Primary Name: Museth, Nora Alice

Filed as: Museth, Nora Alice

Also known as: Nora Museth Williams

Occupation / Association: Charter Member, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Women's Igloo Auxiliary No. 6; post office employee

Associated places: Douglas, Alaska; Treadwell, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska; Escondido, California; Seattle, Washington; Tacoma, Washington

Keywords: Nora Alice Museth, Nora Museth Williams, Museth family Douglas Alaska, Joseph Augustin Williams mining engineer, Juneau Women's Igloo Auxiliary No 6, Douglas High School 1914, Treadwell Post Office employees

Biography

Nora Alice Museth was a Charter Member of the Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Women's Igloo Auxiliary No. 6.

She was born in Douglas, Alaska, on June 24, 1895, to Henry Museth and Martha Nilsdatter Bolstad-Museth. Their names were Americanized from Hendrik and Marta Mjaaset after they immigrated to the United States from Voss, Norway, in 1881.

Nora graduated from Douglas High School in 1914. She was the only senior in Douglas that year, and during the final half of the school year, she joined four seniors attending Juneau High School.

While in high school, she worked as a projectionist at the local theater. After graduating, she obtained employment at the Treadwell Post Office, where she earned $45 per month.

In 1923, when her father became ill, Nora moved with her parents and sisters Agnes and Trini to Escondido, California.

In 1925, she returned to Juneau as the bride of Joseph Augustin Williams, a mining engineer employed by the Treadwell mining operations. Nora and Joseph had been engaged before she left Alaska. They were married on April 21, 1925, and soon returned to Alaska.

The couple raised four children: Irene Patricia (born April 3, 1926), Donald Museth (born 1928), John Rodney (born 1931), and Marjorie Josephine (born 1934).

In 1983, Joseph and Nora moved to Seattle, Washington. Nora Alice Museth Williams died on January 17, 1994, in Tacoma, Washington.

Sources

1930 and 1940 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau; Gastineau Channel Memories, Vol. 1, pp. 353–355; Alaska Daily Empire, May 6, 1925; Alaska Daily Empire, April 3, 1926; Washington Death Certificate.