- Profiles of Karl and Wilhelmina "Minnie" von Pressentin, and their family of strapping frontier boys. From descendant Barbara Halliday. Also see Minnie's obituary below and the "Early days of Rockport" story in which we provide a brief profile of the von Pressentins in Germany and America.
Interviews with Paul Pressentin, updated from our old website, about the von Pressentin family, their arrival and life on the Birdsview homestead.
- Maurice Heitand's 1949 Mount Vernon Daily Herald story of when the Karl von Pressentin family arrived at Birdsview in 1878 from Manistee, Michigan, after stopping in Seattle. Includes description of very early Mount Vernon the year it began and a 1929 biography of Paul Pressentin.
- A 1949 Mount Vernon Daily Herald interview with Paul Pressentin about Karl Pressentin, his family and his role in the group that crossed the Cascade pass in 1877 in search of gold.
- John B. Neal's 1957 Skagit Valley Herald story of A.v. Pressentin's family of Sauk and Rockport, including sons Ed and Bert and the memories of his nephew Paul Pressentin. Includes the story of the sternwheeler captain who used slabs of bacon for fuel during a race on the Skagit River.
- Charlotte D. Widrig's 1961 Seattle Times interview with Paul Pressentin about his family's life on their Birdsview homestead and his mother's role as a pioneer wife and widow.
Otto K. von Pressentin, mountain man
 | This photo of an Indian canoe near Marblemount was taken by Darius Kinsey of Sedro-Woolley and appeared in Sebring's Illustrated magazine in 1902. See the story about Otto Pressentin and how he reacted to the 1897 Skagit River flood when he was a schoolteacher in Marblemount.
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- Otto K. Pressentin, son of the pioneer Birdsview family and practitioner of the arts of survival from Washington to Alaska. A brief profile and his biography from 1906. This is the introduction to a four-part series of stories about hiss adventures in Alaska and British Columbia, when he walked more than a thousand miles through mountains and wilderness from 1911 to 1921.
- April 24, 1958 article by Ray Jordan about Otto's early years in British Columbia as a fur trader, starting in 1911, and his initial trade with Indians who lived in the interior. Update April 2006: we have now found this complete article that started the series, from April 24, 1958. See the restored text.
- Otto K. Pressentin, Fur Trading, Part Two, May 1, 1958, another story by Ray Jordan that includes prices for goods and furs and details about his later years in the province through 1921.
- In 1958, Otto Pressentin recalled the 1897 Skagit River flood that wiped out several downriver towns and how he helped save the books and bell from the Marblemount School where he was teaching.
- A library of additional articles about the von Pressentin family.
Stories about other members of the von Pressentin family
- Skagit Bill and Rona Pressentin, salt-of-the-earth pioneers and their role in the town of Rockport, at the end of the line for the Great Northern railroad tracks.
- The late Charles "Chuck" Pressentins memory of his grandfather's [Karl/Charles] experience in California on his way to the Northwest from Michigan.
- Obituary of Minnie von Pressentin, 1945, wife of 1877 Birdsview pioneer Karl von Pressentin.
- Profiles of Ed V. Pressentin, Rockport pioneer and merchant.
- Part 2: Obituaries and other articles about Ed V. Pressentin, Updated from Issue 31: and his father, A.V. Pressentin, Karl's younger brother. Includes a brief recap of the von Pressentins in Germany and in the U.S. This story has been re-posted with a newspaper story from 1907.
- Tom Benton's 1965 history of Rockport and the role that his von Pressentin ancestors played in its birth.
- Otto Pressentin's ten years in British Columbia, hiking on foot and hunting and fishing all over the province, and walking from Washington to Alaska
Other stories that include von Pressentin information
- All stories in the Upriver Section of the Journal, in the region from Utopia near Minkler Lake, all the way east to the North Cascades mountain range, sorted by town.
- The Rockport Hotel burns in 1952; includes a history of its owners and role in Rockport, including the builder, A.v. Pressentin, Hugo Bauman and Will D. Bob Jenkins.
- The story of Bessie Porter's memories of upper Skagit river history, including the von Pressentin family.
- The story of Klement party crosses Cascade Pass in the 1870s with Karl von Pressentin and others.
- The story of old Sauk City on the south shore of the Skagit River and the first business of A.v. Pressention.
- The story of the August Kemmerich family, 1870s pioneers of Birdsview and neighbors of the von Pressentins
- See Barbara Halliday's fine website with genealogy and photos of her Kemmerich and von Pressentin ancestors and their homesteads in Birdsview, north and south of the Skagit River.
The Henry Martin family, closely associated with the von Pressentins
- A 1945 biography of the Henry A. Martin family by Susanna Kinney and excerpts of their genealogy
- Obituaries of Henry A. Martin and his wife, Katherine O'Connor Martin
- Two interviews with Fred Martin, son of Henry and a state senator and administrator, one from 1979 in the Concrete Herald and another from 1959 in the Puget Sound Mail, which featured his remarks at the annual Historical Society picnic.
- How upriver Skagit Catholics organized their own services in private homes and then built their own mission church, led by Katharine and Henry Martin of Illabot creek.
- More von Pressentin stories will be added over the next few months.
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