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Ud Ph€» - Tb,Bohm building was on the east side 01 Msksouloff Street a short distance be low Lincoln. It had several differcn jwners and many different uses during the 72-years before it was awe? iwavin the disastrous fire of January J, 1966.‘..’Kfrtjfiname from its builder art ir* owner, Paul Bohm. As did a lot rf other men, Paul Bohm came to Sit*ca as a member of the crew of the .JSS/PINTA, which was stationed lereirom 1884 until 1897. Bohm waiGermany, in L853 and had learned the brewer's rade by the time he came to Newfork in 1883. He enlisted in the ***** to the West Coast andasigned to the PINTA. He was a uember of her crew when she first ar*iytiMjf Sitka Harbor in July 1884.Bohm .was described oh the ship’s ouster roll as 5 feet 6 inches tall with W brown hair and a light ompiewoii. His enlistment, expired1886, but he sighed up or another three-year hitch. Then, on uly 29i l887j in the Russian Church,e married Maria Pctelui. She wasrobabiy the Mary Petelin listed in the “1 census as a widow, 32 years old, om on1: Kayak Island, and who may ave .been the mother of the Catherine eteliny Kho married Peter Trier-*icld,r another of the.PINTA’S crew.
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
Sitka, Alaska, US
Thu, Jan 29, 1998
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