Widner's 1906 Marriage Certificate.

ID: 5586 ~ Creator: Spokane County Auditor, Marriage Records, 1880-Present, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://digitalarchives.wa.gov, [accessed 05/06/2022].

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Abbie Widner left sex work in 1906, when she married W. A. Wyer. Little more is known of her life, but it was a long one, she died in 1964.

This file appears in: Sex Work in Early Spokane

Sex Work in Early Spokane

By Keith Shelton and the Spokane Historical Team

This building once housed one of the many popular brothels in the city of Spokane. One young prostitute, by the name of Abbie Widner, worked in this location that was then known as The Colonial Hotel. The Colonial was a three-story brick…