of which rose rapidly in value. Clarence B. Bagley wrote of him: …from the beginning of his residence on the Sound he did everything in his power to make known to the country the possibilities and opportunities of the northwest and to aid in the development of the city in which he had located. He favored and fostered every measure which he believed would prove of benefit to the town and country. In 1878–1879 he labored strenuously to secure the building of a wagon road over the Snoqualmie Pass and as the organizer of the board of immigration he had several thousand pamphlets printed and sent advertisements to the newspapers throughout the country. As the result of this widespread publicity, letters requesting pamphlets arrived at the rate of one hundred or more per day. For several years after the printed supply had been exhausted the requests kept coming in. In 1885–1886, at the time of the Anti-Chinese riots, he was one of the founders of the Home Guard, and served as its Captain, its highest officer. The Home Guard joined the Seattle Rifles, the University Cadets and (eventually) Company D of the Territorial Militia in successfully facing down the anti-Chinese rioters and preventing the forcible eviction of Seattle's Chinese residents. In 1911, shortly before his death, he published his own account of the events, which Bagley described as a "correct account of the whole anti-Chinese trouble", contrasting it to earlier "inaccurate accounts". In 1887 he donated 14 acres of land overlooking the Sound from the west side of Queen Anne Hill to the young city; this now constitutes Kinnear Park. Notes References Clarence B. Bagley, History of Seattle From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company (Chicago:1916), Volume II, p. 714 et. seq. Full text online at Internet Archive. This work is in the public domain; some passages of this article follow it quite closely. George Kinnear Anti-Chinese Riots At Seattle, Wn., February 8th, 1876, originally published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 1, 1911. Privately published in a small volume with the publication date "February 8th, 1911". Full text online on Wikisource. Lengthy excerpts are also reproduced in the biographical sketch of Kinnear in Bagley's History of Seattle. External links George Kinnear Papers. 1889-1900. 0.28 cubic feet (1 box). At the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. Businesspeople from Seattle People