Men at James Stewart's Camp on the Wishkah — circa 1899 — #6203_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State)
James Stewart Logging Co.
Photo by E. A. Smith. James Stewart Camp was 2 miles east of Aberdeen. Group includes one woman.
Thanks to Sam Talley, who adds: "Many people think the owners of these logging companies wanted these group pictures for the sake of posterity. The truth of the matter is that the photographers would travel around to various logging companies and offer to take this type of group portrait with the idea of selling each person a copy of the one picture."
Talley continues: "James Stewart was born in 1840 in Scotland. He arrived in Grays Harbor in 1875 and stayed with Sam Benn along with his Scottish wife Jean. She is credited with convincing Mr. Benn into naming the area "Aberdeen" meaning in Scottish 'confluence of two rivers', those being the Chehalis and the Wishkah. Stewart settled a couple miles up the Wishkah River near the end of the present B St. He logged the north Aberdeen and Bear Gulch areas. Stewart Street, Stewart Creek, and Stewart Field are named after him."
