Mary Jane Atkins, age 62, died at 375 Columbia, Seattle
Per 1880 Seattle Census, Mary J Atkins (46, she and her parents were b. in MA), with husband Henry A Atkins (52, Vermont) and children Mary E Atkins (12, WA), Percy A Atkins (9,WA) and Frank R Atkins (7,WA)
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The widow Mary Jane Barr Osborne Atkins was a member of a group of young women that are historically referred to as Mercer Girls, who emigrated from New England to Seattle in 1866. She, with her six-year-old son Eben S. Osborne in tow, departed New York City aboard the steamship Continental on January 16, 1866, sailed through the Straits of Magellan, and arrived in San Francisco on April 24. Nearly a month later, on May 12, she sailed for Puget Sound on the bark Huntsville and arrived at Port Ludlow on May 28. The next day she covered the twenty some miles under sunny skies to Seattle on the Maria under Captain Humboldt Jack, arriving at 5 p.m. Along with many other Mercer Girls she likely boarded at the Occidental Hotel until she accepted a teaching position at Chambers Prairie in todays Lacey, Washington. Mary and Eben boarded in the home of Thurston County pioneer Stephen L. Ruddell. Less than a year later, on April 28, 1867, Mary married Henry A. Atkins and moved to Seattle. Henry became the first Mayor of Seattle in 1870. The couple had three children, two sons and a daughter. Hollywood took this story and turned it into the 1968-1970 television serial titled Here Come the Brides. E. S. Osborne, Living Pioneers of Washington, Seattle Post Intelligencer, December 25, 1915, 6; Roger Conant, Mercer Belles the Journal of a Reporter, edited by Lenna A. Deutsch (Pullman: WSU Press, 1992), 99; Conant.
The Cruise of the Continental, Social Voices III, April 15, 1869, 2; Married, Puget Sound Weekly Gazette, May 6, 1867, 2.
Per 1880 Seattle Census, Mary J Atkins (46, she and her parents were b. in MA), with husband Henry A Atkins (52, Vermont) and children Mary E Atkins (12, WA), Percy A Atkins (9,WA) and Frank R Atkins (7,WA)
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The widow Mary Jane Barr Osborne Atkins was a member of a group of young women that are historically referred to as Mercer Girls, who emigrated from New England to Seattle in 1866. She, with her six-year-old son Eben S. Osborne in tow, departed New York City aboard the steamship Continental on January 16, 1866, sailed through the Straits of Magellan, and arrived in San Francisco on April 24. Nearly a month later, on May 12, she sailed for Puget Sound on the bark Huntsville and arrived at Port Ludlow on May 28. The next day she covered the twenty some miles under sunny skies to Seattle on the Maria under Captain Humboldt Jack, arriving at 5 p.m. Along with many other Mercer Girls she likely boarded at the Occidental Hotel until she accepted a teaching position at Chambers Prairie in todays Lacey, Washington. Mary and Eben boarded in the home of Thurston County pioneer Stephen L. Ruddell. Less than a year later, on April 28, 1867, Mary married Henry A. Atkins and moved to Seattle. Henry became the first Mayor of Seattle in 1870. The couple had three children, two sons and a daughter. Hollywood took this story and turned it into the 1968-1970 television serial titled Here Come the Brides. E. S. Osborne, Living Pioneers of Washington, Seattle Post Intelligencer, December 25, 1915, 6; Roger Conant, Mercer Belles the Journal of a Reporter, edited by Lenna A. Deutsch (Pullman: WSU Press, 1992), 99; Conant.
The Cruise of the Continental, Social Voices III, April 15, 1869, 2; Married, Puget Sound Weekly Gazette, May 6, 1867, 2.
Mary Jane Atkins, age 62, died at 375 Columbia, Seattle
Per 1880 Seattle Census, Mary J Atkins (46, she and her parents were b. in MA), with husband Henry A Atkins (52, Vermont) and children Mary E Atkins (12, WA), Percy A Atkins (9,WA) and Frank R Atkins (7,WA)
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The widow Mary Jane Barr Osborne Atkins was a member of a group of young women that are historically referred to as Mercer Girls, who emigrated from New England to Seattle in 1866. She, with her six-year-old son Eben S. Osborne in tow, departed New York City aboard the steamship Continental on January 16, 1866, sailed through the Straits of Magellan, and arrived in San Francisco on April 24. Nearly a month later, on May 12, she sailed for Puget Sound on the bark Huntsville and arrived at Port Ludlow on May 28. The next day she covered the twenty some miles under sunny skies to Seattle on the Maria under Captain Humboldt Jack, arriving at 5 p.m. Along with many other Mercer Girls she likely boarded at the Occidental Hotel until she accepted a teaching position at Chambers Prairie in todays Lacey, Washington. Mary and Eben boarded in the home of Thurston County pioneer Stephen L. Ruddell. Less than a year later, on April 28, 1867, Mary married Henry A. Atkins and moved to Seattle. Henry became the first Mayor of Seattle in 1870. The couple had three children, two sons and a daughter. Hollywood took this story and turned it into the 1968-1970 television serial titled Here Come the Brides. E. S. Osborne, Living Pioneers of Washington, Seattle Post Intelligencer, December 25, 1915, 6; Roger Conant, Mercer Belles the Journal of a Reporter, edited by Lenna A. Deutsch (Pullman: WSU Press, 1992), 99; Conant.
The Cruise of the Continental, Social Voices III, April 15, 1869, 2; Married, Puget Sound Weekly Gazette, May 6, 1867, 2.
Per 1880 Seattle Census, Mary J Atkins (46, she and her parents were b. in MA), with husband Henry A Atkins (52, Vermont) and children Mary E Atkins (12, WA), Percy A Atkins (9,WA) and Frank R Atkins (7,WA)
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The widow Mary Jane Barr Osborne Atkins was a member of a group of young women that are historically referred to as Mercer Girls, who emigrated from New England to Seattle in 1866. She, with her six-year-old son Eben S. Osborne in tow, departed New York City aboard the steamship Continental on January 16, 1866, sailed through the Straits of Magellan, and arrived in San Francisco on April 24. Nearly a month later, on May 12, she sailed for Puget Sound on the bark Huntsville and arrived at Port Ludlow on May 28. The next day she covered the twenty some miles under sunny skies to Seattle on the Maria under Captain Humboldt Jack, arriving at 5 p.m. Along with many other Mercer Girls she likely boarded at the Occidental Hotel until she accepted a teaching position at Chambers Prairie in todays Lacey, Washington. Mary and Eben boarded in the home of Thurston County pioneer Stephen L. Ruddell. Less than a year later, on April 28, 1867, Mary married Henry A. Atkins and moved to Seattle. Henry became the first Mayor of Seattle in 1870. The couple had three children, two sons and a daughter. Hollywood took this story and turned it into the 1968-1970 television serial titled Here Come the Brides. E. S. Osborne, Living Pioneers of Washington, Seattle Post Intelligencer, December 25, 1915, 6; Roger Conant, Mercer Belles the Journal of a Reporter, edited by Lenna A. Deutsch (Pullman: WSU Press, 1992), 99; Conant.
The Cruise of the Continental, Social Voices III, April 15, 1869, 2; Married, Puget Sound Weekly Gazette, May 6, 1867, 2.
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