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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. |
League of Snohomish County Heritage
Organizations |
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Table of Contents
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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
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| Story #38
Maria Sneatlum ~
Tulalip Tribal Member, an inspiration to a new generation
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Story #39 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 |
| Story #46
Snohomish County Women and the 1910 Suffrage Campaign |
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Blanche Edith Shannahan ~ Teacher and Historian of Pioneer Life, 1891- 1968 |
| Story #48
Mary Webb Duryee ~ Small
Town Girl - Big Time Communicator |
| Story #49
Ida Noyes McIntire ~ One of Our First Women Doctors |
| Story #50
Idamae Schack ~ "I Just Did It" |
| Story #51
Emma Serepta Yule ~ Legendary Educator |
| Story #52 The
Lady Managers of
Everett’s First Hospital |
| Story #53
Mary Low Sinclair
~ Forgotten Founder of Snohomish |
| Story #54
Bah-Hahtlh (Return to
Good) Katrina Bagley |
| Story #55
Lillian Sylten Spear
~ Public Power Advocate |
| Story #56
Myrtle Ferrell ~
Children's Advocate & Community Leader |
| Story #57
Anastasia Spithill
~ She has her day in court! |
| Story #58
SIASTENU ~ RUTH SEHOME
SHELTON – Good will ambassador for her people |
| Story #59
GWENDOLYN SHAKESPEARE
~ A teacher forever remembered |
| Story #60 Rosamund
Spoerhase ~ A pioneer midwife |
| Story #61 Missouri Hanna: “Mother of Journalism in Washington State” |
| Story #62 Nina
Blackman Bakeman: Snohomish Teacher and Civic Leader
(1862-1941) |
| Story #63 The
World is Advancing - Advance With It - The Motto of the
Stanwood Monday Study Club |
| Story #64 Anna Blacken Carlson Swanson ~ Silvana Hotelkeeper and Businesswoman |
| Story # 65 Lillie Hayes Radley |
| Story # 66 Walburga Eisen - Early Day Entrepreneur |
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