At some point during her first year, [Adah A. Sparhawk] met James W. Young, the brother of S. Hall Young and the teacher at a similar school in Saxman, the native community just south of Ketchikan. James Young had been the teacher in Saxman since 1895.
"they were married by the Presbyterian minister in Wrangell on the first of February in 1899." It was a somewhat unusual marriage. James Young was 56 and a widower with several grown children. Adah was soon to turn 46 and had never been married.
"James had been a missionary school teacher in Alaska with a wife and several children. Adah had devoted her life to the care of her mother and younger siblings. Having never married, she would have to make some major adjustments."
[...]
After their marriage, Adah joined James in Saxman. Adah replaced James as the teacher at the school, while James concentrated on running the community store. Adah's nursing training also quickly came in handy as a small pox epidemic struck the community.
[...]
James Young was an early booster of Ketchikan and soon opened a store along the banks of Ketchikan Creek. It was located near what is now the PATH homeless shelter at 640 Park Avenue.
"It wasn't very long, however, until James relocated in the section of Ketchikan known as Newtown which is about eight blocks north of downtown," Braithwaite wrote, also noting that the new store building had likely been the Sparhawk store in Revilla and was "floated" down Tongass Narrows and put ashore in Newtown.
"James Young's business venture demonstrated a favorable profit." Braithwaite wrote. "This is evidenced by the various improvements which were made to the store building."
Young's large white store was soon one of the most prominent landmarks in Newtown. But Young would not live long enough to see the young community prosper.
James Young contracted typhoid fever, probably from vegetables bought in Seattle that had been fertilized with human waste. Adah wrote to her brother Lafe in Oregon and asked him to come north to help run the store so she could take James south for treatment.
Adah and her husband went south to Oakland, arriving in the summer of 1904, but James died there on September 16th. He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland next to Adah's brother and parents."
["Adah Sparhawk Young: Woman Pioneer", by Dave Kiffer, SitNews Stories in the News, May 31, 2006]
"they were married by the Presbyterian minister in Wrangell on the first of February in 1899." It was a somewhat unusual marriage. James Young was 56 and a widower with several grown children. Adah was soon to turn 46 and had never been married.
"James had been a missionary school teacher in Alaska with a wife and several children. Adah had devoted her life to the care of her mother and younger siblings. Having never married, she would have to make some major adjustments."
[...]
After their marriage, Adah joined James in Saxman. Adah replaced James as the teacher at the school, while James concentrated on running the community store. Adah's nursing training also quickly came in handy as a small pox epidemic struck the community.
[...]
James Young was an early booster of Ketchikan and soon opened a store along the banks of Ketchikan Creek. It was located near what is now the PATH homeless shelter at 640 Park Avenue.
"It wasn't very long, however, until James relocated in the section of Ketchikan known as Newtown which is about eight blocks north of downtown," Braithwaite wrote, also noting that the new store building had likely been the Sparhawk store in Revilla and was "floated" down Tongass Narrows and put ashore in Newtown.
"James Young's business venture demonstrated a favorable profit." Braithwaite wrote. "This is evidenced by the various improvements which were made to the store building."
Young's large white store was soon one of the most prominent landmarks in Newtown. But Young would not live long enough to see the young community prosper.
James Young contracted typhoid fever, probably from vegetables bought in Seattle that had been fertilized with human waste. Adah wrote to her brother Lafe in Oregon and asked him to come north to help run the store so she could take James south for treatment.
Adah and her husband went south to Oakland, arriving in the summer of 1904, but James died there on September 16th. He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland next to Adah's brother and parents."
["Adah Sparhawk Young: Woman Pioneer", by Dave Kiffer, SitNews Stories in the News, May 31, 2006]
At some point during her first year, [Adah A. Sparhawk] met James W. Young, the brother of S. Hall Young and the teacher at a similar school in Saxman, the native community just south of Ketchikan. James Young had been the teacher in Saxman since 1895.
"they were married by the Presbyterian minister in Wrangell on the first of February in 1899." It was a somewhat unusual marriage. James Young was 56 and a widower with several grown children. Adah was soon to turn 46 and had never been married.
"James had been a missionary school teacher in Alaska with a wife and several children. Adah had devoted her life to the care of her mother and younger siblings. Having never married, she would have to make some major adjustments."
[...]
After their marriage, Adah joined James in Saxman. Adah replaced James as the teacher at the school, while James concentrated on running the community store. Adah's nursing training also quickly came in handy as a small pox epidemic struck the community.
[...]
James Young was an early booster of Ketchikan and soon opened a store along the banks of Ketchikan Creek. It was located near what is now the PATH homeless shelter at 640 Park Avenue.
"It wasn't very long, however, until James relocated in the section of Ketchikan known as Newtown which is about eight blocks north of downtown," Braithwaite wrote, also noting that the new store building had likely been the Sparhawk store in Revilla and was "floated" down Tongass Narrows and put ashore in Newtown.
"James Young's business venture demonstrated a favorable profit." Braithwaite wrote. "This is evidenced by the various improvements which were made to the store building."
Young's large white store was soon one of the most prominent landmarks in Newtown. But Young would not live long enough to see the young community prosper.
James Young contracted typhoid fever, probably from vegetables bought in Seattle that had been fertilized with human waste. Adah wrote to her brother Lafe in Oregon and asked him to come north to help run the store so she could take James south for treatment.
Adah and her husband went south to Oakland, arriving in the summer of 1904, but James died there on September 16th. He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland next to Adah's brother and parents."
["Adah Sparhawk Young: Woman Pioneer", by Dave Kiffer, SitNews Stories in the News, May 31, 2006]
"they were married by the Presbyterian minister in Wrangell on the first of February in 1899." It was a somewhat unusual marriage. James Young was 56 and a widower with several grown children. Adah was soon to turn 46 and had never been married.
"James had been a missionary school teacher in Alaska with a wife and several children. Adah had devoted her life to the care of her mother and younger siblings. Having never married, she would have to make some major adjustments."
[...]
After their marriage, Adah joined James in Saxman. Adah replaced James as the teacher at the school, while James concentrated on running the community store. Adah's nursing training also quickly came in handy as a small pox epidemic struck the community.
[...]
James Young was an early booster of Ketchikan and soon opened a store along the banks of Ketchikan Creek. It was located near what is now the PATH homeless shelter at 640 Park Avenue.
"It wasn't very long, however, until James relocated in the section of Ketchikan known as Newtown which is about eight blocks north of downtown," Braithwaite wrote, also noting that the new store building had likely been the Sparhawk store in Revilla and was "floated" down Tongass Narrows and put ashore in Newtown.
"James Young's business venture demonstrated a favorable profit." Braithwaite wrote. "This is evidenced by the various improvements which were made to the store building."
Young's large white store was soon one of the most prominent landmarks in Newtown. But Young would not live long enough to see the young community prosper.
James Young contracted typhoid fever, probably from vegetables bought in Seattle that had been fertilized with human waste. Adah wrote to her brother Lafe in Oregon and asked him to come north to help run the store so she could take James south for treatment.
Adah and her husband went south to Oakland, arriving in the summer of 1904, but James died there on September 16th. He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland next to Adah's brother and parents."
["Adah Sparhawk Young: Woman Pioneer", by Dave Kiffer, SitNews Stories in the News, May 31, 2006]
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