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Thomas W. O'Brien
Thomas William O'Brien (March 8, 1859 – August 24, 1916) was a Klondike gold rush entrepreneur who was best known for his Klondike Mines Railway and Klondike brewery businesses. He was also elected as a member of the Yukon Territorial Council, and was the first president of the Yukon Order of Pioneers, Klondike Lodge.〔Eric L. Johnson, The Bonanza Narrow Gauge Railway: The story of the Klondike Mines Railway (Vancouver: Rusty Spike Publishing, 1997), 5.〕
==Early years==
Thomas O'Brien was born on a farm in Oro Medonte Township outside of Barrie, Ontario. He went to school in the vicinity until the age of fourteen.〔"Thos. W. O'Brien is Called to his Long Rest," ''Dawson Daily News'', August 25, 1916.〕 He then moved to Toronto where he worked as a streetcar driver on the King Street line.〔Eric L. Johnson, ''Biographies: Thomas William O'Brien ''(Klondike History Library, 1993).〕 O'Brien did not linger long in Ontario and headed west as a young man. He worked as a mail carrier on the Touchwood Hills route, via fort Qu’Appelle and established a homestead in the area.〔 When the unrest in the Métis community boiled over into Louis Riel's rebellion of 1885, O'Brien took advantage of the conflict. He set up a wagon team that was hired by General Middleton to support his troops.〔Eric L. Johnson, ''The Bonanza Narrow Gauge Railway: The story of the Klondike Mines Railway'' (Vancouver: Rusty Spike Publishing, 1997), 5.〕 Drawn back to the transportation business, he next worked as a contractor. laying railway track around Winnipeg. O'Brien then decided to once again head west. He sold out his interest in the contracting outfit and moved to Seattle, where, hearing about Alaska gold, he set his sights northward.
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