Clarence W. Porter (1859 - 1918)
	
Clarence Porter and his wife went north in 1899 from Gladstone, Oregon. He worked as a blacksmith in Dawson before moving to Fairbanks in 1904. He continued to work as a blacksmith, and he invested in prospectors looking for mining properties in the Ruby district. He made $30,000 from one claim but lost money on most of his investments.((Ken Coates & Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia.// Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990: 4.)) He was operating an automobile stage from Fairbanks to the creeks and also to Chitina, Alaska before he booked a ticket to Seattle to look for employment. Clarence Porter drowned when the //Princess Sophia// sank in the Lynn Canal.((Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sopia: Those Who Perished.//2018: 92-93.))