Ohlin Harrison Adsit (August 1855 – August 8, 1909) was an

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broker and

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, including Mayor of Juneau, Alaska from 1902 to 1904.

Biography

He was born in August 1855 in New York. Adsit came to Alaska, originally seeking success from the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s

He was the plaintiff in '' Malony v. Adsit'', a

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case involving a tract of land in the townsite of Juneau

The case, originally tried before judge Arthur K. Delaney (who would later precede Adsit as mayor of Juneau) on August 10, 1897, was in favor of Adsit. The appeal, however, eventually brought the case to the Supreme Court. Adsit visited Portland, Oregon in 1901. He was Mayor of Juneau, Alaska from 1902 to 1904. He died on August 8, 1909, in

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. He was buried in

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* 1855 births 1909 deaths Mayors of Juneau, Alaska 19th-century American businesspeople {{JuneauAK-stub