Arthur Davis, Washington State College regent and namesake of Davis Hall (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Frank Alfred Golder. Washington State College professor of Russian studies. He was one of the first scholars of the Soviet Union and witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution. (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
William Goodyear. Goodyear was the editor of the Colfax Commoner from 1898-1911. He also helped form the first WSC football team along with agronomist William Spillman. (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Oliver Clive Hall, state senator from Whitman County (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
F. Robert Insinger, a Spokane business leader. (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Superior Court Judge Elgin Kuykendall. He was also the son of early pioneers on the Palouse. (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Peter MacGregor (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Frances Whitman Monteith, daughter of pioneers (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Robert Earle Peabody. Peabody arrived in Dayton, Washington in 1878 from unsuccessful prospecting in California. He published the Dayton Chronicle for 45 years. (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Frank Truman Post, prominent Spokane attorney (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Colonel James Henry Raley, original settler and mayor of Pendleton, Oregon. He opened the hotel Goodwin’s Station. His son, James Roy Raley, is considered Father of the Pendleton Round-Up. A descendant of Kentucky pioneers, Colonel Raley had a well-known fondness for red roses and cigars. (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Mary Warren Spalding, daughter of pioneer missionaries. (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
William J. Spillman, Washington State College professor and agricultural researcher famous for applying Mendelian laws of inheritance to agricultural breeding. (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Edwin Hugh Van Patten, well-known Dayton, Washington doctor and minister. He settled in Dayton in 1880. (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Felix Warren, stagecoach driver for the Palouse. Warren started his own stagecoach line between Almota and Colfax, later adding routes to include Spokane, Lewiston and other area towns. His services included the delivery of U.S. mail and occasionally an order of groceries. He eventually owned 11 stagecoaches and 200 horses. (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Daniel Boone Watson (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Christine McRae Winans, wife of Washington territorial legislator William Winans (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Gallery: Artworks by Worth Griffin (Sketches and watercolors, including a portrait of student and colleague Clyfford Still, courtesy the Fitzsimmons family)
Read more at “An art history.”(Washington State Magazine Spring 2011)
