Inkster's 1878 log cabin in the vicinity of what would become Inkster, North Dakota . Photograph taken in the 1910s.
George T. Inkster (1848–1901) was a Canadian -born American pioneer in the Red River Valley of what's now North Dakota , and a participant in the Klondike Gold Rush .
Inkster was born in West Kildonan, Manitoba , Canada, and worked as a trader for the Hudson's Bay Company . He moved to the Dakota Territory of the United States in 1878, and was the first white settler in what was to become Inkster, North Dakota , building a log cabin on squatted land. He moved to what's now Towner County, North Dakota in 1882 to farm, and married Caroline Chercote in 1895. He went to Yukon , Canada in 1897 to join the Klondike Gold Rush, but later returned to Towner , where he died in 1901.[ 1]
References
^ "George Inkster, sp. Caroline Chercote". Grand Forks Heritage Book: A History of Grand Forks County . Grand Forks County Heritage Book committee. 1976. p. 164. Quoted by the Library of Congress