Frances Noyes Muncaster

Frances Noyes Muncaster was born Arabelle Frances Patchen in Saint Paul, MN in 1874. She married Samuel G. Allen in 1892, at 18 but left him in 1895 and went East, acquiring some success as a theatre actress. Thomas Clarke Noyes fell in love with her after seeing her on stage and they were married in 1897.

Thomas Noyes died in 1916, and in 1919, Frances married Bill Muncaster. They owned a cabin near Haines but spent much of their time traveling, camping and hunting throughout Alaska. She staked her own mining claims in Squaw Creek, B.C., and for the next 10-12 years, she and Bill mined them in the summers and traveled winters. Frances prospected until her death, Oct. 28, 1952. Her husband, Bill, died Feb. 6, 1968.

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