Primary Name: Huehn, Hubert C.

Filed as: Huehn, Hubert C.

Also known as: Hubert Huehn

Occupation / Association: Linotype operator; newspaper employee

Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Douglas, Alaska; Morden, Manitoba, Canada; California

Family: Husband of Theresa Zenger Huehn; son-in-law of Sebastian B. Zenger and Carrie Zenger; brother-in-law of Alfred Zenger Sr., Bertha Zenger Trudgeon, and Hilda Zenger Rowe

Biography

Hubert C. Huehn was a newspaper worker and linotype operator in early twentieth-century Juneau. Through his marriage to Theresa Zenger, he became connected with the Zenger family, one of the early immigrant households that helped establish roots in Juneau during Alaska’s territorial period.

Huehn was born in 1890 in Morden, Manitoba, Canada, the son of John Esch Huehn and Amelia Lundy. Like many young men of his generation, he moved westward seeking opportunity during a period when the Pacific Coast and Alaska were experiencing rapid economic growth fueled by mining, maritime commerce, and expanding frontier communities.

By the early 1910s, Hubert Huehn had come to Juneau, where he worked as a linotype operator for the Daily Dispatch, one of the newspapers serving the capital city during Alaska’s territorial era. Linotype operators were highly skilled workers who operated the complex typesetting machines that produced the metal type used in printing newspapers and other publications.

Newspapers played an important role in Alaska communities during this period. They provided residents with news of mining developments, shipping schedules, political affairs, and community events while also serving as an essential link between remote settlements scattered across Southeast Alaska. As a linotype operator, Huehn contributed directly to the publication of the news and information that helped bind the region’s communities together.

Around 1914, a romance developed between Hubert Huehn and Theresa Zenger, the daughter of Juneau pioneers Sebastian B. Zenger and Carrie Zenger. Theresa had come to Juneau as a child when the Zenger family relocated to Alaska in 1898, during the Klondike gold rush.

Hubert C. Huehn and Theresa Zenger were married in Douglas, Alaska, in 1914. Their marriage linked Huehn with the extended Zenger family, which included Theresa’s siblings Alfred Zenger Sr., Bertha Zenger Trudgeon, and Hilda Zenger Rowe. These family networks formed an important part of the social fabric of early Southeast Alaska communities.

Following their marriage, Hubert and Theresa eventually relocated to California, joining many former Alaska residents who moved between Alaska and the West Coast as employment opportunities and family circumstances changed. Despite these moves, their connection to the Zenger family placed them within the broader network of pioneer households that helped shape the early development of Juneau and Douglas.

Huehn’s work in the newspaper trade illustrates the role played by skilled tradesmen in Alaska’s territorial communities. While miners and merchants often received greater attention in historical accounts, workers in fields such as printing, transportation, and communications were equally essential to the functioning and growth of frontier towns like Juneau.

Sources

• Zenger family historical narrative
• Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Men's Igloo records
• Juneau historical records
• Juneau-Douglas City Museum historical materials

Primary Name: Trudgeon, Joseph

Filed as: Trudgeon, Joseph

Also known as: Joseph Trudgeon

Occupation / Association: Merchant; dairy farmer; Douglas businessman

Associated places: Douglas, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska; Durham, England

Family: Husband of Bertha Zenger Trudgeon; son-in-law of Sebastian B. Zenger and Carrie Zenger; brother-in-law of Alfred Zenger Sr., Theresa Zenger, and Hilda Zenger Rowe

Biography

Joseph Trudgeon was a merchant and dairy farmer in Douglas, Alaska, during the early years of the twentieth century and became part of one of the region’s early pioneer families through his marriage to Bertha Zenger, the eldest daughter of Juneau pioneers Sebastian B. Zenger and Carrie Zenger.

