This piece of Green Lake history comes to us from Glenn Hanbey. Glenn, a recently retired Air Force Pilot now working for Boeing and living in the Auburn area, is the great, great grandson of Green Lake pioneer Robert Weedin. Glenn has been doing genealogical research on his Weedin roots for many years. He is currently researching the Weedin brothers’ participation in the bloody guerrilla warfare that took place in Missouri and Kansas during the Civil War. The stories of Robert and William Weedin are typical of the early pioneers who settled in the Northwest. Though they are typical, that…
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Green Lake John, Green Lake’s first white settler
Today is the 141st anniversary of the day in 1869 when Erhart Seifried, known as “Green Lake John,” filed a homestead claim on Green Lake, becoming the area’s first white settler. The following information comes from HistoryLink.org, which very kindly licenses some of their work under a Creative Commons license. The essay was penned by Louis Fiset in 1999: On October 13, 1869, Erhart Seifried (1832-1899) files a claim under the Homestead Act for 131.66 timbered acres on Green Lake in the present-day (1999) north Seattle neighborhood of Green Lake. Seifried, known as Green Lake John, becomes the first white…
Early history of the area around 65th and Latona in east Green Lake
Last week we told you about a Seattle Times article, written by Russ Hanbey, which gave some insight into one of the earliest* Green Lake families, the Weedin family. In the comments to our post, Hanbey, himself a direct descendant of the original Weedin clan, shares some more information about this fascinating family. Hanbey explains that brothers Robert and William Weedin arrived in Green Lake as homesteaders in or about 1873. They brought their wives, themselves two sisters. The brothers fought in the civil war and had a connection to Frank and Jesse James. Robert Weedin cast his first vote…
