Ramsey, Jane Middleton

Association: Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Igloo No. 6

Role: Charter Member

Biography

Jane Middleton Ramsey was a charter member of Juneau Igloo No. 6 of the Pioneers of Alaska.

She was born in May 1873 in Scotland.

Jane married James Ramsey on February 15, 1901, in Dundee, Scotland. James had immigrated to the United States in 1897 and prospected around Dawson in the Yukon Territory. After making a profitable strike, he moved to Treadwell, Alaska, where he accumulated enough money to return to Scotland to marry.

The couple returned to Alaska in 1901 and settled at Treadwell. News of a rich gold discovery at Cleary Creek near Fairbanks prompted another move, and the family relocated to the Fairbanks mining district. Their daughter, May Cleary Ramsey, was born there in 1907.

Jane later returned to Treadwell, where their son David Middleton Ramsey was born in 1908. Their third child, James Ramsey Jr., was born in September 1910.

Jane Middleton Ramsey died in Douglas, Alaska, in 1937.

Sources

• 1910 and 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Douglas, Alaska
• Douglas Island Weekly News, October 7, 1908; September 28, 1910
• Gastineau Channel Memories, Vol. 3, pp. 270–271