Carlson, W.O.
Primary Name: Carlson, W. O.
Filed as: carlson_w_o
Also known as: W. O. Carlson
Occupation / Association: President, Juneau Men’s Igloo
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Associated places: Juneau, Alaska
Keywords: W O Carlson, Carlson W O, Juneau Men’s Igloo president 1944
Biography
W. O. Carlson served as President of the Juneau Men’s Igloo in 1944.
Sources
Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Men’s Igloo records
Tags: W O Carlson, Carlson W O, Juneau Men’s Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska
Keeny, Robert
Primary Name: Keeny, Robert M.
Filed as: keeny_robert_m
Also known as: Robert M. Keeny
Occupation / Association: President, Juneau Men’s Igloo (1937)
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Associated places: Juneau, Alaska
Keywords: Robert M Keeny, Keeny Robert M, Juneau Men’s Igloo President 1937, Pioneers of Alaska Igloo 6
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Robert M. Keeny served as President of the Juneau Men’s Igloo in 1937.
Sources
Pioneers of Alaska Men’s Igloo 6 records
Tags: Robert M Keeny, Keeny Robert M, Juneau Men’s Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska Igloo 6, Igloo President 1937
Morgan, Joseph
Primary Name: Morgan, Joseph
Filed as: morgan_joseph
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Occupation / Association: President, Juneau Men’s Igloo
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Associated places: Juneau, Alaska
Keywords: Joseph Morgan, Morgan, Juneau Men’s Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska Igloo 6, Igloo president 1929, Juneau Alaska pioneers
Biography
Joseph Morgan served as President of the Juneau Men’s Igloo in 1929.
Sources
Pioneers of Alaska Men’s Igloo 6 records
Tags: Joseph Morgan, Morgan, Juneau Men’s Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska Igloo 6, Igloo president 1929, Juneau Alaska pioneers
Carter, Charles W.
Primary Name: Carter, Charles W.
Filed as: carter_charles_w
Also known as: Charles W. Carter
Occupation / Association: President, Juneau Men’s Igloo (1935–1936); Juneau Volunteer Fire Department member; mail carrier
Born: 1870, Ontario, Canada
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Spouse: Alphonsine Carter
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Associated places: Ontario, Canada; Calgary, Alberta; Vancouver, British Columbia; Portland, Oregon; San Francisco, California; Skagway, Alaska; Atlin, British Columbia; Juneau, Alaska; Silver Bow Basin, Alaska; St. Michaels, Alaska; Katmai, Alaska
Keywords: Charles W Carter, Carter Charles W, Juneau Men’s Igloo President, Klondike stampeders, Alaska mail carriers
Biography
Charles W. Carter served as President of the Juneau Men’s Igloo in 1935 and 1936.
Carter was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1870. He left home at the age of seventeen and worked in Calgary, Alberta; Vancouver, British Columbia; Portland, Oregon; and San Francisco, California.
When news of the Klondike gold strike reached San Francisco, Carter headed for Seattle. He took passage on one of the ships bound north and landed on the beach at Skagway in August 1897.
He first worked backpacking supplies and later with a pack train over the Skagway and Dyea trails, particularly the White Pass Trail. When the railroad was completed to Lake Bennett, and packers were no longer needed, he tried his luck prospecting for gold in the Atlin area.
He moved south to Juneau in 1899, where he worked as a hotel clerk, bartender, undertaker, and deliveryman, and also performed assessment work on mining claims in the Silver Bow Basin.
Carter was a member of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department from 1899 until 1916.
In 1901, he accepted a contract to deliver United States mail between St. Michaels and Katmai. Carter left Juneau by steamship in September 1901 for Seattle, where he boarded the S.S. Roanoke on September 30 on the last northbound trip of the year.
The ship arrived on October 15 at St. Michaels, where Carter purchased a dog team and supplies. It was necessary to wait until December for favorable conditions to begin the 1,100-mile journey to deliver and collect the mail. During this time, he learned the art of driving and caring for a dog team.
He later married Alphonsine Carter.
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Survey and Inventory of Douglas Historic Cemeteries
Tags: Charles W Carter, Carter Charles W, Juneau Men’s Igloo, Klondike Gold Rush participants, Juneau Volunteer Fire Department
Carver, J. Nelson
Primary Name: Carver, John Nelson "Doc"
Filed as: carver_john_nelson_doc
Also known as: John Nelson Carver; Doc Carver; John "Doc" Carver
Occupation / Association: Charter Member, Juneau Men’s Igloo; prospector; teamster; Civil War veteran
Born: 1848, near Janesville, Wisconsin
Died: February 3, 1936, Juneau, Alaska
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Associated places: Janesville, Wisconsin; Juneau, Alaska
Keywords: John Nelson Doc Carver, John Carver Civil War veteran Juneau, Doc Carver Juneau pioneer
Biography
John Nelson “Doc” Carver was a charter member of the Juneau Men’s Igloo.
