Austin Eugene "Cap" Lathrop (October 5, 1865 – July 26, 1950) was an American politician, industrialist, and outspoken opponent of Alaskan statehood.
He was expelled from school in the ninth grade for damages caused when he tampered with a water heater.
(ancestors of Austin are, Eugene, Horace, Abiel, Benjamin, Israel, Samuel, son of John Lathrop.
He made plans to settle in Anacortes, but the Panic of 1893 disrupted his business and he was forced to return to Seattle.
Once the Klondike Gold Rush started, business picked up, and soon he was transporting both prospectors and the goods that they required.
In 1937, he began work on the building that would house KFAR, Fairbanks's first radio station licensed under the Communications Act of 1934.
On July 26, 1950, Lathrop was killed in an accident when he was struck by a railroad car in the yard of his Suntrana coal plant.