Jaeger, Anna Margarite
Primary Name: Jaeger, Anna Margarite Larsen
Filed as: anna_margarite_larsen_jaeger
Also known as: Anna Jaeger; Anna Larsen
Occupation / Association: Charter Member, Juneau Igloo Women's Auxiliary No. 6
Born: April 10, 1868, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Died: December 23, 1943, Juneau, Alaska
Parents: Ole Larsen; Mary Jularude Larsen
Spouse: Ernest Reinholt Jaeger (m. 1895)
Children: Hazel Mary Jaeger
Associated places: Minneapolis, Minnesota; Tacoma, Washington; Juneau, Alaska
Keywords: Anna Margarite Larsen Jaeger, Anna Jaeger, Anna Larsen, Juneau Igloo Women's Auxiliary No. 6, Alaska Steam Laundry Company, Ole Larsen family
Biography
Anna Margarite Larsen Jaeger was a charter member of the Juneau Igloo Women's Auxiliary No. 6 of the Pioneers of Alaska.
Anna Margarite Larsen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 10, 1868, to Ole Larsen and Mary Jularude Larsen.
She married Ernest Reinholt Jaeger in Tacoma, Washington, in 1895. The couple came to Alaska in March of 1895 based on the flip of a coin. They later owned the Alaska Steam Laundry Company in Juneau.
Their daughter, Hazel Mary Jaeger, was born on March 12, 1897, in Juneau, Alaska.
Anna died on December 23, 1943, in Juneau at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Sim MacKinnon.
Sources
1900 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau, Alaska; 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau, Alaska; 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau, Alaska; 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau, Alaska; 1940 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau, Alaska; 1870 U.S. Federal Census, Red Wing, Minnesota
Tags: Anna Margarite Larsen Jaeger, Anna Jaeger, Anna Larsen, Ole Larsen, Ernest Reinholt Jaeger, Hazel Mary Jaeger, Sim MacKinnon, Juneau Igloo Women's Auxiliary No. 6, Alaska Steam Laundry Company, Juneau Alaska residents
Jaeger MacKinnon, Hazel May
Primary Name: Jaeger MacKinnon, Hazel Mary
Filed as: jaeger_mackinnon_hazel_mary
Also known as: Hazel Mary Jaeger; Hazel Jaeger MacKinnon; Hazel MacKinnon
Occupation / Association: Charter Member, Juneau Igloo Women’s Auxiliary No. 6; teacher
Born: March 12, 1897, Juneau, Alaska
Died: January 6, 1987, Sitka, Alaska
Parents: Ernest R. Jaeger; Anna “Larsen” Jaeger
Spouse: James "Sim" Simpson MacKinnon
Children: James Simpson “Skip” MacKinnon
Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Thane, Alaska; Los Angeles, California; Philippines; China; Sitka, Alaska
Keywords: Hazel Mary Jaeger MacKinnon, Hazel Jaeger, Hazel MacKinnon, Ernest R Jaeger daughter, Anna Larsen Jaeger daughter, Juneau Igloo Women’s Auxiliary No 6 charter member, Alaska Laundry and Cleaners
Biography
Hazel Mary Jaeger MacKinnon was a charter member of the Juneau Igloo Women’s Auxiliary No. 6.
She was born in Juneau on March 12, 1897, to Ernest R. Jaeger and Anna “Larsen” Jaeger. She attended school in Juneau and graduated in 1916.
Hazel later attended Mills College in California. After completing her studies, she returned to Juneau and taught school in Thane for one year.
She married her childhood friend James "Sim" Simpson MacKinnon on December 5, 1923, in Los Angeles, California.
Following their marriage, the couple lived in the Philippines and China while her husband served in the United States Navy.
Their son, James Simpson “Skip” MacKinnon, was born on February 20, 1925. After returning to Juneau, the family operated their family’s laundry business, Alaska Laundry and Cleaners.
Hazel Mary Jaeger MacKinnon died on January 6, 1987, at the Sitka Pioneers’ Home.