Trudgeon was born in 1879 in Durham, England, the son of Joseph Trudgeon and Josepiah Ruth Haydon. Like many immigrants of his generation, he traveled to North America in search of economic opportunity during a period when mining booms and the development of frontier communities drew workers, merchants, and entrepreneurs to the Pacific Coast and Alaska.

By the early twentieth century, Joseph Trudgeon had established himself in Douglas, Alaska, a community located across Gastineau Channel from Juneau and closely tied to the large mining operations of the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company. Douglas served as both a residential community for mine workers and a center for small businesses that supported the mining economy.

Trudgeon became involved in mercantile trade and also operated a dairy farm in the Douglas area. Dairy farms were an important part of the local economy in Southeast Alaska, supplying fresh milk, butter, and other dairy products to residents of Juneau and Douglas at a time when transportation limitations made it difficult to import fresh food from outside the region.

Through family connections, Joseph met Bertha Zenger, whose family had moved to Juneau in 1898 during the Klondike gold rush era. The Zengers operated a cigar manufacturing business in downtown Juneau and were part of the growing immigrant business community that served the region's mining population.

Joseph Trudgeon and Bertha Zenger were married in Douglas in 1906. Their marriage reflected the close social and economic ties between the neighboring communities of Juneau and Douglas, connected by regular boat traffic across the Gastineau Channel and sharing many family and business relationships.

As a merchant and dairy operator, Trudgeon contributed to the everyday economic life of Douglas and Juneau during Alaska’s territorial period. Businesses such as his helped provide essential goods and services to mining families and workers whose livelihoods depended on the success of the region’s gold mines.

Through his marriage into the Zenger family, Joseph Trudgeon became part of a network of early Southeast Alaska settlers whose descendants remained connected to the region for generations. His life reflects the experience of many immigrant businessmen who helped establish stable communities in Southeast Alaska during the early twentieth century.

Sources

• Zenger family historical narrative
• Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Men's Igloo records
• Juneau historical records
• Juneau-Douglas City Museum historical materials

Zenger family portrait, Juneau, Alaska. Members of the Zenger pioneer family.

Primary Name: Zenger, Hilda

Filed as: Zenger, Hilda

Also known as: Hilda Zenger Rowe

Occupation / Association: Early Juneau resident; member of the Zenger pioneer family

Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Douglas, Alaska; Seattle, Washington

Family: Daughter of Sebastian B. Zenger and Carrie Zenger; sister of Alfred Zenger Sr., Theresa Zenger, and Bertha Zenger Trudgeon; wife of Eugene Allen Rowe

Biography

Hilda Zenger was the youngest daughter of Sebastian B. Zenger and Carrie Zenger, members of one of the early immigrant families who established themselves in Juneau during Alaska’s territorial period. She arrived in Juneau in October 1898, when her mother, Carrie, brought the Zenger children—Bertha, Alfred, Theresa, and Hilda—to join Sebastian, who had earlier traveled north in search of work during the economic expansion surrounding the Klondike gold rush.

Hilda grew up in Juneau during a period when the town was developing rapidly as a commercial and administrative center for Southeast Alaska. The Zenger family was part of the network of immigrant households that supported the mining economy and the maritime trade routes linking the region to Seattle and the Pacific Coast.

For a number of years, the Zenger family lived above the cigar manufacturing shop operated by Sebastian and Hilda’s brother Alfred Zenger Sr.. Their residence was on the second floor of a wooden building at the southwest corner of Third and Main Streets in downtown Juneau. The cigar business operated on the ground floor, where tobacco shipped north by steamship was manufactured into cigars for local sale.

In Juneau in 1916, Hilda married Eugene Allen Rowe. Rowe was the son of Richard Valentine Rowe and Maria Z. Miller and was born in 1894 in Madison, Wisconsin. The marriage reflected the continued movement of people between Alaska and the United States during the territorial period, as workers, merchants, and families migrated north and south in pursuit of economic opportunities.

In 1919, Hilda and Eugene Rowe relocated to Seattle, joining many former Alaska residents who later established homes in Washington State while maintaining connections with family members who remained in Southeast Alaska.

