Yukon who is who

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Lulu M. Fairbanks (1888 – 1968)
	
Lulu Fairbanks was born in Ohio and moved to Seattle in 1913. She was the niece of former United States vice-president Charles W. Fairbanks after whom Fairbanks was named. She taught school for five years and then worked for the port of Seattle until 1922. She was a reporter and then editor of the //Alaska Weekly// of Seattle, Washington from 1922 until 1956 when the newspaper folded. She never lived in Alaska but was a member of the International Sourdough Reunion since 1931 and named Miss Alaska for life by the organization. She was also active in the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers. She helped found the Washington Press Women.((“Lulu M. Fairbanks.” Social Networks and Archival Context, 2019 website: https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6805qx0)) There is a mountain in Alaska, near Fairbanks, called Mount Lulu Fairbanks.