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Ltime his new building was being finished* Bohm was electedone of 15 delegates from Sitka to a PeopleissOonyeh t ion atJuneau; The ebnventidr was Mainly:, concerned with getting more seif-government for Alaska ind with getting more frequent .mailservice. ' -v'part or the lower floor of his buildingand rented. the other part for a billiardparlor. The family ■lived on the second floor. Two. or three years later Bohm cloMd thtf'butchbr Shop, took over the billiardT^ifcand'}added a isalbon. Whether’ oriidi the saloon had anything to do with it, Bohm and his wife split, up a few years later.'••.\?:In.vl907 ;he deeded the building to Mhiy oBdhm and his three children, Alexander,^ Paulina and Esther. Two years later she sold it to the Sitka B^cht bl ihe : Arctic Brotherhood for' •.i; .1 *ili.Bohm, moved to Juneau and Douglas and she married Alfred Daly, a mwyerwfio was assistant U.S. Attor-hey atSitkaand Juneau; They moved to Nome wid then to Iditarod. Hei # '*r' practiced law at both places and also engaged in mining. They had two children and spent their winters in Seattle.^ He was active in the Democratic Party fand in 1909 was named National Gommitteeman for Alaska.; On August 11,1912, he committedsuicide while aboard a steamboat onthex.Yukon River. What became of Mary and her children has not beendiscovered. --
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
Sitka, Alaska, US
Thu, Jan 29, 1998
Page 7
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