Samuel Henry (1860 - 1918)
	
Sam Henry was born in Nebraska. He was a streetcar conductor in Lincoln when gold was discovered on Bonanza. He arrived in the Yukon in 1896 and prospected with Chris Sonnickson.((Ken Coates and Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her.// Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1990: 30.)) Chris Sonnickson homesteaded land at the mouth of Maisie May Creek.((R. C. Coutts. //Yukon: Places & Names.// Sidney, B. C.: Gray’s Publishing Ltd., 1980.)) Henry owned the ranch in 1897 and that summer he harvested 20 tons of native hay.((//The Yukon Territory: Its History and Resources,// Chapter 7. Ottawa, September 1907. Website: http://www.electriccanadian.com/history/yukon/territory/chapter7.htm)) His wife Josephine came north in 1899 and brought their two daughters. A third daughter was born in Dawson.((Ken Coates and Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her.// Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1990: 30.)) Sonnikson and Henry were partners in Sonnikson & Henry Freighters. They advertised themselves as "pioneer freighters" and offered to haul, drag or pack anything, anywhere, any time. They sold wood and hay. In October 1900 they put in a bid to deliver the mail to Hunker and Dominion creeks once a week for six months for $25 per round trip.((Yukon Archives, Gov 1625 f.3014))   
	
Between 1905 and 1907, Henry had about 100 acres under cultivation at the Masie May Ranch with crops of oat-hay. In 1902, he cut and sold 125 tons of oat and native hay with no difficulty in selling everything he could grow. He shipped the hay to Dawson by steamer or rafted it down the Stewart and Yukon rivers himself. He found the cost of importing equipment was very expensive and his steel baling press was listed at $350 but cost $1,800 with freight.((//The Yukon Territory: Its History and Resources,// Chapter 7. Ottawa, September 1907. Website: http://www.electriccanadian.com/history/yukon/territory/chapter7.htm))
	
Henry had a grocery store in Dawson and was an active member of the community as a Shriner and a Mason. Josephine was an active member of the IODE and was a tireless knitter of socks for soldiers during the First World War.((Ken Coates and Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her.// Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1990: 30.))
	
In 1918, Henry became partners with Joseph Roy and Bill Stewart was working for them. They grew hay and sold it to White Pass for their teams of horses on the Overland Trail.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 386.)) That year, the Henrys’ two oldest daughters were at school in New Westminster, British Columbia. Neither Sam nor Josephine had been out since 1900. They decided to leave forever and sold all their household furniture but then, changing their minds, they bought them all back again. Sam and Josephine Henry were drowned in 1918 when their ship, the //Princess Sophia,// sank in the Lynn Canal.((Ken Coates and Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her.// Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1990: 30.))