2012 Pioneering Families Magazine

The Ferndale Record Proudly Presents the 2nd Annual

A supplement of the Ferndale Record July 2012

The Ferndale Record is proud to welcome you to the 2nd annual Pioneering Families Magazine. Highlighting some of the families that helped to shape this amazing place we call home, Whatcom County.

These Pioneering families live in your city- Bellingham, Ferndale, Everson, Lynden, Sumas, Birch Bay and Custer.

There were hardships and struggles mixed with great joy and many successes, it’s hard to imagine how they accomplished so much with what we today would consider so little. Take this chance to learn more about some of your neighbors and friends; we hope you enjoy this tribute to these remarkable men and women.

Publisher Ferndale Record

Contributing Writers Mark Reimers Marnie Jones Brent Lindquist

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Front Cover & Graphics Leah Hathaway Rachael Libbey

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EVERSON — Roderic Perry has deep roots in Whatcom County, but at his June 30 presentation at the Everson McBeath Community Library, titled “The History of Clearbrook,” he kicked off the proceedings by going back much farther. About 13,000 years, to be exact.

Back then, Perry said, an enormous glacier slid through the area that would become Whatcom County, blocking the Nooksack River. The river then formed a channel into the Fraser River after the glacier passed.

About 800 years ago, the Nooksack reverted to its previous path towards Birch Bay. Those geological movements laid the groundwork for what would become the area now known as Whatcom County, and on a smaller scale, the town of Clearbrook.

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Perry was introduced at his presentation as the “King of Clearbrook,” denoting his authoritative knowledge on the subject.

“I wouldn’t say that, but my grandfather was one of the first homesteaders of Clearbrook,” Perry said, “and he came in 1876.”

Prior to that, the settlement of the area resulted from the California Gold Rush, which kicked off in 1848 and 1849, when James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, Calif. About 300,000 people traveled west to find their fortunes, and the area that would become Whatcom County and Clearbrook was no exception.

Much of the land in the western United States had already been shaped

by Thomas Jefferson’s system of townships and ranges, conceived in the Land Ordinance of 1785 as a means

to survey public lands.

Divided into principal meridians and baselines, the system’s effects can still be seen today. All lands north of the Ohio and West of the Mississippi rivers were surveyed using this system.

Whatcom County’s Guide Meridian Road runs parallel to the Willamette Meridian, which is exactly 12 miles west. The vast majority of Whatcom County is east of the Willamette Meridian.

Within boundaries created by Jefferson’s system were numerous townships bearing names that should be very familiar to county residents: Custer, Ferndale, Deming, Lynden, Maple Falls, Nooksack and more.

Perry’s website is a treasure trove of information pertaining to the area.

Every slide and video he showed at the presentation is available through ro-

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dricperry.com. In the presentation, he showed a variety of period maps, each focused on different subjects. One was an artists conception of the “New El Dorado,” providing an overarching view of the goldfields near Vancouver Island and around British Columbia.

Another map, courtesy of Denny DeMeyer’s Northwest Surveying & GPS, showed the 1857 boundary survey along the border of Whatcom County. One map denoted various types of wildlife that lived in and around the county. The map indicates that elk and caribou used to roam the area’s prairies.

Clearbrook One of these prairies marks the site where Perry’s family history began in 1876. Prior to that, a man named Ed Barnes settled there in 1870. The prairie, a natural stretch of very tall ferns, was used as grazing ground for the pigs that Barnes had brought west with him. He turned them loose on the prairie, and they began to multiply.

“The pigs soon discovered the juicy fern roots,” Perry’s slide reads, “and at the same time, probably sensing Barnes’ plans for bacon, heeded the ‘call of the wild’ and refused further association with their owner. In the course of several years, the hogs became so numerous that they became a menace to the settlers’ crops. So, to protect themselves from the marauding porkers, they joined together and hunted them down as wild game, as some of the hogs had immense tusks and were old and very fierce.”

Thus, Barnes’ Prairie was renamed “Hog Prairie.” When Barnes sold off his land and departed on a trading voyage, William B. Perry came in 1876. Settler John Fuller renamed the area “Clearbrook” after a small brook that flowed through his property, a decidedly prettier name than “Hog Prairie.”

