MS 27: Alaskan Biography Files Alaska State Library
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Alaskan Biography Files
MS 27
ACQUISITION: Originally begun as a political biography file by Robert DeArmond, ca. 1950.
ACCESS: Viewing the collection is unrestricted.
COPYRIGHT: Request for permission to reproduce material from the collection must be discussed with the Librarian, as some of the materials are protected by copyright.
PROCESSING: The biographical data is arranged alphabetically by name.
HISTORICAL AND SCOPE NOTES
This collection consists of hundreds of biographies of prominent Alaskans. The original collection of Alaskan Biography Files were gathered and/or written by Robert N. DeArmond and fit into one letter-sized archival box. Specifically, the collection consisted of 25 folders of biographies and 2 envelopes of unorganized political biography clippings. Many of those original files are from the 1950s-1960s.
The original files were photocopied and became part of a greater collection of biographies, added to by Mr. DeArmond and Historical Collections staff since 1988, and known as the Biography File. The Biography File is located in the beige, horizontal file cabinet behind the Reference Desk. The one box of original biographies and political biography clippings remains on the manuscript shelf as MS 27.
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*Indicates a photographer. http://www.library.alaska.gov/hist/hist_docs/finding_aids/MS027bio.pdf
MS 27: Alaskan Biography Files Alaska State Library
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Aanyalahaash (Taku Chief)
Also spelled as: Aanyaalaháash, Ana-Tolsh, Annaclas, Annatlahash, Ana-Thala-Hash,
Ana-Thla-Hash, Ana-Ka-Klash, An-Naa-Klosh, An-A Kla-Hash
Abbott, Cecil V.
Abel, Don
Abrams, Katharine Delaney
Abruzzi, Duke of (Luigi Amedeo)
Adams, Charles Wilbur
Adams, Edwin C. *
Adams, Thomas S.
Adler, Dave
After, Fred
Aiken, Pete W.
Akers, Arnold
Akers, Josephine
“Alaska Nellie” – see Lawing, Nellie Neal
Albee, William “Bill” and Ruth
Albertstone, Reuben *
Albrecht, Blanche
Albrecht, C. Earl, Dr.
Albright, Verne
Aldrich, Frank A.
Aldrich, Harold
Aldrich, Herbert *
Alexander (Aleksejczyk), Joseph “Joe” William
Alhadeff, Nessin
Allan, Alexander
Allan, Alexander "Scotty"
Allen, Dorothy
Almmquist, G. E.
Alter, Amos J. "Joe"
Althoff, John, Father
Ambrosius, Bishop
Ambur, Amelia N.
Amundsen, Maurice
Anderson, Anton
Anderson, Barbara Helen
Anderson, Clarence L.
Anderson, Edward
Anderson, Jacob Peter
Andrews, Clarence L. *
Andrews, Ed *
Andrews, Susie (Juneau)
Angerman, Frank
Angerman, Lillie
Angokwazhuk - see Happy Jack
Antonson, Joan
Anway, Charles
Appelle, Henry
Applebaum, Samual
Archangelsky, Alexander M.
Arend, Harry O.
Armstrong, Clair M.
Armstrong, R. Roland, Dr.
Arnold, Winton C.
Ashby, Olly W.
Ashby, Thomas H.
Asplund, John
Atkins, Barton
Attla, George
Atwood, - see Cantwell, George G. *
Atwood, Robert B. “Bob”
Ausman, Lu
Austin, Edwin William “Billy”
Avakoff, Harry B.
Avery, Willis
Awe, Charles W.
Ayer, Fred M.
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Bach, Captain G. E.
Bach, Frank X.
Backland, Ellen M.
Backland, John, Jr.
Backland, John, Sr.
Bacolas, Robert
Badger, Harry
Baggen, Edgar I, Dr.
Bahr, Andrew “Andy”
Bailey, Eben G.
Bailey, Grace
Baily, Ralph
Baird, Alexander, Dr.
Baird, Janet
Baker, Forbes Lawson
Baker, Marcus
Baker, Robert D.
Baker, William P., Dr.
Ballaine, John Edmund
Balone, Thomas J. “Tom”
Banfield, Mildred
Banks, Della Murray
Banksland, Billy - see Natkusiak
Bannerman Family
Baranoff, Makary A., Father
Barkley, Charles William, Captain
Barkley, Patrick Melvin
Barley, Harrie C. *
Barlow, Harry, Captain
Barnabas, Bessie
Barnes, Charles W.
