Arthur Yamaguchi
Arthur Yamaguchi was living in Dawson in 1916. He was a generous man who paid the funeral expenses for Charles May (Mayekwa). The Dawson Japanese community was commonly generous. Yasutaro Kawakami paid the funeral costs for at least two Japanese men who died in Dawson: Saiki Mitaki (d. 1905) and B. Sato (d. 1911).1)The Japanese community subscribed “the neat amount” of seventy dollars for the purchase of comforts or necessities for the Yukon boys who enlisted in the First World War and were scheduled to leave Dawson with Lieutenant Hulme on 9 June 1916.2)
Arthur Yamaguchi was a steward in the Dawson Zero Club. The Yamaguchis’ son, Hisashi, was seven months old when he died in April 1918. He died of pneumonia in the Good Samaritan Hospital in Dawson and is buried in the Hillside Public Cemetery.3)