In July 1871, British Columbia became the sixth province to join Canada. In return, Canada agreed to

absorb the province’s already-accrued debt, and to build a railroad from Montreal to the Pacific coast within 10 years. The Yale Tunnel near the Fraser River was part of this massive project — and William Perry’s reason for traveling to the area.

Barnes, William A. Perry (Roderic Perry’s grandfather) and his father, William B. Perry were a portion of the beginning of an influx of settlers to the Clearbrook area. William B. Perry homesteaded in the Clearbrook area while William A. Perry traveled to Seattle to work as a firefighter. He later came back north to homestead in

the area.

In 1884, the Clearbrook School District was founded. George Goodwin made a name for himself building log homes in the area. He was responsible for the construction of the Perry homestead.

The darker side Another, less wholesome side of the American West was also shown in 1884.

On February 24, 1884, an American mob crosses the Canadian border and lynched a 14-year-old Native Continued on pg 4

Above: The first school of the Clearbrook District No. 13, built in 1884. Only six persons are definitely known in the picture — Direcotr Mr. Jack Kelly; Director, Mr. Major Morris; Alex boy; Bill Kelly; teacher, Mr. Virgil Peringer; Albert Hinton (father of Dwight and the late Wesley Hinton. The balance of the children are from the families of Kelly, Jacobs, Tilton, G.D. Smith, Morris, Perry, etc.

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The ‘Gold Mine’ Located north of Lynden at the end of Van Buren Road, the infamous 1909-1913 “gold mine” was, as Perry described it, a scam.

“Supposedly, Rasmus O Blonden got up there and was just digging around. He went to some seer in Fairhaven who read the palm of his hand, and pointed to where the gold was,” Perry said.

Many people figured Blonden’s gold mine was just a scam, and wrote it off as such.

Above: Tramway steam engine derailed Right: Mill pond for the Shingle Mill at Clearbrook Above Right: Tramway steam engine Continued from pg 3

American boy named Louie Sam, a suspect in the murder of Nooksack shopkeeper James Bell. A member of the Sto:lo tribe, Sam had been turned over to B.C. police by tribal leaders, who believed the boy would be treated fairly and justly. The mob captured the boy and hanged him from a tree just north of the Canadian border.

Investigations at the time suggested that Sam was not the murderer; rather, the men leading the lynch mob had committed the crime.

Incensed at the injustice, tribal leaders met to confer on the subject.

Many believed they had the right to travel south to bring justice to the Americans. A Canadian Indian agent at the time told them that justice would be served by the Canadian government. However, when British Colum4

bian authorities, disguised as laborers, implicated two Washington men in the murder, the Washington Territorial government refused to cooperate in turning them over. The case was dropped.

In 2005, the lieutenant governors of British Columbia and Washington urged the governments of Washington and B.C. to apologize to the Sto:lo Nation.

On March 1, 2006, Washington legislators approved a resolution offering the deepest sympathies of the government to the descendants of Louie Sam. They also acknowledged that the boy had been wrongly accused.

The railroad Life in Clearbrook continued, spurred on by the railroads.

“With the advent of the railroad came more post offices. Clearbrook had a post office, and Van Buren had a post office at one time,” Perry said in his presentation.

Van Buren’s store and post office has been relocated to Ferndale’s Pioneer Park, and can be viewed there.

The Kulshan, a railway motor car that resembled a submarine on wheels, ferried people between Bellingham and Sumas. It weighed 68,000 pounds Logging mills popped up, and trains came through to carry the logs they put out. Clearbrook Lutheran Church was built in 1902, and part of it still stands today. The Clearbrook Weather Station, still in operation today, began keeping records on March 1, 1903. The records are available at rodericperry.com.

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Perry showed photos of the Clearbrook Store, circa 1900, part of which still stands today, north of Swanson Road.

Perry’s father and aunt both taught at the Clearbrook School, located just north of the Meadowdale water tower. The school was eventually moved to the new school grounds just a quarter mile northwest, and was eventually moved again in 1954 to become part of Clearbrook Lutheran Church’s Parish Hall.

Perry showed a number of school photographs taken at Clearbrook School, including its championship 1921-1922 basketball team.

The township In 1911, Whatcom County and Spokane County took advantage of the township form of government, which was passed into law in 1896. The first meeting of the Nooksack Township was on March 11, 1911, in Van Buren Hall.

