J. E. Hansen. (~1864 - 1905)
	
Captain J. E. Hansen was hired as the superintendent of the Alaska Commercial Company (ACCo) in Dawson in 1897.((Arthur T. Walden, //A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon.// New York: The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1928: 91-97.)) In the late fall of 1898, Hansen received word that one of the company steamers, the //Sarah,// was aground near the Martin River.(("Experiences on the Yukon." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson), 1 October 1898.)) Hansen ordered the company stevedore to go down to Fort Yukon to get a light load of food that the //Sarah’s// crew had stashed there. Walden took a crew of men and Captain Hansen decided to go along for the trip.((Arthur T. Walden, //A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon.// New York: The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1928: 91-97.)) They chartered the little steamer //Aquilla// and took J. F. Burke, proprietor of the Yukon Saw Mill Co., and J. A. Chute, who had business at Forty-Mile. The //Aquilla// left Dawson at 3 pm and an hour later and ten miles down-river she was stuck on a gravel bar. Burke, Chute, and Hansen abandoned the //Aquilla// and took a canoe down river to look for the //Sarah.// That evening the upcoming steamer //Pingree// was hailed, and they were told that the //Sarah// was free, and on her way back down river to St Michael. The men returned to Dawson, arriving at three in the morning.(("Experiences on the Yukon." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson), 1 October 1898.)) 
	
In October 1898, the Dawson Post Office was flooded with letters to the United States with US stamps, or no stamps at all. Hansen heard about the problem and paid to have the letters shipped down river for free.(("Thoughtfulness vs Carelessness." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson), 12 October 1898.)) While he was in Dawson, Hansen became the power of attorney responsible for the activities of the Harper and Ladue partnership. When the ACCo merged with the Northern Commercial Co., he became the manager of its mercantile department.((//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 10 May 1905; Ed and Star Jones, //All That Glitters.// Whitehorse: Wolf Creek Books, 2005: 299-300, footnote 100.)) 
Hansen was headquartered in Nome in 1900.((Victoria Joan Moessner and Joanne E. Gates, editors, //The Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, 1900.// Fairbanks: University of Alaska. 1999: 205, 207.)) He later became the captain of the ocean-going fleet of the Northwest Fisheries Co. in Alaska. In May 1905, he committed suicide by jumping from the deck of the company’s steamer //Dolphin// while enroute to Seattle.((//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 10 May 1905; Ed and Star Jones, //All That Glitters.// Whitehorse: Wolf Creek Books, 2005: 299-300, footnote 100.))