I came across a nice write-up for Frank Reid over at the Skagway Historical Society blog.
The famous or infamous Frank Reid died on this day July 19, 1898, having been shot in the groin by Soapy Smith on July 8, 1898. He was born in either 1850 or 1844, but it was 1850 in the 1880 Linn County census with his brother, D.V.S. Reid. Both were born in Illinois. His grand-neice came to Skagway and said that the H. in his name stood for Harold.
Frank was a graduate engineer and a teacher in Linn County, Oregon District 29 in the 1870's. In 1898 he came to Skagway and created the Map of Skagway which was adopted on March 6, 1898 by the City. He had worked with W. Thibaudeau to plat the streets. Earlier, he had been a Lt. in Mart Brown's Company of Oregon Volunteers.
Klondike Stampeders Register p80; Mission Klondike, Sinclair; photo above - Eloise Short and Kathryn Baker (right) stand by grand uncle Frank H. Reid’s monument during a visit to the Gold Rush Cemetery in 1990. Photo by Jeff Brady.
Frank H. Reid: pp. 10, 439-41, 447, 477, 529-42, 544, 547-53, 555, 574, 576-77, 579, 585.
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