Carver was born near Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1848. At the age of sixteen, he enlisted as a private in Company L of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Cavalry during the Civil War. He served on the battlefront and mustered out of service on October 23, 1865.
Carver came to Juneau around the turn of the twentieth century and spent several years prospecting. For a time, he was employed in the printing shop of George Simpkins and also worked as a teamster for Juneau transfer companies.
As Juneau’s only Civil War veteran, “Doc” was always given a place of honor in the Memorial Day processions. The nickname “Doc” had been given to him many years earlier after Dr. Carver, the famous buffalo hunter.
He died in Juneau on February 3, 1936, at the age of eighty-eight.
Sources
Daily Alaska Empire, February 3, 1936
Tags: John Nelson Carver, Doc Carver, Carver John Nelson, Juneau Men’s Igloo, Civil War veterans in Alaska
Clark, Walter Eli
Primary Name: Clark, Walter Eli
Filed as: clark_walter_eli
Also known as: Walter E. Clark
Occupation / Association: Seventh Governor of Alaska (1909–1913); journalist; charter member, Juneau Men’s Igloo
Born: January 7, 1869, Ashford, Connecticut
Died: February 4, 1950, Charleston, West Virginia
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Associated places: Ashford, Connecticut; Juneau, Alaska; Nome, Alaska; Whitehorse, Yukon; Dawson, Yukon; Fairbanks, Alaska; Charleston, West Virginia
Keywords: Walter Eli Clark, Walter E Clark, Alaska territorial governor, Juneau Men’s Igloo charter member
Biography
Walter Eli Clark was a charter member of the Juneau Men’s Igloo and served as the seventh Governor of Alaska Territory from 1909 to 1913.
Clark, a Republican from Connecticut, was born in Ashford, Connecticut, on January 7, 1869. He graduated from the Connecticut State Normal School at New Britain in 1887 and, during the following year, served as principal of the grammar school in Manchester, Connecticut. He later attended Williston Seminary in East Hampton, Massachusetts, and Wesleyan University in Connecticut, from which he graduated with a Ph.D. degree in 1895.
Following graduation, he pursued a career in journalism, which he continued for most of his life, except for the time he spent in Alaska. His journalistic positions included reporter for the Hartford, Connecticut Post in 1895; telegraph editor for the Washington Times in 1895–1896; Washington correspondent for the New York Commercial Advertiser in 1897; assistant to the Washington correspondent for the New York Sun from 1897 to 1909; Washington correspondent for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1900 to 1909; and correspondent for the New York Commercial and the Toronto Globe from 1904 to 1909. Beginning in 1914, he served as editor and proprietor of the Charleston Daily Mail in Charleston, West Virginia.
Clark joined the stampede to Nome in 1900 and spent the season there engaged in mining. He made three visits to Alaska prior to his appointment as governor. During the summer of 1903, he visited southeastern Alaska, and in 1906, he undertook a four-month journey through Alaska by way of Whitehorse, Dawson, and the Yukon River. From Tanana, he traveled up the Tanana River to Fairbanks and returned again to the Yukon River, following it to its mouth and then on to Nome.
Clark was appointed Governor of Alaska by President William Howard Taft in May 1909 and took the oath of office at Juneau on October 1 of that year. He served until 1913, after which he returned to the United States and resumed his career as editor and proprietor of the Charleston Daily Mail.
Walter Eli Clark died in Charleston, West Virginia, on February 4, 1950.
Sources
Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950, Volume 3, pp. 62–63, by Ed Ferrell (May 1, 2009).
Tags: Walter Eli Clark, Walter E Clark, Alaska territorial governors, Juneau Men’s Igloo, Alaska pioneers
Clay, Levy L.
Primary Name: Clay, Levy L.
Filed as: clay_levy_l
Also known as: Levy L. Clay
Occupation / Association: Charter Member, Juneau Men’s Igloo
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Associated places: Juneau, Alaska
Keywords: Levy L Clay, Clay Levy L, Juneau Men’s Igloo charter member
Biography
Levy L. Clay was a charter member of the Juneau Men’s Igloo.
Sources
Pioneers of Alaska Men’s Igloo No. 6 Biographical Sketch
Tags: Levy L Clay, Clay Levy L, Juneau Men’s Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska
Cobb, John H.
Primary Name: Cobb, John H.
Filed as: cobb_john_h
Also known as: John H. Cobb
Occupation / Association: Attorney; first Attorney General of Alaska Territory; charter member, Juneau Men’s Igloo
Born: Texas
Died: December 23, 1925, Santa Barbara, California
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Associated places: Texas; Juneau, Alaska; Chichagof Island, Alaska; Santa Barbara, California
Keywords: John H Cobb, Cobb John H, Alaska Attorney General, Malony and Cobb law firm
Biography
John H. Cobb was a charter member of the Juneau Men’s Igloo.
