by James Canby | Feb 18, 2022 | SW People & Families
He set fire to the woods near Clinton when he was a boy. He chased communist bandits who were bent on bank robbery in China when he was a young man. While other kids ran and hid, he played with the Indian boys who camped with their families on Columbia Beach where...
by James Canby | Feb 17, 2022 | SW People & Families
It was just a simple little item in the May 11, 1900 personals column of the Island County Times, but the import of the news it carried had a profound effect on the tiny town of Clinton. The item read, “H. B. Campbell, late owner of the Clinton Hotel property,...
by James Canby | Feb 17, 2022 | SW People & Families
Young Tom Orr sat counting his money in the living room of the home of his relatives in Iowa. There was a lot of it. He had left his native Norway to seek his fortune in the United States, but never in his wildest dreams did he expect such a thing as an Alaska...
by James Canby | Feb 17, 2022 | SW People & Families
The year was 1911. It was a beautiful summer morning. Peter Anderson pulled his row-boat beside the Clinton dock, rested his oars on the prow, and observed the bustling little business community on the beach; then, he noted the hill¬side of the plateau on high ground...
by James Canby | Feb 17, 2022 | SW People & Families
Jacob Simmons decided to follow his brother- in-law Ole Peterson to South Whidbey Island in 1889 and settle on a farm a couple of miles from the Clinton business district, up Deer Lake Road. His only purpose was to make enough money log¬ging giant cedar trees to...
