Charles Emmet Carpenter (d. c1920)
Charles Carpenter was born in Flint, Michigan. He was in the Klondike in 1898. The Ferguson Gazetteer lists him as a roadhouse operator in the Dawson area in 1901.1) C.E. Carpenter signed the Nordenskiold Roadhouse guestbook in early December 1908 and listed his residence as being 8.5 miles north of Minto.2)
Carpenter settled a mile above Andrew Anderson’s Meat (or Beef) Cache Roadhouse in 1902. The Meat Cache Roadhouse was about four km down the Yukon River from Big Creek. Carpenter was on five acres of land just inland from the slough on the old wagon road from Fort Selkirk. Carpenter ran a roadhouse for several years.3)
Carpenter applied for a homestead in 1912 to include his original five acres.4) He had a good house and was just finishing a barn, chicken house and other outbuildings, and had some land under cultivation. His wife was to join him in 1912 bringing two cows, a sow pig and four dozen hens. Just after this, W. H. Atkinson complained that he had cleared twenty acres on the Carpenter homestead that he had planned to apply for. In 1914, Carpenter cancelled his application and applied for a new one a half mile below Fort Selkirk.5) In 1915, Carpenter had a new cabin up in the new location and had some land cleared when he went outside for medical reasons. Over the next five years he had cataracts and lost his right eye after an accident.6) Charles Carpenter died in Seattle.7)