Barnes, Doris
Barnes, Laura
Barnette, Cecil Glen
Barnette, E. T., Captain
Barnette, Isabelle Cleary
Barr, Frank
Barrington, Sydney C.
Barron, James Thomas
Bartlett, E. L. "Bob" (Edward Lewis)
Bartlett, Robert Abram
Bartlett, Vide
Baskin, Stanley
Bates, Sybil
Bates, William Albert
Bathhurst, John
Baughman, Robert M., Captain
Bayer, George
Bayers, L. H. "Kinky", Captain
Bayers, Neenah
Bayers, Vera
Bayles, Isadore "Ike"
Bayless, Otto G.
Beach, Rex E.
Beamon, Libby
Bean, Augustus
Bean, James M.
Beard, John S.
Beaulieu, Severn
Beck, George J., Rev.
Beck, Larry
Becker, Fred E.
Becker, Harry T. *
Beckley, James C., Dr.
Beechey, Frederick William
Beedle, Homer
Begich, Nicholas J. "Nick"
Behrends, B. M.
Beistline, Earl H.
Beistline, Ralph Hoover, Sr.
Belcher, Dixie
Belcher, Edward
Bell, Lloyd
Bell, Margaret – see Wiks, Margaret Bell
Bell, Roscoe E.
Bellnoe, Peter
Beltz, Bert
Beltz, John
Beltz, William E.
Benjamin, Lloyd (Benjamin's Store)
Bennette, Herbert Clarence
Bennette, Robert L.
Benolkin, Mary
Bensin, Basil M., Dr.
Benson, Benny
Bentley, John B., Rt. Rev.
Berg, Ed.
Bergen, Olaf
Bergmann, Mary E.
Berlin, Leonard
Bernaldi, Suzanne Rognon
Bernard, Joseph F. "Cap"
Berry, Clarence J.
Berry, Montgomery P.
Besser, Cindy
Besser, William A.
Best, Fred
Bettles, Gordon Charles
Betts, George Richard
Bez, Nicholas
Bie, LaPreal
Biggs, William
Bingle, Bert J., Rev.
Binkley, C. M. "Jim"
Birch, Stephen T.
Bishop, Hazel
Black, George S.
Black, Louis
Black, Lydia
Black, Walter
Blackjack, Ada
Blankenberg, John M. *
Bleecker, Fred Clive "Oscar"
Blinn, Clara K.
Blix, Ringwald
Blodgett, Minnie
Blodgett, Robert R. “Bob”
Bloom, Robert L.
Blueberry Tom [or Kid] - see Jensen, Thomas P.
Boardman, William K. “Bill”
Bockstege, Herman H.
Boddy, A. W. "Bud"
Boden, John, Captain
Bolshanin, Nikolai E. "Nicholas"
Bolyan, Helen
BonaDea, Artemis
Bone, Scott Cardelle
Boney, George
Bong, Mary (Johnson)
Bonnifield, ____ (brother of Sam)
Bonnifield, Samuel A.
Boochever, Lois Collen “Connie”
Borbridge, John, Jr.
Borein, Henry
Bostrom, August
Botelho, Emmett
Botelho, Lupita
Boucher, Emily Polet
Boucher, Henry A. “Red”
Boucher, Vincent and Helen
Boulet, J. A. “Jack”
Bourke, Martha (Ananief, Smith, Walker)
“Mother Walker”
Bousquet, Captain
Bouwens, Wayne
Bowen, Rufus Henry
Bowman, Anna J.
Bowman, Willard
Boyd, Louise A.
Boyer, David Newton
Boyer, Mark
Boyle, Frank A.
Bradford, William
Bradshaw, Howard
Brady, Carl F.
Brady, Hugh
Brady, John G., Governor
Branch, David Wright
Brandt, A. P. "Bob"
Branham, Estill G. “Bud”
Bratnober, Henry
Brayton, Lawrence
Breuer, Leo W.
Brewington, Darrell
Brewis, Minnie
Brice, Harry
Briggs, Glenn
Brightman, Marie
Brindle, A. W.
Britt, Sophia
Britton, Florence Dean
Brodeck, H. H. *
Brooks, Alfred Hulse
Brooks, John M. "Jack"
Brower, Charles D. “Charlie”
Brower, Tom
Brown, Arthur S., Dr.
Brown, Bill
Brown, Edward Howard
Brown, Edward Watson
Brown, George
Brown, Herb
Browne, Belmore
Brownell, Don Carlos
Browning, Levi M., Col.
