Sumner, F.J.

1898-1899

Passenger on schooner James G. Swan, departing Seattle for Port Valdes on 2/25/98. Passengers said to be “stowed away like a bunch of clams at high tide.” Seattle Daily Times, 2/25/98; Note: passenger list has a Smith & H. Cockrill but Cockrill may not be the same person as Cockerille); Pearson, Cockerille, Smith, Sumner & Coke hit snag in Klutina, boat swamps, PJCS1; p. 185; Driven ashore at Salmo Creek with Sumner, Aug-Sept. 1898, PJ,CS1; p. 185; Signer of Petition to the President from Quartz Creek and Teikell Mining Dist, 5/8/1899 requesting Capt. Abercrombie be given “permission to employ [on the trail to interior Alaska] those men who need work, and thus enable them to remain in the country. With a good trail those who have means will be able to bring in machinery, and the development of the country will be accelerated.” NARA RG 107, Entry 80. Office of the Secretary of the War Department: 1667-103;