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MRS. AUGUST (AMANDA JULIE Sweden; died 6 April 1918 at the Penn CARLSON) ALQUIST Hospital in Norway. Her parents were Carl Johan Svensson and Johanna Katrina Petersdotter. There were six children in Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, the family. She immigrated to North Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 22, America 2 May 1889. Number 47 [Thursday, April 11, 1918], Claes Johan Carlson, her brother, born page 8, column 4 14 Nov 1865, ran off to America in 1887.

He was declared dead 31 December 1897 OBITUARY by court 1 October 1937. He had changed

his name to Claus Malm, who is the Mrs. August Allquist [sic – Alquist], a ancestor of the Malm's in Norway. He died well-known and highly respected residence 27 Feb 1949 in Norway and buried in the [sic – resident] of Quinnesec, died last Norway Cemetery. Saturday morning, aged about forty-nine Amanda had another brother, Anders years. Her death came as a great shock to Gustaf Carlson, born 6 December 1857, the community, for although she had been who had changed his name to Gust Malm ill for some time, it was thought she was and lived in Chicago. He died 17 January improving. Pleural pneumonia is given as 1941 in Chicago. the cause of her demise. Deceased was She also had a sister, Augusta born in Sweden in 1869, and came to this Wilhelmina Carlson, born 24 April 1872, country, first to Escanaba, and to known as Mina. She immigrated to North Quinnesec in 1898, where she had resided America 20 April 1892. She was declared ever since. A husband, five sons – Axel, dead 30 April 1902 by court 1 January Albert, Edward, Walter and Arthur – and 1937. She married Peter Olson and died 2 three daughters – Lillian, Irene and June 1942 in Iron River. She is buried in Audrey – and two brothers, Gust Maln [sic the old Iron River cemetery. – Malm], of Chicago, and Claus Maln [sic Apparently in Sweden, if the courts – Malm], of Norway, and one sister, Mrs. could not track where you were, you were Peter Olson, of Iron River, are left to mourn declared dead. the loss of a loving wife, mother and sister. John Alquist, Quinnesec, Michigan, 14 She was endowed with high character and November 2011.] a kindly nature, which won her the respect, love and esteem of the entire community. Mrs. Allquist [sic – Alquist] was a home JOHN W. ALQUIST lover, and the family left behind is a monument to her work while on this earth. The Daily News, Iron Mountain-Kingsford, The funeral services will be held at the Dickinson County, Michigan, Quinnesec M.E. church tomorrow (Friday) [Wednesday, December 13, 2017], page afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. Revs. T.A. 2, columns 3-4 Greenwood, of the M.E. church, and G.S. Olson, of the Swedish Lutheran church, of John W. Alquist Norway, will officiate. Interment will be made at cemetery park at Iron Mountain. QUINNESEC – John W. Alquist, 84, of [NOTE: Her name was Amanda Julie Quinnesec, passed away on Sunday, Dec. Carlson, born 3 March 1869 in Rye, 10, 2017, at Dickinson County Healthcare 1 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

System. John was born on March 15, John married the love of his life, Patricia 1933, in Iron Mountain, son of the late Neuens, March 27, 1979, in Escanaba. He Walter and Delphine (Labre) Alquist. He and Patricia enjoyed traveling and visited was a lifelong resident of Quinnesec and Arizona, Las Vegas, Ohio, South Dakota most recently lived with his wife Patricia in and Colorado. They also traveled to his childhood home. London, England. John was a member of American Martyrs Church in Kingsford. He grew up attending St. Marys Church in Quinnesec and served as an altar boy and later on the parish council. He was extremely active in many community and civic organizations, including: Boy Scout Troop 524 of Quinnesec and the Breitung Township Fire Department. John was a member of the U.S. 2 Bypass Committee, the township planning commission and served as chairman of the Breen Senior Center Council for many years. He headed the Quinnesec Centennial Book Committee for the centennial in 1976, and in 1996, wrote the last 20 years and republished the Centennial Book. John was past treasurer of the Dickinson County Genealogical Society and was its president for 14 years. In 2006, he received a lifetime achievement award for his service. He traveled to Bay City, Mich., to receive the State History Award for distinguished service from the

Historical Society of Michigan. Besides John went to grade school in Quinnesec volunteering, John’s hobbies included doing and graduated from Kingsford High School things with family, history and genealogy. in 1951. While in high school, he was a John gathered many old pictures of the member of the student council and played Quinnesec area and designed the display football for 4 years. After graduating, he that is located at Fumee Falls. He also went on to study mechanical engineering at helped design the memorial to the Michigan Technological University. John Quinnesec School located at the Quinnesec also served in the United States Army Township Hall. during the Korean War. He was honorably John is survived by his wife, Patricia; discharged in 1956. sons, Timothy (Debra) Alquist of Iron Following his military service, John went Mountain, William (Antonella) Alquist of to work for Lakeshore Inc. He was Lone Tree, Colo., David (Carolyn) Alquist of employed there for 37 years and retired as Westminster, Colo., Robert (Melody) Alquist a senior project engineer. of Fort Lupton, Colo., William (Wendy) Lake of Breitung Township, and Steven Lake of Kingsford; daughters, Betty Aversano of 2 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Iron Mountain, Debra Seymour of while crossing Carpenter avenue, near the Marinette, Wis., and Tina Fetterly of Dickinson County Motors garage. Kingsford; 18 grandchildren; many great- He was pronounced dead upon arrival grandchildren; and many nieces and at the hospital, by Dr. James L. Browning, nephews. attending physician. In addition to his parents, John was Anderson and his wife, according to preceded in death by his sisters, Ethel police, were walking north on Carpenter Alquist and Helen Berlinski; brothers, avenue, en route to their home after visiting Robert and Phillip Alquist. their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Visitation will be 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Arthur Carlson, 1020 Carpenter. Upon Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017 at the Erickson- reaching the garage, police said, Anderson, Rochon & Nash Funeral Home of Iron against his wife’s warning, started to cross Mountain. Funeral services will follow at 11 the street, and stepped in the path of the a.m. at American Martyrs Church. Fr. south-bound car driven by the Johnson Joseph Gouin will offer the Mass of youth. The driver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Christian Burial. Johnson, told police visibility was impaired Burial will be in the Quinnesec by rain and mist and he did not see the man Cemetery. before the accident occurred. Condolences may be expressed to the Further investigation was being family of John Alquist online at conducted today by Chief Gust Hassell, www.ernashfuneralhomes.com. Coroner Frank Tondin and Prosecuting The family has entrusted the Erickson- Attorney John V. Zanardi to determine if an Rochon & Nash Funeral Home and inquest will be necessary. Cremation Services of Iron Mountain with Widely Known As Merchant the arrangements. Widely known as one of Iron Mountain’s pioneer merchants, Anderson conducted CHARLES E. ANDERSON grocery and dry goods stores here for more than 40 years before he retired in 1931. Born in Dalarna, Sween [sic – Sweden], on The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Nov. 3, 1867, he came to this country as a Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume child, his family establishing a home at ___, Number ___ [Saturday, November Republic. He married at the age of 21 2, 1946], page ___, column ___ Amanda Sundstrom, who died here in

1920. He worked for years as a store clerk C.E. Anderson at Michigamme before moving here in 1893 Struck Down and opened his first business place, a By Car, Dies grocery and dry goods store, in the First National bank building. In 1923 he married Charles E. Anderson, 78, 112 West C Amanda Carlson. He was in active street, pioneer resident and retired business here until 1931, when he retired, merchant, died en route to General hospital closing his clothing store located at the last night as the result of the fracture of his present site of the Firestone store. skull and both legs, sustained shortly after 9 He was a charter member of the old when he ws struck by a car driven by Clyde Swedish Methodist church, which is now Johnson, 17, 1605 Stephenson avenue, the Trinity Methodist, and was an active member on the official board for 28 years. 3 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

