Bowles Colgate Sprague (1840 – 1925)
Bowles Colgate Sprague was born in Colchester, New York. His family started what became known as Colgate/Palmolive, the toothpaste and soap company. Bowles enlisted to fight in the American Civil War and mustered out in 1865 at Savannah, Georgia.1)
Bowles Sprague staked on Clear Creek around 1906 and on Dublin Creek in 1910 and 1920.2) He held large silver interests on Keno Hill and had a farm at Sunnydale, across the Yukon River from Dawson.3)
Sprague Creek, where Bowles lived and mined for many years, is a tributary of the North McQuesten River.