
Mountain School at Home “ACHOTUS” Ep4: J.D. Ross
Enjoy the fourth and final episode in our series on the Cultural History of the Upper Skagit Valley in the North Cascades, and get ready to meet a visionary businessman who is an inextricable part of the cultural history story here: The “Father of Seattle City Light,” James Delmage (JD) Ross. His life story intertwined with the North Cascades when he set out to create a series of dams with hydroelectric power-generating stations on the Skagit River beginning in 1917. Throughout JD’s long career, which ultimately included being appointed by FDR to the Securities & Exchange Commission and being appointed as the first administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration, he kept coming back to the Skagit River. JD ended up drastically changing the face of the North Cascades, perhaps more than any other person who ever passed through the area.
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