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Since surnames are typically linked with marriages, the following observations of courtship and marriage made by journalist George Wardman during 1879 may be of some benefit to the reader. The text is transcribed from Mr. Wardman's A Trip To Alaska (1884, 213-220). Following his Alaskan adventure, Mr. Wardman became Assistant Treasury Agent at St. George Island during the years of 1881-1885.
ALEUT COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE
BY GEORGE WARDMAN
On the 30th of July the steamer "St. Paul" sailed out of the fog surrounding the island which bears the same name as herself, having on board a cargo valued at more than a million dollars, for San Francisco. In addition to the seal-skins, she had in her hold last winter's take of land furs for the Alaska Commercial Company from the Yukon district. The latter. along with a hundred barrels of seal meat and a large quantity of oil, were discharged at Onalaska, where we arrived on the 1st of August, having been fog-bound outside for lialf a day. Every year the company brings down a large amount of seal meat, which is distributed gratuitously among thie Onalaska people, along with seal oil, which is almost indispensable among thiese people for food. The oil is a real luxury, and is used liberally, when available, to soften their dried fish. When the large casks, containing two hundred and fifty gallons of oil each, were rolled up the wharf here, to be pumped into barrels for distribution, the tricklings from the pump were scooped up on Aleut fingers and sipped into Aleut mouths, as the gamins on wharves in the East suck the syrup that leaks from barrels of saccharine sweets. But seal meat and oil were not the only important shipments by the steamer "St. Paul" from the seal islands to Onalaska. There came down twenty Onalaska men who had been taken up last spring as laborers, and as Onalaska Aleuts are not so richi as those of the seal islands, their return with their earnings made quite an important event for the community. Yet this was not all that contributed to the importance of the occasion. The steamer brought down four young men from St. George's, and five from St. Paul's, looking for wives. It should be known that the fur-seal islanders are the crème de la crème of Aleut society. They earn more money and live better than any other Aleuts, and naturally they become fascinating fellows as soon as they land among the maidens of Onalaska.
Of course there are young women who desire to marry ou the fur-seal islands, but the church will not permit marriages within the degree of third-cousin consanguinity, and, what makes the matter more oppressive, a relationship equally annoying is manufactured at the baptismal font. An Aleut may not marry the son or daughter, nor niece, nor nephew, uor any relation within the seventy degree of his or her godfather or godmother. This is the solemn truth, and although people ouglit to be glad to have relations, when they are richi, there is such a thing as having too many when they are poor. There is now on St. George's a marriageable young woman, unexceptional from an Aleut point of view, who is so related by ties of consanguinity with what we would call remote cousins, and so bewilderingly connected by baptism with godfathers and godmotliers and their relations, that she cannot marry upon the island, although there are plenty of young men
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there who need wives, and who would like to have her. She got her temper up about it, and said she would never marry off the island, which is a noble sort of self-sacrifice highly worthy of admiration. When the seal islanders come down to Onalaska they lay siege to all the marriageable women in the settlement, and marriages begin at once. Those who cannot get wives here-and some such cases are reported-ask the Company to furnish then free transportation "out West" to Atka, three hundred miles away. At the same time there is a surplus of female population on the fur-seal islands who won't marry anybody but a fur-sealer, because they have been brought up in an aristocratic way in frame cottages, and provided with wardrobes which enable them to change dresses seven times a day. Such are the advantages and disadvantages of female education among the fur-sealers.
There is not much of the spooney business in Aleut courtship. The steamer landed the wife- hunting seal-skinners on Friday. On Saturday one of them was asked, "Are you married yet?" "Not yet, but I shall be tomorrow." "Who are you going to marry?" "I don't know yet."
