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Full Name:

Owens, Frank R. 

 

 
Date of Birth: April 1870 C1900 Date of Death: unknown
Hometown: Downers Grove, MO
Profession: Miner Company: unknown
Historic Records
1898 - 1899: Passenger on the Rival departing Port Townsend, WA 3/6/98, Port Townsend Leader, 3/7/98; Arrived in Alaska, Feb. 1898, C1900; Visits Dooley's spruce bough hut at Quartz Creek area, Dooley Diary, 9/18/98; Dooley, Kern, and Owens start trip up Tonsina River, Diary, 10/2/98; Locator, "Snowflake Placer Claim" on Manker Creek, witnesses Cochran & Gordon,TMDR, p. 45; UKMDR, October 1898, Locator, p. 61; Locator with Bradbury and Hurd witnesses, 8/21/1989, p. 167; Member of George Dooley's Party: G. W. Karstens, J.H. Karstens, George Kern, W.T. Looker, Frank Owens, William Orr, George Bradbury, Dooley Letter, Pathfinder; for additional information see Dooley Diary, passim.
1900: In Valdez between 6/11/1900-6/26/1900, C1900; Location Notice with J.W. Bradbury for "Chicago Placer Claim," in Chisna Mining District bounded on South by McDowalls claim and on north by Miller's claim, located 6/20/1900, filed 9/4/1900, Valdez MDR, 1900, p. 43; Location Notice for "Juneau Placer Claim," in Little River Mining District; Bradbury and Owen locators and agent for the Mt. Drum Mining and Milling Co., witness Rosenthal, located 7/5/1900, recorded 7/6/1900, Valdez MDR, 1900, p. 59-60; Location Notice for "Stroubel Placer Claim," in Little River Mining District; Bradbury and Owen locators and agent for the Mt. Drum Mining and Milling Co., located 7/28/1900, recorded 9/8/1900, Valdez MDR, 1900, p. 59-60; Location Notice for "Klutina Placer Claim," in Little River Mining District; Bradbury and Owen locators and agent for the Mt. Drum Mining and Milling Co., located 7/12/1900, recorded 9/8/1900, Valdez MDR, 1900, p. 61-62;
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