Smith, Richard

Born: 1866

Died: May 1901

Burial: Douglas Native Cemetery, Douglas, Alaska

Biography

Richard Smith was born in 1866 and lived during the early years of settlement and mining development in the Juneau–Douglas region of Southeast Alaska.

Smith died in May 1901 at the age of thirty-five. He was buried in the Douglas Native Cemetery, one of the historic burial grounds associated with the early residents of Douglas Island during Alaska’s territorial mining era.

The Douglas Native Cemetery contains the graves of many individuals connected with the Treadwell mining community and the diverse population that lived and worked in the Juneau–Douglas area at the turn of the twentieth century.

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