David Gilchrist (b. 1870)
David Gilchrist was born in County Grey. He worked in a logging camp when young and was in Winnipeg during the Riel Rebellion. He drove stage and took a carload of horses to Vancouver. Gilchrist started from Seattle to Alaska in 1892 and arrived in Juneau in July. He worked for the Nowell Gold mining Co. and then bought a team and began freighting. In May 1896, he left Juneau with 10 others to build rafts on Lake Tarkena in preparation for shipping cattle to St. Michael. He assisted in driving thirty-seven head of cattle to the lake. They lost the rafts in the Tarkena River but continued with the cattle to Fort Selkirk. Rafts were again constructed, the cattle were slaughtered, and they arrived with the meat in Dawson on November 7 to sell it for 50 cents a pound. Gilchrist mined in Dawson and went to Dyea the next spring, leaving without a stove or tent. He travelled to Nome in the spring of 1900, and landed there with $2.50. He again engaged in the freighting business and prospered. He was elected as a Nome city councilman in 1904.1)