The township ended in December 1969 due to the increased costs of the local garbage dump. The township morphed into the Nooksack Cemetery District, District #9, which is still in existence today.

Top: Clearbrook School | Above Left: Clearbrook Store Bottom Right: Van Buren Store and Post Office which has been relocated to Ferndale’s Pioneer Park

Mysteries As with any historical subject, there is always more to learn.

In Roderic Perry’s case, the Perry Cemetery is a prominent source of mystery. He has extensively documented the headstones located there, but no official record book has been found. The existing records have been compiled from newspaper articles, old photographs, mortuary records, death certificates and census records. Some tombstones have deteriorated, however, making identification difficult.

Lakeside Cemetery on Pangborn Road is an example of a cemetery that kept mostly accurate early records of its interments in a book.

“Perry Cemetery should have one of these books, somewhere,” Perry said.

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The future Perry’s research is capped of with a speculative and humorous look at the possible future of Clearbrook. He created an aerial photo of a house-packed Clearbrook of 2212, and predicted that the Nooksack could very easily change course, just as it did more than 10,000 years ago.

Perry’s presentation featured more than 100 photographs, maps and charts, all of which are available for viewing at his website, rodericperry. com. His entire presentation is posted for listening on his SkyDrive site, linked from rodericperry.com.

Perry said he hopes to host another library presentation in the future, perhaps one focusing on the area’s cemeteries.

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A drawing of the A.A. Galbraith home, built by A.A. on his homestead around the turn of the 20th century and drawn by Nancy Galbraith. It has since burned.

Audley Anderson “A.A.” Galbraith’s is, in one sense, a tragic story of the wild west: an Acme Precinct justice of the peace, an early settler, and a father of six, he was shot and killed by outlaws in the line of duty. The year was 1911. He was 61.

The Galbraith story is not all tragedy. In fact, the descendants of A.A. have thrived as one of Whatcom County’s most well-established families.The years before his murder were productive ones for the Galbraith patriarch, who emigrated to this region from Tennessee in 1884 to join his younger brother Isaac “Mack” Galbraith, a surveyor of the Acme Township. Like his brother, A.A. came to Acme via train from Tennessee to Seattle.

“He rode a boat to Bellingham,” explains his grandson Vernon Gal-

braith, 87, of Mount Vernon. “He then took a horse and buggy to the end of Lake Whatcom and rowed a boat to Park.” After that, Vernon said, his grandfather walked the remaining miles to his land near today’s Mosquito Lake Road. According to author Marie Hamel Royer, Galbraith was one of 26 pioneers who purchased Saxon District land from the federal government under the Land Law of 1820.

Royer quotes AA’s wife Henrietta Galbraith in her 1982 book The Saxon Story. “We’ll always remember our first Christmas in Washington Territory,” Henrietta wrote. “It snowed all that day and the day after . . . Ad says he would rather work in the snow than rain. He tends to the cow and does the milking so I have no outdoor work to do. Our cow looks well. She has plenty to eat.” This account, as well as oth-

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ers from Royer’s book, paints a rosy picture of 19th century settlers’ life: this was, in many ways, a land of abundance.

Nearby logging camps and available land drew 19th century settlers like A.A. to what is now Whatcom County, then the northernmost part of the Oregon Territory. Like many men, A.A. came alone to establish himself and then sent for his family.

Two years after settling, Vernon explains, A.A. was joined in Acme by his wife Henrietta and their four children. By 1892, the Galbraiths had six children and prominent roles as Acme Precinct citizens.

With the addition of the young Galbraiths and other pioneer’s children, Acme grew. By the turn of the Continued on pg 14

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20th century, a railroad had been laid through the South Fork Valley and shingle mills had been established in Acme and Wickersham. The lumber industry was booming.

Vernon Galbraith, born to A.A.’s sonMegan Hugh inClaflin 1926, said that by the time by he was in school, schoolhouses in Saxon, Wickersham, Acme, Clipper, and Van Zandt had been established and then replaced by the 1937 Acme Consolidated School. “When I grew up in Acme, there were 28 children in the whole school.” In some ways, however, Acme was bigger then. “There were three logging camps headquartered in and around Acme, a big shingle mill right in town, two gas stations, a repair shop, Zobrist’s store, and Hoffman’s store.” By Vernon’s accounts, one Mr. Rothenbuhler served triple duty as barber, postmaster, and shop clerk.

