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William Muir Urquhart
William Muir Urquhart (December 22, 1855 – April 14, 1933) was an American entrepreneur, businessman and public servant. For many years he was treasurer of Lewis County, Washington.〔"(Urquhart, William M. )", ''History of the Pacific Northwest, Oregon and Washington'' (1889). Retrieved 28 March 2011 via Accessgeneology.com.〕 He also served as mayor, councilman, and postmaster of Chehalis, Washington, where he lived and worked for more than 50 years. He was a merchant, banker, railroad entrepreneur, land developer and timber company investor. He was instrumental in planning the layout the business district of Chehalis in the early days of the city.〔"(Chehalis )", ''National Register of Historical Places'', National Park Service, 22 August 1991. Retrieved 27 March 2011 via Google Documents.〕
==Early life==
William was born in Cutting's Prairie, north of the Columbia River in the newly created Washington Territory, a vast area of wilderness which had been separated from the Oregon Territory by an Act of Congress in 1853. He was the first member of his family born in the United States. His father, James Urquhart, left Scotland in 1851, taking a ship to New York, and traveling on foot to New Orleans and by boat up the Mississippi River to Iowa, before joining a wagon train and heading west on the Oregon Trail. William's mother and five older brothers and sisters reunited with James Urquhart in early 1855. They traveled around Cape Horn to San Francisco and then to the mouth of the Columbia River by ship, where they transferred to canoes for the last leg of their journey up the Cowlitz River. The trip took them over six months. William was born later that year in a house his father had built on land he had acquired through a Donation Claim. As the Urquhart family continued to grow in size, they added additional acreage to their holdings and tended to a variety of crops and animals for their own use and for the markets of Olympia on the Puget Sound.〔Prosser, William Farrand; ''A history of the Puget Sound country'', The Lewis Publishing Company (1903), p. 425.〕 Like his ten siblings who grew to maturity, William became skilled at all aspects of farm work on the frontier.
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