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McAninch Family History Newsletter Volume XX, Number 3, July 24, 2012. A clearing house for McAninch and related surnames [McAninch, McIninch, McNinch (-sh)]. Published Quarterly since 1993. Articles solicited, and Queries accepted.
	Table Of Contents

Vern McAninch (1890-1912), Indiana, and 100 Hundred Years Ago in Alaska	Page 2012-18
Growing Up in Coatesville; Vern Joins the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1909;	Page 2012-20
Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System (WAMCATS);	Page 2012-21
Vern Arrives in Alaska, and up the Yukon River to Fort Gibbon;	Page 2012-22
Fort Gibbon, Tanana, Alaska, on the Yukon River;	Page 2012-23
Vern’s Illness and Return to the Continental U.S.	Page 2012-25
Vern’s Final Days back home in Coatesville, Indiana	Page 2012-25
Notes and Sources	Page 2012-27
Appendix A: Alaska Post Returns, Fort Gibbon, Alaska, 1910 to 1912	Page 2012-33
Appendix B: Fort Gibbon Military Records, 1910-1911	Page 2012-35
Appendix C: Coatesville Newspaper Articles about Vern McAninch, Oct. 1912	Page 2012-37

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Alaska: It’s been 3 years now since our trip to Alaska. In July, 2009, my wife Jan and I went north

on an ‘inside passage’ cruise from Vancouver B.C. to Seward (Anchorage), Alaska, with an added

week through Denali and Coldfoot, north of the Arctic Circle, and ending with 3 days in Fairbanks.

And, so, a belated Thank You to distant cousin Joyce Allen-Luopa and her husband ‘Wil’ Luopa,

who live in Fairbanks, and took us on a ‘locals’ tour, and also to Wil’s sister, Suzanne Hahn, who

helped us find relevant sources in the library system at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF).

Joyce can trace her McAninch line back to (William) Alexander McAninch, born 1767, in Ireland,

who came to Pennsylvania, lived in Dublin Township, Huntingdon County, (central) Pennsylvania

(residence in 1820 census), and died there sometime after 1820 [see Richard Cochran’s website

“Descendants of William Alexander McAninch” http://cochranfamily.net/mcaninch/pafg01.htm]

This McAninch Family History Newsletter is Published by Frank and Jan (Mauk) McAninch

17531 Montbury Circle, Huntington Beach, California 92649-4823 Telephone: 714-846-5134

Email: frank[at]McAninch.net, FrankMcAninch[at]alumni.uci.edu, mcaninch92649[at]verizon.net

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McAninch Family History NL v.XX n.3 / July 2012 / Copyright Frank McAninch / page 2012-17

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