Henry Roden was President to Juneau Men's Igloo and Grand Igloo President in 1943.

Roden was in born on August 8, 1874 in Basel, Switzerland.

He came to Dawson and joined the stampeders to the Klondike in 1898 where he worked as a prospector, miner and wood cutter for the riverboats.

In 1902 he began studying law, by himself, and over the next four years memorized two law books and passed the Alaska Bar exam in 1906.

As he said "Alaska, the land of opportunity, here I come. I learned later it was a do it yourself deal".

He established a law office in Fairbanks and later served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in Fairbanks, Assistant U.S. Attorney in lditarod and as City Attorney of lditarod.

He was fondly known as "our Heine".

Henry was elected as a Senator to the First Alaska Territorial Legislature in 1913 and was reelected three times.

He married Margaret Kaapcke in Tacoma on January 22, 1917 and they lived in Juneau where he practiced law and was a fisherman and cannery-man. He was manager of the Republic Fisheries Company, that operated floating fish traps in Chatham Strait and owned the GS-foot gas fishing boat "Jugoslav". He was the President of Pelican Cold Storage and Company, and was co-founder of the City of Pelican.

In 1940 he was elected Attorney General for Alaska and served for four years. He was a territorial delegate to the U.S. Congress in 1944.

In 1949 he was called back from retirement to serve as Treasurer and was elected for another term. After that he served on the Board of Directors for the Pioneers Home in Sitka until statehood.

He and his wife moved to Seattle in 1958 due to her failing health. She died there in 1961.

At the age of 89 he was only semi-retired and living at the Savoy Hotel. He said he had more clients than ever but took no money from retired Alaskans who were living at the hotel.

Henry Roden died on June 5, 1966 in Seattle.

Ed Ferrell, Biographies of Alaska Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950 Vol 3, pp. 244-246.