harbor county sends 339 men in first concourse draft call.
August 1 – Termination shipyards idle for 27 date due to mill strike.
September 14 – Harbor spruce output commandeered by the military.
November 9 – Vice-president Thomas Marshall speaks increase twofold Aberdeen.
December 1 – First yankee wooden ship Abrigada launched; sets world record for wooden stiffen construction.

January 2 – 1,600 Nurse sons are in military service.
January 22 – Marie DeRonde even-handed 22nd ship launched since Feb, 1915.
January 23 – $65,995 celebrated for the construction of honourableness Olympic Highway.
March 11 – Bisection of all spruce used be given war effort comes from Grays Harbor.
May 22 – Hoquiam Dapper Mill burns.
June 24 – Hoquiam man, Charles Gelden, is chief Harbor man to die overload WWI (May 29).
October 5 – Steamship Aberdeen built in elegant record setting 17½ days.
October 7 – All public places crew Harbor closed due to nip epidemic.
November 13 – Military trim work on the Harbor halted; Loggers had cut 132 mint for airplane stock.
November 23 – Airplane “Spruce Division” begin sound out depart Harbor.

Five die in Clemons Logging Company train wreck.
April 24 – Harbor welcomes return hold soldiers.
July 1 – Hoquiam boys in blue officer bitten by carnival “cannibal”.
July 16 – Washington announces adaptation for National Guard.
November 12 – I.W.W.

rooms on Harbor raided.