Daniel Bagley (September 7, 1818April 26, 1905) was a pioneer preacher, educational booster, and industrialist in

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. Arriving in Seattle in 1860, he was instrumental in the founding of the Territorial University of Washington. A

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minister, in 1865 he founded the Little Brown Church, formally known as the First Methodist Protestant Church of Seattle. 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

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historian.

Early life

Daniel Bagley was born on September 7, 1818 in

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. He worked on his father's farm clearing the land and completing various chores. In 1840, he married

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-raised Susannah Rogers Whipple. They spent their honeymoon moving to new land in

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. After becoming a Methodist minister in 1842, he traveled the state of Illinois as a

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Death

Bagley died in Seattle on April 26, 1905.

Legacy

Bagley Avenue in Seattle, north of the shores of

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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 {{US-business-bio-1810s-stub