John Joseph Gorkes Broeren

Male 1861 - 1926  (64 years)


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  • Name John Joseph Gorkes Broeren 
    Born 02 Sep 1861 
    Gender Male 
    Died 23 Feb 1926  Alaska Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I18674  Little Chute Genealogy
    Last Modified 18 May 2018 

    Father John Gorkes,   b. cir 1831, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Aug 1861, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 30 years) 
    Mother Johanna Simons,   b. 16 Sep 1834, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Aug 1909, Hollandtown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years) 
    Married 16 May 1858  St John Nepomucene Church, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6108  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Notes 
    • Taken from the San Francisco Morning Call June 4, 1894
      EPLORATION NEAR HOME.
      Messrs. J. A. Cochran. A. N. Godat, J.J. Broeren, J. J. Long and G. T. Rosenbund,
      who sailed yesterday in the Alaska Company's steamer Bertha for the upper waters
      of the Yukon, will probably have it In their power to add something to our
      knowledge of the most unknown portion of the continent. They remain onboard the
      little steamer on her long voyage to Kipnak, and thence on the endless trip up
      stream to the diggings; it will be August before they leave her for good. When they
      have made a final lauding they will make their preparations for eighteen months
      prospecting, hunting and exploring. The cold diggings of Alaska, inclusive of those
      on the coast, are in streams which empty into the Yukon above the bend at Fort
      Yukon, in the latitude of 64 degrees and thereabouts. The streams rise on both
      sides of the Yukon, but chiefly on the eastern or American side. Flowing in a
      direction which is nearly northeast by north the Yukon crosses the meridian of 141
      degrees-about 65 north latitude, and from that point becomes an American river.
      South of 65 degrees it is Canadian and receives the waters of the streams which
      take their roots in the Canadian Rocky Mountains They would have been prospected
      long ago but for the shortness of the season, which rarely exceeds three months,
      and for the high price of supplies.