Through her family ties and early life in Juneau, Hilda remained part of the broader Zenger family network that helped shape the capital city's social and commercial life. Her siblings married into other Southeast Alaska families, including the Trudgeon and Huehn families, linking the Zengers with a wider community of pioneer households across the region.

Hilda Zenger Rowe’s life illustrates the experience of many daughters of early Alaska settlers who grew up in frontier communities and later carried those connections into other parts of the Pacific Northwest. Through family relationships and shared history, she remained part of the generation that helped establish the social foundations of early Juneau.

Sources

• Zenger family historical narrative
• Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Men's Igloo records
• Juneau historical records
• Juneau-Douglas City Museum historical materials

Zenger family portrait, Juneau, Alaska. Members of the Zenger pioneer family, including Theresa Zenger.

Primary Name: Zenger, Theresa

Filed as: Zenger, Theresa

Also known as: Theresa Zenger Huehn

Occupation / Association: Early Juneau resident; member of the Zenger pioneer family

Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Douglas, Alaska; California

Family: Daughter of Sebastian B. Zenger and Carrie Zenger; sister of Alfred Zenger Sr., Bertha Zenger Trudgeon, and Hilda Zenger Rowe; wife of Hubert C. Huehn

Biography

Theresa Zenger was a member of the Zenger pioneer family, one of the early immigrant households that established roots in Juneau during Alaska’s territorial period. She was the daughter of Sebastian B. Zenger and Carrie Zenger, who brought their family north during the period of economic expansion associated with the Klondike gold rush in the late nineteenth century.

Theresa arrived in Juneau in October of 1898, when her mother, Carrie, traveled north with the Zenger children—Bertha, Alfred, Theresa, and Hilda—to join Sebastian, who had first come to Alaska seeking employment and opportunity. The family became part of the growing immigrant community that supported the mining economy of Southeast Alaska.

During the early years of the twentieth century, the Zenger family established their home in downtown Juneau. For nearly a decade, beginning around 1910, they lived above the cigar manufacturing shop operated by Alfred Zenger Sr., Sebastian and Theresa’s brother Alfred Zenger Sr.. Their residence occupied the second floor of a wooden building located on the southwest corner of Third and Main Streets, while the cigar business operated on the ground floor.

This arrangement reflected a common pattern in early Alaska towns, where families lived above or adjacent to the businesses that supported them. Tobacco shipped north by steamship in large hogsheads was manufactured into cigars by the Zenger family enterprise and sold to residents and visitors in Juneau’s growing commercial district.

Around 1914, Theresa married Hubert C. Huehn, a linotype operator for the Daily Dispatch, one of Juneau’s early newspapers. Hubert was the son of John Esch Huehn and Amelia Lundy and had been born in 1890 in Morden, Manitoba, Canada. His work in the printing and newspaper trade placed the family within the emerging civic and informational life of the territorial capital.

Following their marriage in Douglas in 1914, Theresa and Hubert later relocated to California. Like many early Alaska families, the Zengers and their extended relations often moved between Alaska and the West Coast as economic opportunities and family circumstances changed.

Theresa remained part of the broader Zenger family network that helped shape the social life of early Juneau. Her siblings married into several other Southeast Alaska families, including the Trudgeon and Rowe families, linking the Zengers to a wider community of settlers whose descendants remained connected to the region for generations.

Although historical documentation often preserves fewer details about the lives of pioneer women, Theresa Zenger’s story reflects the experience of many daughters of early immigrant families who grew up in Alaska’s frontier communities during the territorial period. Through family connections, marriage, and participation in the community's social life, she remained part of the extended network of families that contributed to the development of Juneau and Southeast Alaska.

Sources

• Zenger family historical narrative
• Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Men's Igloo records
• Juneau historical records
• Juneau-Douglas City Museum historical materials

Zenger family portrait, Juneau, Alaska. Members of the Zenger pioneer family, including Bertha Zenger.

