George F. Meacham

February 25, 1902, the Seattle City Council voted to purchase the city block bounded by 4th and 5th avenues and Madison and Spring streets to serve as the library site. The property, initially part of Seattle pioneer Carson Boren's (1824-1912) donation land claim, carries the legal description Block 19, C.D. Boren's Addition to the City of Seattle. The purchase price was $100,000.

At the time of the sale, Seattle real estate salesman and Scotsman George F. Meacham and his wife Lucia Mills Meacham (1866-1914) owned the entire block. The couple had quite recently acquired the property parcel by parcel, almost certainly in anticipation of selling it to the city.

All of the deeds of purchase for the parcels assembled by the Meachams were recorded in the city's general recording index on October 30, 1902. The Meachams's sale of the entire property to the city was also recorded on October 30, 1902.

In 1907, George F. Meacham,(October 26, 1856- July 1926) filed the first development plat for Yarrow Point.

He advertised lots for sale and sponsored a contest to name the streets, asking for Scottish names;
Sunnybrae, Bonneybrae, Mossgiel, Loch Lane, and Haddin Way continue to appear alongside the numbers on Yarrow Point street signs.

In 1913, he deeded two acres for a park that became known as the George F. Meecham-Morningside Park and later the location of the Yarrow Point Town Hall, dedicated in 1990.

George was Seattle City Treasurer

https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/state-v-meacham-888931436

Decision Date 29 July 1897 Citation 17 Wash. 429,50 P. 52 STATE EX REL. SCOTTISH-AMERICAN MORTG. CO. v. MEACHAM, TREASURER.

Chairman of the Seattle Ladies Musical Club 1896-97

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