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Albert Miller Rousseau (1855 - 1920)
	
Albert Rousseau was born in Knoxville, Iowa. His family moved to California when he was a child and he grew up there. He learned the skill of a printer when he was young. In 1889, he and E.J. [Elmer John] White (formerly from Whitehorse) founded a newspaper at Sumner, Washington. Rousseau moved north in 1898 and he and his family (wife and two boys) lived in Skagway where he was employed as a printer. In 1900, he came to Bennett where he managed and edited a newspaper [the //Bennett Sun//] for Dr. P. F. Scharschmidt for a few months. The family moved on to Whitehorse that fall and, with Samuel McEacheran, founded the //Whitehorse Daily Star.// Rousseau and McEacheran ran the paper for a number of years. Rousseau sold his interest in 1904 and moved with his family to the state of Washington. He returned to Whitehorse twelve years later and [leased] the paper from E.J. White who had acquired it after McEacheren’s death. Rousseau also succeeded White as the American consular agent. Rousseau died in 1920 after suffering a stroke.((“Death of A.M. Rousseau: Editor of the Weekly Star Passes Away on November 8.” //The Weekly Star// (Whitehorse) 12 November 1920. //ExploreNorth,// 2020 website:  http://www.explorenorth.com/library/bios/rousseau-am-1920.html))