He served as Sunday school Michigamme; Elmer Smeberg, Marquette; superintendent for 25 years and was active Mr. and Mrs. Carl Anderson, Gladstone; in church work until his death. He was also Sten Suderland, Norway, and the Rev. a member of the Iron Mountain Blue lodge Charles Swanson and Mrs. Swanson, 388 F.A. [&] M., Iron Mountain chapter 121. Hermansville. Besides his wife, Anderson leaves one daughter and three sons. They are Mrs. DR. E.B. ANDERSON Arthur Carlson, Iron Mountain; Donnell Anderson, Oakland, Calif.; Russell The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Anderson, Chicago, and Earl Anderson, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Dallas, Tex. There are six grandchildren ___, Number ___ [Monday, April 23, and two great-grandchildren. 1945], page ___, column ___ Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Erickson and Son mortuary. The Rev. S.D. Kinde will officiate. Burial will be Dr. Andersen at Cemetery park. Dies After Heart Attack The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Dr. E.B. Andersen, 52, who came to Iron ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, Mountain from Grand Rapids on April 1, November 6, 1946], page ___, column 1936, to take over the practice of Dr. C.P. ___ Drury, now of Marquette, died at 3:20 Sunday morning at his residence, 612 West Charles E. Anderson A, of a heart attack which he suffered last Services for Charles E. Anderson, 79, Tuesday. Dr. Andersen, a Fellow of the who died of injuries suffered when he was American College of Surgeons, was a struck by a car Friday night, were held at 2 practicing physician and surgeon. yesterday at the Erickson and Son He was born March 2, 1893, in Mortuary. The Rev. S.D. Kinde officiated at Drammen, Norway, the oldest of eight services in the mortuary and the Iron children. The family came to the United Mountain Masonic lodge the gravesite. States when Dr. Andersen was three. His Mrs. Ivan Brown, Mrs. Iver Anderson, father was a Methodist minister and the Mrs. Rudolph Ericson and Mrs. Henry family lived in various parts of Wisconsin, Dahlquist, accompanied at the organ by Illinois and Michigan, where the senior Mr. Mrs. Helmar Freeman, sang “Good Night Andersen served parishes. and Good Morning” and “Beyond the Dr. Andersen was gradated [sic – Sunset.” graduated] in 1912 from the Manistee, Pallbearers were Ivar Anderson, Roy Mich., high school and completed his Anderson, Norman Granger, William studies in June, 1919, at the University of James, David Reese and M.W. Margison. Michigan, where he received his doctor’s Burial was in Cemetery Park. degree. After graduation, he was interne Here for the funeral were Donnell [sic – intern] and house physician for two Anderson, Oakland, Calif.; Earle K. years at Blodgett Memorial hospital, Grand Anderson, Dallas, Tex.; Mr. and Mrs. Rapids. Russell Anderson, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Came Here In 1936 C.F. Sundstrom and Nellie Goodreau, 4 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

He opened an office in Grand Rapids in The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, 1921 and remained there until 1936, when Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume he came to Iron Mountain to take over the ___, Number ___ [Tuesday, April 24, practice of Dr. Drury. He also had a branch 1945], page ___, column ___ office in Norway, which he closed on Jan. 1, 1945. DR. E.B. ANDERSEN Apparently in good health, Dr. Andersen Services for Dr. E.B. Andersen will be appeared on a number of musical programs held at 1 tomorrow afternoon at Trinity in the city and had been a member of the Methodist, instead of 2, as planned. The choir of Trinity Methodist since his arrival Rev. S.D. Kinde will be in charge. The here in 1936. He was a past president of body will be taken to the church from the the Kiwanis club; secretary for a number of Freeman Funeral home at noon tomorrow. years, of the Dickinson-Iron county Medical Immediately after the service, the family society, and a member of the board of will leave on the Chippewa [train] for Grand Trinity Methodist. Rapids, its former home, where services He had for many years been a member will be conducted by the Rev. W. Helrigel at of the Y’s Men’s club, an international 10:30 Thursday morning at Trinity organization affiliated with the YMCA, Methodist. serving as president of the Grand Rapid’s [sic – Rapids] chapter and on the The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, international organization. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Dr. Andersen leaves his widow, the ___, Number ___ [Thursday, April 26, former Berenice Borden, to whom he was 1945], page ___, column ___ wedded Sept. 28, 1917, in Ann Arbor; two children, Miss Dagne, who is en route home DR. E.B. ANDERSEN from Los Angeles, and Ensign Bruce Services for Dr. E.B. Andersen, 52, who Andersen, San Pedro, Calif., who is here died Sunday morning at his home, 612 East with his wife; two sisters, Mrs. Arthur A, after a brief illness, were held at 1 Esthus, Sarasota, Fla., and Mrs. E.W. yesterday at Trinity Methodist. The Rev. Nelson, Chicago, and three brothers, Royal S.D. Kinde, assisted by the Rev. George Andersen[,] Minneapolis; Lieut. Arlow Weiser, conducted the service. Andersen[,] Winfield, Kas., and Albert The Rev. Robert VanderHart sang “I’ve Anderson, EM2/c. with the fleet in the Done My Work”; the choir, directed by Mrs. Marianas. H.P. Toretta, “God So Loved the World”, The body of Dr. Andersen was taken to and Mrs. Toretta, “The Lord of Love My the Freeman Funeral home, where it may Shepherd Is”. Mrs. Burnett Pender was the be viewed after 7 tonight. Services will be accompanist. held at 2 Wednesday at Trinity Methodist. Active pallbearers were Arthur Fortier, It is requested that no flowers be sent. Clark McGregor, John Jelsch, Morgan However, persons desiring to contribute to Leonard, Arthur Larsen, Reuben Erickson, a memorial for Dr. Andersen, which will be Ivar Anderson and Dr. D.R. Smith, and placed in the new Trinity Methodist church, honorary pallbearers members of the may do so through the pastor, the Rev. Kiwanis club, of which Dr. Andersen was a S.D. Kinde. past president, George Best, Reuben Anderson, Dr. Gereon Fredrickson, Russell

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Kessler, Dr. F.O. Logic, M.A. Marvin, Bruce services will be held at 2 Thursday Guild and Lester Staple. afternoon. The Rev. Oscar Purn, pastor of Ushers were Ewald Dickson and Helmer First Lutheran[,] will officiate. Burial will be Freeman. in Cemetery Park. The body was taken to Grand Rapids, Mrs. Anderson had been a member of for services at 10:30 this morning at Trinity First Lutheran church for more than half a Methodist and burial in Rosedale Cemetery. century and for years was active in its Accompanying the body to Grand Ladies’ Aid society. Rapids were Mrs. E.B. Andersen, her daughter, Miss Dagne, Los Angeles, and JOHN ASP her son, Ensign Bruce Anderson, and his wife; Mr. and Mrs. George Allyn; Lieut. John Asp and his wife Clara came to Arlow Anderson and Mrs. Anderson, Iron Mountain, Michigan, from Dalarma, Winfield, Kas.; Arthur Esthus, Sarasota, Sweden, in 1887. John worked in the Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Nelson, Chicago, Pewabic Mine. and Royal Andersen, Minneapolis. In the early 1900’s John spent some time in Arizona for his health. When he MRS. JULIA CAROLINA came back from Arizona he purchased land ANDERSON in Hardwood and began farming. John and Clara had eight children: John The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, V., Fritz, Esther, Elmer, Walter, Mildred, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume May and Della. Della and her two ___, Number ___ [Tuesday, January 3, daughters now own the property. 1950], page ___, column ___ Della and her husband Salem Backlund farmed the property a number of years. Death Takes Salem was employed on state and county Pioneer After roads. He also was a member of the Breen Township School Board for thirteen years Brief Illness and later on the Breen Township Board as treasurer. He was also a member of the Mrs. Julia Carolina Anderson, 87, one of Agriculture Board then known as the Triple the city’s oldest residents, died at 6 this “A”. morning at her home, 805 East B, after an Survivors of the Asp children are illness of the last four days. Mildred Nelson (85), of Evergreen Park, She was born Aug. 22, 1862, in Oland, Illinois; May Bjorklund (83) of Highland, Sweden, and came to Iron Mountain with Indiana, and Della Backlund (81), of her parents when she was a child. She had Hardwood, Michigan. made her home for the last 12 years with Miss Judith Hagberg. [Letter written to William J. Cummings by Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Phillip Della P. Backlund, mailed September 27, Saum, of Bonne, Iowa, and a sister, Mrs. 1990, including twelve postcards, mainly Charles Bowman, of the city. showing logging scenes and logging camps Funeral Thursday in Felch Township and Breen Township.] The body was prepared for burial at the J.B. Erickson and Son Mortuary, where MEDIO J. BACCO 6 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

