Thomas Edward Kirkpatrick (d. 1919)
Thomas Edward Kirkpatrick was superintendent of the Joseph Ladue Gold Mining and Development Co. of Yukon from its inception in August 1897. He was involved in establishing the Dawson townsite. By August 1898, he was partner in a number of gold claims held by the Ladue Co. on several Klondike creeks. He was a modest man who did not like publicity, but he was recognized as a very competent businessman who knew every detail of the company’s immense business.1) He and Thomas McMullen, the assistant manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, were principal stockholder of the Dawson Warehouse Company. The company put up the first brick building in Dawson in 1899.2)
Kirkpatrick and his family left the Yukon about 1917 for Berkeley, California. Later they moved to Saskatchewan where he opened a trading post in a remote area. His wife and three daughters soon returned to California. Kirkpatrick froze to death at his trading post during the winter of 1919.3)