Gillis, Dr. Alexander John^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}

1865 -

• Name	Gillis, Alexander John
  Title	Dr.
  Birth	1865	Nova Scotia
  	His birth appears not to have been registered as it does not appear under his full name for 1865 and the parent names of other births in 1865 do not match the names given in the ExploreNorth.com essay "Dr. Alexander John Gillis, Yukon Pioneer" (http://explorenorth.com/library/bios/bl-gillis.htm, viewed 5 Jul 2009).
  Gender	Male
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1898	White Pass Trail (AK-BC-Yukon)
  Business Address/Year	1901	Dawson, YT
  	Address: McLennan & McFeely Block dental office Dawson, YT Canada
  Home Address/Year	1901-1918?	Dawson, YT
  Death	Likely died in Seattle, WA, his last known residence.
  Person ID	I220	Camera Workers | G, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	8 Jan 2017

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Amateur. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Dr. A.J. Gillis attended dental college in Philadelphia (graduated 1892) and medical school there (graduated 1894). He travelled to the Yukon Territory in 1898 and prospected for gold. He was married in 1902 in Dawson and their first child, Alexandria Jane Gillis, was born in Dawson in 1916. Among their friends were the famous Yukon poet Robert W. Service, whom Dr. Gillis photographed. The family left Dawson around 1918 and eventually settled in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Gillis was a Freemason with a Dawson lodge and a politician at both the territorial and national levels in the 1910s. IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface may be captioned and signed "Gillis".

  
  

• Sources

  [S174] COLLECTION: YWA. [S718] Eve, Dennis M., Eve (1998). [S719] Yukon Archives, Yukon Archives Descriptive Database (Web site). Gillis, A.J., records creator personal name authority, and Gillis family fonds description. [S692] Correspondence, David Mattison. Letter, Michael Cirelli to Mattison, 1996 01 25 [S246] Cohen, Stan, Cohen (1977), (Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1977).