Florence Aurelia Henry (1886-1904) was born in Minnesota to Susan and Horace Henry. Horace brought his family to Seattle to build the Northern Pacific Railroad and he soon became a wealthy man. Tragically, Florence became deathly ill while attending school in Massachusetts and died of appendicitis. Horace, being one of the original Seattle Golf and County Club members, was able to select a portion of the new club site to build a chapel dedicated to his daughter. The Florence Henry Memorial Chapel continues to operate today on that land now known as The Highlands in Seattle. The artist, Harriet Foster Beecher (1854-1915), traveled to the West Coast to attend the San Francisco School of Design. She moved to Seattle in 1880 and married Captain Herbert Foote Beecher. In 1881, Beecher opened what is thought to be Seattle’s first art studio. She painted Indigenous life in oils and watercolors, portraits of white Seattle settlers, and landscapes. Beecher played a critical role in expanding the community of artists in Seattle through her work as a teacher at the Territorial University, in her home in Seattle, and later in Port Townsend.