Bruner, Elwood
Brunette, James J.
Brynteson, John Peter
Buchanan, John R., Rev.
Buckalew, Seaborn J., Jr.
Buel, Art V.
Bugbee, John S., Hon.
Bugge, John
Buhman, Hans, Captain
Bullard, Ben
Bullock, Edith R.
Bullock, Jack
Bulshanin, Nicholas
Bunnell, Charles E.
Burchardt, Charles A.
Burford, George
Burg, Amos
Burns, Bill
Burnside, John L.
Burt, L. G.
Burton, Raymond E.
Buschmann, Eigil
Buschmann, Peter Thams
Bushko, Stanley J.
Bushman, August
Butrovich, John Jr.
Butrovich, Mrs. John Sr.
Buzby, Jason Grant "Jay"
Buzby Jason G. "Sam"
Byer, George
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Cadiente, Ronalda
Cairns, R. H.
Call, Samuel J., Dr. *
Callahan, Dan
Callahan, Ellen Pavloff
Callahan, Helen
Cameron, Minnie Lee
Campbell, Archie G.
Campbell, Daniel
Campbell, Ellen
Campbell, Ernest M.
Campbell, Gillian
Cann, T. H., Captain
Cannon, Frank B.
Cantwell, George *
Carbonneau, Belinda Mulrooney
- see Mulrooney, Belinda
Carey, Annette Lamond
Carey, Verda
Carlson, Carl V.
Carlson, Chester C. "Red"
Carlson, Diana
Carlson, John (of Fairbanks)
Carlson, John L. (of Auke Bay)
Carmack, George Washington
Carmack, Kate
Caro, J. B. “Bert”
Carr, Bernard J., Sr. “Pop”
Carrigan, Verna Hurley
Carroll, George
Carroll, James A.
Carroll, Thomas P., Brig Gen.
Carson, Carlos
Carson, Chester G.
Carson, Jack
Carson, Ken
Carter, Charles W.
Carter, May C.
Cascaden, Blanche
Case, W. H. *
Cashen, William R.
Cashman, Nellie
Casidy, Annie
Caswell, William H., Doc.
Cathcart, Wally
Chambers, John, Rev.
Chandalar River
Chandonnet, Ann & Fern
Chapados, Frank
Chapman, May Seely
Chapman, Nina
Charley, Walter
Chase, James, Mr. & Mrs.
Chase, Will H., Dr.
Chevigny, Hector
Chilberg, John Edward
China Joe
Chismore, George, Dr.
Chon, Julius
Choquette, Alexandre "Buck"
Christensen, Bertha
Christensen, Chris
Christiansen, Ray
Christofferson, Edna E.
Churchill, Delores
Clah, Arthur Wellington
Clark, Charles R. "Rob"
Clark, Henry W.
Clark, Jim
Clark, John M., Captain
Clark, Orah Dee
Clark, Ruby, Mrs.
Clark, Walter Eli
Clark, William Arthur
Clark, Willoughby
Clarno, Francis
Claus, Robert
Clausen, Ed
Clayson, William
Clegg, Cecil Hunter
Clemons, Basil *
Cleveland, Harry E.
Cleworth, Brian, Rev.
Cliff, Fred Stephen
Clifton, Robert Beauford "Boots"
Close, Jack
Clum, John P.
Cobb, John H.
Cobb, John N.
Coble, Allison F.
Cochran, Orville Deville
Coffin, Everett B., Captain
Coffman, Carroll "Rex"
Coghill Family
Coghill, John B. "Jack"
Coghill, Winifred Elizabeth Fortune
Cole, Charles E.
Cole, Malcolm G.
Cole, Terrence
Coleman, Ann
Collier, Bert
Collins, Earnest Bible
Collins, Henry
Collison, William Edwin
Colver, Warren C.
Colyer, Vincent
Combs, Alex Duff
Comeau, Frederick J.
Condit, James, Mrs.
Connors, James J.
Conradi, Captain C. G.
Conright, Jack D.
Cook, Donald J.
Cook, Earl E.
Cook, Frederick A.
Cook, James
Cooksey, Sandi
Coon, Eldon
Coonjohn, E. Johnny
Coontz, Robert Edward
Cooper, Clarence
Cooper, Dawson
Cooper, J. Earl
Cooper, William O., Dr.
Copenhaver, William Ralph
Cordon, Kitty
Cordua, Theodore J. "Ted"
Cornell, Elsie M.
