Becoming a WABios Project Volunteer
Volunteering is as easy as 1 .. 2! Just follow these two steps:
- Select a source from which to transcribe biographies (a list of Recommended Sources is below).
- Email the biography to the WABios editor (Jenny Tenlen, jtenlen -at- drizzle.com). Please be sure to include the following information:
- The full bibliographic information [author or editor, if listed; title of book; publisher and year published, page(s).]
- The county in Washington under which the biography should be listed.
- Any additional information you may have on the subject.
- Indicate whether you wish to be contacted by others regarding this biography. If you do not wish to be contacted, your email address will not be listed.
- If you wish to include photos with the biography, please attach them in JPG format to the message.
- If the biography was published after 1924, please include documentation of permission granted by the copyright holder to reproduce the biography.
You will be notified as soon as the biography is posted.
Thank you for contributing to the Biographies project!
Recommended Sources
The following sources are all works containing WA biographies that are no longer copyrighted. Most of these sources are available at the Seattle Public Library, and possibly at other libraries as well. Many books have been digitized and made freely available by the Internet Archives, Google Books, HathiTrust Digital Library, and other sources.
This list is certainly by no means exhaustive; if you have other sources that meet the criteria of the project, you are welcome to use them, as long as they fall within Copyright Guidelines. Please contact Jenny Tenlen, jtenlen -at- drizzle.com if you would like to determine whether a particular resource is appropriate for the project.
Bagley, Clarence B. History of Seattle, From the Earliest Settlement to the Rresent Time. Chicago, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1916. Available from the Internet Archives as a free download: [Volume I] [Volume II] [Volume III]
Durham, Nelson Wayne. History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington, From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Spokane, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1912. Dewey # 979.76 D934H
Gilbert, Frank T. Historic sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and Garfield Counties, Washington Territory. Portland, OR, Printing house of A.G. Walling, 1882. Dewey # 979.7 G373
Hawthorne, Julian, ed. History of Washington, the Evergreen State, from Early Dawn to Daylight. With portraits and biographies. New York, American Historical Publishing Co., 1893. Dewey #: 979.7 H318 2v. Available from the Internet Archives as a free download: [Vol. 1] [Vol. 2]
Hines, Harvey K. An illustrated history of the State of Washington : containing a history of the State of Washington from the earliest period of its discovery to the present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future, illustrations and full-page portraits of some of its eminent men and biographical mention of many of its pioneers and prominent citizens of to-day. Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co., 1893. Dewey # 979.7 H589i. Available from the Internet Archive as a free download.
[*Jeffrey Elmer has contributed the bios from pages 284-600, but the remaining pages are still available for transcriptions.*]Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor. Washington, West of the Cascades; Historical and Descriptive; the Explorers, the Indians, the Pioneers, the Modern. Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1917. Dewey #: 979.7 H912W. Available from the Internet Archives as a free download: [Vol. 1] [Vol. 2] [Vol. 3]
An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country; Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin Counties; State of Washington. Spokane, Western Historical Publishing Company, Publishers, 1904. Available from the Internet Archives as a free download: Vol. 1] [Vol. 2]
An Illustrated History of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan Counties, State of Washington. Spokane, Western Historical Publishing Company, Publishers, 1904. Available from the Internet Archive as a free download.
Meany, Edmond S. Governors of Washington, territorial and state. Seattle, Department of Printing, University of Washington, 1915. Dewey # B.3 M462G
Notable men of Washington. Tacoma, WA, Perkins Press, 1912. Dewey # RB.0 N843.
Prosser, William Farrand. A history of the Puget Sound country, its resources, its commerce and its people; with some reference to discoveries and explorations in North America from the time of Christopher Columbus down to that of George Vancouver in 1792. New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1903. Dewey # 979.7 P9453H
Renfro, Alfred T. The fourteenth session; a brief history of the men who represented the million and half people of the State of Washington in the legislature of 1915. Seattle?, WA, House of Sherman, 1915. Dewey # B.0 R293 v.3
Renfro, Alfred T. The fifteenth session; a brief history of the men who represented the million and half people of the State of Washington in the legislature of 1917. Seattle?, WA, House of Sherman, 1917. Dewey # B.0 R293 v.4
Sketches of Washingtonians; containing brief histories of men of the state of Washington engaged in professional and political life, in manufacture, commerce, finance and religion; with a summary of the cities of the state containing upwards of 5,000 population. Seattle, WA, W. C. Wolfe, 1906. Dewey # B.0 Sk29W
Washington State Historical Society. History of the Washington State Historical Society, 1907-1914 Olympia, 1915. Dewey # 979.7 W2793