The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 215

GEORGE W. ROCKETT.

George W. Rockett, who is engaged in ranching on the Cowiche in Yakima county,
is a representative of one of the old pioneer families of Washington. His birth
occurred in Clarke county, this state. on the 28th of November, 1868, his
parents being R. P. and Hannah M. (Lewis) Rockett, the former a native of
Glasgow, Scotland, while the latter was born in Indiana. The father left the
land of hills and heather when a boy and became a sailor. He made the trip by
way of Cape Horn to the western coast in the '50s and settled at Vancouver,
Washington. He was drowned about 1871 and his widow afterward became the wife of
John W. Stevenson. She was a daughter of Henry Lewis, who died in Indiana, and
she came to Washington with her brothers, Jack and Ben Lewis. It was at
Vancouver that Mr. and Mrs. R. P, Rockett were married and it was after the
death of her first husband that Mrs. Rockett removed to Yakima county in 1872
and was here married again.

George W. Rockett acquired a public school education and has devoted his entire
life to ranching in this part of the state. He obtained forty acres of the old
homestead and has bought forty acres additional, so that he has a good ranch of
eighty acres, which he is carefully, systematically and successfully
cultivating, devoting his land to the raising of grain and hay.

Mr. Rockett is a republican in his political views but does not seek nor desire
office. He keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day and is
never remiss in the duties of citizenship but cooperates heartily in all plans
and measures for the general good. He has always lived in the northwest and has
been a most interested witness of the remarkable changes that have been wrought
in a comparatively short time, reclaiming this great region, which only about a
half century ago was wild and undeveloped, for the purposes of civilization.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.