restless. She summoned a doctor. Death The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, followed shortly thereafter. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Born In Italy ___, Number ___ [Monday, May 28, Born Jan. 1, 1889, in St. George, 1951], page ___, column ___ Monseratto, Italy, the son of Mr. and Mrs. [photograph] Angelo Bacco, Mr. Bacco came to this country with his parents when he was two M.J. Bacco years of age. The family settled in Iron Died Suddenly Mountain, remaining here thereafter. Mr. Bacco, senior, died in 1913 and Mrs. Bacco In Minnesota in 1925, both in this city. Mr. Bacco attended school here, but left Medio J. Bacco, 62, former widely- high school early in his senior year – at 16 known contractor of this city and prominent years of age – to accept a position as time- for many years in the civic and industrial life keeper for the Oliver Iron Mining Co., at of the community, died suddenly following a Hibbing, Minn. He remained there several heart attack at about 5 a.m., yesterday in months and returned to Iron Mountain in the Hotel Winona, at Winona, Minn. 1906 to work as assistant to the late Gilbert Mr. Bacco, who had been ill for the past V. Carpenter, then Dickinson county two years, was stricken while he and Mrs. highway engineer. Bacco were en route to Iron Mountain from In this capacity, Mr. Bacco gained Rochester, Minn., where the former had considerable experience in construction received a medical checkup at Mayo’s. The work, particularly road-building, and in 1915 couple left their winter home at Coral he obtained a leave of absence to Gables, Fla., on Tuesday, May 22; flew to supervise the completion of a road job at Rochester; remained there several days Rockland, in Ontonagon county, where and had left there, by train, Saturday night, another contractor had abandoned the stopping at Winona for a change in trains. project. They had planned to leave there at 11 a.m. Organized Company yesterday and arrive in Iron Mountain on Successful in this venture, Mr. Bacco the Chippewa at about 8:25 last night returned to Iron Mountain in 1916 and (EST), to spend the summer at their Spread organized his own contracting company. Eagle residence. He continued alone until 1930 when he Their daughter, Miss Betty, had organized the Bacco Construction remained in Florida, planning to drive the Company with three associates – his family car to Spread Eagle. She is now en brother, John; Carl Israelson and the late route here. Another daughter, Mrs. M.W. Arthur Fortier. This arrangement continued Connell and daughter, Maureen, will arrive until about 10 years ago, when Mr. Bacco here from Buffalo, New York, to attend the retired from active participation in the funeral. company, but retained a financial interest. At Winona Saturday night, following the Five years later, he withdrew entirely form trip from Rochester, Mr. Bacco appeared in the firm. good health, according to the report. At During his years as a contractor, Mr. about 5 a.m., however, Mrs. Bacco was Bacco bid successfully on some of the awakened when her husband became largest road contracts in this area, including long stretches on US-2 and US-141 north 7 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] and south of Iron Mountain, and elsewhere Supply and the Lake Shore Engineering in the peninsula. He maintained extensive Co., withdrawing some time ago when he equipment for his various jobs, including a disposed of his interests in these and large fleet of trucks and other mobile units. various other enterprises. Mr. Bacco was active, also, in various Mr. Bacco was married July 15, 1921, in other fields. He was director of the Iron Mountain to Miss Violet McLeod. Commercial bank – later the Commercial Besides his wife and two daughters, he National – of Iron Mountain from January, leaves five sisters, Mrs. Christ Rigoni, Mrs. 1920, to January of 1941. He was a Edward Verrette and Mrs. Louis Goffett, member of the Iron Mountain board of Iron Mountain; Mrs. H.E. Nordeen, Chicago, education for six years. Elected in 1934, he and Mrs. Glenn Boucher, of Coral Gables, was named president of the board in 1935, Fla., and a brother, John, of Iron Mountain. and remained president until he resigned in The body will arrive here on the 1940. Chippewa tonight, at about 8:25 (EST) and The Bacco Scholarship will be taken to the J.B. Erickson and Son On Oct. 20, 1948, Mr. Bacco mortuary, where it may be viewed after 4 established a scholarship at Iron Mountain p.m., tomorrow. high school, which annually grants four Funeral arrangements have not been years of advanced engineering study to a completed. worthy high school graduate boy who desires to enter the engineering field. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Qualification for the scholarship is based Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume principally on academic progress, ___, Number ___ [Tuesday, May 29, character, ambition and personal need. 1951], page ___, column ___ Over the four-year period, the scholarship [photograph] provides maximum assistance of approximately $1,000 a year, if required. Medio J. Bacco An active member of the Iron Mountain Services for Medio J. Bacco, former Iron Elks club for 38 years, he was exalted ruler Mountain contractor, who died at about 5 from April, 1920, to April 1922, and in 1928 a.m., Sunday after a heart at Winona, was made a life member of the Minn., will be conducted at 9 tomorrow organization. He was also active in the Iron morning at the J.B. Erickson & Son Mountain Rotary Club and former president. Mortuary by the Rev. Fr. Joseph Seifert. He served on various committees for civic Burial will be in Cemetery park. improvement and was prominent in Members of the Iron Mountain Elks community affairs until illness forced him to Lodge, with which Mr. Bacco was retire. associated for 38 years, will conduct a Other Interests ritualistic service at 8 tonight at the During his years as a contractor he Mortuary. acquired a major interest in the former Champion Gravel Co., now Champion, Inc., R.G. BAKER purchasing the holdings of Philip b. Spear and associates, at Marquette. About 25 Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, years ago, also, he organized the Home Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ Furniture Company of Iron Mountain. He was formerly associated with Service and 8 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Year, Number _____ [Friday, December From Powers they returned to 1, 1922], page 1, column 8 Menominee by rail, preparations being made then to build the right-of-way from REAL PIONEER IS Powers to Iron Mountain. VISITING IN CITY Although he has passed through Iron _____ Mountain since he helped clear the five acres, Baker has never stopped off here

until this time. He is staying at 208 East B Man Who Helped Clear street and will be here for several days. First Ground Is Back Again MRS. JAMES ASHLEY _____ (ELIZABETH HOSKING) BANGS

Larry Livingston, the wizard land clearer of the upper peninsula, should meet R.G. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Baker, the man who cleared the first land in Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Iron Mountain. ___, Number ___ [Tuesday, May 3, Baker, who is a salesman for the Jewel 1949], page ___, column ___ Tea company and resides in Escanaba, is in Iron Mountain for the first time since Death Takes approximately 50 years ago [when] he and Mrs. Bangs At his partner, John Schaefer, logged five Her Residence acres of ground for Henry Jenkins, later a hotel proprietor here. Mrs. James Ashley Bangs, age 88, Baker is now 68 years old but appears widow of Dr. James Ashley Bangs and a active and strong. He remarked on the resident of Iron Mountain for about 50 change that has taken place in Iron years, died this morning at her residence, Mountain during the half century interval 837 East B street. She had been ailing for that has elapsed since his first visit here. the last seven years. When the site now occupied by the city Mrs. Bangs, widely-known, was born was a wilderness Baker and his partner May 2, 1861, in Clintonville, Wis. She was were brought here from Menominee by Bill the former Elizabeth Hosking, daughter of Dickey. They travelled [sic – traveled] in a the late Capt. and Mrs. William T. Hosking rig over a rough road that led through a and sister of the late Mrs. E.F. Brown. forest. Dickey at that time ran an Indian Mrs. Bangs taught school in Republic trading post about two and one half miles and then accepted a position as librarian from the present city. and teacher in Ironwood. The two newcomers remained here 40 She was wedded in December of 1880 days during which they cleared the five to Daniel H. Wood, of Norway, then acres of land for Mr. Jenkins, who had the superintendent of the Curry mine. Her work done in order to prove up his husband was later killed in an accident in homestead claim. When they left, they had the mine, leaving her with a daughter, Mrs. to walk to Powers, the trip taking two days Max Hayden Barber, of Hibbing, Minn., who and leading through a dense forest. An died on March 12, 1924, in Jerusalem, Indian guide piloted them over the trail. whole on a world cruise.

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Weds Second Time The family asks that flowers be omitted. Mrs. Bangs later was wedded to Charles Val Lance, of Eau Claire, who died three The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, years later. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume In 1893 Mrs. Bangs became the wife of ___, Number ___ [Friday, May 6, 1949], Dr. James Ashely Bangs, whom she page ___, column ___ accompanied to Iron Mountain in 1893. The family in that year took up residence at Mrs. James A. Bangs 837 East B, which has since been the Services for Mrs. James Ashley Bangs, family home. age 88, who died Tuesday morning at her Dr. Bangs was physician and surgeon residence, 837 East B, were held yesterday for the Pewabic Mining company. His afternoon at the residence. The Rev. J. cousin, Dr. L.E. Coffin[,] then of Boston, William Robertson officiated. Mass., came to the Upper Peninsula and Mrs. R.C. Hanna played the following was associated with Dr. Bangs. organ selections: “Kyrie Elieson,” “Choer Mrs. Bangs leaves a daughter, Miss de Peleria,” “Meditation Religiouse,” Athlyn V. Bangs, principal of the “Andante,” and Nunc Dimitia.” Burial was in Washington school; eight nieces, Mrs. Cemetery park. George Newton and Mrs. Abbott Fox, of The pallbearers were Henry Miller, E.J. Iron Mountain; Mrs. Sumner Robbins, of Dundon, Joseph Franson, William Newton, Detroit; Mrs. Vernon Morris, of Hinsdale, Ill.; Elwyn Brown and Reuben Erickson. Mrs. Tobias Chew, of Indiana, Pa.; Mrs. Attending from out-of-town were Dr. and Charles Everett, of Munising, and Mrs. Mrs. Leslie E. Coffin, of Kenosha, Wis.; Mr. Arthur Devine and Mrs. Harry Lowmiller, of and Mrs. Max Barber, of Hibbing, Minn.; Mr. Madison, Wis., and three nephews, Fayette and Mrs. Sumner Robbins and Mrs. Henry E. Brown, of Iron River; William Brown, of Symonds, of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. F.E. Mount Pleasant, and Douglas Brown, of Brown and Elwin Brown, of Iron River; Detroit. Elizey Hayden, of Ishpeming; Mrs. Henry Lost A Son Calvi, of Glencoe, Ill.; Mrs. Charles Everett, A son, William Ashley, died in 1925 in El of Munising, and Mrs. Jerry Scott, of Paso, Texas. Florence, Wis. Mrs. Bangs was active in civic and charitable work in Iron Mountain. She was ROBERT BARCLAY a charter member of the Iron Mountain- Kingsford Woman’s club and of the Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Tuesday Study club. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 18, Services for Mrs. Bangs, a member of Number 19 [Thursday, September 25, the Methodist Episcopal church, will be 1913], page 4, column 1 conducted at 2 Thursday at the residence by the Rev. J. William Robertson, pastor of Robert Barclay Passes. the Holy Trinity Episcopal. Burial will be in