Corr, Tommy Reed
Correa, Frank, Jr.
Corser, Harry Prosper
Cosgrove, C. M. "Pop"
Cotten, Kathryn
Cottrell, David
Cottrell, James A., Jr.
Couch, Jim
Coulombe, Peter
Council, Mary Lee
Courtnage, Clyde S.
Cousart, Robert E. "Bob"
Couren, Morris M.
Cowee, Chief – see Kowee
Cowles, Willis M. "Bill"
Cox, Mabel Holmes, Rev.
Coyne, Cyril
Cramer, Dwight, Dr.
Crane, Anna
Crane, Dick, Captain
Crawford, Ben
Crawford, Ed
Crawford, Mable
Crawford, Robert M.
Creamer, Anna
Creamer, Charles N. "Charlie"
Cremer, W. E. H. "Rube"
Crimont, Joseph R., Bishop
Crocker, Robert L.
Croft, Lee H.
Cronin, Jack
Cronk, Louis W.
Crook, John C. "Jack"
Crooks, Henry
Crosby Harry W.
Crosby Mattie "Tootsie"
Crosson, Grace
Crosson, Joe, Sr.
Crosson, Joe E., Jr.
Crosson, Marvel
Crouse, Robert F.
Crow, Robert L.
Crumrine, Josephine
Crumrine, Nina
Crutcher, Marshall
Cuddy, Dan H.
Cuddy, Warren N.
Cunningham, Tom, Father
Curtis, Edward Asahel *
Curtis, Edward Sheriff *
Cushmen, Edward Everett
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Dafoe, Don M.
Dahl, Ben
Dale, Essie R.
Dall, William Healey
Dallosto, Peter
Dalton, Emily (Davis)
Dalton, George, Sr.
Dalton, Jack
Dalton, James
Dalton, Kathleen
Daly, Frederick Loring
Daly, Milton J.
Danner, George, Jr.
Dapcevich, John
Darch, Robert “Ragtime Bob” Russell
Darling, Esther Birdsall
Darling, Joseph Freeland
Davis, Carol Beery
Davis, Charles Jack
Davis, E. J. “Ed”
Davis, Edward V.
Davis, Emily - see Dalton, Emily
Davis, Everett S., Col.
Davis, Frances Carolyn (Brooks)
Davis, George
Davis, J. Montgomery
Davis, James V.
Davis, Jefferson
Davis, John & Francis
Davis, Roderick Frank
Davis, Samuel Girard
Davis, Trevor *
Dawes, L. P., Dr.
Dawes, Leonard P.
Dawne, Edward J.
Dawson, Lafayette “Lafe”, Judge
Day, Andrew S.
DeArmond, Dale
DeArmond, Robert N.
DeArmond, R. W.
Deater, Earl
Decker, Rose Ross
DeGroff, Edward *
DeGroff, Lena Bancroft Vanderbilt
DeHart, Jim
DeHart, Jane
DeJulio, Alvin J.
DeLaguna, Frederica
Delaney, Arthur K.
DeLeonardis, Salvatore
Demmert, Charles W.
Demmert, Joseph Jr.
Dempster, W.J.D.
Dennison, George Ames
Derr, R. A. "Dutch"
DeSacia, Lyman Herbert "Herb"
DeVighne, Harry Carlos
DeWitt, Sylvia Ruth
DeWolfe, Percy
Dexter, John Golovin
Diamond Lil
Dick, Albert W.
Dick, Oscar T.
Dickey, Don
Dickey, William A.
Dimock, Barbara
Dimond, Anthony J.
Dimond, John H.
Dimond, Sr. Marie Therese
Dinsmore, Frank
Dirbell, Walter C.
Dischner, Lewis
Distin, W. L., Col.
Diven, Robert Joseph
Dobbs, Beverly B. *
Dobbs, M. S.
Dodsen, Jim
Donnelley, Harry
Donohoe, Mrs. Thomas M.
Doody, Jeremiah "Jerry" *
Doogan, Frank M.
Doogan, James P.
Doran, David Pearce
Dorney, John "Sailor Jack"
Dorsh, Albert
Douglas, Jim
Douglas, Scott
Dow, Leon Mansur
Dozier, Henry
Drake, Claudia Marie
Draper, Horace H. *
Drury, C.H.
Dryden, Floyd
Duclos, J.N.E. *
Dufresne, Frank
Dull, Don
Duncan, Ross P.
