Primary Name: Day, Hugh
Filed as: day_hugh
Also known as: Hugh Day
Occupation / Association: Miner; mail carrier; Charter Member, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Men’s Igloo No. 6
Born: c. 1863, St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
Died: December 31, 1916, Douglas, Alaska
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Associated places: St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada; Killisnoo, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska; Taku route; Klondike; Douglas, Alaska; Tenakee Springs, Alaska
Keywords: Hugh Day, Day Hugh, Juneau Men’s Igloo charter member, Klondike gold rush miners, Taku mail route Alaska
Biography
Hugh Day was a charter member of the Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Men’s Igloo No. 6.
Day was a native of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada. He came to Alaska when he was about twenty-one years of age and first settled in Killisnoo.
He later carried mail from Juneau to the interior via the Taku route. During the Klondike Gold Rush, he joined the large rush northward and located a rich claim, but lost it through speculation.
A day later returned to Douglas. His property was destroyed in the great Douglas fire of 1911, but he rebuilt and continued his life in the community. A few years before his death, he moved to Tenakee Springs.
In December 1916, he entered the hospital for treatment of a head injury, which he had originally received in a street fight when he was seventeen years old. The injury had caused him considerable trouble in later years. While in the hospital, he went into convulsions and died.
Hugh Day died in Douglas, Alaska, on December 31, 1916, at the age of fifty-three.
Sources
Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850–1950, Vol. 5, pp. 77–78, Ed Ferrell (May 1, 2009)