On Sunday, two days after the arrival of the wife hunters, three of them were married, two couples at one time and one at another. The three couples would have been executed together but there were only four crowns among the church properties. Crowns and candles are indispensable at these weddings. When marrying a couple, the priest appears in full vestments, with the tall, slightly tapering coffee-pot-shaped velvet hat; and a choir of male voices chant nasal responses to the long service read by his reverence. The couples to be married are stood up in a row, the first step being to place a lighted candle, decorated with a crimson bow, in each hand. Then the reading commences, and continues till the priest shows signs of fatigue, when the attendant brings out blessed rings on a blessed tray, and each one puts on his or her ring, taken at random from the tray, man and woman being treated alike in this respect. After the rings there is more reading, with responses from the nasal choir; and when the priest becomes exhausted again the blessed crowns are brought out. On this occasion there were four crowns,-two which were old and lusterless, and two which were not only new, but brilliant with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds, or what looked like them, and answered every purpose just as well. There stood the two couples, like the kings and queens of a chessboard, with crowns upon heads which did not fit them.
Of the two couples in this case one bride of a Russian appearance, was dressed in a light silk with a purple stripe; she had a blue bow at her throat, and a pink sash around her waist. Her hair had been braided damp over night, and hung in waves down her shoulders. Her eyes were downcast constantly during the ceremony, and her nose, long and straight, pointed sharply toward the floor in an ominous manner. She wore a cynical sort of smile, like that of an experienced circuit preacher when he knows that the other brother is getting nothing the better of him in the pending horse- trade. The crown which the groom of this couple wore was much too small for liim, being a great, large-headed fellow with a thick neck, high cheek bones, and a twenty-pound fist, so that when he should have bowed he dared not, knowing that if he attempted it his crown would tumble to the floor. On the other hand the bride's crown was altogether too large for her, and, wearing her abundant hair down her back on that day only gave the crown a greater chance to settle. If she had worn it in a coil on the back of her head, or in a braid clubbed up behind, or in a pad on top `a la pompadour, or en chignon, or Watteau, or in any of the thousand and one styles known to modern capillary engineering, the crown might have been stayed in some sort of a genteel position. But it settled down too far at first and every time she bowed in response to the words read by the priest, and every time she nodded in reply to the questions, if she would obey, &c., with the hardly-ever smile upon her resigned face, the crown sunk lower and lower till it got down over her ears; and
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when the priest led the couple, hand in hand, three times around the little stand that served as an alter [sic] on this occasion, she looked like the most abandoned creature in the world, and as if she did not care who knew it. Of course the effect was all due to the crown coming down over her ears and to the Mephistophelean smile upon her countenance, which deepened as the crown descended, but it was enough to scare all thought of marrying in Onalaska out of the head of any reflecting man.
The other bride was a Japanese-looking Aleut, black hair, narrow, slanting eyes, and in person short and stout. She wore a gingham dress, and was not only very plain, but evidently not a person of high standing in society, in consequence of which she attracted little attention, but she was married as much as any of them. The third couple were joined similarly soon after, and next day the three seal-skinners paid five dollars each for the candles which had lighted them into the promising state of matrimony.
About the nicest-looking lot of Aleut women we saw on this cruise in Alaska were at Kyska for the summer, belonging, when at home, in Atka, and being at the time away with the otter hunters; and if the St. Paul and St. George fellows, could get among them, no doubt they would marry and return home with wives that would breed the most delightful jealousies and discords among the matrons of the fur-seal islands, who are very proud, considering themselves the élite of Alaska society, but who are not all so good-looking as those of Atka; and that fact would place them at a decided disadvantage in the men's opinion, for a great many of these fellows appear to be sufficiently civilized to prefer beauty to brains in a wife.
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AN OVERVIEW OF ST. GEORGE ISLAND INHABITANTS, 1870 TO 1913
· Census Data for the Overview came from seveal sources, including: the 1877-1880 census records for St. George Island found on pages 284-417 of the St. Paul Island Agent's Log for the years 1896-1900; and, the St. George Island Agent's Log for the period 1870-1877.5 For the complete census records see the Census Schedule Section within Vol. II.
