by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
It was August, 1904, and it was hot the day that Anton Myre Anderson debarked from the steamer Fairhaven onto the Langley dock with his wife, Josephine, his nine-year-old son, Otto, and his two-year-old daughter, Alma. They had come from Everett with all their...
by James Canby | Mar 1, 2022 | SW People & Families
Perhaps no woman had a greater impact for good on early Langley than Lillian Wylie who arrived from Everett in 1913 with her husband, Francis Floren Wylie and their children, Ruby, Myrtle and Chester. Francis Wylie worked for an Everett real estate firm which had sold...
by James Canby | Mar 1, 2022 | SW People & Families
The peak of the gold rush frenzy was past but Alaska-bound ships were still leaving Seattle every week. A steady stream of purse seiners chugged out of Elliot Bay and headed for Johnstone Strait.The captain of the Fairhaven clamped his hand on the whistle cord and a...
by James Canby | Mar 1, 2022 | SW People & Families
Perhaps William Harmon wasn’t actually a genius in the eyes of the world and perhaps somewhere in the world there was a better cook and homemaker than Nancy McStotts Harmon but there are old-timers around Langley who would argue the point. The Harmon home on Edgecliff...
by James Canby | Mar 1, 2022 | SW People & Families
Perhaps no family has had a more long range influence on Langley than the six generations of Furmans who have lived here continuously since Frank Furman and his wife, Anna, arrived in 1898.While the Hunzikers, Howards and McLeods were busy establishing stores, hotels...
