Written by Janet Partlow, a descendant of the Streets and Partlow families Ralph Raymond Streets was born in Brockville, Ontario (on the St. Lawrence seaway) in 1870. His father John Streets had emigrated to Canada in 1865 from Lincolnshire, England. John was a shoemaker, and taught the trade to his son, but Ralph had bigger…
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Ralph Munro, Secretary of State 1980-2001 resident of Olympia since 1966 Secretary Munro offered following remarks at a First United Methodist Church in Olympia on January 29, 2012 in recognition of their life’s work to further civil rights in Thurston County. Olympia was a different place in the 1950s, ’60s and early ’70s. Much smaller:…
This is an ongoing series that reports on Lanny Weaver’s and Deb Ross’s weekly trips to the Research Center at the Washington State Historical Society to catalogue documents and photographs relating to Olympia and Thurston County. This installment is written by Deb. One of the fun parts of my cataloguing efforts is the opportunity to…