Duncan, William, Father
Dunfey, Ron, Fr.
Dunham, Sam
Durney, John
Dusenbury, Elinor T.
Dyson, Peggy
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Eagleston, Zee Emmett "Slim"
Eames, Alfred
Earling, Roy Brown
Earp, Wyatt Berry Stapp
Eastaugh, Frederick O.
Eaton, Hank
Eaton, Thomas Jr. *
Ebbetts, John
Ebner, William M.
Ebona, Andy
Eccles, Silas Wright
Eckmann, Anscel
Eddy Family
Edlund, John F.
Edmonds, Harry Marcus Weston
Edwards, Carl
Edwards, Charles
Edwards, Janette
Egan, Dennis
Egan, Neva
Egan, William A. “Bill”
Eide, A. N. “Gil”
Eide, Arthur
Eielson, Ben
Eisele, Christian/Carl/Charles
Elder, Franklin Terry
Eliasen, Anton
Elliott, Henry Wood
Ellis, Robert E. “Bob”
Ellis, William A.
Ellison, Nettie Jones
Ellsworth, Lincoln
Elveness, Ole H.
Emard, Henry J.
Emerson, Paul Robert
Emmons, George Thornton
Emroy, Dick
Enge, John
Engebreth, Gunnard Marchall
Engen, Richard “Dick”
Engstrom, Adolph & Family
Engstrom, Elton E.
Erickson, Alfred R. "Riley"
Erquhart, William
Errington, Julia S. (Schmieg)
Erskine, W. J.
Erussard de Ville, Pierre Joseph -
"French Pete"
Ervin, Win
Erwin, L. T.
Estus, Nana Richenda (nee Paul)
Evans, Robley Dunglison "Fighting Bob"
Everette, Willis Eugene, Dr.
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Fahrenkamp, Bettye
Fair, Susan
Fairbanks, Charles Warren
Fairbanks, Lulu
Falls, Ben & Annie
Farenholt, Oscar Walter
Farnum, Oliver T.
Farrar, Victor J.
Faulkner, Herbert L.
Faunch, Don
Fawcett, Matilda
Fawcett, Thomas
Feldman, Henry C.
Fenwick, C.J.
Fergus, Hazel
Ferguson, Roy
Ferrell, Ed
Ferrell, Nancy Warren
Field, Grace E., Dr.
Field, Minnie
Finch, Jack
Fink, Thomas A.
Fischer, Bob
Fischer, James E.
Fischer, Scott
Fischer, Victor
Fitzgerald, Flora C.
Fitzgerald, Gerald
Fitzgerald, James M.
Fitzgerald, Walter J., Bishop
Fivey, Robert E.
Fleek, George A.
Flint, Bill
Floe, Hans
Floyd, Joseph Edwin
Flynn, Owen Patrick "O. P."
Fohn-Hansen, Lydia Jacobson
Folsom, H.H.
Folta, George W., Judge
Fonda, William Clark “Skagway Bill”
Foote, Hamilton R., Captain
Foran, William T.
Forbes, Vernon D.
Force, Raymond C.
Ford, Hulda S.
Foreman, Bert (of Hope, AK)
Forrest, Linn A., Jr.
Forss, Eric
Forward, Charles H.
Foster, Neil W. “Willie”
Fowler, Frank & Clara
Fowler, Jim
Fowler, Susi Gregg
Fox, John B.
Fox, John P., Rev.
Frame, John William
Franich, Joe
Franklin, Lady Jane
Franklin, John
Franz, Charles
Fredericksen, Stan
French, L. H.
Frey, Charles Z.
Friend, Elmer A.
Fuller, Frederic E.
Furseth, Olaf
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Gaffney, James C.
Gaffney, Thomas
Gaines, Ruben
Galanin, David
Galeoto, Joseph C. Jr.
Gallant, Shanon
Galvin, Jerry
Garfield, Charles D.
Garland, Robert
Garnick, Anita
Garrigues, James M.
Garrison, Kenneth
Garside, George W.
Gasser, George
Gasser, George & Beatrice
Gasser, Minnie
Gates, Sam
Gatz, Peter
Gavril, "Big Mike"
Gay, Richard R.
Gebhart, M.G.
Geist, Otto William, Dr.
Genet, Ray
Geoghegan, Gordon L.
Geohegan, Richard Henry
George, Joseph
George, (family): Micheal-
Tom, Joe & Gus
George, Martin
George, William. E., Capt.