booth gardner - Washington Secretary of State

Source Notes
Abbreviations: Associated Press, AP; United Press International, UPI; Seattle
Times, Times; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, P-I; Tacoma News Tribune, TNT; Daily Olympian,
Oly. For full information on books cited, see the Bibliography. Virtually every newspaper
story from around the state during Gardner’s two terms as governor was scrapbooked
by volunteers and microfilmed by the Washington State Archives, Olympia. Reel No. 1
covers 1985 through 1987; Reel No. 2 covers 1988 through 1991.
Introduction
Interviews in 2009 with Booth Gardner, Chris Gregoire, Al Rosellini, Laird Harris,
Joan Blethen, Dan Evans, William Gerberding, Harry Carthum, Sid Snyder, Adele Ferguson
and Mari Clack. Dolliver’s assessment of Gardner (“Booth was a charming young man…”) is
from his 1999 oral history with the Office of the Secretary of State: http://www.sos.wa.gov/
legacyproject/collection/pdf/dolliver.pdf Ferguson’s oral history, featuring her views
on the Gardner Administration, is also on-line: http://www.sos.wa.gov/legacyproject/
oralhistories/AdeleFerguson/default.aspx “He could step in dog shit…,” Oly, March 13,
1986. “Health care is a right….,” from “The crisis in health care,” P-I, Dec. 9, 1991. “The
Basic Health Care program is the first of its kind,” from “State to begin dramatic new health
care program,” Times, June 10, 1987. Information on Parkinson’s from the Parkinson’s
disease Foundation and the Booth Gardner Parkinson’s Care Center, Kirkland, WA. (http://
www.evergreenhospital.org/landing.cfm?id=577&fr=true)
Chapter One: Booth’s Roots
Dozens of books deal with the Oregon Trail era and the historic Champoeg
meeting. Men of Champoeg documents the role played by Robert Moore, Gardner’s
great-great-great-grandfather, as does History of Oregon, Vols. I and II. Also authoritative
on Moore, Joseph Meek and Medorem Crawford are Willamette Landings and Outpost,
John McLoughlin and the Far Northwest. Oregon Trail historians confirm the arrival of
Gardner’s great-great-grandfather, James Marshall Moore; great-grandmother, Elizabeth
Jane Moore, and great-grandfather, Ronald C. Crawford, in 1847. (Oregon Trail emigrants
of 1847: Correspondence with Stephenie Flora, historian with http://www.oregonpioneers.
com/ortrail.htm) The exploits of Ronald C. Crawford are documented in Living Pioneers of
Washington. An unpublished interview with Laurence S. Booth, Gardner’s grandfather, was
conducted on May 26, 1936, for the Washington Pioneer Project. It is in the Washington
State Library Manuscript Collection, MS 31, Box 5, Tumwater, WA. Laurence S. Booth’s
article Seattle the Glorious, appeared in American Mercury, January 1933. Skid Road,
documents Laurence S. Booth’s derring-do in Seattle’s Great Fire in 1889. His membership
in the Seattle Fire Department is documented in Seattle Fire Department, 1889. The P-I’s
interviews with the workers in the cabinet shop where the fire began were published
on June 21 and 22, 1889. Further details about the Booth and Gardner families were
gleaned from Washington West of the Cascades, Volume III, and A Volume of Memoirs and
Genealogy of Representative Citizens of the City of Seattle and County of King, Washington.
Also see Sketches of Washington 1907, Washington State Library, Tumwater, and A History
of the State of Washington, Vol. III. Information on William Gardner is from Tacoma – Its
History and Its Builders, Vol. lll, rare book collection, Washington State Library, Tumwater.
Also, “Death Takes Wm. Gardner, Pioneer Plumber,” TNT, Oct. 25, 1938. Information on the
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