· The House number given in paraenthesis identifies the occupant family in the 1877 census. The individual name in brackets identifies the head of household of the occupant family residing in the house during the July 17, 1913, census taken by Henry W. Elliott and Andrew F. Gallagher.6
[Census Legend: m. = married; d. = died; g. = grand]
House Number & Family Residing Within
Age
Birth Date
Place of Birth
(1) Galanin, Borese
48
1829
Ounalaska
Okalina, wife
46
1831
Ounalaska
Corneil, son
17
1860
St. George
Parfiri, son
7
Nov. 20, 1873
St. George
daughter,
5
(d. Nov. 24, 1870
son,
(d. Jan. 13, 1872)
Samson
6
(d. July 6, 1873)
[Lestenkoff, Demetri]
(2) Gorakoff, Corneil
18
1857 (m. May 24, 1875) St. George
Catherine,(Galanin) wife
20
1859 (daughter of Boris Galanin) St. George (d. at birth Feb. 15, 1877)
Simeon, son,
[unoccupied, but in good condition]
(3) Kulikuloff, Evan
29
1848 (m. July 30, 1872)7 St. George
Netasia, (Arkunsky) wife 42
1835 (d. Jan 3, 1879)
St. George
Nicholi, son
16
1861 (d. July 12, 1878)
[Philomonoff, Andronic]
(4) Merculoff, Kipsian
50
1829 St. George, m. at Ounalaska
Oclina, wife
26
1851
St. George
Evan, son
16
1861
St. George
[Galanin, John]
(5) Merculoff, Sovestian
43
1834
St. George
Waselesia, wife
26
1851
St. George
Anestasia, daughter
5
1872
St. George
Euria, son
6
Jan. 25,1872
St. George
Evan, son
1
Jan. 31,1876
St. George
Alexandra, daughter
inf
April 22, 1878
St. George
Jacob
March 1874
St. George
Nicholi
May 19, 1880
· St. George
[Merculioff, Nicoli]
(6) Merculoff, Loveranty
22
1852 (m. May 25, 1874)
Ferona, wife
24
1853
St. George
Eyon, son
6
1871
St. George
Stephenada, daughter
1
Nov. 18, 1876
St. George
Eyore, George
inf
April 9, 1878 (d. June 9, 1879)
St. George
Sophia, daughter
Nov. 28, 1879
St. George
[Lekanoff, Stepan]
5 The St. George and St. Paul Is. Agents' Logs (Pribilof Islands' Logbooks, 1870-1961, RG 22, USFWS) are located at NARA- Pacific Alaska Region, Anchorage, AK.
6 Elliott and Gallagher. 1913. A Report on the Conditions, pp. 92-93.
7 Father Nicholi of San Francisco, married nine couples on St. George, July 30, 1872 as noted on the respective census outline; and Agent's Official Journal, St. George Island, AK (Oct. 1870-Oct. 1886), NARA-Pacific Alaska Region, Anchorage, AK., p.10.
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House Number & Family Residing Within
Age Birth Date
Place of Birth
(7) Nederazoff, Arkenty
27
1850 (m. July 30, 1872)
Ounalaska
Eugenia, (Molansky)wife
23
1854
St. George
Malinia, daughter
4
1873
St. George
Nickoli,son
inf
Dec. 18, 1877
St. George
[Philomonoff, Demetri]
(8) Oustegoff, Nicholi
62
1815 (d.Aug. 18, 1879)
St. George
Theoleta, wife
60
1817
St. Paul
Persosania, daughter
14
1863
St. George
Alexandra, g. daughter
4
1868
St. George
(9) Oustegoff, Yakan
35
1842
St. George
Anna, wife
43
1834
(d. Aug. 21, 1878, eating poison fish)
Eulata, 2nd wife
18
1862 (m. 1880 at Ounalaska)
