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Eva McGown
Eva McGown ''née'' Montgomery (1883–1972), the "hostess of Fairbanks," was best known for her three decades helping newcomers, military wives, construction workers, students, and visitors to find shelter in Fairbanks, Alaska during periods of time — particularly World War II — when the demand for housing far oustripped supply. Named Official Hostess of Fairbanks and Honorary Hostess of Alaska, McGown was featured in an article in ''Reader's Digest'' and a broadcast of the popular biographical television program ''This is Your Life'', and was the basis for the character Bridie Ballantyne in the 1958 novel ''Ice Palace'' and its 1960 film adaptation. She died in 1972 in a fire in the Nordale Hotel, where she had lived the last 28 years of her life.
==Early life and marriage==
Eva Montgomery was born on June 23, 1883 in Antrim, County Antrim, Ireland. Little is known about her early life other than that she was director of a choir in Belfast in the early 1900s.〔University of Alaska. (n.d.) ("The Eva McGown Room." ) UA Highlights: The People Behind Campus Names. Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska. Reprinted from the ''Nanook News'' (student newspaper of University of Alaska Fairbanks), May 14, 1971. Retrieved on 2007-06-08.〕
In 1914, when she was 31, she came to the United States to marry Arthur Louis McGown, the part-owner of the Model Cafe in Fairbanks. Her travel from Belfast to Fairbanks included a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on what she later described as "a filthy boat"〔Patty, Stanton. (2005-05-14). ("Alaskan memories: A Fairbanks woman with a big heart of gold." ) ''Seattle Times''. Retrieved on 2007-06-08. Excerpted from ''Fearless Men and Fabulous Women: A Reporter's Memoir from Alaska & the Yukon'' by Stanton H. Patty (Kenmore, WA: Epicenter Press, 2004), pp. 171–175. ISBN 0-9745014-0-9.〕 and a cross-country journey by train to Seattle, where she boarded a steamer bound for Valdez, Alaska, followed by over a month's winter travel by horse-drawn sleigh and dogsled to Fairbanks, staying at roadhouses along the way.〔 "There were rough and tough men on the trail," Eva later remembered. "But never a cursing word did they say in my hearing. They gave me hot bricks for my feet and wrapped furs around me."〔 She arrived in Fairbanks on February 26, 1914, and was married to Arthur McGown that same evening.〔
Arthur became ill five years into their marriage and remained an invalid for the remainder of his life.〔Cole, Dermot. (2003). ''Fairbanks: A Gold Rush Town that Beat the Odds.'' Kenmore, WA: Epicenter Press, p. 197.〕 He died in 1930 of a bone tumor.〔
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