Emma LeFevre was a Charter Member of the Juneau Igloo Auxilary No. 6

Emma Cooper Beall was born on December 23, 1835 in Howard, Wisconsin. She was the
daughter of Colonel Samuel Wooten. Beall and Elizabeth Fenimore Cooper. Colonel Beall was the
commander of a garrison at Fort Howard, Wisconsin and later acting governor of the Territory of
Wisconsin when his daughter was born.

Emma was the grand niece of James Fenimore Cooper and great granddaughter of Lewis Morris who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

She grew to womanhood in the West although given the educational advantages of the East.

Her husband, George Lefevre, to whom she was married on September 13,18SS, was a noted
plainsman and scout and for a time they made their home in Denver, Colorado when it was a mere trading post. The plainsman and scout later became a judge in Colorado.

It was there they were living in 1867 when Mrs. Lefevre became ill and her husband sent her with their son and only child, Henry Belfield to Berne, Switzerland for treatment at the famous baths.

Judge Lefevre died on July 30, 1871 and his wife and son returned to America, settling in Oregon.

While essentially a woman of the frontier, Mrs. Lefevre was a writer of more than ordinary ability and at the same time a ravenous reader. She always manifested a keen interest in political
affairs and even during her later years she had a thorough knowledge of what was going on not
only in political circles but in social affairs generally.

From Oregon she came to Skagway, Alaska in 1898 and the north was thereafter her home. She
moved to Juneau in 1913.

Emma Lefevre died in Juneau, Alaska on June 30, 1926. She is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.

Biographies of Alaska Yukon Pioneers; Vol. 3; p 193; Ed Ferrell; Alaska Daily Empire 6-20-1926; Alaska Daily Empire 6-30-1926; 1910 U.S. Federal Census Skagway, Find a Grave Website

The first elected queen, Gussie Byington, made a homemade crown that was used 1980-1983. After that a metal and jeweled crown was purchased for the Queen Regent.

The King Regent was presented with a gold-plated No. 2 "muck stick" or round-pointed shovel for the Royal Scepter, and he has always worn a black derby hat of felt material. In mid-1987 materials were purchased and the auxiliary made new King and Queen Regent robes. None had been used before this date.

Each year the names of the King and Queen Regent of that year are engraved on small brass plates, and are attached to the shovel handle.

The first gold colored round-pointed shovel was used by then Gov. Bill Sheffield and Grand President Max Wells at the ground breaking ceremony of the Juneau Pioneers Home on
September 25, 1986.

Walter Eli Clark is a charter member of the Juneau Men's Igloo.

Clark of Connecticut (Republican), Seventh Governor of Alaska (1909-1913) was born Ashford, Connecticut, January 7, 1869.

He graduated from Connecticut State Normal School at New Britain in 1887. During the following year Mr. Clark was principal of the grammar school at Manchester, Conn. He then entered Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., and later was a student at Wesleyan University, Conn.

From which institution he was graduated with the degree of PH.D., in 1895. Following graduation he entered upon a career as a journalist and has followed this profession continuously with the exception of a period which he spent in Alaska.

Following are some of the positions he has held: Report Hartford, Conn. Post, 1895; telegraph editor Washington
Times, 1895-96; Washington correspondent New Your Commercial Advertiser, 1897; assistant to Washington correspondent New York Sun, 18997-1909; Washington correspondent Seattle Post-46 Intelligencer, 1900-1909; Washington correspondent New York Commercial and Toronto Globe, 1904-1909. Since 1914 Mr. Clark has been editor and proprietor of the Charleston, West Virginia Daily Mail.

Clark joined the stampeders to Nome in 1900 and spent the season there engage in mining. He made, in all, three visits to Alaska prior to his appointment as governor. Southeastern Alaska was visited during the summer of 1903. In 1906, he made a four months journey through Alaska by way of Whitehorse, Dawson, and the Yukon River. He made the journey from Tanana up the Tanna River to Fairbanks and again returned to the Yukon River which he traversed to its mouth, thence to Nome.

Clark was appointed as Governor of Alaska by President Taft in May 1909, and took the oath of office at Juneau on October first of that year. He served until 1913, when he returned to the States and became editor and proprietor of the Charleston Daily Mail.

He died in Charleston Feb 4, 1950.

Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950, Volume 3, p 62-63, by Ferrell, Ed (May 1, 2009)

Governor John Strong was a charter member of the Juneau Men's Igloo.

Strong was born in Salmon Creek, New Brunswick, Canada on October 15, 1856. He graduated from the New Brunswick Normal School in 1874. After graduation he spent the next fourteen years working as a store owner and teacher throughout the province.

On December 31, 1879 he married Elizabeth A. Aitkens of Fredericton, New Brunswick. The marriage produced three children.

Major Strong was a newspaper man by profession. He had been identified with newspapers in Spokane, Bellingham, Seattle, and Tacoma for many years.

In 1896 he married Miss Anna Hall of Seattle, and the next year, 1897, the couple went north to Skagway, the gateway to the Klondike goldfields.

His objective point was the Klondike, but Skagway was booming in those days and he was soon engaged in writing editorials for an embryo newspaper that had been started there.

“Soapy” Smith and his gang reigned supreme at that time, and the law-abiding citizens were beginning to make a noise like they intended to do something to remedy the evils then rampant. What was needed was editorial support on the part of a newspaper. With Major Strong at the helm, that need was adequately supplied.

An emissary of “Soapy” called on the Major and made a proposition. He said that if the Major would “lay off” he
was authorized to say that a hundred dollar bill would be found on the Major’s editorial desk each and every morning. But nothing doing. The editorial attack on the Smith gang only increased in vigor. The result is well known to all old-timers.

In 1899, Major and Mrs. Strong headed for the Klondike. The Major tried prospecting for a while but had no luck. He was soon in newspaper work again, on the Dawson News.

In 1899, he went to Nome, where in the early spring of 1900, he established the Nome Nugget which he ran
successfully for many years.

Leaving Nome, the Major established a newspaper in Iditarod; then went to Katalla and started a newspaper there, and later came outside and established a paper in a mining camp in Arizona.

The call of the North soon found him back in Alaska, where he founded the Alaska Daily Empire in November 1912. He sold this newspaper when he was appointed governor under the Wilson administration.

President Woodrow Wilson nominated Strong to become Governor of Alaska Territory on April 17, 1913. The nomination was in keeping with a 1912 Democratic plank calling for territorial governors to be area residents. The new governor was sworn into office on May 21, 1913.

Soon after becoming governor, Strong was faced with a financial crisis. The territory's salmon canneries, claiming the recently enacted tax on canned salmon was illegal, refused to pay. The tax was a major source of income for the territory and the lack of funds thus created severely limited Strong's ability to implement development projects. This issue continued until after the governor left office.

Significant legislation signed into law by Governor Strong included the granting of United States citizenship to members of the indigenous population that gave up tribal life, implementation of workers' compensation, and the United States' first old age pension, authorization of a territorial university, and creation of a Board of Education.

Additionally, in 1917, the voters in the territory approved a prohibition referendum. Other changes affecting the territory were the authorization for construction of the Alaska Railroad in October 1914, loosening of federal controls on road building and coal mining, and creation of Mount McKinley National Park in 1917.

President Wilson declined to reappoint Strong to a second term as governor and his final day in office came in April 1918. According to U.S. Senator, and Alaskan history expert, Ernest Gruening this was because the President has been given information indicating the Canadian-born Strong had never been naturalized as a United States Citizen.

J.F.A. Strong died in Seattle, Washington, July 27, 1929.

Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950, Volume 2 p 309-310, by Ed Ferrell (May 1, 2009
Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950, Volume 3 p 282-283, by Ed Ferrell (May 1, 2009

John Franklin Alexander Strong (October 15, 1856 – July 27, 1929) was a British North America-born journalist who was the second governor of Alaska Territory from 1913 to 1918.

John Franklin Alexander Strong was born in Salmon Creek,^{[citation needed]} a small farming community in Queens County, New Brunswick, British North America on October 15, 1856, the son of Adam Robert and Janet (Nicholl) Strong. He graduated from the New Brunswick Normal School in 1874. After graduation he spent the next fourteen years working as a store owner and teacher throughout the province. On December 31, 1879, he married Elizabeth A. Aitkens of Fredericton, New Brunswick. The marriage produced three children: Jane, Elizabeth, and Robert. He committed bigamy^[1] in 1896 when he wed Anna Hall of Tacoma, Washington.^[2]