Michael Simmons (pioneer)
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Michael Troutman Simmons was an American pioneer and one of the first white men to settle in the Puget Sound.
Simmons c. 1865
George Bush (pioneer)
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George Bush was an American settler and one of the first African-American non-Amerindian settlers of the Pacific Northwest.
Michael Simmons (pioneer)
…1845, at the age of 30, he decided to abandon the Midwest and came to the Puget Sound on a wagon train with a group of settlers (including his friend George Bush). He assumed leadership of the new settlers, who gave him the title of "Colonel". After taking advice from the traders of the Hudson's Bay Company at…
Sketch of George W. Bush by Sam Patrick, 1969. Courtesy Henderson House Museum.
Gravestone of George Bush
George Bush butternut tree
Monument to Bush family