 |
 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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#1 Alice and Clara Rigby
~ Independent Photographers in an Age of Few Women Owned
Businesses. |
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#2 Nancy Coleman Bolton
~ Movie Actress and Broadway Star From Everett |
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#3 Mary Jane Green
~ Once a slave from Tennessee, Mary Jane Green spent her last years in
the sawmill town, Everett, Washington. |
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#4 Addie Fielder
Lane ~ Pioneer and Builder of Religious Communities 1870 –
1943 |
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#5 Phyllis Royce
~ Independent and Determined to Stay that Way |
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#6 Mae Randall Parkhurst
Swanson ~ Hard-working Businesswoman 1879-1952 |
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#7 Mary Gertrude
Stockbridge Allen ~ Artist, Musician, Mother and Wife of
Stanwood and Lake Stevens. |
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#8 In Search of Nora Burglon
~ Swedish American children's literature writer who lived in Snohomish
County |
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#9 Mabel Monsey ~
Chronicles of a Farm Wife, 1891-1903: ~ Early pioneer living in the
deep woods of Lake Stevens. |
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#10 Clara Morris Young
~ Her Granddaughter Remembers ...1886 - 1983 |
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Mary Burgess ~ Braiding Multiple Talents into a
Full Life |
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Vernal Gay Love ~ She Fought for Prohibition, 1890 - 1964 |
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#13 Amelia Austin
~ Tualco Valley Pioneer, 1879 - 1908 |
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#14 Local women start the Alderwood
Manor Community Library |
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#15 Choon Lee and Priscilla
Roberts ~ Mother and Daughter’s Love
Forged by Time, Circumstance and Sacrifice |
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#16 Marian
Harrison ~ She Never Let Color,
Gender or Age Stop Her |
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# 17 Alice
White Reardon ~ Newspaper Publisher 1867 - 1951 |
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# 18 Martha Solie
Muckey ~ Career Social Worker ~ 1895 - 1967 |
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# 19 Ruth
Morrice - Full Time Career Postal Worker ~ 1902-1973 |
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# 20
Lorraine Smith ~ One of Everett’s ‘Rosie
the Riveter’ |
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# 21 Nancy Weis
~ Professional Volunteer |
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# 22 The Frohning
Women ~ Generations of Farm Wives of Monroe |
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# 23 Stanwood’s Namesake: Clara
J. Stanwood Pearson |
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# 24
Nellie Robertson ~ A Lifetime of Writing in Monroe |
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# 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
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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 |
| 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 |
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#64 Anna Blacken Carlson
Swanson ~ Silvana Hotelkeeper and Businesswoman |
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#65 Lillie Hayes Radley |
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#66 Walburga Eisen
- Early Day
Entrepreneur |
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#67 Jennie
Gertrude "Gertie"
Perrin ~ Created a town in the "Sticks" |
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#68 Mary (Knott) Langrill ~ A
Survivor & A Mapping Mystery |
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#69 Pilchuck
Julia Jack ~ Mystique and Myth |
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#70 Madame
Luella Boyer ~ Everett’s
Pioneer African-American Businesswoman
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#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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