Ounalaska
Simeon, son
13
1864
St. George
Dora, daughter
5
1870 (d. Nov. 8, 1877)
St. George
Agrafena, daughter
4
Feb. 20, 1872
St. George
[Lekanoff, Anatoli]
(10) Popoff, Martin
28
1854 (m. July 30, 1872)
Oclina, (Arkindky) wife
26
1851
Evrosinia
4
Jan. 31, 1872
daughter
March 13, 1873
Laresa, daughter
March 26, 1876 (d. Dec. 25, 1876, suffocation)
[Galanin, Alexander]
(11) Philamonoff, Eoff
33
1844
St. George
Alexandra, wife
(d. Sept. 24, 1876, consumption)
2nd wife Maria Letenchoff
1860 (m.1880 Ounalaska)
Ounalaska
Andronic, son
12
1865
St. George
George, son
5
Sept. 15, 1872
St. George
Efama, daughter
3
1874
St. George
daughter
6
(d. May 28, 1874 after clothes caught fire) Feb. 25, 1880
[Zacharoff, Emanuel]
(12) Philimonoff, Evan
34
1838
St. George
Maria, wife
28
1844
St. Paul Island
Alexandra, daughter
6
1871
St. George Sitka
son,
2
(d. Nov. 15, 1870)
St. George
(1st wife Feyona
25
(d. April 13, 1874)
St. George
[Shane, Mike]
(13) Rezanzoff, Peter
33
1844
Matrona, wife
38
1838
St. George Sitka
Paul, son
inf
July 9, 1877
St. George
[Prokopiof, Peter]
(14) Rezanzoff, Andronic
38
1840
St. George
Thedosia, wife
46
1831
St. George
Lazar, son
12
1865
St. George
Theodosia, daughter
6
1871
St. George
Agraphema, adopt daughter
11
1870
St. George
Innokenty, son
inf
March 6,1877
St. George
Enokenty
Nov. 18, 1873 (d. Aug. 24, 1876)
St. George
[Philimonof, Simeon]
Constantine, son
St. George
Stephen, step-son
7
1870
10
House Number & Family Residing Within
Age
Birth Date
Place of Birth
15) Shane, Foka
39
1838
St. George
Parisonia, daughter
16
1861
St. George
Klata, daughter
11
1866
St. George
Viola, daughter
7
1870
St. George
Katherine 2nd wife
1860
Ounalaska
married Ounalaska 1878
Mary, daughter
June 23, 1879
St. George
[Swetzof, Paul]
(16) Swetzoff, Oustin 28
1849 (m. July 30, 1872)
St. George
Oxamia,(Colichief) wife 26
1851
St. George
Son
Nov. 13, 1872
Agraphenia, daughter
inf
July 9,1877
St. George
died Jan 20, 1879
(Evan died 19 months, April 12, 1876) Alexandra
May 5, 1879
St. George
[Malavansky, Wassa and Ripsimian both widows]
(17) Vickoloff, Nickover 52
1825
St. George
Yoreme, son
18
1859
St. George
Euadina Kolstnoff 2nd wife
1834 Ounalaska, (m.1880 Ounalaska)
[Lestemkof, Mike]
(18) Nickoloff, Platnie
28
1849
St. George
Kickolea,(Ursticoff) wife
26
1851 (m. July 30, 1872)
St. George
Agsaphame, daughter
2
1875
St. George
(son
Samuel
Aug. 26, 1878
St. George
[Malavansky, Nicoli]
(19) Vickoloff, Samuel 24
1853
St. George
Nastasia, wife
18
1859
St. George
Esena, daughter
1
Dec. 13,1876
St. George
Maria, daughter
Feb. 1, 1879 (d. Nov. 1, 1879)
St. George
[Nederazof, Isidor]
Widows and Orphans
(20) Cheleboff, Feona 46 1831(removed to St. Paul Island, July 29, 1877) (Peter, husband, age 35,died Dec 15, 1876, Peritoritis) "He was a good independent man, one of the most daring and energetic hunters on the Island." Capt. George Marston, agent St. George Island since Oct 1, 1876.
