Primary Name: Smith, Edwin

Filed as: Smith, Edwin

Also known as: Edwin Smith

Occupation / Association: Newspaper editor; mining company owner; charter member, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Men’s Igloo

Associated places: Ohio; Sitka, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska

Keywords: Edwin Smith, Juneau Men’s Igloo charter member, Alaskan newspaper Sitka editor, Sitka Alaska journalism, Alaska mining companies 1890s

Biography

Edwin Smith was a charter member of the Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Men’s Igloo.

He was born in Ohio in May 1849. Smith came to Alaska in April 1892, during the early years of the territory’s mining and commercial development.

By 1897, he was serving as editor of the “Alaskan” newspaper in Sitka, Alaska, one of the important early publications in the region.

In the same year, he purchased William Millmore’s Mining Company, becoming involved in Alaska’s developing mining industry.

Sources

1910 U.S. Federal Population Census