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The present day Acme General Store inhabits the same structure as Zobrist’s store, according to Vernon, minus its second story. “Overhead,” he said, “there was a dance hall.”

Like the dance hall above Zobrist’s store, the old Galbraith homestead is gone. A.A.’s house burned at the hands of careless squatters, according to Vernon, and his grandfather’s land was sold and eventually turned into county conservation land. The Galbraiths, however, live on. “We’re a pretty lucky family,” said 87 year-old Vernon Galbraith of Mount Vernon.

“We’ve stayed together.” Though one branch of the Galbraith descendants has moved to California, most are still in the Northwest and many, spanning three generations, are still in Whatcom County.

Galbraith Road runs behind the Acme General Store, and behind it looms Galbraith Mountain. Their

mark on this town has been indelible. Vernon doesn’t regret selling his family land and moving out of Acme, but the town is still important to him.

When asked about the way Whatcom County has changed over his lifetime, Vernon spoke pragmatically about the decline of the South Fork Valley as a hub of logging-centered industry. “History moves on, and you either do or don’t.”

Vernon’s cousin John “Rhodes” Galbraith, born in 1916 to A.A.’s son Audley Anderson Galbraith, Jr., still lives in Acme. He describes his uncles Bill and Hugh as loggers, in the family tradition. His father, Audley, was a farmer. His uncle Joe was an ambitious outdoorsman and the winner A.A. Galbraith, Hugh’s father, and his family.

From left: seated, Audley Anderson “A.A.” Galbraith, William “Bill”, Hugh, Harriett Galbraith (formerly Cox). Standing, Malinda “Minnie”, Audley Jr., Naomi, Joseph “Joe”

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of the first Mount Baker Marathon in 1911. (More information on Joe’s Mount Baker Marathon win can be found at www.historylink.org/index. cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_ Id=8347) “My uncles logged the place in Acme,” Rhodes said, “and my dad started farming it.” The logging operation, Vernon and Rhodes agree, was a post World War I effort to pay off debts on the property. It served a dual purpose, making the land more suitable for stock. “I grew up helping my dad with the cows,” Rhodes said.

“After high school, I got a job in the woods.” Under the tutelage of his uncles, Rhodes became a logger with a special interest in machines.

The Galbraith family was a major name in the Whatcom County logging industry at one time. Vernon’s father Hugh and uncle Andrew had started Galbraith Brothers Logging between the two world wars, and Vernon and two brothers bought his father out in 1960. “We were contract loggers until 1968,” he said. “It became harder and harder to get a contract.” in 1938, with their father’s blessing, the Galbraith brothers sold their equipment. Vernon went on to work for Rothenbuhler Engineering, where he retired as president in 1992. Rhodes, meanwhile, stayed in the logging business as a machine operator until his retirement.

Farming and logging tales aside, the murder of A.A. Galbraith at the hands of outlaws is one of the Galbraith family’s most gripping stories.

It’s described in Royer’s book as “The Galbraith -Stevens tragedy.” According to that account, which Vernon has verified, the murder took place on January 5, 2011. Two transient men came through Acme that day, failing to pay for a meal at Winn Stevens’ logging camp cookhouse. After this minor offense, the two men walked away down the track.

Hugh Galbraith, second from right, on Galbraith Mountain.

Hugh Galbraith and a former chief of the Lummi tribe with a log harvested by the Galbraiths.

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They were spotted by Aanet Thomson, who saw that they were wearing grubby clothes and brand new boots. Thompson presumed they had stolen from Zobrist’s store. He alerted Stevens, who caught up to the thieves at a shingle storage shed near Zobrist’s store. A.A. Galbraith, the justice of the peace, loaned Stevens a gun and the two approached the shed.

“They said, ‘put your hands up,’” said Vernon Galbraith. “I guess they didn’t. They started shooting.”

Galbraith was shot in the head, dying on the scene. Stevens was shot in the stomach, dying in a Bellingham hospital bed. One thief, “Slim,” escaped despite being tracked by bloodhounds.

The other, Mike Donnelly, was injured in the firefight. He was tried and imprisoned, though an early release allowed him to kill again in a 1923 grocery store holdup.

