Harriett Edna Osborn, nee Haines (1872 – 1965)
	
Harriett Osborn was born in Barrie, Ontario. She graduated as a nurse from Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. She and Franklin [Herman] Osborn were married in 1901 and they lived in Dawson for forty years.((“Harriett Edna Haines Osborn.” //Find a Grave,// 2021 website:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185236880/harriett-edna-osborn)) In 1914, Rev. John Hawksley gathered 10 to 12 girls to form the Yukon Girl Guildes and Harriett was recruited as a leader with Hilda Potter and Hazel McIntyre as her assistants.((Joyce Hayden, //Seventy-five Summers: The Story of Yukon Girl Guides 1914 – 1989.// Girl Guides of Canada – Yukon Council, 1989: 12-13.)) 

During the First World War, Harriett was captain of the Dawson Girl Guides, and was regent for the Martha Munger Black Chapter of the IODE. She organized the St. Johns’ Ambulance Corp and a nursing club in Dawson. Harriett was a long-time member of the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Dominion of Canada, Church of England, the national chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE), and the Yukon Chapter No. 1 of Eastern Star in Dawson. In 1935, Harriett Osborn was made a member of King George V’s Order of the British Empire for her philanthropic work in the Yukon. After her husband died in 1941, Harriett moved to Portland to be close to her daughter.((“Harriett Edna Haines Osborn.” //Find a Grave,// 2021 website:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185236880/harriett-edna-osborn)) 

A Yukon mountain was named to honour Harriett Osborn.((Joyce Hayden, //Seventy-five Summers: The Story of Yukon Girl Guides 1914 – 1989.// Girl Guides of Canada – Yukon Council, 1989: 12-13.))