Clarence "Cash" Cole was President of Juneau Men's Igloo in 1938.

Cole was born at Henderson Bay, Washington on February 12, 1891.

He moved to Treadwell with his parents when he was four years old. He was educated in Juneau public schools and attended the University of Minnesota.

After leaving college Mr. Cole entered the business field at Juneau where he engaged in draying, docking and contracting. He was the president and general manager of the Cole Transfer Company and local agent for the American Express Company.

He married Ruby C. Worth in Juneau on March 7, 1915. They had three sons, James Cash Cole on June 25, 1916, Thomas Phillip Cole on June 23, 1917 and Jerry Worth Cole on March 22, 1926.

At some point prior to 1940 he was divorced from Ruby. He re-married on January 20, 1945 to Ruth Marcella Marsh Gudbranson.

He was elected to the 5th House of Representatives Territorial Legislature in 1921 and reelected to the 6th House, where he was elected Speaker. He served as Territorial Auditor from 1929 to 1932 .

He was a Republican and member of the Elks.

Cash Cole died on November 8, 1959 in Bellingham, Washington.

Biographies of Alaska Yukon Pioneers 1850-195'0 Vol 3, p. 66 Ed Ferrell.

Charles H. Cosgrove was a charter member of the Juneau Men's Igloo.

Cosgrove was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, 52 years ago. He attended public schools in that city and after being graduated entered Holy Cross College at Worcester, Massachusetts. He completed his collegiate course there in 1893 and the same year entered the law school of Boston University, from which he was graduated in 1897. He practiced in Massachusetts for a short time and then migrated to the west, called by the pioneer spirit.

After a short residence in Seattle he joined the stampede to Nome in 1899, where he remained for one season, after which he came to Southeastern Alaska, settling in Ketchikan in 1901..

In 1904, Mr. Cosgrove and Miss Margaret Whalen of Seattle were married. They had three sons and one daughter.

Charles Cosgrove served several years as the City Attorney, City Clerk and Magistrate of the City of Ketchikan.

He was a Catholic, a Democrat, and Elk and a member of the Arctic Club of Seattle.

He died in Ketchikan on May 15, 1923.

Ketchikan Alaska Chronicle; Ketchikan, Alaska; May 15-17, 1923
The Alaska Daily Empire; Juneau, Alaska; May 16-17, 1923

Wallis George was a charter member of the Juneau Men's Igloo.

George was born on September 15, 1891 at Park City Utah, son of Martin and Caroline George. He was educated in the public and high schools of Juneau. A former high school teacher once described him as “a dreamy eyed youngster with a quick answer to questions asked him.”

The youth had the ambition and the foresight to learn something about commercial administration in the Portland, Oregon Business College.

In 1911, he began his own career in Juneau as a bookkeeper in the B.M. Behrends store and bank. After about a year, Mr. George engaged in a furniture business which he sold in 1918, and returned for a short time to the Behrends Bank, for this was very short of help due in part to World War I conditions. Shortly afterwards he went with the Juneau Cold Storage Company, as bookkeeper.

This was the turning point for Mr. George was quickly impressed with the commercial possibilities of cold storage in connection with the fishing industry. The original plant of the Juneau Cold Storage Company was less than two hundred thousand pounds capacity. He found associates and the needed capital and the Juneau Cold Storage Company initiated an expansion program. Additions were made to its plants that increased capacity to four million pounds. In 1945 plans were under completion to increase this to nine million pounds.

Wallis S. George is an important buyer of fish and other products for firms in San Francisco, California, Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, New York City and other large centers of population in the United States. He likewise represents the Coca-Cola Company, one of the only two agents in southeastern Alaska, and is also a distributor of Olympia and Budweiser beverages.

He is one of the promoters of the Baranof Hotel and acts as its treasurer and secretary. Mr. George is the director of the First National Bank and is financially interested in other enterprises and organizations.

Fraternally he is affiliated with the Elks and Masons. He is a member of the Washington Athletic Club of Seattle as well as the Arctic Club there.

He was married first in 1913; Maybelle Burkland and they became parents of Wallis Searle Jr. (deceased) and Maybelle Louise George. Mr. George married (second) in 1945, Mrs. Alleine Council, who is the mother of a daughter, Carol Ann Council.

Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950, Volume 3, p 113-114, by Ferrell, Ed (May 1, 200

Harry J. Raymond was a charter member of the Juneau Men's Igloo.

Raymond born in New York State in 1871 and resided there into young manhood. He was a graduate pharmacist but did not follow that profession after coming west.

He came to San Francisco in 1895. There he met and became associated with Mr. McBride. It was through the latter that he came to Sum Dum in 1897 as storekeeper for the Sum Dum Mining Company.

In 1898 he returned to San Francisco and was married, bringing his wife back to Sum Dum.

He came to Juneau in 1901, making this his home while he represented Alaska for the largest wholesale hardware firm on the Pacific coast. In 1912 he organized the H.J. Raymond Company which was operated here until 1917. Later he was connected with the Alaskan Hotel.

In 1923 he went to Bell Island Hot Spring near Ketchikan and opened a health resort. Selling out there in 1925, he returned here and went to Baranof where he opened a general merchandise business and hot springs.

In his residence there, Mr. Raymond took an active part in civic as well as business affairs. He was a member of the City Council a number of times. He was also active in the Elks Lodge for many years.

Mr. Raymond passed away in Juneau, Wednesday, December 26th from effects of blood poisoning, originating from a slight injury received some two weeks ago. He was 57 years of age, and is survived by a widow.

Daily Alaska Empire, December 26, 1928
Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950, Volume 1, p 260-261, by Ed Ferrell, May 1, 2009

John T. Spickett was a charter member of the Juneau Men's Igloo and was President  in 1924, 1925, 1926, 1930. Spickett was Grand President of the Grand Igloo of Pioneers of Alaska for two years.

Spickett was born in Bristol England, January 4, 1858. He came to the United States with his parents in 1870. When he was six years old, the family moved to Detroit, Michigan.

Attracted by the theatrical profession in his youth, John was both a performer and manager-producer. He made two trips to England as a member of Haverly’s Minstrels and in 1891; he had an amusement concession at the Chicago World’s Fair.

In 1896, John Spickett organized a touring company and performed at the Juneau Opera House. Leaving Alaska, he went to California and toured the state for two years.

While in California, he married Josephine Charlotte Clark in Sacrament. He and his wife returned to Juneau in 1898 to make their home.

Spickett’s first business venture in Juneau was to purchase the Franklin Hotel in 1899, aka the Occidental Annex on Front and Main streets which he conducted until 1905. He then opened a liquor and cigar stand across the street.

Being a staunch Republican, Mr. Spickett was appointed postmaster of Juneau in 1908 and served in that capacity until 1912. In connection with the post office, Mr. and Mrs. Spickett conducted a newsstand and music house. After his term as postmaster, he sold his newsstand to James Barragar and entered the moving picture business.

He opened the Orpheum Rooms, at Main and Willoughby Avenue, which at that time was the finest theater in Alaska. After securing his pictures and starting his show house, Mr. Spickett secured the agency of the Canadian National Railways which he held for a number of years.

After closing the Orpheum, he operated the Dream and the Palace, the former being closed and the latter sold to Lawrence Kubley. Mr. Spickett retired from active business life, after a long and successful theatrical career.

In politics Mr. Spickett was a Republican and was Chairman of the Republican territorial Committee.

Mr. Spickett was the first member to be initiated in Juneau Lodge No. 420 B.P.O. Elks, of which he was a life member, and always took an active part in lodge work, until his health failed. He was one of the first secretaries and through his efforts in the early days, kept the lodge together. Until recent years he always had charge of the minstrel shows of the Elks and the last minstrel show was dedicated to him.

John T. Spickett died in Juneau, Alaska on July 31, 1932.

Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950, Volume 2 p 302 – 304, by Ed Ferrell (May 1, 2009

John "Tom" Stephens was a charter member of the Juneau Men's Igloo.

Stephens came to Juneau first in 1885 from his home in upper New York State.

Although he was a carpenter by trade, he prospected most of the time while in the North. He first went to the interior during the gold rush of 1897 and three years later went to Nome where he remained for about four years, prospecting and working his trade.