Maria, daughter 16
1861
Wasilesia, daughter 10
1869
Julia, daughter 6
14
1863
Feyocla
ca. 1875 (d. June 3, 1876) July 4, 1876
[Merculioff, Alexander, and Swetzof, Zoya]
(21) Galanin, Wasilisa (Swetsoff) 34
1843 (m. July 30, 1872) St. George
(Alexa, husband, d. May 14, 1877) Andrafatc, son 15
1862
[Merculioff, John]
(22) Kolochief, Agahia 61
Egor, Agapia, wife of Egor, Samson Kolochief
(d. Feb. 14, 1877, old age) (d. Feb. 15, 1877, old age) (d. Dec. 11, 1872)
[Merculioff, Joseph]
1871
Andra, son
daughter
11
House Number & Family Residing Within
Age
Birth Date
Place of Birth
(23) Malavansky, Maria
44
1833
St. George
Repsemia, daughter
19
1858
St. George
Wasilisa, daughter
3
Aug. 14, 1874
St. George
Nicholi, son
13
1864
St. George
Lodesna, son
7
Nov. 10, 1870
St. George
Jacob, nephew
14
1863
Waseiti, nephew
13
1864
[Merculioff, George]
(24) Merculieff, Olimpia 48
1829
1860
St. George
[Company Employees residence] noted in 1900 Federal Census
(25) Noderezoff, Katherine
1818
St. George
(26) Rezanzoff, Natallia 42
1835
St. George
Olga, daughter 16
1861
St. George
Sarapheme, daughter
14
1863 (d. July 29, 1879)
St. George
(Neifeit Rezanzoff died Dec. 6, 1872,St. George Is., AK)
[Governement Employees residence] noted in 1900 Federal Census
(27) Rezanzoff, Anna
46
1831
(28) Popoff, Anna
49
(moved to St. Paul Is., Aug. 1878)
Avdvtia, daughter 21
Matfay, son
14
(old Man Popoff died 81 years)
(29) Shane, Risea (Marculif) 28
(Evan, husband,
1849 (married July 30, 1872) St. George (d. Oct. 12, 1876, consumption) July 18, 1876
Andrapate, son,
(d. Nov. 4, 1876, congestion of lungs)
Ulatia, daughter
9
1868 St. George
George
(d. at 16 months Aug. 23, 1875)
(30) Swetzoff, Parisevia 62
1815
Ounalaska
Polexana, daughter 18
1854
St. George
Joseph, g. son 6
March 17,1872
Frevona, g. daughter inf
1877
St. George
Additional Noted records:
1872
Meyer, daughter of Joseph Meyer, born May 7, 1872
Bogadovoff, son of Charity Bogadonoff born July 18, 1872
1873
Wickloff, Nickonore
wife
son
(d. Oct. 31, 1873) Oct. 30, 1873 (d. July 28, 1873; 81 years old)
Maria Wickloff
Philimonoff, Semion
son
Nov. 16, 1873
St. George Natalia, daughter 17
[Government Employees residence] noted in 1900 Federal Census
1874 McIntyre, Agent William J. daughter Aug. 11, 1874
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2. St. George Island 1920. U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Photograph Collection, ca. 1907 to ca. 1921. NARA-Pacific Alaska Region (Anchorage), USBF 2.38.
GENEALOGY OF ST. GEORGE ISLAND DURING THE 1920s®
Galanin, Alexander: fur-skinner, b. Sept. 1885 Mary, wife Moses, son, b. March 7, 1914 Lawrence, son, b. Aug. 23, 1918 Ferman, son, b. June 8, 1920 Akalina, daughter, b. April 28, 1922, (d. June 23, 1923)
Galanin, John: fur-skinner Anna, wife
Gavriel, son Raphiel, son Martin, son, b. April 12, 1919 Galanon, son, b. Jan. 12, 1917 Vassa, daughter, b. Aug. 30, 1922, (d. Sept. 15, 1922)
*Kashevarof, Peter: priest, b. March 1857 Anna, wife, b. Jan. 1865, (d. June 29, 1920, island mid-wife) Peter Jr., son, b. July 1885 Vladimir, son, b. July 1887
Kashevarof, Walter: fur-skinner, waiter in government dining room Helena, wife Andrew: left for Unalaska April 28, 1925 to work for Alaska Commercial Co. Nina, daughter. Laurence: sealer b. July 28, 1910, (d. Jan 31, 1970) Valentine: sealer b. Sept. 5, 1912, (d. Aug. 1986 Seattle, WA) Peter, son, (d. March 20, 1919, age 5)
8 Information from the Federal Census of the United States, 1920-1929; Agent Log, St. George Island, AK. 1920-1929 (Pribilof Islands' Logbooks, 1870-1961; Kirtland and David Coffin, Jr., The Relocation; NARA, Pacific Alaska Region, Anchorage, AK, Pribilof Islands Program Records 1923-1969, Box 52 of 61; and, U.S. Social Security Death Index. *A photograph of this individual follows the 1920's genealogy. Agent Edward Clyde Johnston took portraits at St. George Island during December 1922. Johnston typed vital data on file cards, which accompanied each image. File card reproductions are in the Census Schedules section under 1922. The 5x7 inch glass plate negatives (Seed Dry Plates) are held by NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory Library in Seattle, WA.