Sources
1900–1920 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau; Gastineau Channel Memories, 1880–1959, p. 245; Alaska Daily Empire, February 21, 1925; U.S. Social Security Death Index
Tags: Hazel Mary Jaeger MacKinnon, Hazel Jaeger, Hazel MacKinnon, Ernest R Jaeger, Anna Larsen Jaeger, Juneau Igloo Women’s Auxiliary No 6 charter member, Alaska Laundry and Cleaners, Juneau pioneers
Charter Members
MacKinnon, James Simpson
Primary Name: MacKinnon, James Simpson
Filed as: MacKinnon, James Simpson
Also known as: James Simpson "Sim" MacKinnon; J.S. MacKinnon
Occupation / Association: Naval Officer; Businessman; President, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Men's Igloo No. 6 (1951)
Born: Juneau, Alaska Territory
Spouse: Hazel Jaeger MacKinnon (married December 5, 1923, Los Angeles, California)
Children: James Simpson "Skip" MacKinnon (born February 20, 1925)
Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Los Angeles, California; Philippines; China
Keywords: James Simpson MacKinnon, Sim MacKinnon, J.S. MacKinnon, Skip MacKinnon, Hazel Jaeger MacKinnon, Alaska Laundry and Cleaners, Juneau pioneers, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Igloo 6 President
Biography
James Simpson “Sim” MacKinnon served as President of the Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Men's Igloo No. 6 in 1951.
MacKinnon was the son of a pioneer Fortymile and Juneau mining family.
He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy and graduated as an officer in the U.S. Navy.
He married his childhood friend, Hazel Jaeger, on December 5, 1923, in Los Angeles, California.
After their marriage, the couple lived in the Philippines and China while MacKinnon served in the U.S. Navy.
Their son, James Simpson “Skip” MacKinnon, was born on February 20, 1925.
In 1926, MacKinnon retired from the Navy and returned to Juneau to manage his father-in-law’s business, Alaska Laundry and Cleaners.
Sources
1900–1920 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau; Gastineau Channel Memories 1880–1959, p. 245; Alaska Daily Empire, February 21, 1925
Naghel, Charles Edward
Naghel, Charles
Association: Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Men's Igloo No. 6
Role: Charter Member; President
Year: President, 1915
Biography
Charles Naghel was a charter member of the Juneau Men's Igloo No. 6 of the Pioneers of Alaska and served as its president in 1915.
Naghel was born in Roseville, California, on February 15, 1880. His father, Edward Nagel, was an actor, singer, dancer, and musician who traveled through the mining camps of California performing. After his mother died when he was in the fifth grade, his father removed him from school, and the family traveled widely through California until his father remarried.
At the age of fifteen Naghel went to work in the steel rolling mills. When the Spanish–American War broke out in 1898, he joined the California Infantry at the age of eighteen. Although the war was short, he enrolled in a correspondence school in Pennsylvania while serving.
After the war, he joined the United States Marines. In 1900, a contingent of Marines was sent to Sitka to quell an uprising between two Native tribes. Naghel lived in the Marine Barracks in Sitka, which later became the first Alaska Pioneers’ Home. During this period, he continued working toward his high school diploma through the Calvert Correspondence School.
He met his future wife, Annetta Theresa Johnson, in Sitka in 1904 while she was employed as a musician aboard the S.S. Spokane.
Naghel later resigned from the Marines and moved to Juneau, where he worked for the Alaska Steam Laundry, driving the horse wagon that picked up and delivered laundry throughout the community. During the 1905 tourist season, he proposed to Annetta. The couple married in Juneau on August 6, 1906.
In 1907, the couple moved to Skagway, where Naghel worked for the United States Customs Service. They returned to Juneau in 1908 when their first child, Pat, was born. After a brief period living in Sitka, the family again settled in Juneau, where Naghel worked for Ross-Higgins Grocery and later for Charlie Goldstein’s store.
