Biography - Henry Shattuck

Henry Shattuck was born at East Portland, Oregon, April 27, 1870, and came to Juneau in 1897 as bookkeeper for the C.W. Young Company. The following year he organized Shattuck and Company, engaging in the insurance and brokerage business and acting as agent for the Alaska Steamship Company. In 1904 he organized the Juneau Steamship Company which operated small steamers on the mail run to Sitka and Skagway. In 1909 Shattuck was appointed Clerk of the District Court by Judge Thomas R. Lyons and served in that capacity until 1911. In that year he purchased the hardware business of J.P. Jorgenson on the present site of Thomas Hardware Company and organized the Alaska Supply Company in Juneau Lumber Company. During the first World War Shattuck operated a sawmill at Craig, producing airplane spruce. Later he returned to Juneau where he died on July 25, 1925.

Shattuck Way - runs from Front Street to Marine Way in downtown Juneau and was named for Henry Shattuck, Juneau businessman, who in 1914 donated to the city a strip of property for the street right-of-way.

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