Yukon who is who

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John Henderson Scott (1866 – 1928)
	   
John Henderson Scott was born in 1866 in Chicago and joined the Klondike stampede in 1897. He worked for a short time as a clerk for the White Pass & Yukon Route (WP&YR) during the construction of the railway in 1898 and then took his outfit over the White Pass. He and Charlie Van Cleeve took a lay on some ground on Hunker Creek but recovered little gold. John went to work for the British Yukon Navigation (BYN) in Dawson as a cashier. His fiancé came north in the summer of 1901 and they were married on board one of the British Yukon Navigation (BYN) boats. John built a house on the slide area behind the Catholic hospital and this was their home for several years.((Yukon Archives, John D. Scott, //A Life in the Yukon.// Privately published in 1992: 145-150.))   
John stampeded to Fairbanks in the winter of 1903, riding his bicycle along the trail. He staked a claim on Fairbanks Creek and returned to Dawson to work for BYN. In 1905, John went to Fairbanks to run the Tanana Mine Railroad between Chena and some of the creeks, and the family went with him. He and a partner mined on Fairbanks Creek with about twenty men. When the mine was finished, John had worked off his debt. The family returned to Fairbanks in 1909 and John worked in a hardware store.((Yukon Archives, John D. Scott, //A Life in the Yukon.// Privately published in 1992: 145-150.))   

John went on the Iditarod stampede in 1908 and in 1910 he went there to work his ground. He sent the family out so they could go to school and John Delbert Scott was born in Tacoma in 1910. John sold his claim in 1912 but the mine was flooded, and the deal fell through. He sold the equipment and went outside. After another enterprise failed, John went back north in 1915 as a cashier for Alaska Yukon Navigation at St. Michael. He was transferred as an agent to Dikeman and John Delbert and his mother joined him there. Two other children, Leota and Walter, stayed in Tacoma to go to school. The family moved to Whitehorse in 1922 when John became the White Pass fuel agent.((Yukon Archives, John D. Scott, //A Life in the Yukon.// Privately published in 1992: 145-150.))   
	
As fuel agent, John arranged for the supply of wood for the steamers. He had a freighter canoe and camping gear and would make several trips as far as Rampart, Alaska every summer. Scott purchased the Scott House in Whitehorse in 1927 and died from a stoke the next year. His son, John Delbert Scott, moved into the house in 1954.(("Whitehorse Heritage Buildings: A Walking Tour of Yukon's Capitol", Yukon Historical and Museums Association, 1983: 24-27.))