History at a Glance

In October 1870, Eva Kiddell was three months short of being 5 years old, living with her grandmother in Chicago, when her family decided she should be the one to accompany her Aunt Sara Shepherd to the "wilderness of Mason County," where Sara was to become the bride of Captain Ed Miller. The two made the long journey by train to San Francisco, then by boat to Victoria, and on to Hammersley Inlet. In 1950, Eva wrote some of her memories for the Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington (which she mentioned she was not eligible to join, being a pioneer rather than a pioneer's daughter). This stor...