Charles H. "Alabam" Laboyteaux (1880 - 1951) Alabam Laboyteaux was born in Alabama. He fought in the Spanish-American war and the Panama Revolution in 1898-99. He was a conductor on the Panama Rail Road and a purser on the steamer //Portus B. Weare// between St. Michael and Dawson in 1900. He moved to Nome in 1901 and drifted around including a stint as the North American Trading & Transportation (NAT&T) agent at Koyukuk. Laboyteaux died in Fairbanks.((Evangeline Atwood and Robert N. DeArmond, //Who's Who in Alaskan Politics.// Portland: Alaska Historical Commission, 1997: 57.))