T. S. Lippy

[4] Some Scotsmen from Nanaimo had staked claims Fourteen to Seventeen on Eldorado Creek in the Klondike region of Canada.

Lippy had a claim further up the creek, but restaked Sixteen because his wife wanted a cabin, and there was timber there.

[7] On July 25, 1898, the Lippys arrived in San Francisco aboard the Excelsior, the first ship to reach the lower United States from the Klondike with now-wealthy prospectors; the Lippys brought with them gold valued, according to the Chicago Tribune, at "not less than $200,000.

[10] He gave generously to the YMCA, the First United Methodist Church[12] and the Anti-Saloon League, and donated the land for a five-story addition to Seattle General Hospital.

[10] He also established a free hospital for miners in Dawson City,[13] and sent "a library of 1000 volumes" to Skagway, Alaska.