ALASKA

Territory Census Reports

1900 – 1950

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Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867. It was a territory from 1906 until the time it was granted statehood in 1959 and became the 49th State.

 

UPDATED MAY 31, 2022

 

ALASKA TERRITORY 1900 CENSUS

 

ARTHUR PUTMAN  Douglas, Southern District

He is 29 IL IL IL and lists Montesano Washington as his home. He is up here as a musician with a couple of other ones. I think he is a son of Jeremiah Putman and Catherine Baird from Brown County Illinois. His folks are in Montesano right now. In 1880 he was listed as Archie but it was probably Artie. Southern Putman family.

 

 

ALASKA TERRITORY 1910 CENSUS

 

MRS. J. (JOSEPHINE) W. PUTNAM  Skagaway, Division 1

She is 47 CAN ENG ENG and widowed. Josephine Charters was married to Alfred B. Putnam in Bountiful, Utah in 1880. She and Leona were in Yale and Cariboo County British Columbia Canada in 1901. She lives with her married daughter Leona Frances Sullivan 27 UT CT CAN and her husband John T. Sullivan 33 MO MO IRE. She will be in Oakland, California with her brother Edward Charter in 1920 and there in 1930 at age 70 CAN.

 

I. (IRA) C. PUTNAM  Kenai, Division 3

He is 67 NY NY NY and boarding. The occupation looks like barrister. Looks to be the son of Wilson Putman and Elizabeth Cooper from Amsterdam New York. He was listed as Ira 7 NY there in 1850. Dutch family from Montgomery County New York.

 

WILLIAM R. PUTMAN  Prince William Sound, Division 3

He is 32 CA CAN CA single and boarding. He runs a store here. Rand Putnam checked this one out and is pretty certain that he is William Mason Putnam a son of Adam Putnam and Mary Ann Johnson. He was born in Humboldt County California August 18, 1879 and at home in 1900. He will head back to California and marry Patsy Campbell in Alameda December 17, 1911 as a pre-Christmas gift to each other. They will stick it out for a couple of years and then he’ll marry Vera Strange and be there with her in 1930, 1940 and forever. Mason was born August 18, 1879 and will die in La Jolla, San Diego County on July 12, 1972. Vera was born August 28, 1879 and will also die in San Diego County January 9, 1975. Both are into their 90s by then, not bad!

 

HENRY PUTTMAN  Fort Gibson, Division 4

No age given and the entry states he is in a camp 75 miles away. Big help here.

 

 

ALASKA TERRITORY 1920 CENSUS

 

There were no Putnams or Putmans listed.

 

 

ALASKA TERRITORY 1930 CENSUS

 

There were no Putnams or Putmans listed.

 

 

ALASKA TERRITORY 1940 CENSUS

 

BERTHA PUTMAN  Anchorage City

She is 60 RUSSIA and divorced. She is in the Alaska Railroad Hospital. She was in Russia in 1935 so no ideas on her husband at all. Probably came over for the Iditarod Dog Race in March and decided to ’get legal’ by marrying then divorced and hang around. Hmmm. Maybe.

 

JAMES S. (SANFORD) PUTMAN  Juneau District

He is 41 TX and his wife Elsie M. is 30 AK. He is a fireman on a power line/power plant. They were in Santa Cruz, California in 1930 and 1935. He is a son of Joseph M. Putman and Nannie Sanford. He was born in Parker County Texas and with the folks in New Mexico in 1910 and 1920. He will die up here in Juneau March 18, 1846. Joe was a son of John Augustus Putman and Elizabeth Brown from Franklin County Arkansas. Southern Putmans.

 

MARJORIE PUTNAM  Ketchikan District

She is 48 WA married, and has a stepdaughter Alice M. Putnam 9 WA. They live with her married daughter Elsie Johnstone 32 WA and her daughter Pauline Johnstone 9 AK.

 

WILLIAM G. (GORDON) PUTNAM  Seldovia District

He is 33 NJ, Agnes 32 NY, Vivian 12 NY, William Jr. 10 CA, Frank 8 CA, Paul 6 CA, Priscilla 5 ID and Martha 4 ID. They were in Glenn County California in 1930 and in Idaho in 1935. In 1910 and 1920 he was in Orleans County New York with his grandparents William and Ida Sitzer. He is a son of Arthur J. Putnam and Mildred Violet Sitzer, and grandson of Edwin Clinton Putnam and Emily Eugena Brown. They were in Orleans County New York in 1920. And in Glenn County California by 1930. They are here for a while then in Idaho in 1935. He is a fisherman for a salmon packing company. Dutch family out of New York State.

