The Alaska daily empire., 1915-10-28
ACCOUNT o.F
 WEDDING OF
 BISHOP ROWE

WEDDING OF
 BISHOP ROWE
 Seattle PostIntelligoncer)
 Bt Rev Peter Trimble Rowe Epis copal bishop oi Alaska and Miss Rose Fullerton. @ trained nurse Of Seattle were married ss high noon yesterday at st. Marks churcl by Rev E. Vin- cent shayier
 Leo Rowe. son or ihe bishop and two friends. Dr. Frederick c. Parker and C. E. Horton, were the only per. sons present Bishop and Mrs. Rowe win be at home for week at Rich. mond Highlands before starting out on honeymoon trip over Che coun- try. In six weeks they win leave for Cordova. Seward Anchorage and other Southwestern Alaska points.
 The wedding of Bishop Rowe, who ies one of the most remarkable cler. gymeo che North has ever seen, came as a surprise to an oi his friends. He returned Wednesday night from Q nine months trip that took him by launch up and down the Yukon Roy uiiull and Panama rivers. by dogsled over the snow-covered tundras as far north as Point Barrow and thence on the coast guard cutter Bear to the Asiatic coast Several weeks were spent in Nome before he came south to Seattle and his bride Re is 5SI years old and his bride yesterday con. fessed modestly being S6 years.
 Wife a Church Worker
 Mrs. Rowe, nee Miss Fullerton has been connected with hospital work for many years. She is a niece of Bishop Pinkham. of Canada. Trinity Parish church knew her for a num- ber of years as an active worker in the choir and in boys activities Her brother was at one time lay reader at Trinity. and @ sister. Dora Fuller ton. was graduated as nurse from the city hospital She worked in @ missionary hospital at KetehilSan for three ,ears when falling health caus- ed her to return to Seattle. She stay ed at the home of Bishop and Mrs. Rowe for some time and when Mrs. Rowe became ui acted as compan- ion and nurse to aer. She nursed Mrs. Rowe up to tho time of her death in May 1914
 Few men in Alaska are known SO widely and SO well as Bishop Rowe ! who came from Michigan to take full ! charge of the Northern territory in ! 1896 He is Q full-blooded American, ! genuine. forceful and unassuming with ! a good sense of humor Sourdoughs ! and natives alike know him first as @ man. next as Q minister of tho gos- pei. He Is as much at home in the kayak of the Eskimo and on the ! deck of an Arctic whaling vessel as he is mushing over the Alaskan trails behind team of malamute dogs
 Headquarters at Sitka
 For years he made his headQuart- CTS at Sitlla. Che old Russian capital of the Territory. Now he maintains a home and office in Seattle as well, although he Is not outside more than few weeks during the year
 Countless times tempting offers have come from big Eastern dioceaes to Bishop Rowe but his answer has always been mo- As he expressed it few years ago. "I like Alaska love my work and ! love to be out in the open. do not mind long trips. in fact love to drive my dog teams hundreds Of miles even in the dead of winter"
 Tn 1896 before the great Klondike gold rush Bishop Rowe mushed in- to the interior over Chilkoot Pass. un- dergoing hardships for the sake of Christianity and his fellow men that none other would attempt except for personal gain. He has visited ey- cry little village and settlement in Alaska from Metlakahtla to Point Barrow, even reaching over to the Siberian coast on several occasions.
 Known in Every Village
 There is hardly an Eskimo village that has not known bis presence, and ! Bishop Rowe. mushing alone over the blizard.swept trails of the North with his dog team has been a familiar sign for nineteen years. In 1904 he made what was then Q record hush. travelling by dog team and sleds 200O miles over almost virgin country in the heart of winter He was on snow shoes from the time he left Nuhinh- kayet. on the Yukon until he reached i Fairbanks. freezing his fingers and otherwise suffering from the intense cold
 Scores of times has has been in im- mlnent danger of losing his life. He has been capslzed h raging rivers while shooting rapids. he has been chased by timber wolves and caught in innumerable 5ii.zards. Though some of his escapes have been hair breadth affairs, none has shaken his nerve.
 Trouble oniy Once
 His first and only trouble with Inc dians. which almost spelled tho finish of his work in the North. came in his first year A lost and halcstarved ! Indian staggered into camp one night Bishop Rowe took him to his own camp and then got away by threaten ing the Indian with @ rifle They want ed an outfit Later some of the ln- dians were hanged for killing white man.
 Mrs. Rowe has announced her inc tention of following wherever the strenuous outdoor bishop may lead,