From 1904 to 1920 his home was in Juneau. In 1920 the Juneau Elks Lodge wished to send Mr. Stephens to the
Elk’s Home in the states but he refused to leave Alaska preferring to spend his last days in the Pioneers Home in Sitka where he died on April 11, 1927.

He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.

Daily Alaska Empire, April 13, 1927

Josias Tanner was a charter member of the Juneau Men's Igloo.

Tanner was born in Oakland County, Michigan on February 22, 1850. His grandfather served in the Revolutionary War, having enlisted when fifteen years old. A brother of Senator Tanner’s grandfather, William Tanner was a member of the bodyguard of President George Washington at the time an attempt was made by the British and Tories, to capture the First President.

“Senator Si,” as Alaskans affectionately refer to the Skagway solon, is serving his second term in Alaska’s law-making assembly.

Senator Josias Martin Tanner started out in life to be a miner. When he was twenty years of age, he left his home in Michigan and went to Central City, Colorado, then one of the famous mining camps of Gilpin county. Young Tanner worked in the gold mines and mills of Colorado for four years.

In 1871 he was married to Miss Juliette Valentine, sister of Former Mayor Emery Valentine of Juneau. To the union three children were born, two girls, who are now married and living in Tacoma, Wash., and a son, Fred Tanner who is associated in business with his father at Skagway. The family moved to Tacoma, where Mr. Tanner was engaged in the contracting business.

In 1896 he took a position in Emery Valentine’s general store located in Juneau.

He moved to Skagway in July, 1897, during the Dawson excitement, and has lived in the Gem City ever since. He was in charge of the Vigilantes, organized to preserve the peace and dignity of Skagway. The secret organization disbanded after the reign of terror created by the notorious outlaw, Soapy Smith. Organized lawlessness at Skagway culminated in Smith’s death on July 8, 1898.

For his executive ability and coolness during the time his men were endeavoring to drive Smith’s gang from the city, Mr. Tanner was appointed Deputy United States Marshal by Marshal J. M. Shoup. He served in that capacity for two years.

He was for five years a member of the Skagway City Council, and thrice served the city as mayor. He also was municipal magistrate for a term of five years.

Senator Tanner is an Elk, Oddfellow, and the Arctic Brotherhood.

He is owner of a hardware store, and is interested in the Home Power Co. of Skagway.

Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950, Volume 2 p321-322, by Ed Ferrell (May 1, 2009
Alaska Digital Archives, James Joseph Connors Photograph Collection PCA 457

The Governor's Mansion was designed by James Knox Taylor. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, then serving as the first Supervisory Architect for the U.S. Treasury Department.

Taylor utilized design premises which had succeeded in Eighteenth Century English and American Colonial country houses.

These houses were designed to produce the most usable space for the cost, with facilities to perform the formal institutional functions required, and spaces amenable to formal and informal living under the same roof.

The examples he appeared to have followed had succeeded in performing these functions. The modifications he designed into this building succeeded admirably. An additional virtue of his design is that it permitted the basic building to be constructed and pressed into full service, with additional finishing construction, furnishing and decorating accomplished over a long period of time, as funds and authorization were provided.

An Act of June 6, 1900, provided that the temporary seat of government for the District of Alaska would be established in Juneau "when suitable grounds and buildings are available." From the passing of this 1900 Act by Congress until the Mansion was completed and occupied in 1913, a series of events—dramatic when considered as a totality moved forward the concept of more self-government for the Territory.

Continued Congressional attention to Alaska resulted in an Act for the Protection of Game, June 7, 1902; an Act Creating Road Districts and Providing for Road Overseers, April 27, 1904; the long-sought Delegate in Congress Act, May 8, 1906. The site of the building had been reserved in 1911 by Executive Order of the President, Number 1331. The Second Organic Act, August 24, 1912 provided that the capital of the Territory ". . .shall be at Juneau."

The Governor's Mansion, already under construction when the Act became law, thus became the first public building constructed for the new permanent capital of the Territory. The Alaska Governor's Mansion was first occupied by the Territorial Governor, Walter E. Clark, and his family, on January 1, 1913.

The Act also created a legislature of twenty-four members—two Senators and four Representatives from each of the four judicial division—to convene "at the capitol at the city of Juneau, Alaska on the first Monday in March in the year nineteen hundred thirteen, and on the first Monday in March every two years there after." The first legislature convened in space rented in the local Elks Club hall.