Primary Name: Zenger, Bertha

Filed as: Zenger, Bertha

Also known as: Bertha Zenger Trudgeon

Occupation / Association: Early Juneau resident; member of the Zenger pioneer family

Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Douglas, Alaska

Family: Daughter of Sebastian B. Zenger and Carrie Zenger; sister of Alfred Zenger Sr., Theresa Zenger, and Hilda Zenger Rowe; wife of Joseph Trudgeon

Biography

Bertha Zenger was the eldest daughter of Sebastian B. Zenger and Carrie Zenger, members of one of the early immigrant families who established themselves in Juneau during Alaska’s territorial period. She arrived in Juneau in October 1898, when her mother, Carrie, brought the Zenger children—Bertha, Alfred, Theresa, and Hilda—to join Sebastian, who had already traveled north in search of work during the economic expansion surrounding the Klondike gold rush.

The Zenger family became part of the developing community of Southeast Alaska at the turn of the twentieth century. Like many families in frontier towns, the Zengers combined family life and small business activity. For a number of years, the family lived above the cigar manufacturing business operated by Sebastian and Bertha’s brother, Alfred Zenger Sr., in a building located on the southwest corner of Third and Main Streets in downtown Juneau.

Through family connections and social networks within the small communities of Juneau and Douglas, Bertha met Joseph Trudgeon, a young merchant and co-owner of a dairy farm located in Douglas. Trudgeon was born in 1879 in Durham, England, and later came to North America, where he established himself in Southeast Alaska’s developing business community.

Bertha and Joseph Trudgeon were married in Douglas in 1906. Their marriage reflected the close relationship between the neighboring communities of Juneau and Douglas, connected by regular boat traffic across the Gastineau Channel and sharing many family, business, and social ties.

Joseph Trudgeon’s work as a merchant and dairy operator placed the couple within an important sector of the local economy. Dairy farms in Douglas helped supply fresh milk and other dairy products to the growing population of Juneau and surrounding mining communities, which relied heavily on locally produced food to supplement shipments arriving by steamship from Seattle.

Through her marriage and family connections, Bertha remained closely linked with the broader Zenger family network. Her siblings also married into other regional families, including the Huehn and Rowe families, extending the Zenger family’s presence throughout Southeast Alaska and beyond.

Although historical documentation of early Alaska women often focuses more on their husbands' or fathers' activities, Bertha Zenger’s life reflects the experience of many women who helped build stable family and community networks in the developing towns of Southeast Alaska. Through marriage, family life, and participation in the social fabric of Juneau and Douglas, she remained part of the generation that helped establish the region’s early civic community.

Sources

• Zenger family historical narrative
• Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Men's Igloo records
• Juneau historical records
• Juneau-Douglas City Museum historical materials

Carrie Zenger, an early Juneau resident and member of the Zenger pioneer family.	Zenger family portrait, Juneau, Alaska.

Primary Name: Zenger, Carrie

Filed as: Zenger, Carrie

Also known as: Carrie Zenger

Occupation / Association: Early Juneau settler; homemaker; member of the Zenger pioneer family

Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Douglas, Alaska; Dyea, Alaska; Seattle, Washington

Family: Wife of Sebastian B. Zenger; mother of Bertha Zenger Trudgeon, Alfred Zenger Sr., Theresa Zenger Huehn, and Hilda Zenger Rowe

Keywords: Carrie Zenger, Zenger family, Juneau pioneers, pioneer women in Alaska, early Juneau families, Alaska territorial history

Biography

Carrie Zenger was an early resident of Juneau and the matriarch of the Zenger family, one of the pioneer households that helped establish the community's social and economic life during Alaska’s territorial period. While many historical records emphasize the activities of miners, merchants, and tradesmen, women like Carrie played a central role in sustaining the family networks and domestic stability that allowed frontier communities such as Juneau to endure and grow.

