Pettygrove, F. W. (Francis William), 1812-1887

found: NUCMC data from Jefferson County Historical Society (Port Townsend, Wash.) for Pettygrove family collection, 1843-1976(F.W. Pettygrove; resident of Port Townsend, Wash.)

found: 1880 U.S. census for Jefferson County, Wash. (Ancestry.com), viewed Mar. 9, 2011(Pettygrove, Frank W.)

found: Wikipedia, viewed Mar. 9, 2011(Francis William Pettygrove (1812- 5 Oct. 1887); commonly known as William; pioneer and one of the founders of the cities of Portland, Or., and Port Townsend, Wash.; b. in Calais, Me., he relocated to the Oregon Country in 1843 to establish a store in Oregon City; later that year he paid $50 for half of a land claim on which he and Asa Lovejoy laid out a town named Portland after the port city in Pettygrove's home state; with Benjamin Stark, who bought Lovejoy's half-interest in the town site in 1845, Pettygrove engaged in a highly profitable three-cornered trade between Portland, San Francisco, and Hawaii; making money in his stores and warehouses, in trades of lumber, grain, and salted fish, and in real-estate deals, Pettygrove by 1848 was one of the richest men in the Oregon Territory; when the California Gold Rush drew potential laborers from Oregon and threatened Pettygrove's short-term prospects, he sold his assets in Portland and vicinity; in 1851 he joined with others to start a new town, Port Townsend, on Puget Sound in what became the U.S. state of Washington; he died at the age of seventy-five and was buried in Port Townsend)