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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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A mother from Sterling, Colorado, arrived in Seattle on Sept. 30 to search for her 21-year-old son, John R. Evans, a cartoonist from Peoria, Illinois, who may have traveled north to his birthplace in Cordova, Alaska, out of curiosity. She traced him to Chelan, Washington, and then Seattle with G. E. Robertson but did not find him and informed police.
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Mother Looking for First White Child Born in Cordova
SEATTLE. Sept. 30.-A mother who waited in vain in Sterling, Colorado, in August, to be joined by her son, John R. Evans, aged 21, cartoonist of Peoria, Illinois, has arrived here to search for him.
She learned he was in Chelan, Washington, and sped there by train and found he had come to Seattle with a man named G. E. Robertson. She did not find her son here. She told the police he was the first white child born in Cordova, Alaska, and that curiosity to see his birthplace might have prompted him to go north.
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Seattle
Event Date
Sept. 30
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son not found; mother informed police
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Mother waited in Sterling, Colorado, in August for son John R. Evans, aged 21, cartoonist from Peoria, Illinois, but he did not arrive. She learned he was in Chelan, Washington, traveled there by train, discovered he went to Seattle with G. E. Robertson, but did not find him. She reported to police that he was first white child born in Cordova, Alaska, and curiosity about birthplace may have led him north.