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Fairbanks Daily Times, Thursday January 8, 1914
Fairbanks Birth Rate Increases Greatly in 1913
Records of City Clerk Show That 36 Children Were Born Here During Past 12 Months.
Death Rate IS Much Greater
More Than 25% of Deaths Recorded Were Persons Over 50 Year of Age, and All Oldtimers.
According to the records compiled in the office of the city clerk, 36 births took place in Fairbanks during the year 1913, while 56 deaths accurred. The births recorded for 1912 were 22 in number, so that the increase for the year is 64 per cent. There were 28 deaths recorded during the year 1912, so that the increase in deaths is an even 100 per cent.
Of the births recorded there were only two instances in which twins were brought into the world, and in both cases the infants died.
The death record shows that of the 56 persons who died, 15 were known to be over 50 years of age, while the ages of nine others of the list are unknown. It is estimated however, that some of these were over 50 years of age, and that of the total number of deaths, considerably more than 25 per cent were persons over 50. Of those who di3ed aged over 50, the majority were oldtimers, some of them having resided in the North before the rush to the Klondike.
Andrew Jackson Maiden, who had reached the age of 76, was the oldest of those who died, and his residence in the North was longer than that of any of the others on the list of dead.
The following is a list of births and deaths, as shown by the records:
| Births: | Deaths: |
| January 2- A son to James and Laura Porter | January 3- Baby Davidson, age 3 hours |
| January 3- A son to Charles E. and Helen Davidson | January 6- Andrew Peterson, 62 years |
| January 7- A daughter to John C. and Violet Lund | January 16- Marie F. Lund, 8 days |
| January 24- Gertrude, daughter of Sigurd and Alice Wallsted | January 21- Dorothy R. Volkman, 11 weeks |
| January 27- Clarence, son of Oscar and Ellie Larson | February 2- Alfred Wirkalla, 38 years |
| January 27- Mortimer, son of Howard and Loretta Merrit | February 16- Jeanette A. Sherman, 2 months |
| February 12- Katherine, daughter of John and Helen Mathews | March 8- Baby Siler |
| February 17- Freda, daughter of Fred and Lillian Nichols | March 10- Charles Nelson, 46 years |
| March 8- A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Siler | March 14- Thomas Rand, 58 years |
| March 16- A daughter to Nick and Alma Erickson | March 14- Mike Sabanoff, 23 years |
| March 29- Charles, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Preston | March 25- Charles Anderson, 48 years |
| March 10- William, son of W. F. and Nellie Thompson | March 26- Mrs. J. L. Elam, 26 years |
| April 1- A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. James Russell | April 6- Mrs. E. McMullen, 36 years |
| April 5- A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. R. Bloom | April 2- Joseph Waeffler, age unknown |
| April 9- Ben, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hoerler | April 2- Michael Twohey, age unknown |
| April 23- Lloyd Eugene, son of Leslie M. and Grace Drury | April 7- James Hamilton, 50 years |
| April 27- Lois, daughter of B. F. and B. M. Pryor | April 10- Charles Anderson, age unknown |
| May 17- Henry, son of Henry and Emma Atwood | April 12- Ole Frostley, 58 years |
| June 3- A daughter to Andrew and Doris Hoey | April 30- Louis Moohr, age unknown |
| June 3- A son to Arthur H. and Florence McNeer | May 12- Gussie E. Baxter, age unknown |
| Jun 5- A son to W. F. and Frances Whitely | May 23- Mrs. Ridgley, age unknown |
| June 18- Phyllis, daughter of William and Catherine Lovejoy | May 21- Michael Lyden, 51 years |
| July 1- Joseph, son of A. F. and Mildred Herpick | May 25- John W. Moore, 35 years |
| July 4- Twins to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Keel | May 31- Thomas Welsh, 50 years |
| July 10- A son to Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Woodward | June 2- Charity White, 55 years |
| July 10- Ruth Frances, daughter of Oscar G. and Nikoline Goetz | June 6- Rodie Hering 6 years |
| August 13- Mary, daughter of Edward K. and Mary McAdam | July 4- Keel twins |
| September 6- Elizabeth, daughter of E. H. and Marie Boyer | July 12- Baby Woodward |
| September 12- Twins to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Franklin | July 16- Walter Porter: August Stiepovich |
| October 28- Kenneth, son of F. J. and Hannah Porter | August 21- Milton Olson |
| December 2- Norman, son of Gilbert and Lottie Drake | August 8- Thomas Toolson |
| December 2- A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John Nordbye | August 20- Adolph Larson, 26 years |
| December 20- A daughter to Marie Leumwell | August 15- Steve Gatti, 26 years |
| September 3- Steve Borrossco, 35 years | |
| September 30- Mrs. Hans Clausen, 44 years | |
| September 10- John Darcy, 21 years | |
| September 12- Franklin twins | |
| September 23- Clarence J. Erickson, 26 years | |
| September 25- C. P. Kalning, 66 years | |
| September 25- Lloyd E. Drury, 5 months | |
| October 7- Thomas Pluskovich, age unknown | |
| October 18- James Jamieson, age unknown | |
| October 35- Pat Casey, 53 years | |
| November 14- Edna A. Stevens, 50 years | |
| December 3= George Mausarka, 38 years | |
| November 23- Thomas Overland, 28 years | |
| December 12- Herman Barthel, 59 years | |
| December 17- Mrs. Sam Wilcox, 40 years | |
| December 19- Joseph Hein, 60 years | |
| Transcribed by Joanie Skilbred for the Fairbanks Genealogical Society | December 27- Alex Patterson, 61 years |
| Copyright 2008 Fairbanks Genealogical Society | December 30- Joseph C. Dillow, 54 years |