Letter from afar gave family a “view to a shanghaiing”

Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 2 p.m.

Four states away from his family, with no living parents, young Carroll Beebe was like a walking, talking invitation to a shanghaiing.... And when he checked into Bridget Grant's boardinghouse, she wasn't slow to accept. (Astoria, Clatsop County; 1885) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1903c.carroll-beebe-shanghaied-539.html)