by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
One of the members of Langley’s first Town Council in 1913 was Henry English, a Canadian who, with his wife, Grace and their three children had settled in Langley prior to 1910. He was one of the leaders in Langley’s civic affairs for several years and served as mayor...
by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
Another colorful Langley pioneer was Miss Zillah Skidmore who, in 1902 owned the im-pressive two story house on Cascade Avenue overlooking the town dock, Saratoga Passage, Mt. Baker and the Cascade range. She farmed 19 acres and was famous for diversification of her...
by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
Shortly after 1900 at about the same time that the Bosshard family settled on acreage in the southwest edge of Langley the Monson family settled adjacent to them on acreage that extended from Anthes to DeBruyn Streets and from Second Street to the comer of Sixth....
by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
He helped Albert Melsen as a builder; he helped install Langley’s first sewer system; which was a wooden pipeline; he carried a carpenter’s card and worked on almost every major building in Langley after 1929, also contracting electrical wiring and plumbing but it was...
by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
Henry Bosshard was a handsome, dashing young Swiss whose family had moved to Minnesota when he was a youngster. Lydia Hunziker was a vivacious young lady, one of 12 children whose father was a missionary for the Lutheran Synod and was related to John Frederick...
by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
Irvin McDonald was one of nine boys and five girls born to Emily and Angus McDonald who settled in the Lone Lake area in 1928. Emily was born in Bohemia and Angus was Irish. The McDonald young people attended the Bayview school and Langley High School and the entire...
