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Seattle's Historian and Promoter
George A. Frykman
其他書名
The Life of Edmond Stephen Meany
出版WSU Press, 1998
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / Educators
ISBN08742216849780874221688
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7Sx6AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋As a young man, Edmond Meany tried and failed at a couple of business ventures in Seattle before he found his niche as a promoter, specifically of Washington's participation in the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. He parlayed this success into a seat in the state legislature, and became one of the prime movers of Seattle's first world's fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909. Many of the buildings from that fair later became incorporated into Meany's beloved second home, the campus of the University of Washington, where he taught history for nearly four decades. Two buildings on the UW campus have been named for him.