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Lekanof, Anatoly: fur-skinner, b. April 14, 1890 *Agnes, wife * Alexandra, daughter.
*Laurence, son
Antonina, daughter, (d. Jan. 21, 1922, age 4) Stepan A., son, b. Oct. 15, 1920, (d. Feb. 15, 1993, St. Paul Is.)
*Ermogen, son, b. Dec. 23, 1922 Pavla, daughter., b. Aug. 23, 1924 Flors, son, b. Aug. 8, 1926 Erena, daughter., b. May 16, 1928 Anatoly, son, b. Sept. 21, 1930
*Lekanof, George, b. April 20, 1897, (d. May 1968, St. Paul Is.) Sealer, attended school in Oregon
Etena Tetoff, wife, from St. Paul, m. Nov. 25, 1925
Lekanof, Serge: fur-skinner, b. Oct. 6, 1891, (d. Nov. 21, 1969, Anchorage, AK) *Sophia, wife, b. Sept. 29, 1901, m. Nov. 24, 1918 Stefanida, daughter, b. Nov. 17, 1919 *Lucy, daughter, b. May 25, 1921 Mina, daughter, b. Dec. 31, 1923 Peter, son, b. March 13, 1925
Barbara, daughter, b. Dec. 27, 1927 Marianna, daughter, b. Jan. 12, 1929
*Lekanof, Stephen: 1st Chief native foreman, baidarka maker, sang in church choir, Carved ivory picture frames, made baidarka models, Native doctor b. Nov. 1869, m. 1888, had 3 boys and 2 girls, (d. 1941) *Pelagia, (Stepetin) wife, b. Oct. 1869, and midwife on island (d. 19439)
*Lestenkof, Demetri: fur-skinner, shopkeeper 1919-1928, b. May 1862, (d. April 27, 1928) Alexandra, wife b. May 1879 *Constantine, son , attended school at Chemewa, OR
*Elizabeth, daughter Innokenty, son b. Aug. 5, 1909 Theodore, son, b. June 6, 1912 Michael, son, b. Oct. 13, 1913
Ludmilla, daughter Alvin, son, (d. Sept. 27, 1920, 3 years old)
Lestenkof, Michael: fur-skinner, b. Oct. 1872 Juleta, wife, b. July 1869 Innoknty, son, b. Sept. 1896 Anna, daughter, b. Sept. 1898
Katherine C., adopted daughter Shabolin, Julia, 3rd cousin
Malavansky, Nicholi: fur-skinner, (d. Dec. 27, 1927) Alexandra, wife Daniel, son, b. Dec. 27, 1924 Matrona, daughter, b. April 9, 1928
Malavansky, Vassa: retired, (d. June 7, 1923) *Christopher, son, b. June 8, 1904
Elizabeth Merculief, wife, m. Nov. 1, 1925 Elekonida, daughter Victor, son, b. June 28, 1928 Julia, daughter, b. March 12, 1912
Merculief, Alexandra: laundress at the government house, (d. Feb. 22, 1929, age 51)
Merculief, George: fur-skinner, b. Nov. 1873 Stefanida, wife, b. Dec. 1878, (d. Sept. 25, 1924) Peter, son, b. July 1899, (d. Feb. 13, 1923) *George Jr, son. Elizabeth Lestenkof, wife, m. Sept. 30, 1928 Peter, son Nicolai, son, b. Nov. 26, 1905 Alexandra, daughter, b. April 3, 1907
