 The Women's Legacy Project of Snohomish County, Washington seeks to honor our foremothers by recording and sharing their personal histories, their ability to adapt to the forces of change and their constant vigilance as stewards of the diverse cultures of our society.
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| Story #1 Alice and Clara Rigby ~ Independent Photographers in an Age of Few Women Owned Businesses. | ||
| Story #2 Nancy Coleman Bolton ~ Movie Actress and Broadway Star From Everett | ||
| Story #3 Mary Jane Green ~ Once a slave from Tennessee, Mary Jane Green spent her last years in the sawmill town, Everett, Washington. | ||
| Story #4 Addie Fielder Lane ~ Pioneer and Builder of Religious Communities 1870 – 1943 | ||
| Story #5 Phyllis Royce ~ Independent and Determined to Stay that Way | ||
| Story #6 Mae Randall Parkhurst Swanson ~ Hard-working Businesswoman 1879-1952 | ||
| Story #7 Mary Gertrude Stockbridge Allen ~ Artist, Musician, Mother and Wife of Stanwood and Lake Stevens. | ||
| Story #8 In Search of Nora Burglon ~ Swedish American children's literature writer who lived in Snohomish County | ||
| Story #9 Mabel Monsey ~ Chronicles of a Farm Wife, 1891-1903: ~ Early pioneer living in the deep woods of Lake Stevens. | ||
| Story #10 Clara Morris Young ~ Her Granddaughter Remembers ...1886 - 1983 | ||
| Story #11 Mary Burgess ~ Braiding Multiple Talents into a Full Life | ||
| Story #12 Vernal Gay Love ~ She Fought for Prohibition, 1890 - 1964 | ||
| Story #13 Amelia Austin ~ Tualco Valley Pioneer, 1879 - 1908 | ||
| Story #14 Local women start the Alderwood Manor Community Library | ||
| Story #15 Choon Lee and Priscilla Roberts ~ Mother and Daughter’s Love Forged by Time, Circumstance and Sacrifice | ||
| Story #16 Marian Harrison ~ She Never Let Color, Gender or Age Stop Her | ||
| Story # 17 Alice White Reardon ~ Newspaper Publisher 1867 - 1951 | ||
| Story # 18 Martha Solie Muckey ~ Career Social Worker ~ 1895 - 1967 | ||
| Story # 19 Ruth Morrice - Full Time Career Postal Worker ~ 1902-1973 | ||
| Story # 20 Lorraine Smith ~ One of Everett’s ‘Rosie the Riveter’ | ||
| Story # 21 Nancy Weis ~ Professional Volunteer | ||
| Story # 22 The Frohning Women ~ Generations of Farm Wives of Monroe | ||
| Story # 23 Stanwood’s Namesake: Clara J. Stanwood Pearson | ||
| Story # 24 Nellie Robertson ~ A Lifetime of Writing in Monroe | ||
| Story # 25 Jane Berry ~ First Businesswoman of Monroe, Washington | ||
| Story # 26 Hazel Clark ~ Everett Public Librarian, 1928 to 1975 | ||
| Story # 27 Esther Ross ~ She Stopped the Bicentennial Wagon Train And Made Sure the Stillaguamish People Were Recognized | ||
| Story # 28 Helen Parkhurst Sievers ~ She Followed Her Mother’s Example, 1912 - 2004 | ||
| Story # 29 Sarah Andrews Thornton ~ Teacher and Lecturer | ||
| Story #30 Louisa Fowler Sinclair ~ Memories of a Pioneer Childhood in Mukilteo | ||
| Story #31 Grace Wilcox Bargreen ~ Her life has been a medley with three themes—Family, Community and Music | ||
| Story #32 Enid Thrall Nordlund ~ Naturalist, Historian, Mountaineer | ||
| Story #33 Alice Kerr ~ Edmonds, WA Mayor | ||
| Story #34 Grace Kirwan ~ Monroe Businesswoman, U. S. Navy Officer, Hospital & Library Trustee and Historian. | ||
| Story #35 Jean Bedal Fish ~ Elder of the Sauk-Suiattle Tribe | ||
| Story #36 Eva Jones Davis ~ Everett Pioneer | ||
| Story #37 Electa Friday ~ Nurse & first Superintendent and General Manager of Everett Hospital | ||
| Story #38 Maria Sneatlum ~ Tulalip Tribal Member, an inspiration to a new generation | ||
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Lucy Spada ~ Small Town
Postmaster Earns Community’s Respect |
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| Story #40 Anna Agnes Maley (1872-1918) ~ Everett’s First Woman Editor and Washington State Socialist Candidate for Governor | ||
| Story #41 How We Are Progressing: Tillie Winkler Robinson's Letters Home | ||
| Story #42 Grace DeRooy VerHoeven: An Everett Childhood of the 1930s and 40s | ||
| Story #43 Eleanor Leight – Beloved dancer shares talent with her community | ||
| Story #44 Phyllis Dana – Nursing career leads to Pearl Harbor and life of travel, 1917 - 2006 | ||
| Story #45 ~ Travel the world? Yes! Supermarket? No Way! ~ A Biography of Dorothy Otto Kennedy |
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| Story #46 Snohomish County Women and the 1910 Suffrage Campaign | ||
| Story #47 Blanche Edith Shannahan ~ Teacher and Historian of Pioneer Life, 1891- 1968 | ||
| Story #48 Mary Webb Duryee ~ Small Town Girl - Big Time Communicator | ||
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