Ellen "Nellie" Cashman (1845 â€" 4 January 1925), better known as
Nellie Cashman, was a nurse, restaurateur, businesswoman and
philanthropist in Arizona, Alaska, British Columbia and Yukon. She led
a rescue party to miners to the Cassiar Country gold mine in the
Cassiar Mountains of British Columbia earning her the nickname "Angel
of the Cassiar". In Tombstone, Arizona, Cashman raised money to build
the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, and did charitable work with the
Sisters of St. Joseph.She went to the Yukon during the Klondike Gold
Rush for gold prospecting, working there until 1905. She became
nationally known as a frontierswoman, with the Associated Press
covering a later trip. In 2006 Cashman was inducted into the Alaska
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