Return to:   "Rev. Sheldon Jackson - In 1884, 12 years after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia, a Presbyterian minister named Sheldon Jackson offered himself and was selected as Alaska's General Agent of Education." Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D.D., LL.D., Vice President Alaska Geographic Society, May 15, 1899 Chilcoot [Chilkat] Mission, Alaska Brushing teeth, Mission School, Yakutat, Alaska Eskimo school, Nome, Alaska Group of Unalaska school children and three men, ca. 1900 In 1885, the first public school in Juneau was held in the building that was later the Log Cabin Church Lester D. Henderson, Commissioner of Education, 1917-1929
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