Jesse “Kit” Watters (d. 1939)

Jesse “Kit” Watters was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick and came to the Yukon in 1898 with George Black and other friends from eastern Canada. He and Black mined on Livingstone Creek as partners. Watters worked for White Pass & Yukon Route on the Overland Trail winter mail route and then lived in Dawson. He worked for Pickering and Greenfield in Mayo and, from 1923 to 1938, for Treadwell Yukon. Watters retired in Mayo.¹⁾