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Edmond Stephen Meany (December 28, 1862 – April 22, 1935) was a professor of
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at the
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(UW). He was an alumnus of the university, having graduated as the
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of his class in 1885 when it was the Territorial University of Washington. Meany also earned a
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from the University of Washington in 1899, and a Master of Letters from the
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in 1901. He was elected as a Washington state legislator for the 1891 and 1893 sessions. Meany was an active supporter of the local
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organization, the Seattle Area Council. From 1906 until his death, he served as managing editor of the ''Washington Historical Quarterly'' (renamed the '' Pacific Northwest Quarterly'' the year after his death). From 1908 until his death, he also served as president of the
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, a hiking and climbing club. In 1928 he purchased land in Martin, Washington and donated it to the Mountaineers. The ski lodge built there was named Meany Ski Hut in his honor.


Honors

*In 1926 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the College of Puget Sound. *
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in the
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, Meany Crest on
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, Meany Hall for the Performing Arts on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington, Camp Meany (a Cub Scout camp on the Olympic Peninsula from 1939 to 1942 and now a part of Camp Parsons), and Meany Middle School in Seattle, Washington are all named in his honor. *The Mountaineers erected the Meany Memorial, a rock seat on Second Burroughs Mountain in Mount Rainier National Park a year after he died.


Writings

* * * * * Newspapers of Washington Territory in Washington Historical Quarterly


Further reading

Frykman, George A. ''Seattle's Historian and Promoter: The Life of Edmond Stephen Meany'' (Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press, 1998).


Archives


Edmond S. Meany papers
1877–1935. 71.86 cubic feet. At th
University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.Clarence Bagley papers
1864–1931. Approximately 10.33 cubic feet. At th
University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.


External links



* ttp://sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/frameindex.html?http://sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/people/meany.html Meany tribute on the Sierra Club Websitebr>University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Portraits Database
An ongoing database of over 300 historical portraits of men and women well known in the Pacific Northwest region and also nationwide. Includes images of Edmond S. Meany. * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Meany, Edmond S. 1862 births 1935 deaths University of Washington alumni Members of the Washington House of Representatives University of Washington faculty People from Saginaw, Michigan Historians from Michigan