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...
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...
