Kashevaroff, Nadia
Primary Name: Kashevaroff, Nadja Catherine
Filed as: kashevaroff_nadja_catherine
Also known as: Nadia Kashevaroff, Nadja Kashevaroff, Nadja Catherine Vestal, Nadja Catherine Triplett
Occupation / Association: Charter Member, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Women’s Auxiliary No. 6; government employee
Born: February 6, 1902, Sitka, Alaska
Died: December 6, 1972, Juneau, Alaska
Parents: Andrew Peter Kashevaroff; Martha E. Kashevaroff
Spouse: LeRoy Vestal (m. 1922); James Holly Triplett (m. 1939)
Children: Leroy G. Vestal
Associated places: Sitka, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska; Washington
Keywords: Nadja Catherine Kashevaroff, Nadia Kashevaroff, Nadja Kashevaroff, Vestal family Juneau, Triplett family Juneau, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Women’s Auxiliary No. 6
Biography
Nadja Catherine Kashevaroff was a charter member of the Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Women’s Auxiliary No. 6.
She was born in Sitka, Alaska, on February 6, 1902, the daughter of Andrew Peter Kashevaroff and Martha E. Kashevaroff.
In 1922 she married LeRoy Vestal. Their son, Leroy G. Vestal, was born in Washington in 1924. She was widowed in 1933.
Nadja later married James Holly Triplett in Juneau in 1939.
She worked for many years for both the state and federal governments and retired from the Department of Health and Welfare in 1967.
Nadja Kashevaroff died in Juneau on December 6, 1972. She was buried in the Pioneers section of Evergreen Cemetery.
Sources
1910 U.S. Federal Census, Sitka; 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau; 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau; 1940 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau; Alaska Daily Empire, September 22, 1922; Alaska Daily Empire, March 13, 1923; Pioneers of Alaska Auxiliary No. 6 Membership Application; U.S. Social Security Death Index; Juneau-Douglas High School Yearbook, 1920
Kashevaroff, Martha
Primary Name: Kashevaroff, Martha B.
Filed as: kashevaroff_martha
Also known as: Martha Bolshanin; Martha B. Bolshanin; Martha Kashevaroff
Occupation / Association: Charter Member, Juneau Igloo Auxiliary No. 6
Born: January 19, 1874, Juneau, Alaska
Died: April 13, 1931, Juneau, Alaska
Parents: Trifili Bolshanin; Elena Bolshanin
Spouse: Andrew Peter Kashevaroff (m. April 30, 1893, Killisnoo, Alaska)
Children: Cyril Andrew Kashevaroff; Nina Kashevaroff; Sasha Andrevna Mary Kashevaroff; Nicholas Kashevaroff; Nadja Kashevaroff; Legia Lydia Kashevaroff; Natalia Kashevaroff; Xenia Andreyvna Kashevaroff
Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Killisnoo, Alaska; Sitka, Alaska; Kodiak, Alaska
Keywords: Martha B Kashevaroff, Martha Kashevaroff, Martha Bolshanin, Bolshanin family, Kashevaroff family, Andrew Peter Kashevaroff, Juneau Igloo Auxiliary No. 6, Sitka Alaska, Juneau Alaska pioneers
Biography
Martha B. Bolshanin Kashevaroff was a charter member of Juneau Igloo Auxiliary No. 6.
She was born in Juneau, Alaska, on January 19, 1874, to Trifili Bolshanin and Elena Bolshanin.
On April 30, 1893, she married Andrew Peter Kashevaroff in Killisnoo, Alaska. The couple had eight children: Cyril Andrew, born in April 1896 in Sitka; Nina, born in 1898; Sasha Andrevna Mary, born July 5, 1900 in Sitka; Nicholas, born in 1900; Nadja, born February 6, 1902 in Sitka; Legia Lydia, born June 26, 1904 in Sitka; Natalia, born November 6, 1908; and Xenia Andreyvna, born August 15, 1913.
Martha Kashevaroff died in Juneau on April 13, 1931.
Sources
1900 U.S. Federal Census, Kodiak; 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Sitka; 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau; 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau
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White, Josie
Alice Josephine “Josie” Keys White was a Charter Member of Juneau Igloo No. 6.
She was born July 7, 1872, in Goldendale, Washington. Her parents were Calvin S. Keys and Jane Freelove Peck Keys.
She married Elmer J. “Stroller” White on December 30, 1891, in Tacoma, Washington. They had two sons, John McBurney White and Albert Hamilton White, and one daughter, Lenora White.
She came to Alaska with her husband, a well-known pioneer Alaska journalist.
The Whites arrived in Skagway when the town was still a tent city of gold-rush stampeders. Mr. White took a job with the Skagway News, a weekly newspaper, and the family remained in Skagway until the autumn of 1899.
They then traveled over the newly completed White Pass Railroad to Lake Bennett. Although they did not have the $500 required to cross the Canadian border, a barge owner told the Canadian officials that Mr. White was working as a cook on the barge. They boarded the barge in October, late in the season, and floated down the Yukon River toward Dawson. They came within fifteen miles of Dawson before the river froze.