Carrie and her husband, Sebastian B. Zenger, were part of the wave of settlers drawn north during the economic expansion associated with the Klondike gold rush in the late 1890s. After Sebastian first traveled north in search of work, Carrie joined him in October of 1898, bringing their children—Bertha, Alfred Sr., Theresa, and Hilda—to establish a permanent home in Juneau.

The journey north for families during this period was not a simple relocation but a major undertaking. Travel to Southeast Alaska required steamship passage along the Inside Passage from Seattle, often with young children and household belongings. Families arriving in Juneau entered a town that was still developing its basic infrastructure, where housing, transportation, and reliable supply chains depended heavily on maritime shipping.

For nearly a decade beginning around 1910, the Zenger family lived above the cigar manufacturing business operated by Sebastian and their son Alfred Zenger. Their home occupied the second floor of a two-story wooden-frame building at the southwest corner of Third and Main Streets in downtown Juneau.

The arrangement reflected a common pattern in early Alaskan towns, where family residences were often combined with small commercial enterprises. The first floor of the building served as the Zenger cigar manufacturing shop, where tobacco shipped north in large hogsheads was rolled into cigars for local sale. Above the business, Carrie maintained the household that supported the family’s daily life in the busy commercial district.

Life in early Juneau required resilience and adaptability. The community depended on steamships traveling through the Inside Passage for nearly every necessity—from food supplies and clothing to livestock and building materials. Long winters, unpredictable transportation schedules, and the demands of frontier living placed considerable responsibility on women who managed homes, children, and family finances while their husbands pursued trades, prospecting ventures, or seasonal work.

The Zenger family became closely connected with other early Southeast Alaska families. Carrie’s eldest daughter, Bertha, married Joseph Trudgeon in Douglas in 1906. Trudgeon was a merchant and dairy farmer in the area. Another daughter, Theresa, married Hubert C. Huehn, a linotype operator for the Daily Dispatch, in 1914. The youngest daughter, Hilda, married Eugene Allen Rowe in 1916 and later relocated to Seattle. Through these marriages, Carrie’s descendants became woven into the broader network of families who shaped the early civic life of Juneau and Douglas.

The building that housed the Zenger cigar business later played a continuing role in Juneau’s community life. Over the years, it was used as a dance hall and eventually as a church, serving as the home of Resurrection Lutheran Church from the 1930s until the mid-1950s. The structure was eventually demolished during the widening of Main Street in the 1960s, a reminder of the changing landscape of downtown Juneau.

Although the historical record often preserves fewer details about pioneer women than their husbands, Carrie Zenger’s life illustrates the essential role women played in establishing stable homes and family networks in Alaska’s early communities. Through raising children, maintaining a household above a family business, and participating in the social life of Juneau, she helped anchor the Zenger family in the capital city for generations.

Sources

• Zenger family historical narrative
• Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Men's Igloo records
• Juneau historical records
• Juneau-Douglas City Historical Materials

Sebastian B. Zenger, early Juneau resident and cigar manufacturer.	Zenger family portrait, Juneau, Alaska. Sebastian Zenger and family.

Primary Name: Zenger, Sebastian B.

Filed as: Zenger, Sebastian B.

Also known as: Sebastian Zenger

Occupation / Association: Carpenter; cigar manufacturer; merchant; early Juneau businessman

Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Douglas, Alaska; Dyea, Alaska; Cook Inlet, Alaska; Sutton, Alaska; Seattle, Washington; Kallmuenz, Bavaria

Keywords: Sebastian Zenger, Zenger family, Juneau pioneers, early Juneau families, cigar manufacturing in Alaska, Dyea Trail packers, Klondike era settlers, Alaska territorial history

Biography

Sebastian B. Zenger was an early settler of Juneau whose family became closely associated with the city's early commercial and social development. Born March 18, 1862, in Kallmuenz, Bavaria, he immigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen.

