Frank (William Frank) Hiatt (1869-1949), spelled Hyatt in some records, was a native of Sweden who came to the United States in 1886. In the summer of 1898 he left Watsonville, California, where he was a farmer, to join the gold rush to Alaska and the Yukon. By 1900 he was mining in the Little Minook Junior Mining District near Rampart, Alaska, and continued to mine in the Rampart area to at least 1903. From 1907 to at least 1912 he worked as a watchman for the Northern Commercial Company in Fairbanks, Alaska. He left Alaska in 1915, but returned to Fairbanks and his job with Northern Commercial around 1919. There he remained until leaving for California in the summer of 1943. He died in Shasta County, California, early in 1949. Never married, he left no direct descendants. (From Polk's Alaska-Yukon Gazetteer and Business Directory; U.S. Census for 1900 and 1910; and information provided by a niece.)
From the description of Frank Hiatt photographs, ca. 1897-1949. (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). WorldCat record id: 315919635
