OVERLOOKED PEOPLE WHO DESERVE TO BE REMEMBERED
Solving the Mystery of Arne Pettersen, the Last to Leave Ellis Island
10 min readDec 21, 2020
Annie Moore and Arne Pettersen were Ellis Island’s bookends. An Irish teenager, Annie was the first to arrive when the immigration processing center opened its doors on January 1, 1892. 62 years later on November 12, 1954, Norwegian seaman Arne would be the last to…