Edgar Ames Mizner (1863 – 1918)
	
Edgar Mizner was born in St. Louis to Lansing Bond and Ella Watson Mizner when his parents were on their way to Washington. His father intended to offer his services to President Lincoln in the Civil War. Lansing Mizner was Ambassador to the five republics of Central America under United States President Harrison’s administration. Edgar was his father’s legation secretary before he left for the Klondike.((“Edgar Mizner passes away after illness.” //San Francisco Chronicle// (San Francisco), 21 December 1918.))
	
Mizner arrived in Dawson in May 1897 and was an agent for the Alaska Commercial Company. He bought and managed mining properties on Eldorado, Bonanza, Dominion, and Sulphur creeks. Skiff Mitchell and Lloyd Wilson had interests in the most valuable claims, No. 1 and No. 18 on Eldorado Creek. In 1898, Mitchel was supervising a ground sluicing operation on Eldorado No.1, and sluicing operations were extensive on Claim No. 13 Above the Lower Dominion discovery claim. The spring cleanup for the winter's work yielded $58,000. Mizner put mining machinery on the best producing claims; steam thawers and hoists on No. 3 Above and No. 8 Below on Sulphur Creek. Mizner also had interests in several unproven bench claims and creeks. The valuable claims included Nos. 1 and 18 Eldorado; 8A, 19 and 23 Below and 30 Above on Bonanza;  3, 8, 28, and 31 Below and 6 Above on Dominion; 2, 3, 26, 58 and 63 Above and 9 and 28 Below on Sulphur Creek; Claim 50 on  Gold Run Creek; No. 4 on Gay Gulch; No. 1 Above on Last Chance Creek; and Discovery Claim on Quartz Creek.(("A Most Successful Lady Miner." //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), Midsummer edition, 1899.))

Edgar Mizner was known as the "Pope of the North" because of his arrogant and dictatorial ways and his policy of not giving credit to the miners. Antone Stander had to sell half of a valuable claim on Eldorado to pay for an outfit at the company store at Forty Mile. Edgar was a gambler and lost his money and his career at the Opera House roulette table in Dawson. Mizner wrote to his brothers Addison and Wilson to tell them about the Klondike and they arrived in Dyea in December 1897.((Les McLaughlin, "Magnificent Mizners were forever brothers." //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 20 July 2001.))

A few years before his death, Mizner aided in the capture of two robbers just after they looted a grocery store. Another time he beat up his chauffeur on a public street after a dispute and then forced him to drive to the Mizner home as if nothing happened. Mizner died in Alexander Hotel apartment. He had just won a swimming race at the Bohemian Club Jinks on the Russian River. The race was strenuous, even for the athletes that competed, and Mizner’s family believed that heart strain contributed to his death.((“Edgar Mizner passes away after illness.” //San Francisco Chronicle// (San Francisco), 21 December 1918; “Edgar Mizner gives beating to chauffeur.” //San Francisco Call// (San Francisco), Volume 101, Number 10, 18 February 1907.))