Cemetery Park. Robert Barclay, who has made his The body was prepared for burial at the home in the city for ten years, died last Freeman Funeral home, where it will Sunday evening at the home of his remain until 10 a.m. tomorrow. It will then daughter, Mrs. August E. Brauns. He was be taken to the residence. 10 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] born in Quebec, Canada, and was about The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, seventy-two years old. He is survived by a Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 6, wife, one daughter, Mrs. Brauns, and two Number 258 [Saturday, February 12, sons, Harry and James. He had been an 1927], page 2, columns 1-2 invalid for a number of years, but the immediate cause of death was Bright’s Iron Mountain Veteran disease. Before coming to Iron Mountain Of Civil War Shook the he resided at Green Bay, where he had been employed as telegraph operator for Han of “Abe” Lincoln the North-Western railway for a long term of _____ years. Mr. Barclay was of a retired disposition and had formed but few THERE is one in Iron Mountain today to acquaintances in the city, but he was held whom this occasion – February 13 – means in high esteem by those who knew him. As more, perhaps, than to any other individual a husband and father he was most bountiful in the community. in his affections. The funeral was held from Today is Lincoln’s birthday and Samuel the home on Tuesday afternoon. Bassett, 83 years of age, hale, hearty and active, residing at 629 East A street, sat this SAMUEL BASSETT morning amid the relics of the days of ’61, and told how in the spring of that year, while encamped at Fair Oaks, Va., he stood at attention while Lincoln rode up and down the line of troops, and how, a short time later, he walked up to the great Emancipator to receive a greeting and a handshake. There are not many today who can make that boast. Few are living who can say they have felt the hand of Abraham Lincoln, clasped in theirs. Mr. Bassett remembers the occasion well. Was Chopping Wood It was the merry ring of a two-fisted woodman’s axe that greeted the reporter at the Bassett home, and it came from somewhere within the woodshed out in back. Further investigation revealed that Mr. Bassett was the wielder, and the chips which flew from every blow would have done credit to a man 30 years his junior. “Yes, I remember it well,” Mr. Bassett said. “It was in the spring of 1861, shortly after I had enlisted. We had orders to go up to the front and I can recall that Lincoln, 11 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] with his son, Robert, both mounted on greatest number in any single engagement sturdy army horses, rode into camp for the in which Mr. Bassett participated. inspection. Singularly, he received his honorable “There wasn’t much said that day, discharge exactly three years from the date however. Everything was sort of quiet as of enlistment – May 25, 1864. the president rode up and down the line of Mrs. Bassett shared with her husband troops. We were one branch of his army of this morning the recital of much of his war the Potomac. I was a private in Company experience. There are some points, E, of the First Massachusetts infantry. perhaps more firmly fixed in her mind than Shook Hands in her mind than in his, on which Mrs. “When he had finished his inspection a Bassett seemed more certain than her few of the boys mustered up the courage to husband. “He says he wants to forget it walk over to where he stood at the left of all[,]” she said. “He has always seemed to the division talking with our officers. He feel that way, for form the way he has opened a way for them and I joined the describe it before, it is not a very pleasant group. We walked up to his horse and held memory” up our hands. Lincoln reached over, During the three years of warfare, smiling, and shook hands with each of us. according to a tabulation in Mr. Basssett’s It was no weak hand-shake either. I can possession, the various regiments of the remember that plainly.” army of the Potomac participated in more It was only a few days later, Mr. Bassett than 60 engagements. said, that he left with his company for the “I guess I saw my share, all right,” Mr. front. Enroute there he was stricken with Bassett said. “I don’t like to think about the typhoid fever and was taken to the hospital war part of it, but I shall always want to at Turner Lane, Pa. Two months later he remember President Lincoln and that day, joined his regiment at Alexandria, Va., and at Fair Oaks, when I shook hands with him.” there began for him three years of active service in which he participated in most of The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, the major engagements that occurred from Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 1861 to 1864. ___, Number ___ [Monday, June 30, In 11 Major Engagements. 1941], page ___, columns 1-3 Enlisting May 25, 1861, Mr. Bassett served with the army of the Potomac Sam Bassett, City’s Last Civil throughout and participated in 11 major War Veteran, Died Yesterday engagements of the Civil war. In those engagements, according to the records Just a few days ago Sam Bassett, aged which he has preserved, a total of 13,050 99, Iron Mountain’s only surviving Civil War men were lost to the army of the Potomac. veteran, said: “Life has been more than Mr. Bassett fought at Fair Oaks, good to me, but I just want one thing more Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, from it. I want to live to be 100.” Gettysburg, Mine Run, the Battle of the But Sam didn’t quite make it. He died at Wilderness, First Bull Run, Yorktown, 12 noon yesterday at the home of Mr. and Williamsburg, Hanover Court and Mrs. Stanley Miller, 304 East A street, with Spottsylvania [sic – Spotsylvania]. In the whom he and Mrs Bassett had resided Battle of the Wilderness, his records show, since last October. Death came within a loss of 2,246 men was suffered, the 12 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] about two months of his 100th birthday. He 9,762; captured or missing, 5,949; was 99 last September 10. aggregate, 17,287. Gettysburg, Killed, For 41 years prior to last October, Mr. 3,155; wounded, 14,529; captured or and Mrs. Bassett had lived in their own missing, 5,365; aggregate, 23,049. Battle home at 629 East A street. On June 13 last of the Wilderness, Killed, 2,246; wounded, they celebrated their 66th wedding 12,037; captured or missing, 3,387; anniversary and many friends gathered at aggregate, 17,666. Spottsylvania, Killed, the home. 2,725; wounded, 13,416; captured or Death came peacefully to the aged missing, 2,258; aggregate, 18,399. Cold veteran – as peacefully as he had lived out Harbor and Bethesda church, Killed, 1,845; the last years of his life. Although ailing for wounded, 9,077; captured or missing, the past few years, he was alert and happy. 1,816; aggregate, 12,738. Pittsburg, Va., Always popular, with young and old, Mr. Killed, 1,672; wounded, 8,055; captured or and Mrs. Bassett had a wide circle of missing, 3,930; aggregate, 13,657. friends who kept constantly in touch with Appomatox, Killed, 1,316; wounded, 7,750; them. captured or missing, 1,714; aggregate, Mr. Bassett was born Sept. 10, 1842, in 10,780. Bangor, Maine. When he was about 10 Enlisting on May 25, 1861, Mr. Bassett years old he moved with his family to served with the Army of the Potomac Boston, Mass. His father was one of the throughout, and participated in 11 major many shipbuilders whose shops dotted the engagements. He fought at Fair Oaks, eastern seaboard, and Sam worked at the Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, trade until he was 18 years of age, when he Mine Run, Battle of the Wilderness, First enlisted in the Civil war. He was assigned Bull Run, Yorktown, Williamsburg, as a private, Company E, First Regiment, Hannover Court and Spottsylvania. Massachusetts Infantry, Third Army Corps, Singularly, Mr. Bassett received his Army of the Potomac. honorable discharge exactly three years Heaviest Toll from the date of enlistment – May 25, 1864. It was the Army of the Potomac, history He Met Lincoln relates, which suffered the greatest toll in Sam had many exciting stories to tell men killed, wounded, captured and missing and he told them well. But his favorite was of any war in history, in proportion to the about the day in the spring of 1861, shortly number of men engaged. From May 5, after he enlisted, when – but here is how he 1864, to November 31, 1864, there were told it: 10,572 killed, 53,957 wounded, and 23,873 “We had orders to go up to the front and captured or missing – an aggregate I can recall that Mr. Lincoln, with his son, casualty of 88,387. Robert, were both mounted on sturdy Army Of the many engagements credited to horses, rade [sic – rode] into camp for the Army of the Potomac the principal inspection. battles were: Peninsula of Virginia, killed “There wasn’t much said that day, 1,734; wounded, 8,062; captured or however. Everything was sort of quiet as missing, 6,053; aggregate casualty, 15,849. the President rode up and down the line of Maryland campaign, Killed, 2,673; troops. wounded, 11,756; captured or missing, “When he had finished his inspection a 13,511; aggregate, 27,940. few of the boys mustered up the courage to Chancellorsville, Killed, 1,606; wounded, walk over to where he stood at the left of 13 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] the division, talking with our officers. He “Sam walked ahead of the team, over opened a way for them and I joined the the rough trail, and I sat on the seat – group. We walked up to his horse and held holding on for dear life. Some of it was up our hands. Lincoln reached over, corduroy road, and I had to hang on tight. smiling, and shook hands with each of us. “Mile after mile I bounced over that road. It was no weak hand-shake [sic – As the sun rose higher, it began to get hot. handshake] either. I can remember that We had brought no water with us, and I was plainly.” getting thirsty. I noticed a small cask in the A few days later Mr. Bassett left with his wagon marked ‘pickles.’ I thought a pickle company for the front. En route he was might help my thirst, and when I felt I stricken with typhoid fever and was taken to couldn’t stand it any longer I said to Sam: the hospital at Turner Lane, Pa. Two ‘Break open that tub and give me a pickle. months later he joined his regiment at I’m thirsty.’ Alexandria, Va., and there began for him “But Sam wouldn’t go it. ‘No,’ he said, three years of active service. “those pickles belong to somebody else. Returned to Boston You’ll have to wait.’ Finally he came to the After the war Mr. Bassett returned to camp, and I had all the water I wanted, and Boston, and there, on June 13, 1875, he good food, too. We stayed there a short was married to Miss Catherine Powers. time and then started home. We reached Mrs. Bassett, now 87, was born Dec. 16, Quinnesec at 9 p.m. I was completely tired 1854, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John out. I never went again – until we moved to Powers. Iron Mountain to live.” In 1881 Mr. and Mrs. Bassett discussed Worked at Hospital with relatives the prospects of journeying Mr. and Mrs. Bassett came to Iron west, to new territories that were then being Mountain shortly after the old Chapin opened up. Although several agreed to hospital was opened. They were employed make the trip, Mr. and Mrs. Bassett were, as steward and stewardess there, finally, the only ones who set out for the remaining eight or nine years. The old new land. hospital building later slumped into the They reached Marinette, Wis., and cavein which is now known as the Chapin remained there about a year, when Mr. Pit. Bassett learned that A.F. Wright, general Leaving the hospital, Mr. and Mrs. merchandise dealer of Quinnesec, was Bassett returned to Boston, but came back looking for [a] man to work in the store – to Iron Mountain when Mr. Bassett was clerking, delivering groceries, etc. Mr. offered a job as custodian of the new Bassett made the trip to Quinnesec and got Carnegie library. He arrived here as the the job. new structure was being completed. In Mrs. Bassett yesterday related a story fact, he helped sweep out the debris left by about that chapter in their lives. “I the builders. remember, one day, Sam was to deliver an Mr. Bassett remained at the library until order of groceries to Woods’ lumber camp 1916, when he retired from active work. back of Lake Antoine. He asked me to go, The aged veteran took his first airplane and I agreed. He hitched up the team, ride about 10 years ago, at the Dickinson loaded the groceries in the wagon and we county airport. He liked it then and had started out. It was then 9 a.m. been enthusiastic about it ever since. Three years ago he flew again, in a huge, 14 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] tri-motored ship which visited the airport. 87, who survives him. These pictures were After the flight he said: “It was fine – but he taken last Memorial Day, by Mrs. Betty didn’t go high enough or far enough. I’d like Werner, 403 East Ludington street, who to take a trip to Boston in that plane.” visited the Bassetts at their home. Funeral Enjoyed Life services for Mr. Bassett will be held at 2 In the later years of his life, Mr. tomorrow afternoon at the Buchanan- Bassett’s home and garden were his Villemur-Tondin Funeral home. The Rev. hobbies. Devoted to each other, Mr. and N.U. McConaughy, pastor of the First Mrs. Bassett spent their days sitting on the Presbyterian church, will conduct the porch of their home, greeting visitors and service. Officers and members of the enjoying life to the fullest. Their birthdays Thomas Uren Legion post, this city, will and anniversaries were always the conduct military services at the grave in occasion for happy gatherings. Cemetery park. The body is lying in state They left their home only when their at the funeral home. health failed to the point where they could no longer go on alone. Nearest surviving relatives are two nieces and a nephew – Edith Graham, of Chauncey, Mass.; Ella Thomas, of Bangor, Maine, and Harold Grile, of Melrose, Mass. Mr. Bassett was a member of the G.A.R., and the Thomas Uren post of the American Legion. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Buchanan–Villemur- Tondin Funeral home. The Rev. N.U. McConaughy, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will conduct the service. Officers and members of the Thomas Uren Legion post, this city, will conduct military services at the grave in Cemetery park.

