Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA
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Spokane is a city in the state of Washington, in the northwestern United States. It is the seat of Spokane County. It is located on the Spokane River west of the Rocky Mountain foothills in eastern Washington, 92 miles (148 km) south of the Canadian border, approximately 20 miles (32 km) from the Washington–Idaho border, and 232 miles (373 km) east of Seattle along Interstate 90. The city and wider Inland Northwest region is served by Spokane International Airport, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of downtown Spokane. According to the 2010 Census, Spokane had a population of 208,916, making it the second largest city in Washington and the 102nd largest city in the United States.
The first humans to live in the area, the Spokane people (their name meaning "children of the sun" in Salishan), arrived between 13,000 and 8,000 years ago, living off plentiful game. Known as the birthplace of Father's Day, Spokane is officially nicknamed the "Lilac City". David Thompson explored the area with the westward expansion and establishment of the North West Company's Spokane House in 1810. This trading post was the first long-term European settlement in Washington. Completion of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1881 brought settlers to the Spokane area, and that same year it was officially incorporated as a city with the name "Spokan Falls". In the late 19th century, gold and silver were discovered in the Inland Northwest. The local economy depended on mining, timber, and agriculture until the 1980s. Spokane hosted the first environmentally themed World's Fair at Expo '74.
Many of the older Romanesque Revival-style buildings in the downtown area were designed by architect Kirtland Kelsey Cutter after the Great Fire of 1889. The city also features Riverfront and Manito parks, the Smithsonian-affiliated Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, the Davenport Hotel, and the Fox and Bing Crosby theaters. The Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes serves as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, and the city is also the center of the Mormon Spokane Washington Temple District. Gonzaga University was established in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, and the private Presbyterian Whitworth University opened three years later in north Spokane. In sports, the Gonzaga Bulldogs collegiate basketball team competes at the Division I level. Professional and semi-professional sports teams include the Spokane Indians in Minor League Baseball, Spokane Shock in arena football, and Spokane Chiefs in junior ice hockey. As of 2010, Spokane's only major daily newspaper, The Spokesman-Review, had a daily circulation of over 75,000.
History:
The first humans to live in the Spokane area arrived between 13,000 and 8,000 years ago and were hunter-gatherer societies that lived off plentiful game. The Spokane tribe, after which the city is named (the name meaning "children of the sun" or "sun people" in Salishan), are believed to be either their direct descendants, or descendants of peoples from the Great Plains. When asked by early white explorers, the Spokanes said their ancestors came from "up North".
Early in the 19th century, the Northwest Fur Company sent two white fur trappers west of the Rocky Mountains to search for fur. These were the first white men met by the Spokanes, who believed them to be sacred, and set the trappers up in the Colville River valley for the winter.
The explorer-geographer David Thompson, working as head of the North West Company's Columbia Department, became the first European to explore the Inland Empire (now called the Inland Northwest). Crossing what is now the U.S.–Canadian border from British Columbia, Thompson wanted to expand the North West Company further south in search of furs. After establishing the Kullyspell House and Saleesh House trading posts in what are now Idaho and Montana, Thompson then attempted to expand further west. He sent out two trappers, Jacques Raphael Finlay and Finan McDonald, to construct a fur trading post on the Spokane River in Washington and trade with the local Indians. This post was established in 1810, at the confluence of the Little Spokane and Spokane rivers, becoming the first enduring European settlement of significance in Washington state. Known as the Spokane House, or simply "Spokane", it was in operation from 1810 to 1826. Operations were run by the British North West Company and later the Hudson's Bay Company, and the post was the headquarters of the fur trade between the Rocky and Cascade mountains for 16 years. After the latter business absorbed the North West Company in 1821, the major operations at the Spokane House were eventually shifted north to Fort Colville, reducing the post's significance.
Missionary Samuel Parker visited Spokane Falls in 1836
In 1836, Reverend Samuel Parker visited the area and reported that around 800 Native Americans were living in Spokane Falls. A medical mission was established by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman to cater for Cayuse Indians and hikers of the Oregon Trail at Walla Walla in the south. After the Whitmans were killed by Indians in 1847, Reverend Cushing Eells established Whitman College in their memory, also setting up the first church in Spokane.
In 1853, two years after the establishment of the State of Washington, the first governor, Isaac Stevens, made an initial effort to make a treaty with Chief Garry and the Spokanes at Antoine Plantes’ Ferry, not far from Millwood.
After the last campaign of the Yakima Indian War, the Coeur d'Alene War of 1858 was brought to a close by the actions of Col. George Wright, who won decisive victories against a confederation of tribes in engagements at the battles of Four Lakes and Spokane Plains. The cessation of hostilities opened the inter-mountain valley of the Pacific Northwest to safe settlement.
