William Wanamaker Sr. Photographs, 1906-1910

Sheldon Jackson School (Sitka, Alaska)

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St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska)

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Princess May (Steamboat)

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Wanamaker, William, Sr.

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William Wanamaker Sr. (grandfather of donor) spoke Slavonic Russian, Tagalog, Serbian, Tlingit, French and English. He was choir director of St. Michael's Church in Sitka and later St. Nicholas in Juneau where he was a Reader. He came to Juneau in 1933 to work in the Alaska Juneau Gold Mine. He died of Black Lung disease in about 1945. In the late 1950's Amos Wallace, the donor's father, became choir director. Amos and Dorothy Wallace were lifelong members of the Russian Orthodox Church. ...

Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America. Diocese of Alaska

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The first organized Christian missionary efforts in Alaska were the work of missionaries of the Russian Orthodox Church. During the period of Russian rule in Alaska and for many years after purchase by the U.S., that church served both as a Christianizing and an educational force. The first Orthodox mission was established in Kodiak in 1794. The first permanent see of the Orthodox Church in Alaska was established in 1840 in Sitka under Bishop Innocent (John Veniaminov). Under his supervision, ef...