H.J. Mignerery (b. 1859)
	
H.J. Mignerey was born in France and immigrated to the United States as an orphan. He worked in a grocery store and eventually owned five wagons to deliver his trade. He sold out in 1897, went to Bennet, and returned to Seattle in 1898. Later he took a boat up to St. Michael and then to Rampart, Alaska. He learned of the Nome strike and in December 1898 he left Rampart on a dog team via Dawson and Skagway to buy merchandise and restaurant items. He sailed for Nome in 1899 and when he arrived, he set up a tent on the beach and sold meals for a dollar per. In July 1899, he bought a cargo of reindeer carcasses and controlled the only meat supply in Nome. He bought a schooner to go to Siberia for more caribou, but it was wrecked in a storm while still being outfitted, and then he came down with typhoid. Mignerey bought an interest in the paddlewheeler //Clifford Sifton,// operating between Whitehorse and Dawson City during the seasons of 1900 and 1901. The boat was a strong competitor to the White Pass fleet and was eventually sold to the company. Mignerey returned to Seattle.((E.A. Harrison, Nome and Seward Peninsula, Seattle: Harrison, 1905 in Ed. Ferrell, //Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers, 1850-1950.// Juneau: Heritage Books Inc., 1994: 219-221.))