EDMUND S. MEANY

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Edmond S. Meany circa 1909


Edmond S. Meany (1862-1935) was a professor of botany and history at the University of Washington and a UW alumnus, having graduated as the valedictorian of his class in 1885. Meany further received a Master of Science from the University of Washington in 1899, a Master of Letters from the University of Wisconsin in 1901, and an honorary Doctor of Laws from the College of Puget Sound in 1926. He was a Washington state legislator for the 1891 and 1893 sessions and was also an active supporter of the local Boy Scout organization, the Seattle Area Council. From 1906 until his death, he served as managing editor of the Washington Historical Quarterly (renamed the Pacific Northwest Quarterly the year after his death). From 1908 until his death, he also served as president of the Mountaineers.
Mount Meany in the Olympic Mountains, Meany Crest on Mount Rainier, Meany Hall for the Performing Arts on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington, Camp Meany (a Cub Scout camp on the Olympic Peninsula from 1939 to 1942 and now a part of Camp Parsons), and Meany Middle School in Seattle, Washington are all named in his honor.
Edmond Meany died of a stroke in Denny Hall, on the University of Washington campus, on April 22, 1935, minutes before a lecture on the History of Canada.

Books

Origin of Washington Geographic Names.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press, 1923.

History of the State of Washington.  New York:  The Macmillan Company,  1910.
http://www.archive.org/details/historystatewas01meangoog
or http://www.archive.org/details/historyofstateof00meanuoft

New Log of the Columbia.  Seattle; University of Washingto Press,  1921.
http://www.archive.org/details/newlogofcolumbia00boit

Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound.  New York:  The Macmillan Company,  1907.
http://www.archive.org/details/vancouversdisco00meangoog

Governors of Washington.  Seattle:  Department of Printing, University of Washington,  1915.
http://www.archive.org/details/governorsofwashi00mean

and Elwood Evans.  The State of Washington.  Tacoma:  World's Fair Commission of the State of Washington,  1893.
http://www.archive.org/details/stateofwashingto00washuoft