Career
He was one of the six wealthiest prospectors in Klondike. He came to United States. 1887 and arrived in Alaska 1896 when he struck lucky. His wedding gift to her was supposedly box full of gold worth approximately $100.000 and honeymoon in Orient, visiting Japan and China before making a trip to Paris.
Violet estimated they carried a half million dollars out of the mines.
From 1900 they were the owners of the Seattle"s Holyoke Building and from 1905 to 1906 also the owners of the newly build 250 rooms Stander"s Hotel (razed in 1930). Stander had a problem with alcohol.
Some says that Stander died in Pioneers" Home at Sitka, Alaska, some that he died in Multnomah, Oregon, because he was evicted from Pionere"s Home for drunkenness.