Cobb came to Juneau in 1897 from his native state of Texas and began practicing law. Early in 1899, he formed a law partnership with John F. Malony, and for twenty years, the firm of Malony and Cobb was one of the leading law practices in Alaska.
In 1915, Governor John F. A. Strong appointed Cobb as the first Attorney General of the Alaska Territory. In 1916, he ran as an independent candidate for attorney general but was defeated by George B. Grigsby, the Democratic nominee.
In association with Judge John R. Winn, Cobb successfully argued the well-known lawsuit of John Tuppela against the Chichagoff Mining Company, involving title to some of the most valuable mining properties at Chichagof.
After the case was settled, Cobb moved with his family to California, where they resided in Santa Barbara.
John H. Cobb died in Santa Barbara on December 23, 1925.
Sources
Biographies of Alaska–Yukon Pioneers 1850–1950, Volume 2, p. 58, by Ed Ferrell (May 1, 2009).
Tags: John H Cobb, Cobb John H, Alaska Attorney General, Juneau Men’s Igloo, Malony and Cobb law firm
Davis, Cedric P. Montgomery
Primary Name: Davis, Cedric P. Montgomery
Filed as: davis_cedric_p_montgomery
Also known as: Cedric P. Montgomery Davis
Occupation / Association: Charter Member, Juneau Men’s Igloo; mariner; miner; U.S. Navy Quartermaster
Born: 1894, Juneau, Alaska
Died: 1977, Juneau, Alaska
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Spouse: Never married
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Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Crestof Island, Alaska; Taku River, Alaska; Nome, Alaska; Seattle, Washington; Mexico
Keywords: Cedric P Montgomery Davis, Cedric Davis Juneau, Davis family Juneau, Pinewood Park subdivision, Juneau Men’s Igloo charter member
Biography
Cedric P. Montgomery Davis was a charter member of the Juneau Men’s Igloo.
Davis was born in Juneau in 1894. His experience with boats, engines, and navigation, in partnership with his brother Trevor, led him to enlist in the U.S. Navy during World War I. He served as a Quartermaster aboard a sub-chaser, was later reassigned to the battleship Oregon, and subsequently transferred to a freighter operating in the Atlantic, which allowed him to visit his mother’s sister in England.
In the early 1920s, Cedric operated a boat for the Hearst-Chichagof Mining Company and owned a mine on Crestof Island. He enjoyed prospecting there and along the Taku River.
At the onset of World War II, Cedric worked for the U.S. Army in Nome, operating the diesel electrical plant. When not working aboard boats, he stayed at the old Davis family home on Sixth Street with his sister Cordelia and her family.
After his sister and her husband moved to Seattle, Cedric made one of the smaller Sixth Street Davis houses his home. In the 1950s, he joined his brother, Trevor, in developing the Pinewood Park subdivision on land owned by the Davis family. He also helped construct cabins for Carol and her daughters on land obtained by Carol under the U.S. Small Tract Act.
When the vessel Cordelia D was traded for the trim Sylvita, Cedric traveled with Carol and Trevor aboard the new boat to the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962.
In later years, he enjoyed spending winters in Mexico and visiting Seattle.
Friends remembered Cedric as a kind and generous man who liked to see everyone happy, especially children, to whom he frequently gave money for ice cream. He never married.
Cedric died at Bartlett Memorial Hospital in 1977 at the age of 83 and was buried next to his parents at Evergreen Cemetery in Juneau.
Sources
Gastineau Channel Memories 1880–1959, p. 119
Tags: Cedric P Montgomery Davis, Cedric Davis, Davis family Juneau, Juneau Men’s Igloo, Pinewood Park subdivision
Doran, James W.
Primary Name: Doran, James
Filed as: doran_james
Also known as: James Doran
Occupation / Association: Charter Member, Juneau Men’s Igloo; druggist
Born: March 1855, England
Died: July 18, 1913, Juneau, Alaska
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Associated places: England; Juneau, Alaska
Keywords: James Doran, Doran James, Juneau druggist, Juneau Men’s Igloo charter member
Biography
James Doran was a charter member of the Juneau Men’s Igloo.
Doran was born in March 1855 in England. He immigrated to the United States in 1866 and lived in Juneau continuously from 1893, where he worked as a druggist.
Mr. Doran had many friends in the city and nearby communities and was a member of numerous organizations and lodges.
He died on July 18, 1913.
Sources
1900 U.S. Federal Population Census; Daily Alaska Empire
Tags: James Doran, Doran James, Juneau Men’s Igloo, Juneau druggists, Alaska pioneers