Joseph Conner and his family arrived in Thurston County in 1852, the peak year of the Oregon Trail migration. The family settled in what is now Lacey. Joseph was killed in the Puget Sound War of 1855-1856. Pictured here are his four children, Milton, Alice, Jane, and Martha, in a studio photograph taken in the early 1900s.
Unknown photographer, early 1900s, courtesy State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1948.64.80
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2022