Valdez Museum
home exhibits collections history visitor info eduction store about
Short History  |  Fact Sheets and Articles  |  Historic Moments Audio  |  Gold Rush Names Database

Gold Rush Names Database

View Gold Rush Names
Previous Entry   |   Back to List   |   Advanced Search   |   Next Entry
Personal Information

Full Name:

Tuffin, Horace Y. 

Additional Name(s): 

Name different but unreadable in C1900 
Date of Birth: 1877 list of members of the Chisna Mining and Improvement Company from Ben Booher's diary. Date of Death: unknown
Hometown: Panora, IA. C1900
Profession: Teaching (IA), Mining (AK) Company: Chisna Mining & Improvement Company
Historic Records
1900: Arrived in Alaska, Feb. 1900, C1900; Hazelet party, 1900. Hazelet Diary. Feb. 2, 1900; Along Copper River Trail with Hazelet, partner in Hazelet group 6/11/1900-6/26/1900, C1900; related to Hazelet (C. Hazelet, oral); Ben Booher's Diary gives age as 23, weight 155;
1901: Spent winter 1900-1901 at Chisna, came out to help get Hazelet supplies in. Hazelet Diary, April 9, 1901; Froze to death winter of 1901-1902. Powell, Trailing, p. 279.
Previous Entry   |   Back to List   |   Advanced Search   |   Next Entry


home  |  exhibits  |  collections  |  history  |  visitor info  |  education  |  store  |  about  |  contact us
© May 2013, Valdez Museum & Historical Archive.   Privacy Policy
P.O. Box 8, Valdez , AK 99686  |  Tel: (907) 835-2764  |  FAX: (907) 835-5800
This website is financed, in part, through a grant from United Way of Valdez.