The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume ___, Number ___ [Tuesday, July 1, 1941], page ___, columns ___ [two photographs, one of Sam Bassett and the other of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bassett]

HE WAS THE LAST

Here is Sam Bassett, aged 99, Iron Mountain’s last Civil War veteran, who died here Sunday noon, and Mrs. Bassett, aged Memorial Day, circa 1940

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assisted by the Revs. H.A. Manahan, Frank Blair and William J. Niegel, the latter accompanying the cortege to Cemetery park, where he read the service at the grave. During services at the funeral home Mrs. William C. Andrews sang “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,” “Lead Kindly Light” and “Nearer My Go [sic – God] to Thee,” accompanied by Miss Dorothy Manahan. Military rites at the graveside were in charge of officers and members of the Thomas Uren Legion post, Iron Mountain. The Dickinson County WPA band accompanied the cortege to the cemetery and, halting at the gates, played a dirge as the procession approached the grave. Pallbearers Pallbearers were William Clements, Thomas Hosking and William Jacobson, Spanish-American War veterans, and A.H. Bracco, Reuben Bennett and Fred Mitchell, of the Thomas Uren post. Members of the Thomas Uren Auxiliary and of the Kiwanis club also attended the service. Mr. Bassett was an honorary Memorial Day, circa 1940-1941 member of Kiwanis. Among out-of-town relatives and friends The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, attending the ceremony were Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume John Hallfrisch and Wright Hallfrisch, of ___, Number ___ [Thursday, July 3, Stephenson; Mrs. Norbert Peterson, of 1941], page ___, columns 1-3 Wallace; Mrs. J. Gaspar and Miss Betty Gaspar, of Marinette; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sam Bassett Fezatt, of Marquette, and Catherine Yesterday Powers, a niece of the deceased, of Summerville, Mass.

Funeral services for Samuel Bassett, 99, last Civil War veteran in Iron Mountain JOHN ROBERT “JACK” and who died Sunday at the home of Mr. BEAUPARLANT and Mrs. Stanley Miller, 304 East A street, following a lingering illness, were held at 2 The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, yesterday afternoon at the Buchanan- Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 7, Villemur-Tondon Funeral home in the city. Number 18 [Saturday, April 30, 1927], Services at the funeral home were page 2, column 2 conducted by the Rev. N.U. McConaughy, 16 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

BOY KILLED AND struck, the truck knocking them down and the rear wheels passing over the boy. SISTER IS HURT The children were picked up by Robert BY TANK TRUCK Robinson, 900 Stockbridge avenue, and _____ rushed to General hospital in a car belonging to Charles O. Anderson. There it Jack Beauparlant Loses was found that Celisse had been injured only slightly and she was taken home. Jack Life in Street Ac- moaned with pain and was apparently cident unconscious. His parents were at his _____ bedside when he died. The driver of the truck was not held. Jack Beauparlant, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Beauparlant, 300 West H MRS. OLAF (BEATRICE MARY street, died at 12:55 o’clock this afternoon LEFEBVRE) BLOMQUIST in General hospital from injuries received when he was run over by a Triangle Oil The Daily News, Iron Mountain-Kingsford, tank truck, driven by Joseph Neault [sic – Dickinson County, Michigan, Monday, Nault], 372 Cass avenue, shortly before December 31, 2018], page 2, columns noon at the intersection of Carpenter 1-2 avenue and H street, and his sister, Celisse, aged 8, is at her home with cuts and bruises about her body form being knocked to the pavement. The accident occurred when the children were returning from the Model bakery, 1201 Carpenter avenue. According to witnesses, they had started across the street once, but turned back to avoid a car coming north, driven by John Jelsch, principal of the Iron Mountain high school. Mr. Jelsch said he came to a dead stop to avoid hitting them. It was at that moment that the truck, going south on Carpenter avenue, approached the intersection but slowed also to a stop to observe the red stop signal which had flashed a few seconds before. A second or two before the truck reached the intersection, however, the green signal flashed and the driver coasted through the Beatrice Blomquist intersection. The children, meanwhile, had started IRON MOUNTAIN – Beatrice Mary across directly in back of Mr. Jelsch’s car Blomquist, age 101, of 115 N. Forest St. in and darted in front of the truck. Both were Iron Mountain arrived in God's Garden

