Jack Hawthorne (d. 1981)
Jack Hawthorne was originally from Ireland.1) He came to the Yukon in 1922 to work as a teamster hauling ore from the Keno Hill mines to the boat landing at Mayo. Ruth Ferguson partnered with Hawthorne to work her interest in the Sourdough Hill quartz claim in the Mayo Mining District, and Jack Alverson joined their partnership. Ferguson provided the operating money and expedited goods and equipment while Hawthorne and Alverson supplied the labour. In 1929, they struck an ore offshoot of the Silver King vein. Ferguson and Hawthorne sold the claim to Treadwell Yukon. Rudolph Rasmussen also mined with Dan Steers and Jack Hawthorne.2) Hawthorne was a victim of the 1932 Mayo bank scandal. He was also a key witness to a 1946 shooting at the Chateau Mayo Hotel. Hawthorne held several claims in the Keno City area and operated them until his death in Whitehorse.3)