Volume Six, Issue 35, August-September 2006
- Samuel Simpson Tingley Part One, Washington Territory pioneer of 1859, who settled on the north fork of the Skagit in 1867 and then Day Creek in 1880. From Maine boyhood through Civil War and meeting his first wife, a Mercer Girl on the ship to Washington Territory.
- Samuel Simpson Tingley Part Two, Washington Territory pioneer of 1859, who settled on the north fork of the Skagit in 1867 and then Day Creek in 1880. Settles at South Fork, raises family, blacksmith in Mount Vernon, loses first wife, marries again to doctoress, settles at Day Creek, builds boats and ferries for Skagit River.
- Seneca G. Ketchum Biography Part 1. Feisty pioneer 1899 Sedro-Woolley newspaper editor in his years before arriving in Washington Territory in 1888. And his family, 17th-century English immigrants, pioneer settlers of Toronto, Ontario, and businessmen of New York State.
- Seneca G. Ketchum Biography Part 2. Feisty pioneer 1899 Sedro-Woolley newspaper editor in his years after arriving in Fairhaven, Washington; his adventures in Nelson, B.C. and Spokane, and his publishing years in newly merged Sedro-Woolley.
- Lucinda Davis, a divorcee from Denver, arrived at the Cascade River in 1890 with her children, Frank, Glee and Idessa, and they braved floods and fires to live at Goodell's Landing and to establish Cedar Bar, the most famous Skagit River roadhouse.
- The Jacob and Will Lowman families of Anacortes. Businessmen, justice of the peace, mayor, inventor, school teacher and early seafodd industry pioneers. First of a series on the family, by Claudia A. Lowman.
- Helen Mathews Burns, now 91, recalls her childhood home in the Utopia district — also the home of your humble editor, and her father, James Hood Mathews. Includes the story of their relatives, the pioneer George Brosseau and family of Sterling and old Sedro, and their friends, the Reische family of Utopia.
- Dr. Jesse Kennedy has good news. Gilbert Landre's cabin, a longtime mining landmark near Cascade Pass since the 1890s, is being shored up and partially restored in 2006. Photos and summary of plans. And see the Journal introduction to Landre.
- Tom Benton's 1965 history of Rockport and the role that his von Pressentin family played in its birth.
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