He eventually secured employment with the United States Land Office, serving as a clerk for the U.S. Surveyor General’s Office. In that position, he was responsible for approving and paying federal debts within the Territory of Alaska. He held the position for many years and retired in 1942.
Following retirement, Naghel spent much of his time at the family’s summer home in the Mendenhall Valley. He also continued bookkeeping work for Hazel Jaeger McKinnon’s Alaska Laundry.
Charles Naghel died in Juneau on September 28, 1945.
Sources
- Gastineau Channel Memories, 1880–1967, Vol. 2, pp. 265–266, story by Grace Naghel
- Alaska Marriage License Records
- Pioneers of Alaska Men’s Igloo No. 6 Biographical Sketch
Alaska Steam Laundry Company
The Alaska Steam Laundry Company building at 174 South Franklin Street is an excellent architectural example of an important commercial enterprise which bridged the historical continuity of 19th and 20th Century Juneau.
When it became apparent after the 1880 placer gold strike that Juneau would not be a quick "boom and bust" camp —but rather would enjoy a long, prosperous future, with great mechanized mills, mines and a large payroll of miners, it grew more progressively than other mining camps and reached a level of sophistication surpassing any other in Alaska in the 19th Century.
This was assured by, first, the Treadwell mines, just across the narrow Gastineau Channel on Douglas Island. Deep mining started there in 1882, and by 1885, four corporate groups were mining with several stamp mills and a smelter were in operation.
In 1890 all operations at Douglas consolidated into the great Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company. It had then produced $14,000,000 from its four mines and 880 stamps in five mills. It would add some $40 million more to this by 1917 when wiped-out by an unexpected ocean cave-in.
On the Juneau side, starting the same pattern only a few years later, the Alaska-Juneau Gold Company, began acquiring all claims in that district, combined into one great mine and mill which operated up to 1948 and produced $67 million in gold.
Juneau was officially made the capitol of Alaska in 1900, with the executive offices gradually moved from Sitka by 1906. This brought about the residence here of most of the territorial and federal employees in Alaska, in seven territorial departments and 27 federal offices.
At Tacoma, Washington in 1894, Ernest Reinholt Jaeger and his wife, Anna Jaeger, flipped a coin to determine whether they should move to Hawaii or Alaska. The coin favored Alaska.
In January, 1895, Mr. Jaeger selected Juneau as the most promising business location in the Territory, and arrived by steamship from Seattle. Because of the extensive payroll of miners and millworkers—mostly single—laundry and cleaning was a lucrative enterprise.
He leased the Juneau Steam Laundry from A.H. Day, then located in log cabin on the hillside at the end of 2nd just beyond where the Baranof Hotel was later built.
Anna joined him in March, traveling on the maiden voyage of the new flagship of the leading Alaska line, Willapa. The Jaeger family, soon increased by the birth of a daughter. Hazel Jaeger, lived in an adjoining cabin and operated the laundry from there for several years. Then they moved to a larger existing building on Front Street.
Having prospered, he decided to build a show-case operation which would have outlets in Apollo, Valdez, Sitka, Ketchikan and Wrangell; thus the name: Alaska Steam Laundry.
The Jaeger's resided in the master apartment upstairs while Hazel attended local schools. Then they built a home on Fourth Avenue.
While attending Juneau High School, Hazel was a classmate of James Simpson MacKinnon AKA Sim MacKinnon, son of a pioneer Fortymile and Juneau mining family.
Hazel attended Mills College in California and then returned to Thane, Alaska to teach.
Sim MacKinnon was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated as an officer.
They were married in 1923 and spent several years in the Orient, where their son, J.S. Jr., was born, at Manila.
In 1926 Slim retired from the Navy and returned to Juneau to take over management of his Father-in-law’s laundry business.
No longer "Alaska Steam", nor at the same location, the business continued into the fourth generation with grandson Neil MacKinnon, who graduated from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.
Alaska Steam Laundry is one of the better existing examples of the transition of Juneau from mining camp to Capital City.