Juneau was a busy community. It had been founded as a mining camp, and had flourished as a result of the mines on both sides of Gastineau Channel and the marine commerce spawned by traffic between the lower states and the greater Alaska to the north and west.

A. H. Humpheries, an official of one of the mines recalls what Juneau was like in the era when the Governor's Mansion was under construction and the Territorial Government was about to begin full operation in the town, "Juneau in 1912 was alive and booming.

I had gone there from "The Westward" as we called it, out around Cordova and Valdez, after two memorable years in the Kennecott copper and Valdez trail country. ...men were shaved and groomed. Businessmen were in city clothes. A great treat to us was to see women and children on the streets and in the stores. ...the streets were thronged with pedestrians on the sidewalks. Horsedrawn vehicles threaded the centers.

I had spent five years in New York City. It never appeared to me so civilized as Juneau did that first day in 1910. The stores were busy, and displayed good merchandise.

Both the raised sidewalks and the streets in the main part of the city were of planking. They were very clean with streams from fire-hose nozzles. There was an efficient sewer system, ample electricity, and a telephone exchange with "hello girls" who would trace a party for you anywhere they could be reached. ...

The morning following our arrival, after breakfasting..., we sought out the source of the town's activity—the office of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Co., in the Valentine Building . . . and walked out with jobs. My friend was to work with Herman Tripp at Sum Dum Mine. ...Ed Russell published the "Dispatch." . . . "The Juneau Empire"... later, founded by John F. Strong and John W. Troy, . . .They had been associated in Nome with the "Nugget," and much later became governors of the Territory. ...

There was a staff-house with "private mess" down by Gold Creek at the foot of the tram and a big bunkhouse and a mess hall up the hill near the mine.... The mine was in the development and construction stages. Everybody in the organization was new and came from some other place.... ...the Alaska Gastineau mine was being developed for 6.000 tons of ore daily output.

The Alaska Juneau Mine, with an even more modern reduction plant, was planned for 10,000 tons a day, while across the channel the thirty-year-old Treadwell Mine properties were producing enough ore to keep some 2.000 stamps continuously pounding it to pulp 363 days a year. All this activity made the Juneau-Douglas operations for a short time at least, rank as the hard-rock miners' capital of the world....

I was thirty in 1913.... The very recollection of . . . that period fills me with pleasure. We can never recover the feeling we had toward each other in that distant simple age. The nearest I can think of to parallel it, would be a cruise ship that had been long enough at sea for everybody to get acquainted. We had a feeling of being of the world, but separated by time and distance. We were constantly refreshed by the arrival of new people from "below." ... at that period I had never met an adult Caucasian born in Alaska....

In 1912, the only automobile in town was Bart Thane's official Model T. It was chauffeur operated. The streets seemed full of horse-drawn vehicles, buggies, delivery wagons, big Studebaker ranch wagons, a lot of them designed so runners could be substituted for wheels when snow descended on the town. The freighters used "common sense" bob sleds in winter. There was no snow removal at that time. We just tromped it down and wore it out.

There was no radio, and no television in that distant age. But there was plenty of diversion in the big social hall for those off shift. We formed the Ptarmigan Club, and invited the whole town to a house warming dance when the place was opened for business....

It was almost the last stand in Alaska and in the West of the now forgotten art of driving workhorses. . . a string of five or six four-horse or six-horse teams, hitched to heavy Studebaker wagons, loaded high and safety-lashed, teamsters sitting on top or even standing precariously for a better view fore and aft with a handful of lines, would pull out of Willoughby Avenue at a fast walk along Front Street and then, with infinite care make the sharp turn up Seward—hoofs pounding, chains rattling, harness creaking, wheels rumbling, every axle speaking its piece—the leaders prancing proudly with necks arched under their reached manes. One team after another, that was the scene twice a day for several years. . . .

Jay Hayes, Alaska Road Commission superintendent . . . had to keep roads up without money.... By 1915 a few more autos appeared on the streets, plus a few delivery trucks. . . . Cash Cole bought a little red Model T.  Doc Loussac, the druggist, had a black one shipped up....

Juneau was a busy seaport with big cargo and passenger ships docking nearly everyday and sometime three or four...."

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