McCormick, Frank

McCormick, Frank

1898-1899

Passenger, steam schooner National City, departing Portland, OR, 3/14/98 with “by far the larger number of her passengers” bound for the Copper River, but a few for Dyea/Skagway, Portland Oregonian, 3/15/98; [Note: Sender, W. and J. Williams, F.A. Henry, Ward, Malmgren, all on National City]; Recorder,QCMDR, t, 1898, p. 1ff; Locator, p. 141; witness to Sender, Onstad, pp. 20-21; Nitschie & Benson, p. 33; C. Johnson, p. 38; Langworthy, p. 85; Strunk 98, Saches, p. 99; Ch. Gatd, p. 105; Co-locators: F. McCormick, J. F. Sweeny, Wm. Williams, A.C. Ohlhavsen, O. Peterson, Malmgren, John Williams, F. A. Henry, Chas. Johnson,QCMDR, p. 101; led a group to Quartz Creek, Sept. 1898, Golden Cross?, p. 56-57; UKMDR, Locator with R. Gileneau, witness, 3/15/1898, p. 151; Description of miners’ meeting establishing Quartz Creek District and the claim area in Golden Cross? p. 58-60; Dooley reports that McCormack was elected recorder, Dooley Diary, 9/17/98; “10 men from Valdez stopped at Co. City — Dan Kain, Brown, McClellan, Bates, Hamlin, McCormack, Fitch, Leverose, Amy, and Senders,” Dooley Diary, 5/20/99; Notice of amended location 6/26/1899 by Sweeny, W. Williams, Ohlhausen, O. Peterson, Malmgren, J. Williams, Henry, C. Johnson, Pollard, Kain, Hamlen, Ward, Sender, Bush, Onstad, J. H. Smith, McCormick, p. 108; 1899 Witness to Phillips, p. 124; Shultz, p. 130; Signer of Petition to the President from Quartz Creek and Teikell Mining Dist, 5/8/1899 requesting Capt. Abercrombie be given “permission to employ [on the trail to interior Alaska] those men who need work, and thus enable them to remain in the country. With a good trail those who have means will be able to bring in machinery, and the development of the country will be accelerated.” NARA RG 107, Entry 80. Office of the Secretary of the War Department: 1667-103: