User talk:Sarcasmboy/sandbox/E. O. Schwagerl

(alt spelling: E. O. Schwagerel/Schwageral)

January 14, 1842: born (A) moved to Paris as infant(A) moved to NYC age 12 (alone), worked in department stores (A) 1854: above (G) attended Tilton Seminary, Tilton NH (O) 1865: returned to Paris (A) 1867: worked for Mons Mulat helped design grounds of Exposition Universelle (A) 1868: after a year, returned to the US, worked for Jacob Weidenmann in Hartford, CT for 18 months (A) following decade, went to Omaha and St Louis, then Cleveland (A) 1870: in St Louis (G) developer master plan for St. Louis University (G) moved firm to Philadelphia, contracted to design Riverside Cemetery in Cleveland (G) designed Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo, OH (G) cemetery designs in Canajoharie Falls, NY and Hannibal, Missouri (G) Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Hannibal, MO (M) 1871: patent for tree-box (H), park seat (I) Nov 1873: In St Louis, designing grounds for North Missouri State Normal School (now Truman State) (N) 1876: helps landscape Philadelphia Centennial Exposition (C) drafted plans for streets in Cleveland and St. Louis (C) Gordon, Wade, Payne, Eels Parks in Cleveland (D) Lindell Boulevard, Vandeventer Place in St. Louis (D) 1876: Riverside Cemetery (Cleveland) commissioned (L) March 1878: paid $100 by SC secy of state to improve the SC State House grounds, which had fallen into disrepair during Reconstruction (O) May 1878: moved to Helena, MT (R) 1879: receives commission for River View Cemetery in Portland OR (A) 1880: Rockefeller hires to survey Forest Hill (L) 1881: Living in Philadelphia, working on improvements to Gordon Park in Cleveland, hired by John D Rockefeller to do landscaping at his Millionaire's Row (Cleveland) residence (L) 1883: Appointed Superintendent of Parks, Cleveland OH (K) 1889: living in Naomi WA (A) 1889-92: In tacoma, designed Wright Park, Point Defiance Park (A) 1890-92: Superintendent of Parks in Tacoma (P) 1892: Moves to Kingston to help establish Theosophical colony. (B) -- lived there in April (S) May 1892: in Seattle, Supt of Parks (A) Sept 1892: proposed plan for parks and boulevards in Seattle, including a grand boulevard 150-300 ft across encircling the city (C) Sept 1892: loses divorce case, wife got custody of child (Q) 1894: admitted plan was too ambitious given nationwide depression (C) 1892-95: designed Kinnear Park (1892-94) and Denny Park (94-95) (A) designed Volunteer Park (D) 1893: Theosophist; delivered lecture on "Occultism" (E) Sept 1893: asked park commission to implore Sec of Interior to protect Mount Rainer area from vandalism 1894: Formally appointed park superintendent (?) (U) Aug 1895: involved in siting of building for Whatcom Normal School (now WWU) (T) Nov 1895: Resigns as park superintendent effective 12/31 to move to Tacoma to act as landscape gardener and architect at Puget Sound University (V) 1895-1897: private practice in Tacoma (A) 1896-97: designed University Place subdivision in Tacoma (A) 1899: designed University Heights Addition (A) 1903: finished parks and boulevards plan for Seattle, but passed over for Olmsted Brothers/John C Olmsted (A) (Olmsted plan called "almost identical" by city engineer R.H. Thomson) JCO: "His walks are very crooked often and his banks steep and high and his plantings very mixed but pretty much the same selection for every place.” JCO concluded that Schwagerl “seems to be no very considerable artist in his line.” (J)

1906-7: selected to plan Mount Baker Park in Seattle

refs A: https://books.google.com/books?id=zKkpDAAAQBAJ B: https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn94049697/1892-01-07/ed-1/seq-3/#index=1&rows=20&proxtext=schwagerl&searchType=basic&sequence=0&words=Schwagerl&page=1 C: https://books.google.com/books?id=k04hmYum7_IC D: https://books.google.com/books?id=pFI6AQAAMAAJ E: https://books.google.com/books?id=-9sZAQAAIAAJ F: https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/mora/adhi/chap3.htm G: http://www.sellwoodbridge.org/files/phase3/history/hra_20111013_des_riverviewcemeteryhistoryfinal.pdf H: https://patents.google.com/patent/US115531A/en I: https://patents.google.com/patent/USD4675S/en J: http://www.dahp.wa.gov/sites/default/files/WA_KingCounty_SeattleOlmstedParks_MPD_FINAL.pdf K: https://books.google.com/books?id=VkowAQAAMAAJ L: https://books.google.com/books?id=UAAkW1XBXFAC M: http://mtolivetcemeteryhannibal.com/about-us/ N: https://books.google.com/books?id=Fo9kAAAAcAAJ O: https://books.google.com/books?id=Ezb8N8_yxiwC P: https://towncenterfriends.org/2017/10/19/the-mount-baker-park-addition-a-historic-intersection-of-people-and-place/ Q: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045604/1892-09-21/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1860&index=19&rows=20&words=SCHWAGERL+Schwagerl&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1911&proxtext=schwagerl&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 R: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84036143/1878-05-09/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1860&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=Schwagerl&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=8&state=&date2=1911&proxtext=schwagerl&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2 S: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045604/1892-04-04/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=1860&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=Schwagerl&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=10&state=&date2=1911&proxtext=schwagerl&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2 T: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045604/1895-08-04/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1860&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=Schwagerl&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=1&state=&date2=1911&proxtext=schwagerl&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=3 U: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045604/1894-09-25/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1860&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=Schwagerl&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=6&state=&date2=1911&proxtext=schwagerl&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=3 V: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045604/1895-11-22/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=1860&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=Schwagerl&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=15&state=&date2=1911&proxtext=schwagerl&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=3

Work with Mulat
The reference to working in Paris for a "Mons Mulat" in https://archive.org/details/volumeofmemoirsg01lewi/page/354 is picked up in several other works. While "Mons" is treated here as a first name, I think it most likely this is a mis-transcription of "Mons(ieur) Mulat," probably A.P. (Alexandre Pierre or Pierre Alexandre) Mulat, a French engineer who was involved in the design of the American pavilion at the Exposition Universelle of 1867 (https://books.google.com/books?id=yrnHE7-vjlIC&pg=PA120#v=onepage&q=mulat&f=false, http://verrehistoire.typepad.com/histoire_entreprises/files/SPalaude.pdf) and was awarded the Legion of Honour. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any verifiable source for that connection. Sarcasmboy (talk) 18:33, 29 September 2018 (UTC)