Nicholas Healy Nicholas C, Healy, of Seattle, is conspicuously identified with the lumber producing interests of Washington, with which he first became connected some thirty-eight years ago. There is probably no man in the state whose practical His experience in that industry has been more extensive. interests include not only large properties and operations He was born on in Washington, but also in British Columbia. a farm in Goderich, province of Ontario. Canada, October 8, 1852. son of Michael and Juliann (McArty) Healy, receiving a district school education and continuing on the home farm until the age of sixteen, when he went to Michigan and obtained employment in the pine woods near Alpena. At this employment, known as "swamping” in Michigan and "tending He hook” in Washington, he soon became an expert workman. remained there three years, working in the woods during the winters and in a sawmill in the summers. Attracted by the accounts of the big timber of the northwest, he came across the continent in 1872, arriving at Olympia. After some time he went to Kalama and was employed in clearing a right of way for the Northern Pacific Railway. His first Christmas day in Washington was spent in building a log camp for the railway company on the present site of Kalama. On May 1, 1873, he left for the Peace River gold mines in British Columbia, and during the next two years was engaged in prospecting there on his own account. at the Port Madison mill, where he worked on a "boom,” , OCR Text: Nicholas Healy Nicholas C, Healy, of Seattle, is conspicuously identified with the lumber producing interests of Washington, with which he first became connected some thirty-eight years ago. There is probably no man in the state whose practical His experience in that industry has been more extensive. interests include not only large properties and operations He was born on in Washington, but also in British Columbia. a farm in Goderich, province of Ontario. Canada, October 8, 1852. son of Michael and Juliann (McArty) Healy, receiving a district school education and continuing on the home farm until the age of sixteen, when he went to Michigan and obtained employment in the pine woods near Alpena. At this employment, known as "swamping” in Michigan and "tending He hook” in Washington, he soon became an expert workman. remained there three years, working in the woods during the winters and in a sawmill in the summers. Attracted by the accounts of the big timber of the northwest, he came across the continent in 1872, arriving at Olympia. After some time he went to Kalama and was employed in clearing a right of way for the Northern Pacific Railway. His first Christmas day in Washington was spent in building a log camp for the railway company on the present site of Kalama. On May 1, 1873, he left for the Peace River gold mines in British Columbia, and during the next two years was engaged in prospecting there on his own account. at the Port Madison mill, where he worked on a "boom,” , Granite Falls Historical Society,Library (Books & Booklets),General Library,Searchable Books,Nicholas Healy.pdf,Nicholas Healy.pdf Page 1, Nicholas Healy.pdf Page 1