J. C. McCook
J. C. McCook of Quaker City, Philadelphia was the United States consul to Dawson in 1898. He and vice-consul W. H. Burke came north on the steamer Roaneke on 11 June, the first boat to leave Seattle for Dawson that season. His principal duty in Dawson was to keep a record of the names and whereabouts of American citizens who may stop at Dawson and he tried to get all Americans leaving Dawson for Alaska to notify him or the vice-consul so that relatives or friends could be told.1)
McCook seems to have made himself at home in the north in a couple of ways. The wealthy tourists Mrs. Hitchcock and Miss Edith Van Buren hosted a fancy dinner for McCook after which he reported on the latest news about the Spanish American war.2) Later he sued the Klondike Nugget newspaper after their cartoonist Buel drew McCook stumbling around with a bottle in hand. A judge found the Nugget not guilty.3)