Gill was born in 1866 in Watertown , Wisconsin . His father , Charles R. Gill , a lawyer and Civil War commander , later served as Wisconsin 's attorney general . In 1889 Gill graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School and moved to Seattle , where he worked first as a waiter at a waterfront restaurant . That June , the Great Seattle Fire reconfigured Seattle . Gill soon became ( as he had been during law school ) a stenographer in a law firm , entering practice himself in 1892 and soon entering politics as a Republican . As a lawyer , he defended saloonkeepers and brothel owners
Great Seattle Fire
Great Seattle Fire
Hiram Gill