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Club Heritage | WAC Artifact | Reciprocal Club 28 WAC Magazine | wac.net Holiday events WAC Artifact Life Members Reciprocal Club Club Life E M I L I O H U E R TA S e downtown Seattle street corner where the Cramer siblings stand this aernoon is anything but ordinary. In addition to being the corner of Sixth and Union, home to the Washington Athletic Club, there is also a bronze plaque set into the wall nearby. While an unob- servant passerby might miss it, there's something special about this memorial tablet—especially for the Cramers. e sculpted woman's profile that graces the plaque is that of Hannah Newman, the Cramers' great-great grandmother. Newman was an early Seattle settler and long-ago owner of the land now occupied by the WAC. "She must have been a really dynamic woman for the time," WAC member Kip Cramer says. "She ended up with prop- erty and businesses and le our family with a big legacy." Hannah Newman, born in Ireland in 1838, arrived in Seattle in 1860 at just 22 years of age. She married William Barry in 1867. e couple had five kids, including David Dennis Barry, the great-grandfather of Kip and his siblings, Michelle, Scott, and Kimberly. Two years aer William Barry's death, Newman purchased the land at the corner of what is now Sixth and Union. e corner was "a veritable wilderness," according to a local newspaper. So iso- lated was the wooded block, it was said, THE HANNAH NEWMAN FAMILY Tracing the WAC connection to a pioneer who arrived in Seattle in 1860 CLUB HERITAGE By Mae Folsom Jacobson Kimberly Carrosino, Michelle Prince, Kip Cramer, and Scott Cramer outside the Club alongside the plaque honoring their ancestor Hannah Newman.