One hundred years later, A.A.’s

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grandchildren and their children’s children gather for a family celebration each December. Vernon reports that the annual Galbraith event is held at a church in Burlington, and that about 60 relatives are usually in attendance.

The seven surviving Galbraith’s of Vernon’s generation include his father’s sister’s son. Clare Galbraith Hellyer, son of A.A.’s daughter Malinda “Millie,” still lives near the site of the old Galbraith homestead. The wild west is not such a distant memory, after all, to those whose ancestors pioneered here: Clare, age 101, was born in the year of his grandfather A.A.’s death.

More about the Galbraith family and early Acme life can be found in The Saxon Story by Marie Hamel Royer, published in 1982 by the Whatcom County Historical Society.

Email Marnie Jones at bentbarrow@gmail.com.

Vernon Galbraith in front of a portrait of his father Hugh.

A photo of Joe Galbraith driving up Mount Baker during the first leg of his race. The photo is captioned “Joe Galbraith 1911-1912-1913”

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T Clan puts five-generation mark on Whatcom County

hey came to Whatcom County in fits and spurts.

But once they put down roots, the Walstrom clan never looked back to their native Sweden.

Tom Walstrom is a man with plenty of memories. They aren’t all his, mind you. He’s just recorded as much as he could. That’s because he has become the self-appointed genealogist for his family.

Tom, whose full name is Thomas Arvid Walstrom, now 79, has traced and documented his family history back beyond his grandfather, Johan Arvid Walstrom, who left his wife and two oldest sons Arnold and Olof temporarily in Sweden in 1906 to pursue his fortune in Whatcom County.

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During those first years, Johan lived both in Bellingham and Mountain View, which is in present-day Ferndale.

He eventually worked at the BloedelDonovan Lumber Mill. Less than a decade later, Tom’s grandmother Anna and oldest children left Sweden for a memorable journey to join Johan.

As it turned out, Anna left Sweden by ocean liner to England. She then switched vessels, intending to go to New York City, but instead ended up in Quebec. Tom isn’t sure how the mixup occurred. However, he believes Anna must have been a very strong person to manage the crisis as well as she did.

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Pictured above is Tom’s grandmother Anna (far left) in Sweden with just Arnold(center) and Olof(in Anna’s lap) along with Anna’s parents, Olof Anderson and Kerstin Persdotter(seated far right). It’s likely the photo was taken after Johan had left for America.

Canada, eventually caught a train to Chicago and rode another one from there to the Pacific Northwest.

Tom’s father, Ernest Arvid Walstrom, was the first child born into the family in 1911 after the reunion. Johan then moved his family back to Bellingham and had one more child. Tom noted that his work at the mill earned him a promotion that allowed him to wear a suit to work. That may have been what earned him the sarcastic nickname “Noisy,” on account of the fact that he was actually a very quiet man.

Johan Arvid Walstom died in

1926 at the age of 47. It’s likely, Tom said, that a heart condition had something to do with it. Not surprising, he said, considering the Swedish penchant for fatty foods and the lack of medical knowledge in those days.

Reclusive patriarch Even though Johan is the formal beginning of the Walstrom family in Whatcom County, the family technically has longer roots than that. Johan wasn’t actually the first to arrive.

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Johan’s father, Johan Magnus Martensson, moved to Whatcom County in 1889. His migration, it seems, was under less than happy circumstances and he became a family outcast for the rest of his life. What’s clear is that Martensson “ran away” from something.

“I don’t know if it was a money problem or a falling-out with his wife,” Tom said. “He would have had to have had money saved up (to up and leave).”

Later, Johan Walstrom’s sister, Anna S. Wallstrom, (name spelling is from records), moved to Everson. She married an Olof Johnson and helped run a farm in the Nooksack Valley.

It seems Martensson reconnected somewhat with his daughter since he lived alone in a shack on her farm until he died in 1954 at age 98. His long life overlapped significantly with his great-grandchild, Tom, born in 1933. Still, Tom has no memory of the reclusive patriarch.

“I had no contact that I remember,” Tom said. “I stayed at the farm sometimes as a younger kid. I don’t remember him but he was probably right there. But I do remember the homemade root beer on the farm.”

Tom isn’t even sure if his grandfather knew of his own father’s residence in the county. However, Johan’s antipathy toward him was clear to those who knew him.