Zenger first came to Alaska in 1896, traveling to the Cook Inlet district during the early years of Alaska’s mining expansion. When the Klondike gold rush began in 1897, he joined the rush to Dyea, where he worked as a packer for wages along the Dyea Trail during 1897 and 1898.

In 1897, he left Seattle by steamship for Juneau seeking work. The following year, in October 1898, Sebastian brought his wife, Carrie, and their children, Bertha, Alfred Zenger Sr., Theresa, and Hilda, to Juneau, where he found employment as a carpenter. The family soon became part of the growing community of early settlers in Southeast Alaska.

Through family friends, a romance blossomed between Sebastian’s eldest daughter, Bertha, and Joseph Trudgeon, a young merchant and co-owner of a dairy farm in Douglas. Joseph was born in 1879 in Quebec (Durham), England, to Joseph Trudgeon and Josepiah Ruth Haydon. Joseph and Bertha were married in Douglas in 1906.

For nearly a decade, beginning around 1910, the Zenger family lived on the second floor of a two-story wooden-frame building at the southwest corner of Third and Main Streets in Juneau. The first floor housed a cigar manufacturing operation run by Sebastian and his son Alfred Zenger Sr.

This structure later had a colorful history, serving as a dance hall and, later, as a church space. It housed the Resurrection Lutheran Church from the 1930s until the mid-1950s, when a new church building was constructed at Glacier Avenue and 10th Street. In the 1960s, the building was demolished during the widening of Main Street.

The basswood molds used by Sebastian and Alfred in manufacturing cigars were reportedly burned as firewood around 1932. By the 1990s, similar cigar molds had become highly sought after on the antique market. Tobacco used in the manufacture of handmade cigars arrived by steamship in hogsheads. Steamships were the lifelines of Southeast Alaska communities, delivering supplies and livestock long before refrigeration became common.

In the early summer of 1910, Sebastian sent his son Alfred Zenger Sr. to check on a mining venture near Sutton in the Matanuska Valley. Alfred departed Juneau aboard the steamer Star of Seattle. After arriving at Portage on the Kenai Peninsula, he hiked over the portage to the head of Cook Inlet, where Anchorage now stands.

During the early 1920s, Sebastian opened and operated a curio shop on South Franklin Street in Juneau. He ran the shop until his death in 1932.

Through his work as a carpenter, cigar manufacturer, merchant, and investor in Alaska ventures, Sebastian B. Zenger contributed to the early economic life of Juneau during Alaska’s territorial period. Members of the Zenger family remained active in the community for generations.

Sources

• Zenger family historical narrative
• Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Men's Igloo records
• Juneau historical records
• Gastineau Channel Memories Project – Juneau-Douglas City Museum

Filed as: Rowe, Eugene Allen

Also known as: Eugene A. Rowe

Occupation / Association: Early resident connected with the Zenger pioneer family

Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Douglas, Alaska; Seattle, Washington; Madison, Wisconsin

Family: Husband of Hilda Zenger Rowe; son-in-law of Sebastian B. Zenger and Carrie Zenger; brother-in-law of Alfred Zenger Sr., Theresa Zenger Huehn, and Bertha Zenger Trudgeon

Biography

Eugene Allen Rowe became connected to one of Juneau’s early pioneer families through his marriage to Hilda Zenger, the youngest daughter of Juneau settlers Sebastian B. Zenger and Carrie Zenger. The Zenger family moved to Juneau in 1898, during the economic expansion associated with the Klondike gold rush, and became part of the developing community of Southeast Alaska.

Rowe was born in 1894 in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Richard Valentine Rowe and Maria Z. Miller. Like many young men of the early twentieth century, he traveled westward as new opportunities opened in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Migration between the continental United States and Alaska was common during the territorial period as workers, merchants, and families followed employment opportunities and expanding frontier settlements.

