Edith was the oldest of the four children of James Monroe Kelty (1842-1919) and his wife Sarah "Maria" Scott (1847-1901). Edith's mother came west from Illinois with a wagon train over the Oregon Trail in 1852. Maria's sister Abigail (Scott) Duniway, who would become a well known figure in Oregon history, kept a diary of the trip which has been published. Their brother Harvey, another well known Oregonian, was a long-time editor of The Oregonian newspaper.
On July 15, 1891 in Lafayette, Oregon, Edith married Henry Haines Alderman (1863-1904). They had two children: Edith "Pauline" and Henry Haines II. In 1904, when Pauline was almost 11 and exactly 4 months before the birth of Henry II, Edith's husband took his own life. At the time he was the Sheriff of Oregon's Tillamook County. He was under great pressure from false accusations of embezzlement made against him because, according to family members, he refused to take part in a land fraud scheme for which a US Senator was later convicted and sentenced to prison. At the same time he was suffering from severe headaches. It is believed that the combination of these things led to his death.
After Henry's death, Edith and Pauline moved to Portland where Henry II was born. Edith's husband had purchased 150 acres of land on the Oregon coast from William Heitmiller in 1901. Edith divided the land into three 50-acre strips each consisting of beach front, meadowland and forest. She sold the southern strip, which became known as "Twin Rocks," to a development company. The northern strip was purchased by Portlanders Frank Fields, Eugene Hartmus of the Oregonian and Edith's cousin James McCord and was called "Salt Air." Edith kept the middle section which she named "Midway Beach." Later, Midway Beach, Twin Rocks, and a separate piece of property called Ocean Lake all became known as Twin Rocks.
On a very limited income, Edith managed to raise her two children and help them both complete their college educations. Pauline became a professor at the University of Southern California where, in 1946, she was the first to receive a PhD in Music. Pauline was a founder of that school's Department of Music History and Literature. Henry II was a reporter and editor at various newspapers and he owned and edited the Niles Register in Niles, California for a few years. He was an early employee of what was then called the Bonneville Project, now the Bonneville Power Administration. He left BPA as its Executive Officer and founded Ruralite Services in 1954 which still publishes a monthly magazine for members of electric cooperatives in the Northwest.
In her later years, Edith spent winters in California with her daughter Pauline returning to Portland in the summer where she lived with son Henry and his family in the house that Edith owned on Poplar Street in Ladd's Addition.
On July 15, 1891 in Lafayette, Oregon, Edith married Henry Haines Alderman (1863-1904). They had two children: Edith "Pauline" and Henry Haines II. In 1904, when Pauline was almost 11 and exactly 4 months before the birth of Henry II, Edith's husband took his own life. At the time he was the Sheriff of Oregon's Tillamook County. He was under great pressure from false accusations of embezzlement made against him because, according to family members, he refused to take part in a land fraud scheme for which a US Senator was later convicted and sentenced to prison. At the same time he was suffering from severe headaches. It is believed that the combination of these things led to his death.
After Henry's death, Edith and Pauline moved to Portland where Henry II was born. Edith's husband had purchased 150 acres of land on the Oregon coast from William Heitmiller in 1901. Edith divided the land into three 50-acre strips each consisting of beach front, meadowland and forest. She sold the southern strip, which became known as "Twin Rocks," to a development company. The northern strip was purchased by Portlanders Frank Fields, Eugene Hartmus of the Oregonian and Edith's cousin James McCord and was called "Salt Air." Edith kept the middle section which she named "Midway Beach." Later, Midway Beach, Twin Rocks, and a separate piece of property called Ocean Lake all became known as Twin Rocks.
On a very limited income, Edith managed to raise her two children and help them both complete their college educations. Pauline became a professor at the University of Southern California where, in 1946, she was the first to receive a PhD in Music. Pauline was a founder of that school's Department of Music History and Literature. Henry II was a reporter and editor at various newspapers and he owned and edited the Niles Register in Niles, California for a few years. He was an early employee of what was then called the Bonneville Project, now the Bonneville Power Administration. He left BPA as its Executive Officer and founded Ruralite Services in 1954 which still publishes a monthly magazine for members of electric cooperatives in the Northwest.
In her later years, Edith spent winters in California with her daughter Pauline returning to Portland in the summer where she lived with son Henry and his family in the house that Edith owned on Poplar Street in Ladd's Addition.
