Anna Faulkner Scott Knutson Webster was a Charter Member of Juneau Igloo No. 6.
She was born on January 29, 1867, at Maitland, Hants County, Nova Scotia. She was the daughter of Captain Thomas Faulkner and Elizabeth McPherson Faulkner. She was descended from a long line of seafaring men. Anna immigrated to the United States in 1888 and was naturalized in 1890.
She married her first husband, Newton Scott, on May 21, 1890, in Idaho. They had five daughters: Lucy, born on May 23, 1890, in Idaho; twins Mabel Grace Scott and Minerva Beatrice Scott, born on April 1, 1893, in Grangeville, Idaho; Ruth, born in September 1894; and Alice, born on June 13, 1895.
The family experienced several tragedies. Their daughter Ruth died on March 15, 1896. Newton Scott was killed by a falling tree while riding a horse on November 5, 1897. Lucy died on November 14, 1897, and Alice died on November 22, 1897.
Her second husband was Swan Knutson. They were married in Salmon River, Idaho, on January 25, 1899. She was widowed when Swan died on August 1, 1901. Their twin children, Clarence Knutson and Carol Swanhilde Knutson, were born in Idaho on April 5, 1902, after his death.
Anna and her three daughters, Mabel, Minnie, and Carrie, moved to Juneau in 1904, and she began her career as head of the Douglas telephone exchange in 1905.
Anna married Edward Webster, who was the President of the Juneau-Douglas Telephone Company, on August 10, 1910, in Juneau. The family moved to Juneau, and her home stood high on the hill, built before the town itself was fully laid out and planned.
The house is registered as the Edward Webster House on Telephone Hill. Robert E. Hurley, the grandson of Edward and Anna Webster, owned the home when the 1984 Telephone Hill Historic Site and Structures Survey was conducted.
Anna died on August 13, 1957, in Juneau and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery on August 16, 1957.
Sources:
Biographies of Alaska Yukon Pioneers 1850–1950, Vol. 3, pp. 318–320, Ed Ferrell
Idaho Marriage Licenses
1910 U.S. Federal Census, Douglas
1930/1940 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau
Douglas Island Weekly News, August 17, 1910
Alaska Death Certificate
Evergreen Cemetery Burial Record