William Allison Peters (S&B 1880)
Attorney. St. Paul’s School*. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Delta Kappa Epsilon. He Boule.
Member Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Sons of the Revolution.[4]
1926 to 1929 - Trustee Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.[4] (Up to Great Depression)
WW1 - 1918 - Vice-Chairman of Washington State Council of Defense.[4]
1908, 1909, 1910, 1919 - Vestryman of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Seattle.[4]
1907 to 1908 - Seattle Bar Association.[4]
1903 to 1904 - President Washington State Bar Association.[4]
1900 to 1928, Peters & Powell, 1929, Peters, Powell, Evans & McLaren.[4]
1900, Charter Member, 1908 and 1909, University Club.[4]
1893 to 1900 - Strudwick & Peters.[4]
1891 to 1892 - Strudwick, Peters & VanWyck.[4]
6 Jun 1889 - Married in San Francisco, Calif., Frances Akers, daughter of Sidney McMechen and Nannie Churchill (Crittenden) VanWyck. Children: William Allison, Jr., ‘12; Sidney VanWyck; Katherine Eugenia, the wife of Henry H Ketcham, ‘14; Churchill Crittenden, ‘19; and Laurance Armistead, ‘28.
1889 to 1890, Member firm of Strudwick, Peters & Collins.[4]
1888, Charter Member, 1888 to 1889, Rainier Club.[4]
1887, moved to Seattle, where he had since been engaged in the practice of law independently until 1889.
Mar 1883, admitted to Pennsylvania Bar in and was employed as claim agent by the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company until 1885.[4]
Taught at Hillman Academy, Wilkes Barre, for a year or two after graduation and then read law in an office in Philadelphia.[4]
1880 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 26 Oct 1929, from Pyeliti. Age 71.[4]
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