In 1916, Eugene Allen Rowe married Hilda Zenger in Juneau. The marriage linked him with the extended Zenger family network that included Hilda’s siblings Alfred Zenger Sr., Bertha Zenger Trudgeon, and Theresa Zenger Huehn. Through these connections, Rowe became part of a group of families whose relationships extended between Juneau, Douglas, and other communities throughout Southeast Alaska.

The Zenger family had established their home in downtown Juneau above the cigar manufacturing business operated by Sebastian Zenger and his son Alfred. Located at the southwest corner of Third and Main Streets, the building served both as a residence and a place of business, reflecting the common pattern of early frontier communities in which family life and commercial activity were closely intertwined.

In 1919, Eugene and Hilda Rowe relocated to Seattle, Washington. Moves such as this were typical of many early Alaska families, who frequently traveled between Alaska and the Pacific Coast as economic conditions, employment opportunities, and family needs evolved.

Although Rowe’s time in Juneau was relatively brief, his marriage to Hilda Zenger connected him to a family that played a role in the early commercial and social development of the capital city during Alaska’s territorial era. The Zenger family’s activities in business, family life, and community relationships formed part of the broader network of settlers who helped shape the early character of Juneau and Douglas.

Sources

• Zenger family historical narrative
• Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Men's Igloo records
• Juneau historical records
• Juneau-Douglas City Museum historical materials

Primary Name: Scott, Mabel Grace

Filed as: Scott, Mabel Grace

Also known as: Mabel Grace Scott

Occupation / Association: Early resident of Juneau, Alaska

Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Grangeville, Idaho; Salmon River, Idaho

Keywords: Mabel Grace Scott, Scott family Juneau, Minerva Scott twin, Anna Faulkner Scott Knutson Webster, Swan Knutson family, Clarence Knutson, Carol Swanhilde Knutson, early Juneau families, Idaho pioneers to Alaska, Juneau territorial families

Biography

Mabel Grace Scott was born April 1, 1893, in Grangeville, Idaho, the daughter of Anna Faulkner Scott Knutson Webster. She was born alongside her twin sister, Minerva Beatrice Scott.

Mabel’s father, Newton Scott, died on November 5, 1897, when he was killed by a falling tree while riding a horse. Several of Mabel’s sisters—Lucy, Alice, and Ruth—also died while the family was still living in Idaho.

On January 25, 1899, Mabel’s mother, Anna, married Swan Knutson in the Salmon River area of Idaho. Swan Knutson died on August 1, 1901. Two children from that marriage, Clarence and Carol Swanhilde Knutson, were born April 5, 1902, in Idaho after Swan’s death.

In 1904, Anna moved to Juneau, Alaska, with her daughters, Mabel Scott, Minerva “Minnie” Scott, and Carol “Carrie” Swanhilde Knutson, joining the growing population of families relocating to Southeast Alaska during the territorial mining era.

Sources

Family historical records.

Primary Name: Parker, Abraham Lincoln

Filed as: Parker, Abraham Lincoln

Also known as: A. Lincoln Parker

Occupation / Association: Early Alaska resident

Associated places: Portland, Oregon; Skagway, Alaska; Atlin, British Columbia, Canada; Juneau, Alaska

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln Parker, Edith Armenthia Haynes Parker, Inez May Parker White, Parker family Juneau Alaska, Skagway Alaska families, Atlin gold rush families, early Juneau families

Biography

Abraham Lincoln Parker was an early Alaska resident who lived in several communities during the years surrounding the Klondike gold rush.

He married Edith Armenthia Haynes Parker. Their daughter, Inez May Parker White, was born in Portland, Oregon, on October 10, 1895.

In June 1899, the Parker family left Portland and traveled north to Skagway, Alaska, during the height of the Klondike gold rush. From there, they continued on to Atlin in British Columbia.

In April 1913, the family moved to Juneau, Alaska, where they became part of the growing community in the territorial capital.

Sources

Family historical records