Daniel Bagley (September 7, 1818April 26, 1905) was a pioneer preacher, educational booster, and industrialist in
Seattle, Washington
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. Arriving in Seattle in 1860, he was instrumental in the founding of the
Territorial University of Washington
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. A
Methodist
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minister, in 1865 he founded the Little Brown Church, formally known as the
First Methodist Protestant Church of Seattle
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It was built in 1906 and added to the ...
. He also managed the Newcastle coal mines and helped run the Lake Washington Coal Company for a time. His son, Clarence B. Bagley (1843-1932), was a prominent early
Washington
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historian.
Early life
Daniel Bagley was born on September 7, 1818 in
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,
Pennsylvania
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. He worked on his father's farm clearing the land and completing various chores. In 1840, he married
-raised Susannah Rogers Whipple. They spent their honeymoon moving to new land in
Illinois
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. After becoming a Methodist minister in 1842, he traveled the state of Illinois as a
circuit preacher
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.
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Death
Bagley died in Seattle on April 26, 1905.[
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Legacy
Bagley Avenue in Seattle, north of the shores of Lake Union
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, honors both Daniel Bagley and his son Clarence.[
Daniel Bagley Elementary School in the Green Lake neighborhood of Seattle was officially named in honor of Daniel Bagley on March 27, 1906.]
Bagley Hall at the University of Washington houses the Department of Chemistry.
References
1818 births
1905 deaths
American Methodist clergy
American businesspeople in the coal industry
19th-century Methodists
19th-century American clergy
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