Looking for information (Fairbanks, Nome: homes, elementary school, live)

[CRAIG122]

I am looking for information regarding a relative who lived in Fairbanks during the gold rush at the turn of the 20th century, his name was Jack Horn, any help about his time in Fairbanks will be greatly appreciated.

[stiffnecked]

His mining partners name was Joe Quigley.


"Meanwhile, a prospector named Joseph Quigley and his partner Jack Horn were also moving south from less promising creeks to some of the region’s richest waterways. Quigley and Horn were following a tip from a pair of Kantishna trappers who had seen gold dust in local streambeds. A version of this story appeared in the Nome Nugget on September 9, 1905: Jack Horn and J.B. Quigley were prospecting on Flume Creek, which empties into the Bearpaw just below Moose, this spring. They came across some traps set out and left a note on one of them. This note caused Joe Benson and Gus Benbenick, the trappers, to look them up. The two prospectors did not find anything worth claiming their attention on Flume Creek, and were thinking about going across to the McKinley. They began questioning the trappers about the character of the country farther up the Bearpaw."

[rwjoyak]

If you google Jack Horn Fairbanks Alaska, it returns some hits on him. Most are about his and Quigley's Kantishna strike, and there's a lot more about Quigley than Horn. But you might be able to find some more info on Horn by refined googling. For example:

- https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegri...data/663640441 has links to a recording and a written summary of a historical talk by an old time Fairbanksan (Robert Bloom) in which he mentions Jack Horn

- http://www.k12northstar.org/cms/lib0...Elementary.pdf talks about how Horn originally homesteaded where Badger Road Elementary School is now located

- http://www.library.alaska.gov/hist/h...ids/PCA277.pdf is a guide to the WICKERSHAM STATE HISTORIC SITE ALASKA PHOTOGRAPHS, 1882 - 1930s (PCA 277) collection in the Alaska State Library. The guide indicates that Horn is included in a group photo of 25 men (photo 49 in album 1).

[CRAIG122]

Thanks to all that have posted, the information is really helps with the tracing my fathers side of the family.