Caption on mount: La Roche and Co. 606 Second St. Seattle

Handwritten on verso: Pioneer Albert Burrows. 1890. Homesteaded a mile of waterfront around S.E. 15th St. in 1883.

In 1882, Albert Burrows (1837-1896) moved his family from Des Moines, Iowa, to Seattle, Washington, where he got a job in a sawmill. He met George Miller, who had homesteaded with his family at Beaux Arts (area of present-day Bellevue) in 1883 and was looking for other families to settle nearby in order to organize a school. As a Civil War veteran, Burrows was entitled to a homestead, and Miller led him to the 160 lakefront acre homestead at Killarney (area of present-day Bellevue), where Burrows built a cabin and later a more substantial house. Albert Burrows served in the 1894 state legislature and died of bronchitis in 1896.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Legislators--Washington (State)
• Subjects (LCSH): Burrows, Albert, 1837-1896