Maybe he went to Alaska!

Sometimes you just don't know where they went.

John B. Bosworth was born in Galveston, Texas about 1867. He married and settled his family in Oklahoma but a search of the records turned up no further information about him - that is until he died in 1917 - in Alaska. According to the article in the Daily Alaska Dispatch (April 5, 1917) Bosworth was working as a miner in British Columbia and then joined a mining company in Treadwell, Alaska in November of 1916. The article describes the wall collapse in the mine that killed him and mentions an (unnamed) son living in Tacoma, Washington.

Victor N. Dupuy "one of the most popular young mining men of Juneau" was born in Ironton, Ohio - and received his civil engineering degree from Ohio State University. After five years working in Ohio he moved to Alaska to work for the Alaska Gastineau Company. There he met and married Henrietta Heid - the "second girl" born in Juneau. The article went on to say that following the wedding the couple left at midnight on the ferry Amy for Sheep Creek, Alaska "where they will make their home." The details of the wedding are reported in the Daily Alaska Dispatch on 12 August 1913.

Gold called people to Alaska. Leroy W. Miner (10 Nov 1871-17 Jan 1901) was born in New London, Connecticut. According to the Daily Alaska Dispatch 0f 21 Jan 1901 he had come to Douglas, Alaska in November 1898 and worked at the Treadmill mine in the winters and panned for gold in the summers in Porcupine, Alaska. The article goes on to discuss his life in Alaska and his brother & three sisters back in New London, CT.

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