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31: 203:("The Carkeeks were English immigrants, and their children, Guendolen and Vivian, kept the family's Anglo-Saxon flame lit. More than a student of the King Arthur legend, the lawyer Vivian Carkeek was a true believer, and for years the national president of the Knights of the Round Table. Guendolen was packed off to England as a teenager to go to school, although she wound up living in Paris and marrying a Russian count. Later, she returned to Seattle to help revive the historical society that her mother founded in 1911.") 215:(1915), vol. 26, p. 38 (Washington news: "Announcement has been made of the dissolution of the law firm of Carkeek, McDonald & Kapp, 1207 American Bank Building, Seattle, by the retirement of F.C. Kapp. Vivian M. Carkeek and Donald F. McDonald, with W. H. Harris, and George Coryell, Jr., have formed a new partnership known as Carkeek, McDonald, Harris & Coryell, 1162-1167 Empire building.") 144:, who later married Vivian's cousin, Bessie Westlake Carkeek), and was a partner at the firm Carkeek, McDonald, Harris and Coryell. From 1930 to 1931 he taught at the University of Washington School of Law. Carkeek was generally recognized as one of Seattle's powerful and influential civic personalities. 151:, was passionately interested in the history of the Seattle area, and he served briefly as president of the Seattle Historic Society, which his mother had founded in 1911, and was a founding officer of the Associates of Eighty-Nine, which was established in 1919 to perpetuate remembrance of the 397: 216: 155:. In the early 1930s he financed the acquisition of theater historian J. Willis Sayre's private collection of 12,500 theatrical programs for the 224: 407: 402: 133: 159:. Carkeek also established the "Vivian Carkeek Prize" which is annually awarded "for the best student contribution to the 335: 279: 178: 172: 392: 198: 303: 85: 295: 247: 156: 148: 105: 351: 387: 382: 239: 30: 8: 163:
on a point of Washington law or any point of peculiar interest to Washington attorneys".
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Born to Morgan and Emily Carkeek, one of the area's early pioneer families for whom
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Morgan and Vivian Carkeek seated in office, circa 1920s
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Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-over Place
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Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington
University of Washington
Attorney
Guendolen Plestcheeff
Seattle, Washington
Carkeek Park
University of Washington School of Law
Walter B. Beals
Walter M. French
sister
Great Seattle Fire
Seattle Public Library
Morgan and Vivian Carkeek seated in office, circa 1920s
Vivian Carkeek
Seattle Times
Google books
Google books


"Vivian M. Carkeek Papers, 1899-1933"
Orbis Cascade Alliance
Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-over Place
ISBN
978-0295987002
"Honors & Awards"
University of Washington
Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle
ISBN

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