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The subject of this sketch was born in Eureka, Humboldt County, California, October 27, 1881. He received his education in the grammar and high schools; and attended business college until he decided to study medicine. He entered the Cooper Medical College, and after he graduated, immediately entered the City and County Hospital at San Francisco as house physician. He then removed to Eureka and became acting assistant surgeon and officer in command of the station. After two years he left for Alaska, practicing there for two years before locating in Pescadero, where he has been more than successful. Two years…

Dr. F. Holmes Smith is a comparatively young man, yet he has already passed through a most interesting career, one phase of which was a stirring trip up into the frozen north where he faithfully followed the call of medical duty in Alaska, upon the shores of the Behring Sea, as the company doctor for the North American Commercial Company. Upon his return to civilization he took up the less arduous duties of a practicing physician and surgeon at San Bruno in 1909. Dr. Smith was born at Lake City, Minnesota, on October 29, 1879, and received his college education…

No fiction story teems more with interest than the biography of Erik O. Lindblom, millionaire mine owner, capitalist and banker. From the time he left his home in Sweden at the tender age of seventeen until he uncovered untold riches in the frozen, gravel of Alaska, his life has been one of adventure with hardship and good fortune intermingling. Mr. Lindblom’s father was a wealthy and highly respected land owner and school master in Sweden. Misfortune dealt him a severe blow when by going bondsman for a relative, a large dam which he signed the bond for was washed out,…

Inclusion of names in this Alaska World War II Casualty List has been determined solely by the residence of next of kin at the time of notification of the last wartime casualty status. This listing does not necessarily represent the State of birth, legal residence, or official State credit according to service enlistment. Casualties listed represent only those on active duty in the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, resulting directly from enemy action or from operational activities against the enemy in war zones from December 7, 1941, to the end of the war. Casualties in the United States…

Department of Health and Social Services Bureau of Vital Statistics 5441 Commercial Blvd, Juneau, AK 99801 (907) 465-3391 Aleutians East Borough P.O. Box 349 Sand Point, AK 99501-0349 (907) 383-5334 Kodiak Island Borough 710 Mill Bay Road Kodiak, AK 99615 (907) 486-9300 Aleutians West Borough Adak, AK 99546 Lake And Peninsula Borough P.O. Box 495 King Salmon, AK 99613-0495 (907) 246-3421 City and Borough of Anchorage 632 West 6th Avenue, PO Box 196650 Anchorage, AK 99519-6650 (907) 343-4433 Matanuska-Susitna Borough 350 East Dahlia Avenue Palmer, AK 99645-6411 (907) 745-4801 Bethel Borough P.O. Box 1388 Bethel, AK 99559 (907) 543-2047 Nome…

Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, they are prime sources of genealogical information; but, unfortunately, official vital records are available only for relatively recent periods. These records, despite their recent creation in the United States, are critically important in genealogical research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, by Loretto Szucs and Sandra Luebking. Vital records are not available at Alaska Borough Courthouses, but at the state office. Department of Health and Social Services…