Grogg, Sylvester.

1898-1899

Passenger list for the schooner Hera, departed Seattle for Copper River 3/22/98, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3/23/98; Locator, “Sylvester Grogg” placer claim, No. 7 below Discovery, 7/20/98, witnesses Jepson & S. Johnson,TMDR, p. 56; Locator, “Niagara,” on Hertle Creek, 10/14/98, witnesses H. Smith, J. Manker, TMDR, p. 57; Crossed Valdez Glacier to Valdez, 11/19/1898 in storm with 9 men; 3 died on glacier. Frostbitten. A. Powell, Trailing. p. 95; Left Twelve-Mile Camp for Valdez Nov. 14, 1898 with Grogg brothers, Ferguson, Polinsky and Egram – party of nine -two returned, Mike Smith died, Brown in Glenn & Abercrombie, p. 623; Age, 40, began receiving rations from Quartermaster Brown at Army cantonment in Valdez, Nov. 19th, 1898, for 101 days, listed as a American with frozen feet, Brown, List of Persons Rationed;

1898-1900

Co-locator: S. Grogg and J.G. Snyder, 7/15/99 of claim #3 above Discovery (Dempsey, Hazelet, and Meals), filed in Sitka Mining Locations Bk. I, by Dempsey, power of Attorney with Hazelet and Meals witnesses, copy in CMDR, Bk. 1;