Edith was the oldest of the four children of James Monroe Kelty (1842-1919) and his wife Sarah "Maria" Scott (1847-1901). Edith's mother came west from Illinois with a wagon train over the Oregon Trail in 1852. Maria's sister Abigail (Scott) Duniway, who would become a well known figure in Oregon history, kept a diary of the trip which has been published. Their brother Harvey, another well known Oregonian, was a long-time editor of The Oregonian newspaper.
On July 15, 1891 in Lafayette, Oregon, Edith married Henry Haines Alderman (1863-1904). They had two children: Edith "Pauline" and Henry Haines II. In 1904, when Pauline was almost 11 and exactly 4 months before the birth of Henry II, Edith's husband took his own life. At the time he was the Sheriff of Oregon's Tillamook County. He was under great pressure from false accusations of embezzlement made against him because, according to family members, he refused to take part in a land fraud scheme for which a US Senator was later convicted and sentenced to prison. At the same time he was suffering from severe headaches. It is believed that the combination of these things led to his death.
After Henry's death, Edith and Pauline moved to Portland where Henry II was born. Edith's husband had purchased 150 acres of land on the Oregon coast from William Heitmiller in 1901. Edith divided the land into three 50-acre strips each consisting of beach front, meadowland and forest. She sold the southern strip, which became known as "Twin Rocks," to a development company. The northern strip was purchased by Portlanders Frank Fields, Eugene Hartmus of the Oregonian and Edith's cousin James McCord and was called "Salt Air." Edith kept the middle section which she named "Midway Beach." Later, Midway Beach, Twin Rocks, and a separate piece of property called Ocean Lake all became known as Twin Rocks.
On a very limited income, Edith managed to raise her two children and help them both complete their college educations. Pauline became a professor at the University of Southern California where, in 1946, she was the first to receive a PhD in Music. Pauline was a founder of that school's Department of Music History and Literature. Henry II was a reporter and editor at various newspapers and he owned and edited the Niles Register in Niles, California for a few years. He was an early employee of what was then called the Bonneville Project, now the Bonneville Power Administration. He left BPA as its Executive Officer and founded Ruralite Services in 1954 which still publishes a monthly magazine for members of electric cooperatives in the Northwest.
In her later years, Edith spent winters in California with her daughter Pauline returning to Portland in the summer where she lived with son Henry and his family in the house that Edith owned on Poplar Street in Ladd's Addition.
On July 15, 1891 in Lafayette, Oregon, Edith married Henry Haines Alderman (1863-1904). They had two children: Edith "Pauline" and Henry Haines II. In 1904, when Pauline was almost 11 and exactly 4 months before the birth of Henry II, Edith's husband took his own life. At the time he was the Sheriff of Oregon's Tillamook County. He was under great pressure from false accusations of embezzlement made against him because, according to family members, he refused to take part in a land fraud scheme for which a US Senator was later convicted and sentenced to prison. At the same time he was suffering from severe headaches. It is believed that the combination of these things led to his death.
After Henry's death, Edith and Pauline moved to Portland where Henry II was born. Edith's husband had purchased 150 acres of land on the Oregon coast from William Heitmiller in 1901. Edith divided the land into three 50-acre strips each consisting of beach front, meadowland and forest. She sold the southern strip, which became known as "Twin Rocks," to a development company. The northern strip was purchased by Portlanders Frank Fields, Eugene Hartmus of the Oregonian and Edith's cousin James McCord and was called "Salt Air." Edith kept the middle section which she named "Midway Beach." Later, Midway Beach, Twin Rocks, and a separate piece of property called Ocean Lake all became known as Twin Rocks.
On a very limited income, Edith managed to raise her two children and help them both complete their college educations. Pauline became a professor at the University of Southern California where, in 1946, she was the first to receive a PhD in Music. Pauline was a founder of that school's Department of Music History and Literature. Henry II was a reporter and editor at various newspapers and he owned and edited the Niles Register in Niles, California for a few years. He was an early employee of what was then called the Bonneville Project, now the Bonneville Power Administration. He left BPA as its Executive Officer and founded Ruralite Services in 1954 which still publishes a monthly magazine for members of electric cooperatives in the Northwest.
In her later years, Edith spent winters in California with her daughter Pauline returning to Portland in the summer where she lived with son Henry and his family in the house that Edith owned on Poplar Street in Ladd's Addition.
