Rieck, Marie “Mary” Ann

Association: Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Igloo No. 6

Role: Charter Member

Biography

Marie “Mary” Ann Rieck was a charter member of Juneau Igloo No. 6 of the Pioneers of Alaska.

She was born June 20, 1867, in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. She immigrated to the United States with her family in 1875.

On October 3, 1888, she married John Reck in Strawberry Point, Iowa. The couple had five children: Dorothy Julia, born March 9, 1890, in Tacoma, Washington; William John, born April 1, 1893, in Roy, Washington; Marie G., born December 29, 1894, in Washington; Mamie G., born in 1895; and Sidonia Elizabeth, born February 10, 1900, in Juneau, Alaska.

The family moved from Tacoma, Washington, to Juneau, Alaska, in March 1898, becoming part of the early community that developed during the region’s mining boom.

Mary Ann Rieck Reck died in Juneau on December 5, 1940.

Sources

• 1900 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau, Alaska
• Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850–1950, Volume 2, p. 269
• Washington Birth Record, 1890