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A1217-0
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- 1926 (Creation)
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ca. 1926. James E. Sales, the first white child born in Tacoma, and his wife Josephine reminisce over paintings of the old homestead. Mr. Sales was born in 1853, the son of English immigrants, William and Eliza Sales. His father worked at the Delin Saw Mill. At 18 months of age, James Sales was adopted by Edward and Martha Croft who had lost their own sons. The Crofts raised James and he came to inherit their 324 acres and the cabin built in 1860. In later years, a friend named Bert Barnes drew two pictures of the cabin from memory. (Illustrated History of Washington State by Harvey Hines; Tacoma its History & its Builders, Hunt; James Sales, A Native of Pierce County, Beaver)
Sales, James E.; Sales, Josephine; Paintings; Sales, James E.--Homes & haunts;