He didn't found the Leader. That would be W.L. Jones, for whom no photo is known to exist, but who started the Leader during the boom year of 1889, having abandoned an even earlier newspaper -- Puget Sound Argus -- in the process. But this man is Enoch Fowler, a prominent skipper and owner of ships, who showed off the Port Townsend townsite to its eventual founders, Alfred Plummer and Charles Bachelder, as they sailed by in the fall of 1850. Bachelder and Plummer returned the next spring to stake claims. Fowler staked some of his own in 1852 and moved here in 1857. He built many things in the town -- its first pier among them -- but today we remember him for what he did in 1874. Hiring an English master stonemason named Morgan Carkeek, he built the two-story sandstone building at 226 Adams Street that has been home to the Leader since 1916. That makes this busy skipper the founder of our building, at least.