Pacific American Fisheries Records 1875-1994 1899-1967

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Pacific American Fisheries Records 1875-1994 1899-1967

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The collection documents the interests and activities of Pacific American Fisheries, Inc (PAF), one of the largest processors of Pacific Salmon in the world. PAF conducted salmon canning operations on Puget Sound and in Alaska between 1899 and 1965, with headquarters located in Bellingham, Washington. The collection spans the period 1875 – 1994, and includes corporate and administrative records, correspondence, financial, property, engineering and operational records, and also fish supply records, shipping records and a large body of reference material. The collection also contains the records of affiliated and subsidiary companies including Deming and Gould, Hoonah Packing Company and the Pacific Packing and Navigation Company, as well as personal papers of former employees including Galen Biery, George Hube and Bert Huntoon.

132 linear ft.; (173 Boxes; 13 volumes; 22 Oversize Folders; 46 Rolled Documents)

eng,

Western Washington University Heritage Resources

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SNAC Resource ID: 6372273

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Pacific Packing and Navigation Company.

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Biery, Galen

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Galen Biery was one of Bellingham's most prominent local historians. Most of Biery's career was spent at PAF where he worked as a machinist, mechanic, researcher and cannery foreman. During the off-season Biery worked for the Bellingham Iron Works, the Bellingham Manufacturing Company, St. Joseph's Hospital, and as a fish inspector for Bellingham Cold Storage. After his retirement in 1976, Biery was able to concentrate on his passions: history, photography, film and gard...

Deming and Gould

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Hube, George E.

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Pacific American Fisheries, Inc.

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Pacific American Fisheries, Inc., conducted salmon fishing and canning operations on the Puget Sound and in Alaska between 1899 and 1965, with headquarters in Bellingham, Washington. Frank and E.B. Deming of Chicago formed Pacific American Fisheries (PAF) in 1899 following their purchase of Bellingham-based North Pacific Packing Company and its holdings of the Wright Brothers Fishing Company. The Demings established a shipyard on Eliza Island in Bellingham Bay, and in 19...

Huntoon, Bert W., 1869-1947

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Bert Huntoon was born in Sacramento, California, on February 6th, 1869, and at the age of 14 he moved with his family to Seattle. After completing a course in civil engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, Huntoon came back to Washington to begin his engineering career. He served as an assistant engineer to J.J. Donovan and in 1896 was elected Whatcom County civil engineer, a position in which he served for two terms. In 1899, he became an engineer for the Pacific A...

Hoonah Packing Company.

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