- 1892

Áak’w leader Kaawa.ée died at age 75 on February 27 and was cremated and buried in the new Evergreen Cemetery.

Mendenhall Glacier was named by the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey after its leader, Thomas Corwin Mendenhall.  John Muir had called it Auk Glacier in his visit to the area in 1879, and Richard Harris and others also referred to it as such in the 1880s.

The first electric generator in Alaska to furnish power (not just for lighting) was installed at the Perseverance Mine to power its compressor.

“Kin-dashon’s Wife,” by Caroline McCoy White Willard, wife of a Presbyterian missionary, was written in Juneau and published in New York, the first novel about Alaska and by an Alaskan.