IRINIA “ELLEN” PAVLOFF CHEROSKY CALLAHAN
The daughter Dan Callahan adopted when he married Ellen, Axinia and Helen Cherosky, would later become well-respected citizens. Axinia married Nels Rasmussen, a Circle-based teamster like her stepfather, and raised a large family there. Helen, who remained single, became a schoolteacher and the first Native woman in Alaska to own an automobile. She also was the first member of the Doyon Corporation under the Alaska Native Land Claims Act.
UAF, Helen Roselle Lindberg Collection, #93-151-442N.