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Mines on the eastside of Lake Washington. He and others ran the Lake Washington Coal
Company, which had been organized in 1866. After 1885, he returned fulltime to his first
profession, roaming from church to church as visiting pastor in Ballard, Columbia City, Yesler
Street, and South Park.

Daniel Bagley was a Master Mason from his Illinois days, and upon his death on April 26, 1905,
he received full honors from Seattle's historic St. John's Lodge. Neal Hines wrote that when Daniel
Bagley died at age 87, "In all his years nothing had daunted (him) -- not the hardships of the trail
from Illinois, not the rigors of the circuit riding in Oregon, not the whims and doubts of territorial
legislatures -- and only the single tree on the old university grounds had outlasted him, a tree long
gone from downtown Seattle.”