“He told my Uncle Arnold ‘not to talk to that old man,’” Tom said.

Tom speculated that since Johan lived in his home in Sweden for some years without his father, he was probably resentful of his absence.

Martensson’s wife, Maret Abrahamsdotter Wallstrom, never came to America. She had another child with another man and died around 1907.

But Tom’s grandparents’ story is a much happier one. In his research about Johan and Anna, Tom notes that the two met at a dance in Transviken, Sweden. They married in 1904, two years before his first travels.

Anna, who was born Anna Matilda Andersson, outlived Johan by 46 years until 1972, long enough to provide Tom in person with some of those memories of her childhood in Sweden.

Enterprise and tragedy

Tom’s father, Earnest Arvid Walstrom, married Winnifred Faye Roberts in 1932.

Tom was the oldest of five children.

Earnest was employed as a welder in the Bellingham shipyard after completing a welder training class at Old Sehome High School in 1942.

In the early 1960s, Winnifred, started a venture of her own in Win’s Drive-in, located in Fairhaven.

However, the family business almost came to nothing when Earnest died suddenly in a 1964 drowning accident in Chuckanut Bay. He was 53.

Earnest had been working with crabpots and fell into the water. Tom speculates his heavy waders might have kept him unerwater.

Tom, who was living and working in Scio,

A photo taken for Johan and Anna Walstrom’s wedding.

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Ore., east of Salem, at the time, visited for two weeks to help search for his father’s body before the tide carried it away for good. However, his remains were never found.

The widowed Winnifred soldiered on and made the drive-in diner a success. To this day, the 12th Street diner is a Bellingham classic.

in 1978. Right then and there, Tom’s second career as a restaurateur began and didn’t end until the Walstrom’s sold the business in 2004.

But in the meantime, Win’s Drive-in earned its lasting reputation, not only as a restaurant, but as a indelible piece of the Bellingham landscape.

“I was semi-retired but we were working day and night,” Tom said, noting the diner employed about 25-28 people constantly during their tenure as owners.

“I never did count up how many people went through that place over the years,” Tom said. “But it was probably close to 1,000.”

Five of those employees were the Walstrom children, who each used their earnings at the diner to finance college or other activities.

Ski to Sea Over the years, Win’s Drive-in

made more than just a culinary mark on Bellingham. The company also set some of the first modern precedents when it came to team traditions in the annual Ski to Sea race.

Tom noted that up until shortly after they took over Win’s, the race wasn’t quite so competitive, populated as it was by rank amateurs. However, that all changed with a simple request from Tom’s son Kevin.

Going further back, a team of college students had requested and got Win’s Drive-in sponsorship. They finished dead last.

Then Kevin, a high school student at the time, approached his dad, asking if he could sponsor and purchase a canoe for his team. However, the results weren’t much different than Tom’s previous team.

The following year, Kevin cut a deal with his increasingly skeptical father: Would he agree to purchase a brand new racing canoe for his team if they finished in the top 26? Tom agreed to those terms, not expecting anything better.

“They got exactly 26th place,” Tom said. “So I went up to Canada Top: Tom Walstrom’s oldest uncles, Olof (left) and Arnold (right), before their journey to America.

Bottom: By the 1990s, Tom and Mary Lue’s was several more generations into the future.

A Bellingham legacy

Tom, a native of Bellingham, spent most of his local career as a power station supervisor for the Bonneville Power Administration before retiring at 55 in 1988.

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and purchased a new fiberglass vessel.”

The new, lightweight boat was so tricky, the team took a long time to master the balance, especially in the choppy waters around Bellingham.

“Then they had to learn to handle it in Nooksack river with all of those ripples and rapids,” Tom said.

After that, Tom began doing something few were doing at the time: He began looking elsewhere for athletes to sponsor in the race. He began by reaching out to the Seattle area.

Soon it became standard practice for businesses that wanted their name

high in the standings. Soon Olympiclevel athletes were competing under the Win’s Drive-in name.

“Then the writing was on the wall,” Tom said. “We kind of set a precedent on that.”

The Walstrom’s also set another precident, which was to take good care of the visiting athletes.

“We found out that some people were sleeping up at Mount Baker,” Tom said. “ We started putting them up in hotels and feeding them. We did post-race meals. It all improved conditions that racers faced. Other upperlevel teams had to start doing the same things (to draw racers).”