“We went to Dawson for the mad excitement of it,” Mrs. White later recalled. “We didn’t know what we would do, but Mr. White got a job with the Dawson Nugget right away.”
The family remained in Dawson until 1905, when they moved to Whitehorse. Mr. White purchased the Whitehorse Star, and the family remained there until 1916. Their son, Albert H. White, was born in Whitehorse on August 7, 1907.
In 1916, they moved to Douglas, Alaska, where Mr. White purchased the Douglas Island News. “Douglas was the big town then,” she recalled. “The Treadwell Mine was going full swing.”
The Whites completed construction of a new newspaper plant in time for the Treadwell mine cave-in of 1917. The new plant included a cast-off press from the Juneau Empire. The press was moved back to Juneau from Douglas in 1920 when Stroller’s Weekly was established.
“I didn’t work much on the paper,” Mrs. White said. “I had two children to bring up and a little grouse-shooting to do. But when Stroller was sick, I would take over.”
Mrs. White was employed as assistant curator of the Territorial Museum in 1925 by the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, who had established the museum in 1920.
Her husband died in 1930. “I was the one who always talked about getting out of Alaska,” she later said.
She retired in 1950 and moved to Los Angeles, California, to live with her daughter. She died there on May 26, 1956.
Sources
1920 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau
Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950, Ed Ferrell, Vol. 2, pp. 344-345; Vol. 1, p. 337
Washington Marriage License
California Death Index
Kashevarof, Andrew P.
Primary Name: Kashevaroff, Andrew Petrovich
Filed as: kashevaroff_andrew_petrovich
Also known as: Rev. Andrew P. Kashevaroff; Father Andrew Kashevaroff
Occupation / Association: Russian Orthodox priest; Museum curator; President, Juneau Men’s Igloo (1927); Founder and curator, Alaska Territorial Library and Museum
Born: September 19, 1863, Kodiak, Alaska
Died: April 3, 1940, Juneau, Alaska
Parents: Petrovich Kashevaroff family of Russian Orthodox clergy
Spouse: Martha Bolshanin Kashevaroff (m. 1893)
Children: Cyril Kashevaroff; Maria Kashevaroff; Nadeshda Kashevaroff; Lydia Kashevaroff; Natalya Kashevaroff; Xenia Kashevaroff
Associated places: Kodiak, Alaska; Sitka, Alaska; Nutchek, Alaska; Killisnoo, Alaska; Unalaska, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska; Jackson, California; Seattle, Washington
Keywords: Andrew Petrovich Kashevaroff, Father Andrew Kashevaroff, Rev Andrew P Kashevaroff, Russian Orthodox priest Alaska, Juneau Men’s Igloo President 1927, Alaska State Museum founder, St Nicholas Cathedral Juneau, Kashevaroff family Alaska
Biography
Reverend Andrew Petrovich Kashevaroff was President of the Juneau Men’s Igloo in 1927. During his presidency, President Warren G. Harding was made an honorary member of the Igloo.
Kashevaroff was born in Kodiak, Alaska, on September 19, 1863. Of Russian and Aleut heritage, his family had been connected with the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska for generations. The Kashevaroff family first came to Alaska around 1820, and both his father and grandfather served as missionary priests during the Russian colonial period.
He began his education in San Francisco in 1874. Through his upbringing and education, he spoke Aleut, Russian, and English, and later learned some Tlingit.
Kashevaroff returned to Sitka in 1880, where he worked as a psalm reader and teacher. He was also a gifted musician who sang in choral groups and played the violin, organ, and piano.
In 1893, he married Martha Bolshanin, a Kiks.adi Tlingit woman of Sitka. Because the marriage was conducted in a civil ceremony without church approval, Kashevaroff was transferred from Sitka to Nutchek.
The Kashevaroffs had several children, including Cyril, Maria, Nadeshda, Lydia, Natalya, and Xenia. Natalya married Alston Ritchie Lovejoy, author and illustrator, and Xenia later married the composer John Cage.
Kashevaroff was ordained a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church in 1904 and eventually attained the rank of Archpriest. Over more than sixty years, he served the church as teacher, choir director, inspector, deacon, and priest in Sitka, Nutchek, Kodiak, Killisnoo, Unalaska, and Juneau.
In 1913, he was assigned as the priest of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Juneau. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 ended financial support from the Russian government, he supported himself through various occupations, including music teacher, weather bureau clerk, and customs officer.
Kashevaroff also played a central role in the creation of Alaska’s early territorial museum and archives. Beginning in 1919, he served as curator of the Alaska Territorial Library and Museum, collecting thousands of artifacts and historical materials documenting Alaska’s Russian and Native heritage. His work laid the foundation for what later became the Alaska State Museum.
He continued in this role until his death on April 3, 1940, at the age of 76. He is buried beside his wife in Evergreen Cemetery.
In 2015, the State of Alaska honored Father Andrew Kashevaroff by naming the State Library, Archives, and Museum building in Juneau after him. The facility opened to the public on June 6, 2016.
Sources
Alaska Territorial Library and Museum historical records; Alaska Daily Empire; Russian Orthodox Church archives; Find-A-Grave memorial
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