John F. Kelly (1885 – 1918)

John Kelly worked in Dawson, Ruby and Fairbanks, Alaska. He was more interested in prospecting than mining. He was known in the north as “Broken Jaw” Kelly. He was going to Seattle and drowned when the Princess Sophia sank in the Lynn Canal in 1918.1)

1)
Ken Coates & Bill Morrison, The Sinking of the Princess Sophia. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990: 3, 179.