BENSON, Capt. Daniel R.

1845 - 1900  (55 years)

• Name	BENSON, Daniel R.
  Prefix	Capt.
  Nickname	Steamboat
  Birth	1845	Saginaw, MI
  Gender	Male
  FindaGrave	FindAGrave Memorial 5101146
  _COLOR	11
  Death	15 Feb 1900	Klondike, AK
  	Cause: killed in a freak mining accident
  Burial	Seattle, WA
  	Address: Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery
  Person ID	I34484	Puffers
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2023

  
  

  Father	BENSON, Stephen,   b. 10 Mar 1796, Livingston County, NY d. 15 Jun 1889, WA (Age 93 years)
  Family ID	F12003	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	BENSON, Stephen,   b. 1796, NY d. 1889, WA (Age 93 years)
  Family ID	F37443	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	KILE, Mary Ellen,   b. 3 Apr 1848, Crete, IL d. 22 Sep 1922, Retsil, WA (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	1 Oct 1866	Kankakee, IL
  Family ID	F8726	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2024

  
  

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• Notes

  A Civil War Veteran, Co.H. of the IL Volunteer Infantry. Mustered out at Galveston,TX on 22 Jul 1865 as a corporal. For eighteen years Capt. Benson ran as master of Puget sound steamers, notably the Chehalis, City of Quincy, George E. Starr, Josephine and the Eliza Anderson He was killed in the Treadwell mine on Douglas Island, Alaska. He was blasting in a shaft or tunnel when an explosion jarred loosed a hanging rock that crashed down about 25 feet onto his head. He died instantly. He had been employed in the mine since September 1899 and the story marks his original departure from Seattle as July 1898. His body was brought down on one of the supply steamers, the Dirigo, which also brought miners and their families home from the gold district. The story notes that he was to be buried in the Lakeview cemetery, in a section we now know to have been devoted to G.A.R. veterans