In her youth, Anna ventured to the San Juan Islands every summer to fish and hunt with her Alaskan Native family. During one of these visits, she met her future husband, Christopher Rosler, a German immigrant who was a soldier in the U.S. Army stationed at American Camp. They married in 1861 when Anna was fifteen years old. Together, they homesteaded and raised nine children on 160 acres, some of which is now part of San Juan Island National Historical Park.
The last known living member of the Beothuk people, indigenous inhabitants of Newfoundland, Canada.
Ham Hop came to Australia as the wife of a Geelong businessman in 1910. Arriving on a temporary permit under the Immigration Restriction Act, Ham Hop became a cause célèbre as her husband fought for her to be allowed to remain in the country permanently.
One of the “Ladies of Llangollen” of 1700s Wales
Mount Rainier National Park Ranger, 1918
Yosemite National Park Ranger & Cook, 1919-1921, 1923, 1927-1928
American who recounted subsistence ways of living in the early 1920s and 1930s
Yosemite National Park Ranger, 1926-1928
Active in urban planning in two cities: St. Louis, Missouri, and Cleveland, Ohio
Despite her immigration detainment and the long-term consequences of the exclusion era, Ou Shee and the women around her table lived lives of courage and strength. Their legacies survive among their daughters and granddaughters who built a homeland in America for the Chinese immigrant community.