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Shoudy named the new town after his wife, Mary Ellen, thus officially starting the city of Ellensburgh around 1872. Shoudy had not been the first settler nor the first business person in the Kittitas Valley, but he was responsible for platting the city of Ellensburgh in the 1870s and also named the streets in the downtown district. Ellensburgh ...
John and his wife Mary Ellen platted the town and it was officially filed in April 1875. John named the new town Ellensburgh for his wife. Between 1878 and 1883, the town grew dramatically.
John Shoudy bought the store, known as Robbers’ Roost, along with the 160-acre claim, and plotted the future townsite, named for his wife Mary Ellen. Ellensburg was the site for the state Admissions Convention in 1889, which was organized by citizens in Washington Territory who wanted to petition Congress for statehood.
Dec 23, 2005 · In 1875 John Shoudy platted the streets of the town he named Ellensburgh in honor of Mary Ellen. In 1894 the United States Post Office dropped the final "h" and the town became Ellensburg. The Shoudy plat was recorded in the name of John A. and Mary Ellen Shoudy on July 20, 1875.
Dec 3, 2005 · On July 20, 1875, Ellensburg founder John Alden Shoudy (1842-1901) files an 80-acre plat comprising the town of Ellensburgh in his name and the name of his wife Mary Ellen Stuart Shoudy (1856-1921). John and Mary Ellen Shoudy came to the Kittitas Valley in 1871 from Seattle.
Mar 3, 2019 · Mary Ellen Shoudy not only helped found Ellensburg, she was its namesake, helping turn a homestead into the seat of Kittitas County. Shoudy was born March 7, 1846, in Harrison County, Ky.,...
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Jan 2, 2022 · Three years later, the Shoudys, who built a new building to house the store, filed a plat for a town named after Mary Ellen Shoudy, called Ellensburgh. (The “h” would be removed in 1894...
