Venetia Ellizabeth Pugh was a Charter Member of Juneau Igloo Women's Auxilary Number 6.

She was born in the U.S. Customs House in Ketchikan on August 13, 1904 to John F. "Jack" and Venetia L. Pugh.

The family moved to Skagway in 1904 and to Juneau in 1909 where her father was assigned as the Collector of Customs for the District of Alaska. Her father was aboard the S.S. Princess Sophia when she ran aground and sank at Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau with no survivors.

After her father's death she and her mother moved into the Baranof Hotel. Her mother started a tea house and she worked there and at the Baranof Gift Shop.

She graduated from Juneau High School in 1922 and from the University of Washington in 1927 and began a 30-year career as clerk of the District Court.

She married Karl Austin Hahn on October 12, 1935 and they moved to Skagway. Their son Karl A. was born in Skagway, Alaska in July of 1939.

The Hahn family and Venetia's mother moved to Anchorage in 1947 and lived on Government Hill in a Quonset hut until 1953.

She retired from the Clerk of the Court Office in 1969. Karl and Venetia moved to the Anchorage Pioneer's Home in 1987. Venetia died at the Anchorage Pioneer's Home on January 11, 1999.

1910 U.S. Federal Census Juneau; 1940 U.S. Federal Census Skagway; Gastineau Channel Memories, Vol 1, p. 425.; Daily Alaska Empire 10-12-1935; Juneau Empire 1-18-1999; Anchorage Daily News 1-14-1999 85

Venetia Lauretta Fehr was Charter Member of Juneau Igloo Women's Auxilary Number 6.

She was born in in October 1878 in Cullman County, Alabama to Martin Fehr and Elizabeth K. Manshardt.

She married John Fraser Pugh in Alameda County, California on December 20, 1900 and they moved to Skagway arriving on March 18, 1900. Her husband was appointed to the U.S. Customs Service in June 1902 and they were transferred to
Ketchikan. Their daughter, Venetia Elizabeth was born there on August 13, 1904. They were transferred back to Skagway in 1905 and to Juneau in 1909.

Her husband John was the Collector of Customs for the District of Alaska and he perished on the wreck of the S.S. Princess Sophia on October 25, 1918.

Veneta and her daughter worked in Juneau for the District Clerk of the U.S. Court. Venetia remarried to District Judge Thomas M. Reed on February 24, 1924 in Seattle. They resided in Juneau.

Venetia died in November 1967 in Anchorage, Alaska.

1910/1920 U.S. Federal Census Juneau; Gastineau Channel Memories Vol 1.,p 425, Washington Marriage Records; Alaska Daily Empire 2-25-1924

Clarence Leroy Andrews was a charter member of the Juneau Men's Igloo.

Andrews was born on a farm in Ashtabula, Ohio in 1862. When two years of age, his parents left Ohio for the coast going via Panama. His father died and was buried at sea but his mother continued with him to Brownsville, Oregon, where her father’s sister lived.

In 1883, young Andrews went to work in the Seattle Post Office which then required the services of but three people. He later homesteaded in Oregon where he was elected Clerk of Morrow County. At one time he spent seven years in the
office of the auditor of King County, Seattle.

When the Duke of Abruzzi made the first ascent of Mt. St. Elias in 1897, young Andrews was a member of the party, and was the last living person of that group. This was the beginning of an interest in Alaska which continued throughout his life.

As the years passed he became nationally known for his knowledge of the history and resources of the Territory. The late Judge James Wickersham states that Andrew’s Story of Alaska was the most complete and accurate work of
its kind published. His library of Alaskan material became known as the second largest in existence.

While in Alaska he served in the customs office at Skagway as deputy collector in charge. It was while here that his wife and three children who were in Oregon at the time were drowned in the flood which swept through the town, the second tragedy to come into his life. His first wife had died in childbirth.

In 1904 Andrews went to Eagle with the Customs Service, returning to Seattle as a special agent for the Department of the Interior to make a collection of exhibits for the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition.

He later was connected with the Alaska Bureau, Seattle Chamber of Commerce, but returned to Alaska in 1923 for the U.S. Bureau of Education at Kivalina, Pt. Barrow and Wainwright.

He was sent to Nome in 1926 as superintendent in charge of reindeer work in the Seward Peninsula, and in 1928 to Deering as teacher and local supervisor. He returned to the States in 1929 to work in behalf of Eskimo ownership of reindeer, publishing a quarterly pamphlet, The Eskimo.

Andrews is the author of The Story of Sitka, The Eskimo and His Reindeer in Alaska,  Wrangell and the Gold of the Cassiar, and many articles in Travel, Nature, Outdoor Life, Field and Stream, and the National Geographic.

He was a charter member of the Alaska Yukon Pioneers Cabin No. 1 Seattle, and Pioneers of Washington.

Alaska Weekly, April 20, 1948
Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950, Volume 2 p 10-11, by Ed Ferrell (May 1, 2009