The Tragic End of a Lummi Island Pioneer
F. F. Lane, the first white resident of Lummi Island, has died following a logging accident near his home at age 77.
F. F. Lane, one of the historic characters of the Northwest, is dead as the result of being crushed by a rolling log while clearing land near his home. Lane made the overland journey in a 'prairie schooner' from Boston to Bellingham Bay in 1855. He settled on Lummi Island, being the first white resident on the island. He was 77 years of age.
“F. F. Lane, one of the historic characters of the Northwest, is dead as the result of being crushed by a rolling log.”
Lane's death in a logging accident highlights the perilous nature of land clearing and pioneer life in the 19th-century Pacific Northwest, where individual enterprise often took place in isolated and dangerous conditions.
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