In 1887 he was named the first Attorney General of the Washington Territory , serving from 1887 until Washington achieved statehood in 1889 . During the Great Seattle Fire in 1899 , Metcalfe lost his extensive personal law library . He decided to start a new partnership with Charles W. Turner and Andrew F. Burleigh specializing in business and commercial law . One of his most famous clients was George Carmack whose discovery of gold in the Yukon in 1896 prompted the Klondike Gold Rush
Great Seattle Fire
Great Seattle Fire
James B. Metcalfe