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As we talked, I learned he was interested in politics,Īnd had a sincere desire to serve the Yukon.” The newlywed Martha adopted George’s political and religious views completely, later writing, “Immediately after my marriage, withoutĬompunction, I became an Anglican, an Imperialist and a Conservative.” Naturalist In her memoirs, she wrote, “He was good-looking and clever. On 1 August 1904, Martha married George Black, a lawyer from New Brunswick working in Dawson City. Martha and William Purdy, who was by then living in Hawaii, began divorce proceedings in 1903. She was followed by her parents and all three sons in 1901, where they established a sawmill and gold crushing plant in Dawson City. They brought in foodstuffs… Our cabin becameĪ social centre.” Martha traveled back to the United States with Lyman in 1899 but returned to the Yukon in 1900.

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“The men of our party, and my neighbours, all men, took full charge. “What a welcome the camp gave my baby!” Martha later wrote.

Her youngest son, Lyman, was born in January 1899. Martha learned to make sourdough bread and cooked for miners while her brother and cousin prospected for gold. It was “either a huge hoax or an unfathomable However, Martha soon discovered that there was no record of the gold she’d been promised. The party arrived in Dawson City on 5 August 1898. Martha later wrote about the journey, “I cursed…my tight heavily boned corsets, my long corduroy skirt, my full bloomers, which I had to hitch up with every step.” During the journey, she realized that Year’s worth of supplies for entry into the Yukon. Then they hiked to Lake Bennett on the Chilkoot Pass trail, hiring porters to carry the required The party travelled by steamer from Seattle, Washington, to Skagway, Alaska. Gold that had been promised to her by an acquaintance, William Lambert.

and cousin Harry Peachy in an expedition financed by her father. In 1898, Martha Purdy traveled to the Yukon with her younger brother George Munger Jr. After ten years of marriage, however, Martha later wrote that “Will was away from home most of the time, and I was unhappy.” The Klondike Gold Rush One of Chicago’s first kindergartens and helped organize the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. After her marriage, Martha Purdy wrote poems, taught at In 1887, Martha married William Purdy, the son of the president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. Mary’s of Notre Dame, where she came first in her class, excelling in elocution and botany. Laundries, and the Mungers were part of Chicago’s business elite. George Munger owned a successful national chain of steam-powered The Munger family had lived in the United States since 1645, and Martha’s ancestors fought in the American Revolutionary War, Martha Munger was born in Chicago, the eldest of three surviving children of George Munger and Susan Owens.

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