by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
“How would you like to go out West and see this Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition that’s being written up in the paper?”The year was 1909. The place was the Iowa living room of Hans Peter Jensen. He was ad-dressing his wife, Cecila. She responded with enthusiasm, ‘‘That...
by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
The youngsters of early day Langley knew Jacob and Ava Brehm as “Grandpa” and “Grandma”. The business community knew Jacob as the owner of the livery stable on First street, and Ava as the lady who made everybody feel welcome at her home in the field just east of the...
by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
On a certain Sunday in 1907, a 30 year-old carpenter, Albert Melsen, decided to take his wife, Amelia, and their small daughters Elva and Grace, on an outing. He had come to the Pacific Northwest from Nebraska to visit his sister in Everett and was casting about for a...
by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
Isaac Bainter was a big, handsome, fair-skinned Pennsylvania Dutch youth accustomed to depending on himself from the time he was 14. He had been orphaned at the age of four and more or less raised by older sisters until he reached his teens. He had roamed across the...
by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
“If we had 50 chickens how many eggs do you suppose they would lay per day and how much money could we get for the eggs?” Anders Anderson was sitting at the table after dinner doing arithmetic. He didn’t really expect his wife, Bertine, to answer. She had heard him...
