Captain Samuel Wing Percival built Percival’s Dock (now the site of Percival Landing) as well as an imposing home with terraced grounds overlooking the Deschutes Estuary and downtown Olympia. In this early photograph his three children, John, Georgiana, and Sam, pose in a studio setting. John later took over the shipping business from his father.
Photograph around 1865, courtesy Washington State Historical Society, State Capital Museum collection, catalog C1943.130.3
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2017