The city of Spokane Falls circa 1895
Joint American–British occupation of Oregon Country, in effect since the Treaty of 1818, eventually led to the Oregon Boundary Dispute after a large influx of American settlers along the Oregon Trail. The first American settlers in what is now Spokane were J.J. Downing and S.R. Scranton, cattle ranchers who squatted and established a claim at Spokane Falls in 1871. Together they built a small sawmill on a claim near the south bank of the falls. James N. Glover and Jasper Matheney, Oregonians passing through the region in 1873, recognized the value of the Spokane River and its falls for the purpose of water power. They realized the investment potential and bought the claims of 160 acres (0.65 km2) and the sawmill from Downing and Scranton for a total of $4,000. Glover and Matheney knew that the Northern Pacific Railroad Company had received a government charter to build a main line across this northern route. Amid many delays in construction and uncertainty over the completion of the railroad and its exact course, Matheney sold his interest in the claim to Glover. Glover confidently held on to his claim and became a successful Spokane business owner and mayor. He later came to be known as the "Father of Spokane".
In 1880, Fort Spokane was established by U.S. Army troops under Lt. Col. Henry Clay Merriam 56 miles (90 km) northwest of Spokane, at the junction of the Columbia and Spokane Rivers, to protect the construction of the Northern Pacific Railway and secure a place for U.S. settlement. By June 30, 1881, the railway reached the city, bringing major European settlement to the area. The city of Spokan Falls (the "e" was added in 1883 and "Falls" dropped in 1891) was officially incorporated as a city of about 1,000 residents on November 29, 1881. The marketing campaigns of transportation companies with affordable fertile land to sell along their trade routes lured many settlers into the region they dubbed "Spokane Country".
The 1883 discovery of gold, silver, and lead in the Coeur d'Alene region of northern Idaho lured prospectors. The Inland Empire erupted with numerous mining rushes from 1883 to 1892. Mining and smelting emerged as a major stimulus to Spokane. At the onset of the initial 1883 gold rush in the nearby Coeur d'Alene mining district, Spokane became popular with prospectors, offering low prices on everything "from a horse to a frying pan". It would keep this status for subsequent rushes in the region due to its trade center status and accessibility to railroad infrastructure.
Spokane's growth continued unabated until August 4, 1889, when a fire, now known as The Great Fire (not to be confused with the Great Fire of 1910, which happened nearby), began just after 6:00 p.m. and destroyed the city's downtown commercial district.[39] Due to technical problems with a pump station, there was no water pressure in the city when the fire started. In a desperate bid to starve the fire, firefighters began razing buildings with dynamite. Eventually the winds and the fire died down; 32 blocks of Spokane's downtown core had been destroyed and one person killed.
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| 101 |  Geissel, Heinrich Friedrich | 19 Jan 1911 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I197396 |
| 102 | Geigle, Rosina | 2 Jan 1954 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I120683 |
| 103 | Gartin, Nancy Jane | 14 Aug 1965 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I144475 |
| 104 | Ganther, Pauline Katherine | 2 Mrz 2005 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I117953 |
| 105 | Frey, Phillip Johan | 20 Jul 2005 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I37952 |
| 106 | Frey, Katherine Goldie | 7 Okt 1994 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I129977 |
| 107 | Frey, Johannes | 2 Feb 1951 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I129975 |
| 108 | Frey, Irving | 12 Apr 2000 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I144344 |
| 109 | Foth, Conrad Caral | Dez 1963 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I156887 |
| 110 | Ferk, Hulda Johanna | 31 Aug 1958 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I47648 |
| 111 | Erdman, Robert Elias | 4 Apr 1978 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I3485 |
| 112 | Els, Lydia | 22 Nov 1954 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I153292 |
| 113 | Eichner, Willard F. | 29 Jan 1977 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I119776 |
| 114 | Dutt, Theobald | 7 Okt 1931 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I87363 |
| 115 | Doran, Leander C. | 13 Jan 1937 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I267713 |
| 116 | Doolittle, Zeruah | 17 Feb 1923 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I94255 |
| 117 | Diede, Friedrich | 29 Nov 1974 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I88178 |
| 118 | Davis, Hal Lee | 26 Aug 1942 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I200452 |
| 119 | Coutney, Beatrice Jananetta | 26 Jul 1969 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I1919 |
| 120 | Clemens, Oscar G. | 27 Jan 1994 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I5815 |
| 121 | Christman, Rose C. | 12 Sep 1987 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I237119 |
| 122 | Carey, Catherine Roberta | 9 Mrz 1989 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I89058 |
| 123 | Callaway, Nevada Grace | 29 Mrz 1999 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I144354 |
| 124 | Callaway, Charles William | 28 Mrz 1977 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I144448 |
| 125 | Busby, Franklin Edward | 25 Sep 1973 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I129978 |
| 126 | Broeckel, Arthur Philip | 2 Nov 1983 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I169289 |
| 127 | Boschee, Gideon | 15 Mrz 1993 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I152070 |
| 128 | Bilyeu, Edna Blanche | 11 Jun 1953 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I3478 |
| 129 | Bentz, Christian | 10 Jan 1981 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I182183 |
| 130 | Becker, Jacob | 2 Nov 1947 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I65539 |
| 131 | Becker, Emanuel | 17 Okt 1988 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I153305 |
| 132 | Andrews, Almeda Dawn | 15 Nov 1999 | Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA | I95268 |