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When riding the train to the summit, the train agents will point out across the valley the words “On to Alaska with Buchanan” painted on the rock wall.
Thanks to Scott Cummings for the photos!
Re: the photo of 1915 WCTU convention delegates posted in the category Women, April 27, 2012, Liquor, Schools and Boardwalks.
First row, far left: my maternal grandmother, Lucy Record Spaeth, Corresponding Secretary, Alaska WCTU, from Ketchikan. Husband Albert Spaeth first came to Alaska, from Kansas, in 1900, selling merchandise and working mining claims in the Nome area, then moved his family to Ketchikan in 1909.
First row, 4th from left: Cornelia Templeton Hatcher, President, Alaska WCTU
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Templeton_Hatcher
Both were also active in the women’s suffrage movement.
My paternal grandfather, Charles Jacob Burrow, came to Skagway from the Seattle area in 1897 and spent three years in British Columbia and Yukon Territory, mining and hauling freight by horseback before returning to Seattle.