George T. Inkster (1848–1901) was a
Canadian-born
American
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pioneer
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in the
Red River Valley
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of what's now
North Dakota, and a participant in the
Klondike Gold Rush.
Inkster was born in
West Kildonan, Manitoba, Canada, and worked as a trader for the
Hudson's Bay Company. He moved to the
Dakota Territory of the United States in 1878, and was the first white settler in what was to become
Inkster, North Dakota, building a
log cabin
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Eur ...
on
squatted land. He moved to what's now
Towner County, North Dakota in 1882 to farm, and married Caroline Chercote in 1895. He went to
Yukon, Canada in 1897 to join the Klondike Gold Rush, but later returned to
Towner, where he died in 1901.
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References
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1848 births
1901 deaths
People from Grand Forks, North Dakota
People of the Klondike Gold Rush