A few more owners of the West Parcel: E.E. Scott and J.H. Jenkins

A visit to the Northwest Regional Branch of the Washington State Archives last week revealed that the West Parcel of the Point changed hands a few more times than previously thought.

E.E. Scott

When Thomas McTighe, the original homesteader, died in 1909, he evidently died intestate, as his estate, including his land at Lake Samish, came under the administration of F.J. Barlow of the State of Washington.

On April 22, 1910, F.J. Barlow executed an administrator's deed to sell the Lake Samish property to E.E. Scott for $3,000, as shown in the pages below from the deed volume.

Source of both images: Washington State Archives, Northwest Regional Branch

According to Lottie Roeder Roth's History of Whatcom County Volume 2, E.E. Scott was born in Kansas. After working in the lumber business in Iowa and North Dakota, he came to Washington and eventually settled in Bellingham in 1906, where he became sales manager for Whatcom Falls Mill Company.

George Loggie

Whatcom Falls Mill Company was owned by George W. Loggie, whom we know owned the West Parcel of the Point in 1916. And in fact it was Scott who sold it to him. On May 10, 1910, less than three weeks after Scott purchased McTighe's Lake Samish land for $3,000, he sold it to George Loggie for "One dollar and other considerations in hand paid."

Presumably, Scott procured the property on behalf of his boss in the first place, and was compensated for it via those "other considerations" obliquely mentioned in the deed.

J.H. Jenkins

Another new owner name was discovered in a 1929 map from the Whatcom Photo Archives, which shows that the West Parcel of the Point was owned by someone named J.H. Jenkins.

Source: Whatcom Photo Archives

Corroborating information about a J.H. Jenkins in Bellingham or Whatcom County has so far been hard to come by. None of the Bellingham city directories of the period show a J.H. Jenkins, for example.

Another trip to the Washington State Archives should be able to tell us if Loggie sold the property to Jenkins, and if Jenkins then sold it to Einar Erickson (the next owner we know about based on a 1934 map), or whether there were any other interim owners.