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<\/a>Dr. Thomas Minor. Photo: Seattle Municipal Archives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nDr. Thomas Minor was born in 1844, in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where his parents were missionaries. Thomas and his brother William served as surgeons in the Union Army during the Civil War, but their lives took very different turns. William Minor suffered a mental breakdown, killed a man in London in 1872, and was confined for most of the rest of his life to the notorious Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. As author Simon Winchester details in his book The Professor and the Madman<\/a>, William spent his time in the asylum furiously contributing to the Oxford English Dictionary. Thomas went on to become a significant civic leader as Mayor of Port Townsend, then Mayor of Seattle. Just as his political career was taking off to the state level, Minor set off on a duck hunting canoe trip across the dangerous Saratoga Passage with friends. They were not seen alive again. His companion\u2019s bodies were found near Whidbey Island. Minor\u2019s body was never recovered.<\/p>\n This street was created to serve the log rolling needs of Henry Yesler’s sawmill on Elliott Bay. Yesler arrived at Elliott Bay in 1852 and established the first steam-powered sawmill on Puget Sound within a few months. At the time, his mill was Seattle\u2019s only industry. He employed nearly every white male settler in the city and was inclusive of Native Americans. Yesler married his wife Sarah in Ohio when he was 29 and she was 17. They had two children, both who died young. According to HistoryLink<\/a>, before Sarah joined him in Seattle, Yesler had been living with a teen-aged Native American girl, Susan, and fathered her child, Julia. When Sarah moved to town, Susan and Julia were sent to live with Yesler\u2019s friend. Sarah knew about the affair and didn\u2019t mind. She was rumored to have her own infidelities with other women, but the Yesler\u2019s held unconventional beliefs, and were open to free-love for all.<\/p>\n The alley honors Seattle pioneer David S. “Doc” Maynard who platted the future International District in 1853 when it was still mostly under water. Before Maynard arrived, the land on Puget Sound was called Duwamps. Maynard stepped in and rallied to name the land after Chief Seattle<\/a>, a Native American tribal chief and peacekeeper. Maynard recognized that besides the tools, medicines, and other positive things that the white men had brought to Puget Sound, they also forced disease, intolerant religions, and the inhospitable idea of private property onto the Native American people. According to HistoryLink<\/a>, Dr. Maynard fell in love with a woman named Catherine Broshears, whose husband\u2019s life he\u2019d failed to save in Old Nebraska. He accompanied the widow and her party to Oregon, and somewhere along the line they fell in love. Unfortunately, Maynard was already married to a woman named Lydia back in Ohio. Once embedded into Seattle civic life, Maynard lobbied the Oregon Territorial Legislature to pass an act that would give him a divorce from Lydia so he could be with Catherine. It is unclear why Maynard only got an alley while his fellow pioneers had major thoroughfares and neighborhoods named after them. His funeral was the largest Seattle had ever known and he was widely considered to be one of the most influential characters in Seattle history.<\/p>\n Chief Seattle\u2019s daughter, Kikisoblu was well-known to early Seattle pioneers. According to HistoryLink<\/a>, Maynard\u2019s wife Catherine told Kikisoblu that her beauty didn\u2019t fit her name, and christened her, “Princess Angeline.” Kikisoblu worked as a laundress for residents until she grew old and moved to a small home on the Seattle waterfront at Pike and Western Avenue. When Native Americans were banned<\/a> from the city in 1865, Kikisoblu refused to succumb to pressure from white settlers to relocate and remained in her home till her death. Her image appeared on postcards and spoons and other Seattle souvenirs, and yet, the Duwamish people were not able to get federal recognition till the end of the Clinton Administration. This recognition was overturned under George W. Bush. They are still seeking federal recognition. Learn more at the Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center<\/a>.<\/p>\nYesler Way<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Henry Yesler. Photo: Seattle Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nMaynard Alley<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Dr. David Swinson Maynard. Photo: Seattle Historical Photograph Collection<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nSouth Angeline Street<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Kikisoblu aka \u201cPrincess Angeline\u201d. Photo: Seattle Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nDenny Way<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Louisa Denny, David Denny, Madge Denny and Emily Inez Denny, 1858. Photo: Seattle Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n