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Frank Waterhouse was born in Cheshire, England, the son of Joseph and Mary Elizabeth (Horsfield) Waterhouse.
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Frank Waterhouse
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He attended private schools, but at fifteen set out for America, landing in Montreal with fifty dollars in his pocket.
Career
He earned a living by hard labor during a good part of the next seven years, working in logging camps and as a hod carrier, and later serving as a constable and deputy sheriff. His wanderings took him into Minnesota and Manitoba. After three years in England, he returned to America, settling in Tacoma, Wash. , where in 1893-94 he was a stenographer in the offices of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He then spent a few months selling life insurance, did a record business, and removed to Seattle as a general agent. In January 1895 he became secretary of the Pacific Navigation Company, which operated a fleet of freight and passenger steamers on Puget Sound, and in May of the same year was appointed general manager. When the rush to the Klondike gold fields began he went to England and organized a company to furnish transportation to the northern British Columbia ports and the Yukon; in 1898 this organization established trading posts on the Yukon. He later purchased the interests of his British associates and formed an American concern, Frank Waterhouse & Company. He introduced the fresh meat business into Alaska and placed the first refrigerator boat on the Yukon. During the Spanish-American War, he chartered a large fleet of ships for transport service, and nearly all livestock supplies from the Pacific Northwest for the army in the Philippines were shipped in his vessels. During the World War, he engaged in the transportation of military supplies from Seattle to Vladivostok. Waterhouse had many business interests other than shipping. His civic interests were fully as numerous. He was president of the Associated Industries of Seattle, 1919-22, and of the Chamber of Commerce, 1921-22, and chairman of the Seattle chapter of the American Red Cross, 1919-26. Waterhouse died of heart disease at his home in Seattle.
Achievements
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He organized and was president of Waterhouse & EmployÏs, operating farms in eastern Washington; acquired iron and coal mines, the Arlington Dock Company, and other corporations; and was president of the Yellow and the Seattle taxicab companies. He established the first line of steamships to give regular service between Puget Sound and European ports through the Suez Canal, and the first line of freighters from the Sound to Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, North China, and the Malay Peninsula.
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In February 1893 he had married Lucy Dyer Hayden of Tacoma, daughter of John C. Hayden, and he was survived by his widow, one son, and three daughters. Another son, deceased, had been a lieutenant in the Royal (British) Flying Corps in the World War.
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