Ohlin H. Adsit was an Alaskan broker and politician

Politician

A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

, including mayor of Juneau, Alaska

Juneau, Alaska

The City and Borough of Juneau is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska. It has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of the then-District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900...

 from 1902 to 1904. Adsit came to Alaska, originally seeking success from the Klondike Gold Rush

Klondike Gold Rush

The Klondike Gold Rush, also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush and the Last Great Gold Rush, was an attempt by an estimated 100,000 people to travel to the Klondike region the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1897 and 1899 in the hope of successfully prospecting for gold...

 of the late 1890s. http://www.familychronicle.com/klond_a.htm

He was the plaintiff in Malony v. Adsit, a United States Supreme Court case involving a tract of land in the townsite of Juneau. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=175&invol=281 The case, originally tried before judge Arthur K. Delaney

Arthur K. Delaney

Arthur K. Delaney was an Alaskan politician and the first mayor of Juneau, Alaska, from 1900 to 1901. Delaney came to Alaska, originally seeking success from the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s....

(who would later precede Adsit as mayor of Juneau) on August 10, 1897, was in favor of Adsit. The appeal, however, eventually brought the case to the Supreme Court.