9 Unalaska City School District. 1986. People of the Aleutian Islands, pp. 272-273.
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*Daniel, son, b. March 17, 1912, (d. March 16, 2001), sealer, Cpl. U. S. Army WWII Tatiana, daughter Erena, daughter *Martha, sister: janitress, government house
Merculief, John: fur-skinner *Sarah, wife *Mouza, daughter, b. March 23, 1914 *Isaiah, son Anna, daughter, b. Dec. 2, 1919 Alexay, son, b. Aug. 4, 1924 Mary, daughter, b. Jan. 25, 1926 Fevronia, daughter, b. April 1, 1928 John, Jr., son
Merculief, Joseph: fur-skinner, junior foreman 1902-1922, b. March 1872
Katherine "Polyana," wife
Polyeania, daughter
Joseph Jr., son, (d. Oct. 24, 1920, age 5)
William, son, b. Jan. 4, 1917 Parascovia, daughter Andrine, son, b. Sept. 2, 1920
Anna, daughter, b. Oct. 20, 1921, (d. Jan. 24, 1925)
Serafinia, daughter
Tarenty, son, b. April 1, 1926 Vasilic, son, b. Jan. 4, 1917
Merculief, Nicolai: fur-skinner, Aleut interpreter to agent, assistant to storekeeper. Noted in agent log as most expert skinner on Island, Oct. 20, 1920. Fevronia Galadin, wife, m. April 29, 1917, government house maid Lauerence, son, schooled in Chemewa, OR 1919
*Benjamin, son *Elizabeth, daughter
Nicolai, Jr., son, b. Aug. 22, 1909, (d. Jan. 1968) Angelina, daughter
Merculief, Stephen: fur-skinner, b. Sept. 20[7], 1890
Agrippina, wife *Natalia, daughter *Nadesia, daughter Adrian, son *Nicolai S., son, b. May 21, 1921
Mary, daughter, b. March 24, 1923
Innokenty, son, b. Feb. 7, 1920, (d. Sept. 17, 1920) Andrew, son, b. April 10, 1928
Nederazof, Isidor: fur-skinner, b. Feb. 1891 Alexandra, wife Clement, son, (d. Dec. 18, 1918)
Nozekof, Paul: fur-skinner, b. July 11, 1896 (d. Oct. 1979) St. Paul Is. Anna, wife Alexandra, daughter, b. May 6, 1919 Mary, daughter, b. Feb. 7, 1921 Gregory, son Vassa, daughter, b. Sept. 3, 1926 Glaphira, daughter, b. April 13, 1922, (d. Sept. 18, 1925)
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3. Art work in walrus ivory and seal teeth; crochet hook made by Isidor Nederazof in the 1920s. Tooth trinkets, sea-lion, St. George Island; collar buttons, walrus ivory; walrus figurine by Neon Tetoff, St. Paul Island; cloth holder (sewing aid) and excavated at North East Point midden, St. Paul Island. Ca. 1925 by Edward C. Johnston, Agent. National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Seattle, WA.
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Philamonof, Andronik: fur-skinner, b. Oct. 1866., (d. April 24, 1926)
Zenovia, wife, b.Oct. 1866
Eoff, son: fur-skinner, b. June 8, 1902 (d. Nov. 1976, St. Paul Is.) m. Martha Merculief, Oct. 3, 1926, (Martha d. Oct. 21, 1927) Helena G. adopted daughter
Philemonof, Leonty: fur-skinner, b. May 1894 Xonia, wife
Philemonof, Simeon: retired, b. 1850, (d. July 2, 1920, age 69), he was the last of the Natives who had recollection of the Russian-American Company regime.
Zoya, b. May 1892, daughter: laundress, government house, she m. Emanuel Zacharof Nov. 24, 1920 *Ignaty, son: fur-skinner, b. Dec. 1899 m. Fevronia Prokopiof Sept. 14, 1924, (Fevronia d. June 20, 1925) *Helena, daughter, m. Leonty Merculief at St. Paul Is.
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