Edmond S. Meany

Edmond S. Meany

Edmond S. Meany circa 1909
Born Edmond Stephen Meany
December 28, 1862
East Saginaw, Michigan
Died April 22, 1935
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Nationality American
Occupation professor

Edmond S. Meany (December 28, 1862 – April 22, 1935) was a professor of botany and history at the University of Washington (UW). He was an alumnus of the university, having graduated as the valedictorian of his class in 1885. Meany also earned a Master of Science from the University of Washington in 1899, and a Master of Letters from the University of Wisconsin in 1901.

He was elected as a Washington state legislator for the 1891 and 1893 sessions. Meany was an active supporter of the local Boy Scouts of America 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, a hiking and climbing club.

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Meany addressing the president and stockholders of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in September 1908, the year before the exposition.

Further reading

Frykman, George A. Seattle's Historian and Promoter: The Life of Edmond Stephen Meany (Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press, 1998).

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