Wallace Langley (1866 - 1946)

Captain Wallace Langley had command of the tug Lorne at Vancouver in the 1890s. In May 1898, he was promoted to Post Captain for the Dunsmuir’s fleet.¹⁾ By 1901, Wallace was in the Yukon, the master of the Wilbur Crimmon. The boat was on the Koyukuk River in 1899, brought to Whitehorse in the fall of 1900, and sold to Langley. It was operated by Langley and Andvik. It returned to Alaska in 1904 and worked on the Tanana River. In 1905 Langley was operating sternwheelers Florence S. and the Tana.²⁾ Langley left the Yukon in 1905. The Dawson postmaster had a forwarding address at Fort Gibbon, Alaska.³⁾ By 1939, Wallace Langley, headquartered in Seattle, owned at least two companies: the Alaska Rivers Navigation Company and the Santa Ana Steamship Company. Steamers of the Santa Ana line brought cargo from Seattle to Bethel, Alaska where it was distributed to McGrath on the Yukon River steamers.⁴⁾