Yukon who is who

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Bernhard M. Volkman (d. 1947)
	
Bernhard Volkman came north from San Francisco during the Klondike gold rush.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 3 January 1947.)) He was an employee of the Alaska Commercial Co. (AC Co.) and was the successor to Joe Burke as manager of the Yukon Saw Mill in Dawson. Volkman and partner Frank Neill bought the sawmill from the AC Co. in 1915. The business shut down between 1917 and 1922.((Claire Eamer and Antonia Zedda, "The Yukon Saw Mill Company: Last of the Gold Rush Sawmills." Whitehorse: Yukon Government, 1997: 47-48.)) Volkman moved to Mayo during the 1920s boom and established the Yukon Saw Mill Co. there.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 464.))
In 1925, he moved to Flushing, Long Island, N.Y. where he was engaged in the timber business.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 3 January 1947.))