Alaska's first coal mine and the man who opened it, 1959.

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Alaska's first coal mine and the man who opened it, 1959.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42066865

Typescript account includes a letter written by (Enoch) Hjalmar Furuhjelm in St. Petersburg, Russia, January 22, 1863, to his uncle.

1 v. (7 leaves)

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Makinen, Hugo L.

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Enoch Hjalmar Furuhjelm was a mining engineer for the Russian-American Co. He went on a round-the-world expedition, including Alaska, stopping at Sitka for a summer and then English Bay on the Kenai Peninsula where he set up a coal mining enterprise and stayed for 9 years. Furuhjelm returned to Finland in 1862; he continued to survey, prospect, and open new mines. He married in 1865 and had 5 children. He died Dec. 30, 1886 at the age of 63. The Furuhjelms were one of th...

Furuhjelm, Enoch Hjalmar, 1823-1886.

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Furuhjelm, Johan Hampus, 1821-1909

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