Matthias Herbert Albertson

December 25, 1895, Manistee, Michigan — January 08, 1954, Seldovia, Alaska

Buried in Seldovia City Cemetery Plot #1

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MATTHIAS HERBERT ALBERTSON, “Matt”, the third of nine siblings, was born December 25, 1895 in Manistee, Michigan to Norwegian emigrants Matthias and Hannah (Olsen) Albrigtson/Albertson. The family moved to Seattle, Washington about 1900 and Matt was listed there in 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930 US Census records.

In 1918, at the age of 22, Matt applied for his Seaman’s Certificate of American Citizenship, which he received May 16, 1918.

In November 1919, Matt married Mary E. “May” Boyle and they had a son, Arnold Mattias Albertson, who was born in 1921 and died in 1927 when he was hit by a truck.

In 1930 he and Mary were living in Seattle, Washington, with his widowed mother, but they divorced after that and on May 13, 1935 he married Thelma WARRICK Sutherland (1897, Texas – 1973, Washington) in Juneau. Thelma brought to the marriage a son, Gene Allen, who was born in 1931, and took the Albertson name.

In 1940 Matt, Thelma and Gene lived in Sitka, Alaska, where he was working in a cannery.

In 1942, when he registered for the WWII military draft, Matt was living in Hoonah, Alaska and working for Juneau Packing Company.

Matt died on January 08, 1954 in Seldovia, and has the distinction of having been buried in the Seldovia City Cemetery Plot #1, even though his was not the first burial.