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Hickman family Editor’s Note: The Trail blazers, a series on the Pio neers of Alaska told by their descendants, continues every other week over the next month. Stories are excerpted from ‘‘Klondike—Pioneer Rediscovery,” a chronicle of the Pioneers of Alaska 82nd Grand Igloo Convention, Sept. 9-12, 1998, in Dawson, Yukon Territory. By JUNE SIDARS as told to Ruth Jolly Knapman Zacharias F. Hickman, born in Ohio in 1863, was a newspaper owner who left Se attle in 1897 for the Klondike gold rush. He packed a printing press over the Chil koot Pass. A year later, in Dawson, he started the news paper Klondike Nugget, the town’s first. Never one to stay in any one place for long, he came to Alaska in 1905, going to Fair banks where he started The Daily News. A major fire took the newspaper in 1906. Son Thayne had signed up with a crew leaving for Alaska to work on the railroad near Lee TRAILBLAZERS. Page H-7 June Rust Sidars Collection The Hickman family is pictured in 1898, some years before the entire family moved north. From abeth (Beth).
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Sun, Jul 11, 1999
Page 48
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