State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1920-07-19

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1920
• Subjects: State history; Native Americans; historical; Spokane; Washington; Medical Lake; Washington Historical Quarterly; Andrew Lefevre; settler; Liberty Lake; Lois La Liberte; foreman; Hudson Bay Company; Meadow Lake; Washington Water Power Company; Mead; General George Meade; Northern Pacific Railroad; Loomis; Lind; J. A. Loomis; merchant; Baker Anderson; Professor L. F. Anderson; Whitman College; Dr. Dorsey S. Baker; railroad builder; Malden; H. R. Williams; Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway; Marcus Oppenheimer; W. A. Brown; British Boundary Commission; Marengo; Battle of Marengo; Marshall; Henry H. Marshall; Martindale; N. P. Martin; Northern Pacific and Spokane; Portland and Seattle Railway Comptroller; Dorsey; Hallett; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Meade; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/8730

Indians used to use waters of lake for curing disease and named it Medical Lake. - Historical quarterly tells origin of titles around Spokane. - That the waters of Medical lake were believed by the Indians to be a cure for rheumatism led, in all probability, to the naming of the lake, is the theory advanced in a recent issue of the Washington Historical Quarterly, in which a history of the origin of Washington geographical names is given. Andrew Lefevre is counted the first settler at Medical lake, one authority giving the date as 1859 and another as 1872, while a later-named authority gives a sketch of Stanley Hallett, saying that he settled there in 1877 and gave the name to the town.