Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1901 — JOSEPH LADUE IS DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOSEPH LADUE IS DEAD.

Man Who Discovered Klondike Falls Victim to Consumption. Joseph Ladue, founder of Dawson City in the Klondike, is dead. He passed away at his home in Schuyler Falls,

N. Y., Wednesday evening after a long illness, having fallen a victim to consumption while in Alaska. He leaves a widow and one son. He was 46 years old. Ladue began his career as a prospector in early life. He pushed into the Northwest

and finally located in the Yukon region in the early BO’s. He started a trading post where Dawson now stands ahd on the land he acquired was discovered the first gold that made the Klondike famous. He returned from Dawson to Schuyler Falls in 1897 to marry Miss Anna Mason. The wondrous stories told by him and other prospectors who came from Alaska led to the mad rush to the Klondike that year. Ladue has left estates in the Klondike said to be worth several million dollars.

JOSEPH LADUE.