James Stewart Logging Camp on the Wishkah River, 2 miles from Aberdeen — 1899 — #4475_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State)
Photo by E. A. Smith.
Thanks to Sam Talley who adds: "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."