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December 27, 2018. She entered from included "Marvelous Machines" promoting Manor Care Health Services in Kingsford, the Cornish Pumping Engine on the History Michigan. Channel, and "Silver,Copper,and Gold She was born April 24, 1917 in Iron Mining in UP" on Public Television. Mountain, Michigan, one of eight children of She wrote extensively on Dickinson the late Amede (Edward) Lefebvre from County History and encouraged people to Montreal, Canada and Georgiana write their family histories. Many of the (Langlois) Lefebvre from Cahoes, N.Y. stories are included in published books She was preceded in death by her "Tales of Yesteryear" and published husband Olaf, her parents, five sisters: histories of Felch, Breen and West Branch Annette (Furno), Estelle (Walker), Lucille Townships. (Larsh), Geneva (Lahti), Dorothy (Sterling), Writing honors included the prestigious three brothers: Edward, Rodney and 1995 State of Michigan Charles Follo George Lefebvre and granddaughter Award for historic preservation and writing Christina Emerson Lloyd. on Dickinson County and the Upper Beatrice graduated from Iron Mountain Peninsula. She was a member of the High School in 1934, where she was Editor- Upper Peninsula Writers Association and In-Chief of The Mountaineer school paper. honored as 1982 Writer of the Year. She Soon after graduation she commenced six- stated that she was inspired by love of year employment with the U.S. Treasury history and by local residents who were Dept. Disbursement Division as a check- actively interested, encouraging her dating writer for WPA project in Iron Mountain, back to her Iron Mountain High School Cheboygan and Lansing, MI. journalism days. On June 29, 1939 she married Olaf Beatrice was named First Lady of Blomquist. They settled in Iron Mountain Dickinson County by Beta Sigma Nu and raised three daughters: Judy, Alene Sorority in October 1979. Over the years and Margo. she was a Girl Scout leader, 4-H leader and After her marriage, she served for ten Audubon Society Member. With the years as office manager for the local U.S. Dickinson County Chapter of the Red Cross Dept. of Agriculture Stabilization and she handled publicity and public relations Conservation Service. and assisted area War Brides during WWII She studied at Northern Michigan as a counselor in adjusting and orienting to University and University of Alabama, life here. She enjoyed gardening, reading, concentrating on courses in writing, music, bird watching and community publishing, and on history. Beginning in events. She loved her family and supported 1940 she was free lance "by-line" writer for their many paths and activities. She was a the Iron Mountain News and Green Bay faithful member of Our Saviour's Lutheran Press Gazette. Church. Beatrice served as Official Historian for She is survived by three daughters: the Menominee Range Historical Judith (Will) Mcintosh of Chilton, WI; Dr. Foundation and assisted in organizing the Margo (Stephen) Cousins of Marshfield, WI; first auxiliary "Friends of the Museum" and Alene Blomquist of Ann Arbor; six group that supported this area's historical grandchildren: Stephanie, Scott, Patrick, movement. She was active in the Cornish Cory, Nathaniel and Amanda; six great- Pumping Museum development and grandchildren: Cody, Ashleigh, Christina, promotion. Her television appearances Samantha, Sabrina, Lynaya; three great- 18 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. ANDREW J. [JACKSON] Visitation will be held on Saturday, BOYINGTON. – Distinguished as a January 12, 2019 from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. at pioneer resident of the Upper Peninsula Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Iron and as the pioneer hotel keeper of Iron Mountain. Funeral services will follow at River, Andrew J. Boyington, now living 11:00 am at the church. Rev. Paul Strom retired from active pursuits, was for many will officiate. Burial will be in Cemetery years actively identified with the leading Park in Iron Mountain. interests of Iron River and a prominent In lieu of flowers, donations may be factor in promoting its agricultural and made to Menominee Range Historical material prosperity and growth. He was Museums. born, September 3, 1842, in Allegany Condolences may be expressed to the county, New York, a son of Asahel family of Beatrice Blomquist online at Boyington. His father, Jonathan www.ernashfuneralhomes.com. Boyington [sic – David Boyington], who The family has entrusted the Erickson- came from English ancestry, was a native, Rochon & Nash Funeral Home with the it is supposed, of Vermont, where he grew funeral arrangements. to manhood and married. He afterwards lived for a number of years in New York state, from there moving to Wisconsin and spending his last days in Jefferson county. ANDREW JACKSON BOYINGTON Born in the Green Mountain state, Asashel Boyington was there reared to Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, agricultural pursuits, which he subsequently Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 15, followed for a while in Allegany county, New Number 14 [Thursday, August 25, York. From there he moved, in 1843, to 1910], page 2, column 4 Wisconsin, being accompanied by his family. Starting with a team, he traveled Hotel Change. across the country to Buffalo, a distance of sixty miles, and there embarked, team and The Boyington House at Iron River, all, on a steamer and proceeded by way of which has been conducted by Andrew J. Lake Erie to Milwaukee, then a small Boyington and Philip L. Boyington, his son, village. From there, with teams, he for over a quarter of a century, has been followed an Indian trail to Jefferson county, sold to Wooster & Jones, of Wautoma, Wis. going forty miles through the forest. He The new proprietors took possession on there purchased a tract of timbered land in Tuesday. A.J. Boyington was among the what is now Sullivan township, and having very first to locate in Iron River and opened cleared an opening[,] erected a log cabin in a hotel, removing from Iron Mountain. He is which to live. He was the only settler within widely known. a radius of five miles, while Milwaukee was the nearest post office and the only depot A History of the Northern Peninsula of for supplies. The wild beasts of the Michigan and Its People: Its Mining, wilderness had not then fled before the Lumber and Agricultural Industries by advancing steps of civilization, but, with the Alvah L. Sawyer, 1911, pages 874-876 dusky savage, inhabited the forests, with portrait with signature tipped in roaming at will through the dense woods. 19 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Clearing a part of the land, he was there the Northwest territories, and until 1871 one of the leading farmers until 1863, when was employed in prospecting for the he disposed of his homestead, although he precious metal in Montana. Returning then remained a resident of the county. After the to Wisconsin, Mr. Boyington married in the return from the army of his son, Andrew J. following spring, and in April, 1872, came to Boyington, the subject of this sketch, he the Upper Peninsula, locating at bought a well improved farm in Hebron Menominee, then a small log-cabin village. township, and resided there a few years. On July 16 of that year, he was joined by Moving then to Fort Atkinson, he lived there his bride, who came in on the first regular until his death, at the venerable age of passenger train that entered the place. eighty-three years. His wife, whose maiden Opening a billiard room and a dispensary, name was Esther Sanford, was born in he was there in business until 1877, when New York state, a daughter of Abram and he sold out and went to the Pacific coast. Susan (Woodworth) Sanford. She lived He settled in Seattle, in the territory of until ninety-five years of age. Nine children Washington, which was then a town of were born to their union, as follows: Titus, three thousand inhabitants, with scant David, Jesse, Sarah, Hiram, Melinda, promise of its present proud position among George, Andrew J. and Lucy. All of the the coast cities. He remained there until sons, six in number, served bravely in the the fall of 1878, when he returned to Civil War. Menominee, where he continued his Reared among the pioneer scenes of residence for more than a year. Jefferson county, Wisconsin, Andrew J. Coming from there to Iron county [sic – Boyington remained beneath the parental northern Menominee County], Mr. roof-tree until after the breaking out of the Boyington located at Iron Mountain on Civil war, when his patriotic enthusiasm January 7, 1880. At that time there were was aroused and he cheerfully offered his but four buildings in the place, and they services to his country. Enlisting, were unfinished, although two of them were September 30, 1861, in Company H., occupied by grocery stores. There was not Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, he a woman in the town until the advent of served with his comrades at the front until Mrs. Boyington, the few men residing there the expiration of his term of enlistment. In keeping bachelor’s hall. Buying two lots, 1863 Mr. Boyington re-enlisted and Mr. Boyington erected two buildings, the continued with his regiment in all of its ground floors to be used for stores, and the marches, campaigns and battles until upper stories for residential purposes. November 21, 1864. On that day, while on Selling out in 1882, Mr. Boyington came to patrol duty, guarding a railroad at Iron River, making the removal with a pair Huntsville, Alabama, he was shot by a of horses and a wagon, bringing his family bushwhacker, and as a result lost his left and all of his household goods and arriving arm. In June, 1865, he was honorably February 16, 1882. The site of Iron River discharged from the service and returned was then a wilderness, the only buildings in home. the vicinity being three small log cabins. He In partnership with his father, Mr. at once began the erection of a hotel, Boyington then purchased a farm in Hebron which, though it was then far from township, and was there engaged in tilling complete, he opened to the public on the soil until 1870. Traveling then by stage November 1, 1882. It contained fifty rooms, where there were no railways, he went to and was well equipped for those days. On 20 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

