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Mother Damnable : ウィキペディア英語版 | Mother Damnable Mary Ann Conklin, also known as Mother Damnable and Madame Damnable〔T. S. Phelps: ''(Reminiscences of Seattle: Washington Territory and the U. S. Sloop-of-War ''Decatur'' During the Indian War of 1855-56 )''. Originally published by The Alice Harriman Company, Seattle, 1908. Accessed online November 2, 2006 on the site of the U.S. Department of the Navy.〕 (1821–1873) ran Seattle's first WhoreHouse the Felker House, whose relatively high-class brothel was a major means of accumulating money from sailors and lumbermen into local businesses.〔''Sons of the profits; or, There's no business like grow business: the Seattle story, 1851-1901'', by William C. Speidel, 1967〕 The name by which she is most widely known derives not from the nature of her business, but from her legendarily unrestrained language, learned at sea and from her customers. It was said that she swore expertly in Chinese, English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.〔"(Conklin, Mary Ann (1821-1873) aka Mother Damnable )", at historylink.org. Accessed 20 Aug 2006.〕 ==Biography== Born Mary Ann Boyer in 1821 in Pennsylvania, she met and may have married the captain of a whaling ship, David W. "Bull" Conklin, in 1851. In 1853, the captain abandoned her in Port Townsend, Washington, and sailed away to Alaska. She moved to Seattle which at the time was one of several small settlements competing for Puget Sound business. There, she began to manage Felker House for Captain Leonard Felker. In this two-story building, on land purchased from her sometime-ally Doc Maynard, she ran an efficient hotel with clean sheets, good food, and a brothel upstairs. She rented out unused rooms during the day, including the rooms for the Territorial Court.〔''Doc Maynard: The Man Who Invented Seattle'', by William C Speidel, 1978〕 At the time of the Battle of Seattle (January 26, 1856), sailors from the sloop-of-war ''U.S. Decatur'' wanted to improve Seattle's defenses by building a road that passed her hotel and incidentally threatened the bushes that assured the discretion of her well-to-do customers. According to memoirs of the sloop's navigator (later Rear-Admiral) Thomas Stowell Phelps:
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