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Facts and Events
| Name |
Luther M. Collins |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth? |
Abt 1813 |
Oneida, New York, United States |
| Marriage |
10 Sep 1837 |
Winnebago, Illinois, United Statesto Diana Borst |
| Residence[1] |
14 Sep 1851 |
Seattle, King, Washington, United States |
| Death[1] |
1860 |
Seattle, King, Washington, United States |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Seattle and King County's First White Settlers", in HistoryLink
[1].
"On September 14, 1851, King County's first white settlers arrived at the mouth of the then-winding Duwamish River. They explored the area and on September 16, selected claims about three miles up the river. About two weeks later, on September 27, 1851, they brought family members and household goods by scow from the Nisqually River near Ft. Steilacoom to their claims. These original settlers were Luther M. Collins (1813-1860), Collins' wife Diana, and their children Lucinda and Stephen, Henry Van Asselt (1817-1902), Jacob Mapel (or Maple) (1798-1884) and his adult son Samuel Mapel (or Maple) (1827-1880)."
- King, Washington, United States. 1856 Washington Territorial Census.
Luther Collins, age 44, b. Oneida, Ny, farmer.
| Founders of Seattle, Washington
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| The founding of Seattle is usually dated from the arrival of the Denny Party on November 13, 1851, at Alki Point. The group had travelled overland from the Midwest to Portland, Oregon, then made a short ocean journey up the Pacific coast into Puget Sound, with the express intent of founding a town. The next April, Arthur A. Denny abandoned the original site at Alki in favor of a better-protected site on Elliott Bay, near the south end of what is now downtown Seattle. Around the same time, Doc Maynard began settling the land immediately south of Denny's. The first plats in Seattle were filed May 28, 1853, and Seattle was incorporated as a town in 1867, by which time it had 350 inhabitants. Credit:Wikipedia, "History of Seattle before 1900"
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| Denny Party: Arthur A. Denny, his wife Mary, and children; David T. Denny; Carson D. Boren, his wife Mary, their daughter, and Carson's younger sister Louisa; William N. Bell, his wife Sarah, and children; John Low, his wife Lydia, and children; Lee Terry; Charles Terry.
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Additional Settlers by 1852: Dr. David S. "Doc" Maynard (1808-1873); Henry Yesler (1810-1892); Luther Collins (1813-1860), Henry Van Asselt, and Jacob and Samuel Maple.
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| Current Location: King County, Washington
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