Charles H. “Alabam” Laboyteaux (1880 - 1951)

Alabam Laboyteaux was born in Alabama. He fought in the Spanish-American war and the Panama Revolution in 1898-99. He was a conductor on the Panama Rail Road and a purser on the steamer Portus B. Weare between St. Michael and Dawson in 1900. He moved to Nome in 1901 and drifted around including a stint as the North American Trading & Transportation (NAT&T) agent at Koyukuk. Laboyteaux died in Fairbanks.¹⁾