Bowles Colgate Sprague (1840 – 1925)
	
Bowles Colgate Sprague was born in Colchester, New York. His family started what became known as Colgate/Palmolive, the toothpaste and soap company. Bowles enlisted to fight in the American Civil War and mustered out in 1865 at Savannah, Georgia.((“Bowles Colgate Sprague.” //Find a Grave,// 2024 website:  Bowles Colgate Sprague (1840-1925) - Find a Grave Memorial))

Bowles Sprague staked on Clear Creek around 1906 and on Dublin Creek in 1910 and 1920.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 454.)) He held large silver interests on Keno Hill and had a farm at Sunnydale, across the Yukon River from Dawson.((Michael Gates, //Dublin Gulch: A History of the Eagle Gold Mine.// Lost Moose, 2020: 50.))
	
Sprague Creek, where Bowles lived and mined for many years, is a tributary of the North McQuesten River.