Seattle city directories (Polk), Holbrook entries, 1906-1917

Found on Ancestry, 9 Oct 2026. Read from the images:

• 1906 (image): "Holbrook Richard B capt str Perdita h 560 Mercer."
• 1910 (image): "Holbrook ... Richard B master Straits S S Co h 560 Mercer."
• 1917 (image): "Holbrook ... Harriet P (wid Richd B) r 3934 Warsaw" and "Richd B (Jessie L) master mariner h 8629 51st av S."

"h" is a householder, "r" one who rooms or resides. Before about 1915 Polk's Seattle directories did not name a man's wife, so Jessie's absence in 1906 and 1910 says nothing. The 1910 directory has Richard at 560 Mercer while the census of April 1910 has the family in Kitsap County (1910 U.S. census, 3rd Precinct, Kitsap County, Washington, Holbrook and Dunlap entries): a mariner's Seattle address and his family's home could differ. 8629 51st Avenue South, his "outside" address in his Pioneers of Alaska notice of Sept 1917 (Pioneers of Alaska notice for Richard B. Holbrook Jr., Anchorage Weekly Times, 12 Sept 1917, p. 5), was his and Jessie's home that year. The later entries, 1918-1926, are in Seattle city directories (Polk), Holbrook entries.