Charlie Biederman, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetCharlie Biederman
American dog musher
Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1918
Date of Death: 22-Feb-1995
Profession: musher
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Charlie Biederman
- Charlie Biederman (November 11, 1918 – February 22, 1995) was a musher in Alaska best known for being the last surviving dog sled mail carrier in the United States.
- Charlie was born in Alaska as the son of Ed Biederman, a musher born in Bohemia who immigrated to the United States in 1874 and also delivered the mail via dog sled.
- The date of Charlie's birth is unclear, but contemporary U.S.
- Censuses indicate it likely was around 1919.
- Charlie had four siblings.
- Charlie was raised in Eagle, Alaska, but lived in an isolated cabin on the Yukon River for most of his life.
- From an early age, he assisted his father and brother in their winter deliveries of the mail to isolated cabins in central Alaska.
- In winter, the family lived in Eagle and ran the mail route between that town and Circle, another small settlement approximately 158 miles (254 km) downriver.
- In the summer, the family lived at their Yukon River cabin, harvesting fish for subsistence and boarding the dogs of fellow mushers.
- In 1938, the family were underbid for the main contract for mail delivery in the area by a bush pilot.
- Ed Biederman retired shortly afterward and died in 1945.
- The final dog sled mail route was replaced in 1963.
- That final route was from Gambell to Savoonga and was run by Chester Noongwook.
- In January 1995, he donated the mail-delivery sled he used to the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., where it hangs today.
- One month after making the delivery, he died on February 22, 1995.Today, the cabin that served as Charlie Biederman's home for most of his life is a hospitality stop of the Yukon Quest, a 1,000-mile sled dog race between Whitehorse, Yukon, and Fairbanks, Alaska.
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