June 27, 1885, the structure was burned, Wait was Lura Barber. She was born in but Mr. Boyington, with characteristic Vermont, which was also the birthplace of enterprise, moved to a house near by [sic – her father, George Barber. A pioneer of nearby] and continued as before to New Berlin, Wisconsin, George Barber entertain travelers. In the meantime[,] the moved there several years before there work of rebuilding progressed rapidly, and were any railways in that vicinity, and for on the first of July, 1886, the present sometime [sic – some time] there [sic – Boyington Hotel threw open its doors to they] were engaged in teaming, taking the public. In addition to conducting his produce form that place to Milwaukee, on hotel, Mr. Boyington also operated his farm his return trip bringing back merchandise of of two hundred and forty acres, two miles all kinds. He was accidentally killed by and a half from the village center, raising an being thrown from his wagon when his ample supply of milk and vegetables for the team ran away. The maiden name of the hotel and all of the hay needed in his livery. wife of George Barber was Polly In 1897 he admitted his son, Philip L., to Crampton. She survived him, passing partnership, and continued with him until away at the home of a daughter at the age 1906, when he sold out to his partner. of four score years. She reared five Since that time Mr. Boyington has lived children, namely: Viola; Lefa, wife of Mr. retired from active pursuits, having a most Boyington; Manville B.; Julia; and Julius. pleasant home but a few blocks from the Two sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. hotel. Boyington, Burt L., who lived but fourteen Mr. Boyington married, March 16, 1872, years; and Philip L., of whom a brief sketch Lefa Wait, who was born, June 30, 1850, at may be found following this. New Berlin, Waukesha county, Wisconsin, a daughter of Thaddeus Wait. Here PHILIP L. BOYINGTON grandfather, Samuel Wait, was born, it is thought, in England, came with his parents A History of the Northern Peninsula of to the United States, and began life as a Michigan and Its People: Its Mining, farmer in northern New York. From there Lumber and Agricultural Industries by he moved to Wisconsin and spent his last Alvah L. Sawyer, 1911, page 876 years in Waukesha county. His wife, whose maiden name was Lorania Covey, PHILIP L. BOYINGTON. – Enterprising, survived him and died at the home of a genial and accommodating, Philip L. daughter in Winnebago county, Wisconsin. Boyington, of Iron River, proprietor of the Born in New York state, Thaddeus Wait Boyington Hotel, has acquired an enviable was young when he moved with his parents reputation as “mine host,” and is especially to Wisconsin. Buying forty acres of land at popular with the traveling public, being ever New Berlin after his marriage, he resided mindful of the wants and comfort of his there until 1852, when he went to guests. A son of Andrew J. and Lefa Outagamie county Wisconsin, becoming an (Wait) Boyington, he was born, July 29, early pioneer of that section. Buying 1876, in Menominee, Wisconsin [sic – government land, he built a log cabin, Michigan], of substantial New England began the improvement of a homestead, ancestry. Further parental and ancestral and there resided until his death, at the history may be found on another page of comparatively early age of forty-three years. The maiden name of the wife of Mr. 21 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] this work, in connection with the sketch of the main highway. Mr. Brauns’ chest was his father, Andrew J. Boyington. crushed and he received other injuries. A lad of six years when he came with Mr. Brauns, according to accounts, was his parents to Iron River, Mr. Boyington driving toward his home early in the has since made this place his home. On evening. It was after dark and the lights of attaining his majority his father gave him a his car were on. He is said to have told half interest in his property and his relatives later that the lights from an business, and they were associated in the approaching car blinded him, and he did not management of affairs until 1906, when Mr. see the parked car. Boyington bought out his father’s share of He was taken directly to Wenatchee, the house and livery, and has since been where he died. sole proprietor and manager. In addition to Partner Informed caring for these, he likewise has charge of News of the accident was received in a the home farm, on which all of the milk, telegram sent her to Martin D. Thomas, of vegetables, poultry and eggs used in the the Braumart Theatre company, partner of hotel, and the greater part of the hay and Mr. Brauns in the theater business and grain used in the livery, are produced. Mr. other projects. The message was sent by Boyington married Abbie Gilman, and they Barclay Brauns, a son. According to the have one child, Gladys Boyington. [page message, Mr. Brauns was given an even 876] chance for recovery Friday night but when Mr. Thomas telephoned Wenatchee at 8:30 AUGUST E. BRAUNS o’clock Saturday evening he was advised of his death. Mr. Thomas left last evening for The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Wenatchee to attend the funeral services. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 14, Mr. Brauns was born in 1868 at Green Number 182 [Monday, November 12, Bay. He came to Iron Mountain in 1893 1934], page 1, columns 6-7; page 3, and, in partnership with Ed Vandenbraek, column 1 opened the city’s first “cash and carry” grocery store in the building recently August E. Brauns Fatally occupied by the Sims drug store, on East Ludington street. That business was Injured in Auto Accident conducted for about a year, after which the _____ partners entered the wholesale fruit and Former Iron Mountain grocery business under the name of Brauns Resident Dies In Wen- and Van. atchee, Washington. Sold to Carpenter Cook _____ Mer. Vandenbraek died in 1915, but the business was continued as the firm of August E. Brauns, aged 68 years, and Brauns and Van until about 1924, when it until about three years ago a resident of was sold to the Carpenter Cook company, Iron Mountain for 37 years, died at about 4 of Menominee. About five years ago, the o’clock Saturday afternoon, Pacific coast Carpenter Cook company also purchased time (5 p.m., C.S.T.) at Wenatchee, Wash., the building formerly occupied by Brauns as the result of injuries received Friday and Van, on East Ludington street. evening when the car he was driving near At the height of its activities, the firm of Wenatchee crashed into a car parked on Brauns and Van maintained warehouses in 22 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Green Bay, Iron River and Iron Mountain. part of his 1934 crop when the accident Both partners were energetic workers and, occurred. after the death of Vandenbraek, Mr. Brauns The son, Barclay, controls the activities carried on actively until he sold out to the of the Barker Fruit company, at Cashmere, Menominee concern. Wash., located about 90 miles north of In 1906 Mr. Brauns opened the Bijou Entiat on the Great Northern railway. The theatre, on East Ludington street, and father also took a keen interest in his son’s conducted it until 1916. Martin Thomas property and visited there frequently. entered his employe [sic – employ] in 1906, Resided On Ranch and five years later, in 1911, became Until about three years ago Mr. Brauns associated with him as a partner. That maintained his official residence in Iron partnership has continued for the last 23 Mountain, voting here regularly. For the years. last three years, however, he and Mrs. In 1916 the theater company Brauns have resided on the ranch at Entiat. constructed the Colonial, on East Ludington Mr. Brauns had always been in excellent street, and operated it until 1925, the year health and, despite his years, travelled the new Braumart theater [sic] opened in extensively on business. Iron Mountain. The Braumart is today one Besides his widow, two sons survive. of the largest and most successful theaters They are Barclay and Robert, a student at in the upper Michigan-Wisconsin district. Stanford university, Palo Alto, Calif. There For the last several years, or since Mr. are two sisters, Mrs. Rolfe Eskil, of Long Brauns became interested in orchard Beach, Calif., and Miss Lydia Brauns, of properties in the state of Washington, Mr. Green Bay, and one brother, Dr. Otto Thomas has managed the interests of the Brauns, of Los Angeles, Calif., the latter a Braumart Theater [sic] company here. former resident of Iron Mountain. Several theaters are now under the Funeral arrangements will not be made company’s management. until the arrival of relatives at the Brauns Enters Fruit Business home in Washington, although it was stated After an exhaustive survey of the west, definitely that burial will be in Washington. Mr. Brauns, in 1918, purchased orchard Mr. Brauns last visited in Iron Mountain property at Entiat, Wash., and from that in August of this year. He was a member of year until his death commuted regularly the Masonic lodge, 32nd degree. between Entiat and Iron Mountain, keeping in constant contact with his varied interests. EDWARD BREITUNG Today there are 150 acres included in the properties of the Keystone Fruit company, The Marquette Mining Journal, Marquette, in which Mr. Brauns and Mr. Thomas were Marquette County, Michigan, New jointly interested. Series 973 [March 5, 1887], page 8, The company grows, packs and sells its column 1 own products, including principally apples, pears and cherries. Mr. Brauns personally supervised this enterprise, and, himself ADDITIONAL NEGAUNEE. contacted the market for the disposal of the _____ product. He was preparing to enter the middle-western market with a considerable An Honored Citizen Gone to His Rest.

