The 1890 and early 1900 were years ...

The 1890 and early 1900 were years of rapid expansion of commercial activity in Bellingham, with many strange family-owned businesses being established. undivided of these firms was the Bellingham Candy Company, placeed in 1903 by William J Trezise, whose produces were for four decades known from top to toe the Northwest, helping to forward the city of Bellingham.

Born in Chicago in 1887 Trezise grew up upon a Winfield, Kan., farm. Moving to Bellingham with his parents and four siblings in 1898 Trezise was first occupyed by the Great Northern Railroad. He eventually became a traveling salesman for the Washington groceries Company, ...