I have been called "Angel of the Mining Camps" because I snow-shoed hundreds of miles to rescue miners starving & suffering from scurvy in the hard winter of 1874-75 in Alaska. I was born in a farming village in Middleton, County Cork of South Ireland in 1845. I immigrated to Boston in 1850 with my mother & sister Fanny. I have been described as: miner, businesswoman & philanthropist with an uncanny ability to arrive with the first stampeders & leave when a camp began to decline. My manner is frank. I am said to have a self reliant spirit & I speak with a Celtic brogue. I have contributed to or built churches, hospitals, & schools throughout the west.