Maren Mastemo Lovold
Maren Lovold planned to travel north in 1895 with Ingeborg Langlow and her five-year-old daughter. They were joining their husbands who were placer mining on the Sixtymile River. They took the steamer Excelsior from Seattle and found that Dr. Wells and Mrs. Konrad Dahl, Mrs. de Geith from Los Angeles, Mrs. Engel and two children, and the wives of two police officers were also travelling to the Yukon. They travelled together on the sternwheeler Weare up the Yukon River. Many landed at Fort Cudahy and the miners’ wives went on to Forty Mile. The trip lasted seven weeks and Maren and Ingeborg arrived at the the Sixtymile River at end of July.1)
Maren gave birth to a little girl, Ora, that winter. Dr. Wells, the surgeon for the Mounted Police and manager of the sawmill across the Fortymile River came to attend the birth. Ora received quite of attention as the first white child to be born in the community. The Lovold family spent the winter of 1896/97 in Dawson and returned to Seattle on the ‘ton of gold’ ship Portland. Bernt Lovold was entered on the passenger list as Ben Wall. Ora did not live to become an adult.2)