Tom’s star-studded teams earned top honors twice over his 20 years of involving the business.

Tom still smiles when he watches Dan Bass, Captain of the Barron Heating team win the race year after year.

That’s because Dan was a good friend of his son’s and was on Win’s reserve team early on.

One of Tom’s favorite memories is meeting and keeping up with some of the best athletes in the country.

“We had wonderful relationships with some of those athletes,” he said “They were wonderful people.”

Tom said he remembers a few in particular, such as Mike Herbert, a kayaker from Arkansas who was very successful at the Olympic level.

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Married in 1952, Tom and Mary Lue Walstrom, are celebrating 60 years of marriage this year.

Tom Walstrom spent a lot of his life behind the scenes. Politics wasn’t his passion by his own estimation.

However, there was a time when he stepped out into the public square in a big way. That was when Whatcom County was in the midst of setting its first charter and preparing to elect its first executive in 1978.

Tom ended up being elected to the board of freeholders to draft the initial Whatcom County Charter.

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in meetings taking input and having discussions and voting on what we wanted to have in the charter,” Tom said. “It was the first and last time I got elected to public office. It was an enjoyable thing.”

The volunteer position gave Tom a sense for it must have felt like to draft a constitution in the founding days of the United States.

“They have a picture in the lobby of the county courthouse of our board,” Tom said. “It’s a funny thing.

I was one of three people that ran for my spot. Both of them were lawyers.”

Tom originally figured that his opponents had a better chance of getting elected. However, they ended up splitting their base of support after duking it out between them.

Tom became one of 21 people in all to make up what he described as being “pretty balanced between right and left.” The chairman Don Hansey was Republican. Tom ended up representing a Democratic perspective as the vice chair.

Although Jack Louws Sr. became executive, and Tom believes he was probably the best person for that position, making sure the county got off to a good start, some apparently suggested that he run.

“I wasn’t in the right position,” Tom said. “I was just taking over the family business. It was too much to consider with family as well.”

Still, Tom’s experience with the charter did help sharpen his understanding of the political world, he said.

Going back in time Tom’s efforts to recapture his family history have been surprisingly successful and they have earned him the title of “family genealogist” among his relatives.

However, his efforts have stretched across a number of decades.

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In fact, he started early enough to interview his grandmother Anna before she died in 1972.

That fact alone wasn’t nearly enough. Tom didn’t personally know his grandfather, but he did begin going through city registries to get a sense for how he spent his earliest days in Whatcom County.

What Tom found was Johan Walstrom’s first residence in Bellingham, when he was living alone. However, he was listed, for some reason as Arvid J. Walstrom.

“It was either a mixup or an Americanized version (of his name),” Tom said.

Tom lost track of his name in the Bellingham register between 1907 and 1913.

“That’s his time in Mountain View, until his wife and kids came over from Sweden,” Tom said. “ Then he

moved back with the family to 30th Street in Bellingham.”

That guess is confirmed by the appearance of Anna and the children in the city register after that point.

Not all of Tom’s efforts were so easily rewarded. He has also dug, through connections he cultivated, into the family history in Sweden.

“At one time I was pretty frustrated because I couldn’t get anything further back,” Tom said. “I paid a family research service in Europe which was able to get it back to the 1600s.”

Then Tom found a software that did what he called “amazing work.”

“I sent it to them (in Europe) and they loved it,” Tom said. “So they didn’t charge me for the work.”

Some of the photos Tom has been able to recover include one that clearly shows his grandmother Anna in Sweden with just Arnold and Olof along with Anna’s parents, Olof Anderson and Kerstin Persdotter. It’s

likely the photo was taken after Johan had left for America. Visible on the wall, is the photo taken for Johan and Anna’s wedding.

While much of Tom’s research is finished, there’s always more to be done. After all, Mary Lue is a Henafin, of Irish descent. Her family also goes several generations back into early Whatcom County. So far, Tom hasn’t been able to trace them back beyond their presumed arrival in New York City.

But there’s always the future.

So far, Tom and Mary Lue have 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. But Tom has observed with some curiosity that while most of his children and grandchildren have had good educations and become generally successful, they are born into a different culture than his and are leaving a much larger generational gap. He’s not sure how long he’ll have to wait before another great-grandchild.

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