Hiram Burnett

Hiram's brother Henry Burnett a fireman and sister Mrs. Parker a widow later Mrs Burnell joined him in Seattle.

He was married in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1845, to Miss Elizabeth Merriam Gibbs of Framingham, and continued to reside in the State of Rhode Island until 1852, when, after providing comfortable arrangements for his family he started for California.

He remained in San Francisco until 1855, and then came to Port Gamble, Washington under engagement with the Puget Mill Company, (a company controlled by the Pope & Talbot families as superintendent of their planing mill, in 1856 he returned to spend some time East for his family, but instead of returning at once to the Pacific coast he located for a while near Lawrence, Kansas.

After a short time, however, he became dissatisfied with Kansas, and in 1856 he removed to Puget Sound again, returning to the employ of the Port Gamble mill, in his old position of superintendent.

After thus providing a home for his family, he returned to mill work in various localities, at which he continued until 1878, when he retired from active labor and permanently settled in Seattle and began improving his property, which was now well covered with substantial houses for tenants.

As a pioneer and citizen Mr. Burnett stands in the same relation to Seattle and the Sound country as such old citizens as Arthur A. Denny, Thomas Mercer, Henry Van Asselt, George F. Whitworth, John J. McGilvra, Orange Jacobs, Dexter Horton, and many others, who are regarded not only as the pioneers but as the most honored men of the State of Washington today.