O. H. Adsit
Ohlin Harrison Adsit (August 1855 – August 8, 1909)[1] was an Alaskan broker and politician, including Mayor of Juneau from 1902 to 1904.
Biography
[edit]He was born in August 1855 in New York. Adsit came to Alaska, originally seeking success from the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s.[2]
He was the plaintiff in Malony v. Adsit, a United States Supreme Court case involving a tract of land in the townsite of Juneau.[3] The case, originally tried before judge Arthur K. Delaney (who would later precede Adsit as mayor of Juneau) on August 10, 1897, was in favor of Adsit. The appeal, however, eventually brought the case to the Supreme Court.[4]
Adsit visited Portland, Oregon in 1901.[5]
He was Mayor of Juneau from 1902 to 1904.[6]
He died on August 8, 1909, in Seattle, Washington.
References
[edit]- ^ "Samuel Graves, Settler of Lynn, Massachusetts and His Descendants". Retrieved 2008-11-05.
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- ^ "The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, October 25, 1899, Image 1". 25 October 1899.
- ^ "Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, March 27, 1901, Page 11, Image 11 « Historic Oregon Newspapers".
- ^ "The City and Borough of Juneau Homepage". Archived from the original on 2018-05-26. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
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