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The railroad capitalist and real estate developer Daniel Hunt Gilman (1845-1913), lived at this address in 1890. Born in ME, the son of a prominent politician, Gilman came to Seattle, WA, in 1883, at a time coal was first being mined in King County. He became allied with Judge Thomas Burke (1849-1925) helping him establish the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway in 1885. Gilman served in First District of Columbia Cavalry during the Civil War, and thereafter settled in New York City during the balance of the 1860s and throughout the 1870s. He worked in business in New York, bought and sold property, and obtained a law degree from Columbia University in 1877, developing valuable relationships in the city. These connections became extremely important when the concept of building the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway germinated in the mid-1880s. Burke relied on Gilman's contacts to obtain $500,000 seed money from New York lenders to start the enterprise. In 1890, Gilman served as President and Manager of the West Street and North End Electric Railway, President of the Seattle and Montana Railway, and President of the Salmon Bay Railway and Development Company.

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