Charles E. Davidson family collection, ca. 1896-1903

Collection

Identifier: MS 4-36-5

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Includes scans of paintings of Charles E. and Helen Beede Davidson by artist Ruby Khutchill, photoprints of Will and Sally Webb in Nome, Council City, Bluff and 4 letters from Charles E. Davidson to "Friend and Bro, " from Six Mile [Sixmile] Creek and Juneau, Alaska, 1896-1897. Also includes a Goetze and a Simmer photoprints. Includes log building housing Kinne Photographer in Nome and general merchandiser, Sanborn Marshall and Co.

Dates

1896-1903

Biographical / Historical

Charles Edward Davidson, surveyor, in California, Juneau (1905 survey), Nome, Fairbanks, appointed surveyor-general and ex-officio secretary of Alaska, 1913-1919, chairman Democratic Central Committee and Democratiic National Committee. Davidson married Mrs. Fred Peters nee Helen Beede in Cordova, March 24, 1912; they had three children. Davidson drowned at Taku Inlet when he slipped from deck of a small cruiser, August 8, 1919.

Sally Webb, wife of Will, is the sister of Helen Beede Davidson. The Webbs spent time in Nome and Council City, ca. 1903.