Jacob Klein (1854 - 1903)

Jacob Klein was married and living in Pennsylvania before he and his wife came to the Klondike in 1899. He mined on the creeks and stampeded to the Tanana country before giving up hope of ever striking it rich. He died in Dawson of suicide at the age of 49. Jacob Klein is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Dawson.1)

1)
Fla Jampolsky, The Jewish Presence in the Yukon. Jewish Cultural Society of Yukon, 2023: 67.