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William C Speidel (February 11, 1912 – May 3, 1988) was a columnist for The Seattle Times and a self-made historian who wrote the books Sons of the Profits and Doc Maynard, The Man Who Invented Seattle about the people who settled and built Seattle, Washington.
Only a small portion of the Seattle Underground has been restored and made safe and accessible to the public on guided tours. In 1965, local citizen Bill Speidel formally created "Bill Speidel's Underground Tour", which continues to operate from the Pioneer Building and adjacent buildings. [3]
Speidel or von Speidel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Albert von Speidel (1858–1912), Bavarian general and artistic director of the court theatre in Munich after 1905; Bill Speidel (1912–1988), American author; Edmund Freiherr von Speidel (1816–1887), Bavarian general and court marshal
Hans Speidel (28 October 1897 – 28 November 1984) was a German military officer who successively served in the armies of the German Empire, Nazi Germany and West Germany. The first general officer of the Bundeswehr , he was a key player in West German rearmament during the Cold War as well as West Germany's integration into NATO and ...
In 1979, Bill Gates (1955–) and Paul Allen (1953–2018), founders of Microsoft, moved their small company from New Mexico to the suburbs of their native Seattle. [33] By 1985, sales were over $140 million, by 1990, $1.18 billion, and by 1995, Microsoft was the world's most profitable corporation, Allen and Gates were billionaires, and ...
As a nurse, Madison worked with patients with brain injury. "The more I learned about the extent of his injury, I was just completely in awe of him."
William C. ("Bill") Speidel, Doc Maynard, The Man Who Invented Seattle, Nettle Creek Publishing Company, Seattle, 1978. Chief Seattle bio, Chief Seattle Arts, accessed online 2009-02-23. The Suquamish Museum (1985). The Eyes of Chief Seattle. Suquamish, WA: Suquamish Museum. Jefferson, Warren (2001).
This section draws heavily on Bill Speidel, Sons of the Profits (1967) and Doc Maynard (1978). Doc Maynard and Murray Morgan, Skid Road (1951, 1960, 1982) are especially useful on the events regarding resistance nominally led by Kamiakim in the January 1856 attack on the town.