Historical records matching Anna H. Hansen (McGlashan)
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About Anna H. Hansen (McGlashan)
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The Lekanoff, Galaktionoff, and Shapsnikoff families of Makushin trace their families to men who moved into Makushin in the second half of the 19th century. According to Nicholai Lekanoff, his father, Simeon Nikolaiovich Lekanoff, was born at Unalaska where he attended the school operated by the Orthodox church. The 1878 census for Iliuliuk includes Nikolai Lekanoff (written as Lezanove) with his wife, three sons, and a daughter. According to Nick, Simeon Lekanoff moved to Makushin while his brother settled on St. George Island. Stepan “Lehanof” was fourteen when he arrived on St. George in 1884 as a “servant” in the family of Rev. Innokentii Lestnikoff. Several early St. George census reports place his birth at St. Michaels. According to family tradition, he entered the Lestnikoff family following the death of his mother when her clothes caught fire at the stove.4 Father Lestnikoff, born on Attu and educated in Sitka, served the church at Unalaska from 1873 until he moved to St. George as a priest in 1882. It is certainly possible that both Stepan and Simeon Lekanoff had been students at the school founded by Veniaminov and consolidated by Bishop Nestor in the early 1880s. Permanent residence on the Pribilof Islands was restricted to those present around the time of the Alaska purchase, but in 1889 Stepan was “adopted” by Father Lestenkoff and the following year he had married and established his family as an integral part of the St. George community.5 The date of Simeon’s arrival at Makushin has not been established but it may have been around the same time that Stepan went to St. George. Simeon may have followed his older brother, Andrei, who had married Evdokia, a woman from Makushin. Andrei signed the 1886 sea otter petition. In any event, by 1897 there were three Lekanoff men with families at Makushin, all reportedly born at Unalaska. Andrei was 38, Nikolai was 26, and Simeon was 24. Simeon was married to Julita (Oleta) Pankoff. By 1900 Andrei had died, leaving his widow and three children. Nicholai, with his wife and daughter, was still at Makushin but he eventually moved to Unalaska where he perished in the 1919 pandemic. Simeon survived longest and became the head of a large extended family. He was known as a fine singer, served as starosta for the chapel, and by 1900 he and his wife Julita had two daughters, aged one and two. These children appear to have died young because they are not listed in the 1910 census where two sons and a one-year-old daughter are found. The eldest son was Constantine who himself became the patriarch of an extended family at Unalaska. The daughter was Parascovia, destined to become Nick Galaktionoff’s mother.
Arseni and Tikhon Galaktionoff were from Atka. They were descendents of Ivan Konstantinovich Galaktionov who was born in 1803, educated at Kodiak and New Archangel, and served as a physician and school teacher at Atka, beginning in the 1830s. He retired in 1847 after 26 years service with the Russian-American Company. At Atka, he and his wife Natalia had a large family. By 1878 Arseni and his mother were living at Unalaska with his younger sister Marina, and three younger brothers: Antipater, Lazar, and Aleksander. There was also an Anna Galaktionoff, 18, and her younger brother Basil living there. Arseni Galaktionoff was an active sea otter hunter in 1886. He signed the 1886 petition and is included among hunters from Makushin for the 1886-1887 winter season. In 1897 he and his wife, Lubova (from Morshovoi), had three children.
Tikhon Avramovich Galaktionoff was also living at Makushin. He was married to Marva Grigorievna Petukoff whose paternal grandfather was Gregory Petukoff, the Russian-American Company employee stationed at Makushin, while her grandmother was Marva Kostromitin. Tikhon and Marva had several children including Evdokia, Gabriel, Akenfa, and Agafia, before Tikhon died in June 1902. Akenfa would become the father of Nick Galaktionoff, among others, and it is significant that Nick credited his grandmother, a woman with deep generational ties to Makushin, for the oral traditions he shepherded into the 21st century. After her husband died, Marva married Ioann S. Borenin and in 1905 they had a son whom, with little originality, they named John.6
The short tragic life of Gabriel Galaktionoff, Tikhon and Marva’s eldest son, suggests the unraveling that was happening within Unanga{ communities as one era transitioned to another. There were insoluble problems. In 1898, when he was about ten years old and a year after he had been recorded living at Makushin, he was discovered living in an abandoned dory on the beach at Unalaska.7 The U.S. deputy marshal took him to the Jesse Lee Home where he was admitted on August 6. Details are lacking, but in late November 1906 Dr. A.W. Newhall, then the director of the Home and a man of expansive good will, filed a complaint against Gabriel for unknown reasons. He was taken to Seward where he appeared before U.S. commissioner L.S. Howlett on January 7, Orthodox Christmas. He was declared insane and transported to the Mt. Ivy [Mt. Tabor] Insane Asylum in Oregon where he died.
In 1910 the chief of Makushin was Elia Michael Shapsnikoff, yet another person with deep ties to Iliuliuk where in 1878 there were at least nine Shapsnikoff households. The 1886 petition contains numerous men with variants of the Shapsnikoff surname. By 1897 Elia and his wife, Subove, were at Makushin, her home village, where they had a son and two daughters. Three years later, he was married to eighteen year-old Fedosia and the only child in the home was eightyear old Daniel. By 1910 their family had grown to include two daughters and a son.
4 Anne S. McGlashan, interview with the author, April 30, 1986. She described him as “a big, tall man with bright red hair and beard and blue eyes.”
5 The fear of deportation from the Pribilof Islands was so great that even in 1986, concerned about his descendents, Anne McGlashan cautioned me about revealing his origins.
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Anna H. Hansen (McGlashan)'s Timeline
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July 25, 1906
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Aleutian Islands, Unalaska, Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States
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July 31, 1906
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1924
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August 10, 1925
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Naknek, Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska, United States
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1927
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| 1928 |
December 1, 1928
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Koggiung, Bristol Bay, Alaska, United States
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| 1932 |
June 25, 1932
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Naknek, Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska, United States
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| 1940 |
November 12, 1940
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Naknek, Bristol Bay, Alaska, United States
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