Ramsey, Jane

Jane RamseyJane Middleton was a Charter Member of Juneau Igloo No. 6

She was born in May 1873 in Scotland.

She married James Ramsey on February 15, 1901 in Dundee. James had immigrated to the United States in 1897 and prospected around Dawson, Yukon Territory. He had a profitable strike and then moved to Treadwell where he amassed enough to return to Scotland to be married. He and Jane returned to Treadwell in 1901.

Word of a rich discovery of gold at Cleary Creek, near Fairbanks, sparked another move and James and Jane moved to Cleary. Their daughter May Cleary was born there in 1907. Jane returned to Treadwell and their son David Middleton was born there in 1908. Their third child James Jr was born in September 1910.

Jane died in Douglas in 1937.

1910/1920 U.S. Federal Census Douglas; Douglas Island Weekly News 10-7-08, 9-28-1910; Gastineau
Channel Memories; Vol .3 p. 270-271.