Whitman County 1877-86 history collection now available to public

--Don Peters photo

Left to right: Whitman County Genealogical Society members Marge Muir, vice president; Judy McMurray, newsletter editor; Janet Damm, librarian; Cindy Rice, treasurer; Sue Kreikemeier, president; Monica Peters, corresponding secretary, and Mary Simonsen, recording secretary. The society recently announced the publication of gleanings from selected newspapers in Whitman County from 1877-1886 which Simonsen spent the last couple of years collecting.

For the last two or three years, if anyone wanted to find Mary Bybee Simonsen, a resident of Pullman and member of the Whitman Cou...