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14-736: Mulrooney is a surname of Irish origin from the Irish . Notable people with the surname include: Belinda Mulrooney (1872–1967), Irish-American entrepreneur who made a fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush John Mulrooney (contemporary), American comedian, actor, and television host Richard Mulrooney (b. 1976), American major league soccer player Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid - Malachy MacMulrooney- high king of Ireland. See also [ edit ] Mulroney [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

28-473: A Russian named Zarnosky or Zarnowsky for a sack of flour and a side of bacon. That claim proved to be one of the richest of the Klondike, yielding $ 5000 a day. McDonald's slowness of speech hid a shrewdness and business acumen that enabled him to amass a tremendous fortune, somewhere between seven and 27 million dollars. Rather than just work that single piece of land, he leased it to two other miners, who did

42-654: A large donation. In the winter of 1898–1899, he toured Europe, finding time to marry, in London , Margaret Chisholm, the twenty-year-old daughter of the superintendent of the Thames Water Police, and to be received by Pope Leo XIII , who made him a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory in appreciation of his generosity. However, though the gold rush eventually died down, McDonald continued to buy land claims, now mostly worthless, squandering his money. Living alone in

56-596: A large mansion built c. 1910. She supported her family until her money ran out. She then moved to Seattle , where she died in 1967. Abbie Cornish played a fictionalized version of Mulrooney in the Discovery Channel miniseries Klondike . In the TG4 series An Klondike , she was portrayed by Bríd Ní Neachtain and appears in the fictional town of Dominion Creek instead of Dawson City. Alex McDonald (prospector) The son of Scottish immigrants, McDonald

70-722: A miner in Scranton , or sent her to live with relatives there. She set out on her own and operated a sandwich stand during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. With her profits, she traveled to San Francisco in 1894 to set up an ice cream parlor. Undaunted when she lost everything in a fire, she found employment as a stewardess on the Pacific Coast Steamship Company ship S.S. City of Topeka plying its route from California to Alaska, earning extra money by selling necessities and luxuries to

84-640: A restaurant in Dawson, next a roadhouse called The Magnet, and then the Grand Forks Hotel and restaurant, near the gold fields. Prospering, she started buying mining claims as well; by the end of the year, she either owned or was a partner in five. She sold the hotel for $ 24,000 and set about building the finest hotel in Dawson. The Fair View Hotel opened its doors on 27 July 1898, with a restaurant and rooms for thirty guests. Mulrooney once partnered with fellow Klondike legend Alex McDonald to salvage

98-596: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Belinda Mulrooney Belinda Mulrooney (1872–1967) was an entrepreneur and purportedly the "richest woman in the Klondike". She made one fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush , lost it, and amassed a second, which lasted most of the rest of her life. Mulrooney was born in County Sligo , Ireland. When she was young, her family either emigrated to Pennsylvania, where her father worked as

112-496: The surname Mulrooney . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mulrooney&oldid=1199874825 " Categories : Surnames Surnames of Irish origin Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

126-496: The actual work for half of the proceeds. In the first 45 days, that amounted to $ 30,000. He then proceeded to buy up other claims, and by the end of the year he had acquired 28. By 1898, he had interests in 75 mines, making him the largest landowner and employer in the area. That year, when the local Catholic church burned down, he donated $ 30,000, more than enough to pay for its rebuilding. When Father William Judge started building St. Mary's Hospital, McDonald once again made

140-399: The cargo from a small ship wrecked on a sand bar. McDonald got there first and took all of the food, leaving only gum boots and whiskey for her. She got her revenge, however. The next spring, when McDonald needed boots for his workers, he had to pay her $ 100 a pair. On 1 October 1900, Mulrooney married self-styled "Count" Charles Eugene Carbonneau, who claimed to be a French aristocrat, but

154-689: The passengers. Discovery of gold at Juneau, Alaska , motivated her to move north in 1896. Then came the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada to the east. Instead of seeking her fortune as a prospector, Mulrooney bought supplies of "silk underwear, bolts of cotton cloth and hot water bottles" with her savings of $ 5,000 and transported them over the Chilkoot Pass to Dawson City , where she sold them for six times that amount in June 1897. She built

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168-602: Was actually a champagne salesman and former barber from Quebec . By 1903 or 1904, the couple separated, and she lost her fortune. She obtained a divorce in December 1906. Starting over, she moved to Fairbanks, Alaska , in 1904 or 1905 and prospered once again. She established the Dome City Bank in Fairbanks with her younger sister Margaret. Mulrooney eventually retired to Yakima, Washington , where she had

182-746: Was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia . He was an unsuccessful prospector, having tried his luck in the Colorado gold fields, before heading to the gold rush in Juneau, Alaska , in the late 1880s. In 1895 or 1896, he was in the Yukon , employed by the Alaska Commercial Company at Forty-Mile to buy mining properties. Gold was discovered in the region in 1897. He was nicknamed the "Big Moose from Antigonish", "Big Alex" and "Big Mac". He

196-477: Was described by a contemporary as: ... a large brawny, swarthy man, canny and close of mouth, with a curious habit of slowly rubbing his chin whenever a new proposition is presented to him. He makes it a rule to first say "No" to every proposal, however alluring, thus gaining time to think it over. One of the early arrivals in the Klondike , he purchased either half or all of Claim 30 on Eldorado Creek from

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