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Personal Information
Full Name:	Anderson, A.W.	Additional Name(s):	("s" missing/blank space, passenger list)
Date of Birth:	unknown	Date of Death:	unknown
Hometown:	unknown
Profession:	unknown	Company:	Scandinavian colony
Historic Records
1898 - 1899:	Plans to go with Holman to form Scandinavian Colony, Seattle P-I 1/7/98 apparently reprinted from Madison WI Democrat; Probably the same as: Passenger on the Rival departing Port Townsend, WA 3/6/98, Port Townsend Leader, 3/7/98; Signer of Petition to the President from Quartz Creek and Teikell Mining Dist, 5/8/1899 requesting Capt. Abercrombie be given "permission to employ [on the trail to interior Alaska] those men who need work, and thus enable them to remain in the country. With a good trail those who have means will be able to bring in machinery, and the development of the country will be accelerated." NARA RG 107, Entry 80. Office of the Secretary of the War Department: 1667-103;
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