R. L. Polk's Washington State Gazetteer, 1913-14, p. 621: Auburn, Samuel H. Noel, optician
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- R. L. Polk's Washington State Gazetteer, 1913-14, p. 621: Auburn, Samuel H. Noel, optician
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- 1913
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- Ancestry, U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 (collection 2469) > Oregon > Not Stated > 1913 > Oregon/Washington Gazetteer
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- p. 621; image 67 of 845
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Found on Ancestry, 9 Oct 2026. In the gazetteer's list for Auburn, King County, a town of 1,500, alphabetical by name: "Meade Geo C, lawyer and ins / Merritt Frank D, phys / Noel Saml H, optician." The lawyer and the physician are his neighbours in the alphabet, not a shared office. The same list has "Connell H N, undtkr," of the Connell & Lemar who buried him in 1924 (Washington certificate of death: Samuel Hall Noel, Algona, King County, 2 Aug 1924).
By 1913, then, Maud Noel's father had moved his business from Seattle (107 1st Av N in 1911, Seattle city directory (Polk), 1911: Samuel H. Noel and John R. Morilan [Morilon]) to Auburn, near Algona, where he died, and where his first wife was buried in 1918.
---title: "R. L. Polk's Washington State Gazetteer, 1913-14, p. 621: Auburn, Samuel H. Noel, optician"type: otherdate: 1913repository: "Ancestry, U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 (collection 2469) > Oregon > Not Stated > 1913 > Oregon/Washington Gazetteer"reference: p. 621; image 67 of 845url: "https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2469/images/i3552962-00066"seen: imageaccess: public---Found on Ancestry, 9 Oct 2026. In the gazetteer's list for Auburn, King County, a townof 1,500, alphabetical by name: "Meade Geo C, lawyer and ins / Merritt Frank D, phys / Noel SamlH, optician." The lawyer and the physician are his neighbours in the alphabet, not a sharedoffice. The same list has "Connell H N, undtkr," of the Connell & Lemar who buried him in 1924(`death-certificate-samuel-noel-1924`).By 1913, then, Maud Noel's father had moved his business from Seattle (107 1st Av N in 1911,`directories-seattle-noel-morilon-1911`) to Auburn, near Algona, where he died, and where hisfirst wife was buried in 1918.