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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. |
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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 |
| Story #39 Lucy
Spada ~ Small Town Postmaster Earns Community’s Respect |
| 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 |
| Story #47
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 |
| Story #67 Jennie Gertrude
"Gertie" Perrin
~ Created a town in the "Sticks" |
| Story #68 Mary (Knott) Langrill ~
A Survivor & A Mapping Mystery |
| Story #69 Pilchuck Julia Jack
~ Mystique and Myth |
| Story #70 Madame
Luella Boyer ~ Everett’s Pioneer African-American
Businesswoman |
| Story #71 Frances E Anderson ~ Edmonds School District
Legend |
| Story #72 Ruth
Morrice
~ A
Continuation of Her Story as a Postal Service Worker |
| Story #73 Martha Kraencke ~
The Walking Lady of Edmonds |
| Story #74 Lillie
Cordelia (Nairn) Breed ~ Pioneer in the Wilderness |
| Story #75 Marjorie
Duryee
~
Everett author and artist |
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#76 Marie
Joyce (Sherwood) Little ~ Advocate for the Preservation of a
City’s Roots |
Story
#77 Hiroko (Hiro) Haji ~ A True
Patriot and Citizen
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Story
#78 Margaret
Mossford
Barber ~ A Natural
Educator
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Story
#79 Mabel Boyes Neisinger ~
Long Time Resident of Monroe
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Story
#80 Minerva Healy
Lucken ~ Keeper of the Family Flame
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#81 Eva
Bailey McFall ~ Teacher and Snohomish County School
Superintendent
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| Story #82 Dorothy May Brand Anderson - Stanwood's
Beloved Town Doctor |
| Story #83 Everett
Women's Book Club - An Ongoing Legacy to Literacy |
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