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<br /> - Everett. Born May 14, 1880, in Mississippi,Winter came to Everett in 1916. He purchased the
<br /> businesses of the Puget Sound Independent Telephone Company and Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
<br /> Company, which he combined under the name of Puget Sound Telephone Company. He is credited with
<br /> having scientific knowledge, keen business judgment, and strong administrative power. In 1920 Mr.
<br /> Winter helped organize the Security National Bank of Everett,of which he was president. He belonged
<br /> to the Cascade Club and the Everett Country Club, and was vice president of the Overlake Golf Club of
<br /> Seattle. In 1906 he married Miss Faun Twelves of Provo,Utah; they had two children,William Neal,Jr.,
<br /> and Barbara. .Although he commissioned design of the house, it is unclear whether Mr. Winter ever
<br /> lived in the house at 1631 Grand Ave. He is shown in the 1918 Polk Directory as living at 1611 Grand
<br /> Ave.
<br /> City water records show an application for water to this address on August 31, 1921, for James Clapp.
<br /> The Polk Directories from 1922 to 1931 show James N.and Charlotte Clapp living at this address. Mr.
<br /> Clapp is identified in the 1922 Polk Directory as a buyer and in the 1928-29 Polk Directory as a
<br /> lumberman.
<br /> Dr. Samuel L. Caldbick appears as a resident in the Polk Directories from 1932 to 1939. Dr. Caldbick
<br /> was one of the best known surgeons of northwestern Washington and head of the Everett Clinic. He was
<br /> born August 6, 1876, in Ontario,Canada. He took postgraduate work at Harvard University and began
<br /> practicing medicine in Michigan in 1902. In 1910 he came to Everett and built a large practice.
<br /> Dr. Caldbick was a member of the Snohomish County and Washington State Medical Societies, the
<br /> American Medical Association, and the Pacific Coast Surgical Association. In 1906 Dr. Caldbick
<br /> married Pauline O. Bagsted, with whom he had two children, Helen and Donald.
<br /> Dr. Albert B.Murphy owned the house and appears as a resident in the Polk Directories from 1941 to
<br /> 1962. Born May 22, 1807, in Massachusetts, Dr. Murphy studied at Tufts Medical College from which
<br /> he graduated in 1919, interned at Boston City and Long Island Hospitals, and did residency at the Mayo
<br /> Clinic. He came to Everett in 1924 and became a member of the Quigley clinic. He specialized in
<br /> diseases of the eye, ear,nose and throat. During World War I he enlisted in the Navy and was assigned
<br /> to duty in the medical department. He was a member of the Snohomish County and Washington State
<br /> Medical Societies and the American Medical Association, and was affiliated with the Puget Sound Eye,
<br /> Ear,Nose and Throat Academy and the Pacific Northwest Oto-Ophthalmological Society. Dr. Murphy
<br /> married Vesta Kruse of Rochester Minnesota, in 1926. Mrs. Vesta K. Murphy is shown as the resident
<br /> of 1631 Grand in 1963-64.
<br /> From 1965 to 2002, the house was owned by Judge John F. Wilson,a Snohomish County Superior Court
<br /> judge,who appears as a resident in the Polk Directories for those years. Judge Wilson was appointed to
<br /> the Superior Court bench by Governor Dixie Lee Ray in 1978 and retired in 1995. Prior to that
<br /> appointment,he worked for the state Attorney General's office and was in private practice in Everett. In
<br /> the 1990s, Judge Wilson was presented with a Distinguished Jurist Award from Gonzaga University. A
<br /> native New Yorker,Judge Wilson was known for his Irish tenor voice and his sense of humor. Judge
<br /> Wilson died in October 2002.
<br /> Sources of information:
<br /> • Carl F. Gould, A Life in Architecture and the Arts by T. William Booth and William H. Wilson.,
<br /> University of Washington Press, 1995.
<br /> • History of Snohomish County, Washington by Whitfield, Volume II, Pioneer Historical Publishing
<br /> Company, Chicago—Seattle, 1026.
<br /> • Polk Directories 1922-2002. Sanborn
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