 

 

ALASKA TERRITORY 1950 CENSUS

 

RUTH H. PUTMAN  Fort Richardson, Anchorage

She is a clerk typist at the Fort Richardson Army Base. No age or nuttin.

 

BURLEIGH J. (JOHN) PUTNAM  Anchorage

He is 42 US, and his wife Florence 40 US and they have James 4 AK and Loretta 2 AK. He is Burleigh Junior, a son of Burleigh Putnam and Katherine Agnes Staples and was born July 9, 1908 in Gautier, Mississippi. He will die January 5, 1992 in Fallbrook, San Diego County California. He married Janet Roberts in Los Angeles August 15, 1932 and then married Florence Bieda Scott. Florence was born January 3, 1911 and will die also in Fallbrook December 23, 2004. His dad Burleigh was a son of Joseph Watson Putnam and Helen Elise Peabody from Washington County Vermont. His dad was a railroad engineer and later traveled to Mississippi and then Louisiana and finally California.

 

MILLICENT PUTNAM  Anchorage City

She is listed 22 and her husband Albert P. 28. They have a boarding house. Because of this Millicent being listed as ‘Head’, and the births listed as US, just not sure. But I really think he is Albert Price Putnam a son of Christopher Lee Putnam and Mary Etta Geer from Great Falls, Montana. Being so far north, Montana is just walking distance away from Alaska. That Albert was born July 14, 1921 and will die in Kalispell, Montana in July 1984. So the age 28 in 1950 is perfect. This is the Quaker family out of Guilford County North Carolina. But, just a coin toss.

 

PORTER D. (DYKES) PUTNAM  Fairbanks District

He is 35 CO, his wife Edna Lorraine Sadler is 31 ID, and they have Patricia L. 12 AK, Dennis Dykes 5 WA, and a daughter Chris E. 1. Dykes is a son of Christopher Henry Putnam and Minnie B. Dammann and was born in Denver Colorado September 22, 1915. Chris is the son of Isiah Porter Putnam from Massachusetts and was in Knox County Tennessee in the 1880 and 1900 census. Then was in Georgia and then Colorado. Dykes was born in Denver September 22, 1915 and will die here in Alaska in August 1987. Edna was born in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho September 22, 1916 and will die here June 5, 1993.

 

WILLIAM J. (JAMES) PUTMAN  Glennallen

He is 20 US and seems unemployed and lodging. He is a son of Charles Otis Putman and Aleta Cozart and was born in Klamath Falls, Oregon. His dad is a son of William Henry Harrison Putman and Amanda Woody who are in Linn County, Oregon. He was born when the family was up in Washington. Southern Putman family. He is also listed back home in Oregon now. He will soon marry Elenora Patricia Hansen in Klamath Falls August 27, 1950.

 

GLEN R. (RAY) PUTNAM  Ketchikan District

He is an electrician in the U. S. Coast Guard. He is 31, his wife Dorothy Elaine Beckmeyer is 21 and they have Raymond L. 1 AK and Rodney J. born here in December 1949. Glen was born in Leelanau, Leelanau County Michigan January 15, 1919 and will die in Omena, Leelanau County January 6, 2010. He married Dorothy in Northport, Leelanau County Michigan September 6, 1947. His folks are Evits W. Putnam and his first wife Irena May Bartlett. Evit’s is a son of John Donovan Putnam and Annie Rennie and grandson of Rinaldo Putnam from Canada and New York and Vermont before that. The son Raymond Lee was born October 2, 1948. The son Rodney was born December 8, 1949 and will die back in Michigan April 6, 2014.

 

ROSWELL C. (CLIFFORD) PUTMAN  Ketchikan District

He is 21 WI, and his wife Alice M. Sivers 20 US and they have Douglas C. born Nov 1949 here in AK. He and Alice were married in Clark County Washington May 1, 1948, and will get divorced in Oregon July 24, 1970. He will then marry Katheryn Ray Jensen in Oregon January 3, 1981. He was single and at home in Sparta in 1930 and 1940. He is currently in the Army stationed up here. He is a son of Clifford Jerome Putman and Mabel Curnow. Clifford was a son of Jacob Roswell Putman and all part of the New York Dutch line. He was born in Sparta Wisconsin.

 

JOHN G. (GIDEON) PUTMAN  Talkeetna

He is 40 US single and a telegraph operator for the railroad. He is a son of Laurence Austin Putman and Maggie S. Thompson from Fairview, Greenville County South Carolina. Lawrence is a son of John Abner Putnam and Elizabeth Cheek from Laurens County. Southern Putmans. He was born here February 6, 1911 and will die here July 27, 2000. He will marry Mary Lucille Babb