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.¹⁾ There is a mountain in Alaska, near Fairbanks, called Mount Lulu Fairbanks.