ALEXANDRIA HOWARD, “Lottie” was born in Alaska in 1892. Legend has it that she was kidnapped and brought to Kodiak as a child, where she married 1st Nicholai Rapin and had a son Frederick Rapin. After Nicholai died Lottie married Nicholas Nyman and they had several more children. Lottie’s son Frederick Rapin became known as Fred Nyman. In 1935 Lottie married Martin Peterson and they lived in Seldovia until his death in 1950.
FRED (RAPIN) NYMAN, born in Kodiak, December 11, 1907, died December 27, 1943 in Seldovia, as a result of drowning. He is buried in Seldovia City Cemetery, Plot 48, next to his half- brothers, MARTIN and TEDDY PETERSON.
Ellen, Ethel, Nick and Florence Nyman were all children living in the Jessie Lee Home in Seward, Alaska in 1930.
Martin and Lottie had six more children. Lottie was a midwife and delivered many of the babies in Seldovia. Martin died September 21, 1950 in Seldovia. He is buried in the Seldovia City Cemetery in Plot #29. Lottie moved back to Kodiak after the 1964 earthquake and died there in 1968.