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SHELDON JACKSON During his lifetime, the Prebysterian minister reportedly traveled more than a million miles to spread the Christian gospel,founding churches and missions nationwide along the way. But he spent the later part of his life exploring the vast territory that would later become Alaska. In 1885, the U.S. government appointed him the region's first-ever education superintendent, tasking him with setting up free public schools for Native American, Eskimo, and white children. Jackson also introduced reindeer to the area, importing the animals from Siberia in 1892 as an alternative meat source (cattle and other animals cannot survive the frigid winters) amid fears of famine.
JACK JEFFORD Born in Nebraska September 6, 1910. Got his private pilots license in 1931 & flew in Nebraska before coming to Alaska. He first flew for Mirow Air Service, then joined CAA when first established a flight division & was Chief Pilot for the Alaska Region from 1940-1972. First to fly instruments over new range routes. After retiring in 1972 he & his pilot wife Ruth Martin Jefford opened Valley Air Transport, a charter operation out of Merrill Field in Anchorage. Jack died at his home in Wasilla August 12, 1979
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Joseph Juneau
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Joseph Juneau, date unknown.
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Joseph Juneau, born May 28, 1833 in Repentigny, Quebec, Canada, was the second and most adventurous son of Francois and Marguerite Juneau. From his boyhood on, he heard of his illustrious cousin, Laurent-Salomon Juneau, who had followed the fur trade before settling down to found the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By the time Joe was sixteen, he was on the western path, traveling first to California, during the gold rush of 1849. His trail is difficult to follow, but in the next twenty-five years Juneau was in Oregon and the Fraser River, sometimes with his countryman Buck Choquette. In the mid 1870s, Juneau joined the gold rush to the Cassiar, near Deese Lake in British Columbia, Canada. The district was best reached up the Stikine River from Wrangell, Alaska.
An event in 1879 changed Juneau's life. A German immigrant mining engineer, George Pilz, needed experienced miners and prospectors to work at a mine in Silver Bay south of Sitka, Alaska, and to follow up on rich specimens of gold-ore brought to Pilz by Indian prospectors and scouts.
Juneau and another experienced miner, Richard Harris, pursed Pilz's best prospects. In mid-summer 1880, the two men followe
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