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Hon. Edward Breitung, of this city, died Edward Breitung was born in the city of at his winter residence in Eastman, Ga., Schalkau, in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, about 12 o’clock Thursday night, after a Germany, November 10, 1831, and was, lingering and painful illness of some three consequently, 56 years of age at the time of weeks’ duration. The immediate cause of his decease. After going through his his demise was an attack of pneumonia. preparatory course, he entered the college Mr. Breitung left here for Chicago early in of Meiningen, in Meninigen, and graduated December last, intending to return before in 1849. After completing his education, proceeding to his wintering place in and during the same year, he emigrated to Georgia. Business prevented him from this country, coming to this state and returning from Chicago, as he had locating in Kalamazoo. Two years later he intended, and he was joined by his family moved to Detroit, where he remained four on the 3d [sic – 3rd] of February with a view years. In May, 1855, he came to Lake to having them at once start with him for Superior, located in Marquette, and Georgia. Before this purpose could be put engaged in the mercantile business. Soon in execution, Mr. Breitung was prostrated after this he commenced exploring and by the attack which finally resulted in his buying and selling mineral lands. He death, and remained for several days at his remained in Marquette for four years and in hotel in a critical condition. Some 1859 came to Negaunee where he has improvement taking placed, on the 11th of since resided. Here he engaged in the the same month he, with his family, left for mercantile business and also associated Eastman in a special car, this step being himself with Israel B. Case, and they ran taken by the advice of his physicians. the Pioneer furnace under contract. IN For a few days after his arrival he was 1864 he sold out his mercantile business somewhat better, but afterward steadily and gave his entire attention to mining and continued to grow worse, until death at last mining interests. During the winter of 1864- brought him rest and peace. His wife and ’65 he began to open up and develop the son, his private secretary, Mr. F.E. Pearse, Washington mine and in 1870 he began to and also Miss Lizzie Merry and Prof. A.J. open up the Negaunee hematite range. No Tourville, were in Eastman with him when one believed he would find merchantable the end came. Up to a late hour yesterday ore there, and all thought the venture a no funeral arrangements had been made, foolish one. But he had confidence in his though it is thought that the remains will be own judgment, and future developments brought here for interment. have fully proved that it was sound. In the The news reached this city early fall of 1871 he began to develop the famous yesterday morning and created a profound Republic mine, the largest and most impression, as the entire community profitable iron mine in this country, if not in mourns the loss of one of its most the world. In 1873 he commenced influential, liberal and most highly esteemed explorations on the Menominee range and citizens. The Breitung House, named after continued them for three years. Here again the deceased, is heavily draped in respect everybody believed that he had embarked to his memory. in a profitless venture, but, as before, the By order of acting mayor, Hoch[,] the issue verified the correctness of his opinion. city flag was draped and suspended across The immense amount of ore taken out of Iron street, no suitable pole being the mines on that range fully justifies the obtainable. faith he had in that section of the Lake 24 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Superior iron field. In 1882 and 1883 he became interested in the Vermillion Iron ELWIN FAYETTE BROWN range, in Minnesota, where once again the investment that he made proved highly The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, profitable. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Mr. Breitung was one of the pioneers in ___, Number ___ [Monday, January 20, the mining industry here. His capital 1947], page ___, column ___ consisted only of ability, enterprise and determination when he began life, but by the constant exercise of these qualities, E.F. Brown coupled with the good judgment which Died Today characterized all his operations, he became At His Home a capitalist, and was one of the most prominent and successful operators in Elwin Fayette Brown, aged 85, resident mineral lands in the Lake Superior iron of Iron Mountain for 67 years; president of region. the First National bank and prominent in the The deceased held many positions of earliest mining activity here, died at 12:25 trust in the village and city government this afternoon at his residence, 317 East B. here. He was mayor of the city in 1880, Although not in robust health for several 1882 and 1883, besides holding less years, he had been critically ill only a short important positions. He was elected a time. member of the house of representatives Mr. Brown was born Aug. 23, 1861, at from Marquette county for the term of 1873- Fort Ann, New York, the son of Oscar F. 74, but resigned in 1873. He was elected a and Frances W. Brown, pioneers of New state senator form the Thirty-second district York state. When only 13 years old, he for the term of 1877-78. He was elected to went to Marinette, Wis., with his uncle, the the forty-eighth congress in 1883, and late A.C. Merriman, then a prominent logger served his term out, declining a of the region. He remained with the renomination at its close. In politics he was Merrimans for about a year, and then went an ardent republican, and was for years the to work at what was known as the Pem acknowledged leader of his party in this Won Bon [Peme Bon Won River, Marinette section. County, Wisconsin] farm, later the New Mr. Breitung was united in marriage, York farm, near Vulcan, a familiar landmark November 28, 1870, to Miss Mary Pauline, in the early days. of Port Washington. A son, Edward N., was The New York farm was the starting born Nov. 1, 1871, survives him, and point for the earliest explorers who traveled another son, William M., was lost in infancy. through this area, seeking prospects for In life Mr. Breitung was noted for his logging – and later mining – operations. liberality, and generous readiness to add Mr. Brown met many of these men, [sic] every worth object, and in death he will be during his stay on the farm. long and sincerely mourned by the Mining History community in which so many years of his In 1880 Mr. Brown went to work as time- life were passed, and for which he did so keeper for the then Menominee Mining much by kindly deeds and wholesome Company, with headquarters at Vulcan. example. Vulcan was then a principal mining center in this area, and the operation there was 25 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] under the direction of the late Nelson P. which later was sold to Michigan Bell, and Hulst. The Vulcan mine was quickly was president of the former Iron Mountain developed in 1876, and the first shipment of Water Works company, later taken over by ore was made early in 1877. About a year the city as a municipally-operated facility. or two later, the Menominee Mining He leaves five daughters, Mrs. Tobias Company gained control of the mines, and O. Chew, Indiana, Pa.; Mrs. Sumner the property was subsequently expanded Robbins, Detroit; Mrs. V.L. Morris, into the East and West Vulcan, Curry and Hinsdale, Ill., and Mrs. George C. Newton Brier Hill mines. In 1885 these properties and Mrs. Abbott Fox , of this city; three were sold to the Penn Iron Mining sons, Fayette E. Brown, Iron River; William company, which controlled the interests F. Brown, Mt. Pleasant, Mich., and Douglas until 1925, when the property was leased to E. Brown, Detroit; 23 grandchildren and the Pickands-Mather Company. three great-grandchildren. In 1887 Mr. Brown became associated, Mrs. Brown died July 10, 1941. as superintendent, with Dr. Hulst in the The body will be taken from the Pewabic Mining Company, here, and after Freeman Funeral Home to the residence, the latter resigned as superintendent, Mr. where it may be viewed at 4 tomorrow Brown became general manager. Later, afternoon. the Carnegie Steel company took over the Services will be conducted at 2 Pewabic interests. Wednesday at the residence by the Rev. Mr. Brown had also, for many years N.U. McConaughy. The Masons will take past, been part-owner and general part. Burial will be in Cemetery Park. manager of the Mineral Mining Company, The family asks that flowers be omitted. with mineral properties in the Waucedah area, and with interest, also, in active MRS. RICHARD C. (EMMA properties in Iron county, including the HOSKING) BROWNING Wauseca and James mines. Banking Interests On Nov. 24, 1887, Mr. Brown was The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, elected a director of the First National bank Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume of Iron Mountain, and on the same day was ___, Number ___ [Monday, October 4, named vice-president. On Jan. 9, 1906, he 1948], page ___, column ___ was named president, succeeding the late W.S. Laing, and has since continued as Death Takes chief executive officer of the bank. Mrs. Browning He was a life member of the Iron At Her Home Mountain Blue lodge of Masons; the Eastern Star Chapter; grand treasurer for Mrs. Richard C. Browning, 81, 412 East Michigan, of the Royal Arch Masons; the B, the former Emma Hosking, and a Consistory and Shrine at Marquette; resident of Iron Montain for 53 years, died member of Rotary; the American Institute of at 9:45 a.m. yesterday at her residence. Mining and Metallurgical Engineers; Lake She had been ailing for several months. Superior Mining Institute; secretary of the Mrs. Browning, daughter of the late [Iron] Mountain Oil and Gas company; an Capt. and Mrs. James Hosking, was the organizer and officer of the former oldest member of the former Central Menominee Range Telephone company, 26 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Methodist church – destroyed by fire some Douglas Browning, of Lombard, Ill., and R. years ago – and had been a Sunday school Lee Browning, of Mt. Pleasant, Mich.; two teacher at the church and at Trinity brothers, James Hosking, of South Haven, Methodist for the past 50 years. She was Mich., and Victor Hosking, of Norway; 12 to have been honored in the near future, at grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Trinity Methodist. A sixth son, Abner Browning, of Iron Born April 14, 1867, at Rockland, Mich., Mountain, died in February, 1948. Mrs. Browning was one of eight children Her other brothers and sisters were Mrs. born to Capt. and Mrs. Hosking. Her father Sam Perkins, of Norway; Mrs. O.M. Sattre, was a pioneer mining man, and was of Rice Lake, Wis.; Seth Hosking, of employed by the Penn Mining company in Wheeling. W. Va., Rufus Hosking, of Perth the Vulcan-Norway area. Amboy, N.J., and Abner Hosking, of South After spending her childhood in the Haven. Copper Country, Mrs. Browning moved with The body will be at the Erickson and her parents, in 1880, to Norway, where she Son Funeral home until noon tomorrow. attended school. She also attended Ripon Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. college, Ripon, Wis. tomorrow at Trinity Methodist. The Rev. She then became a teacher in the S.D. Kinde and the Rev. Ernest Brown will Norway schools and on Aug. 26, 1890, was officiate. White Shrine services will be married to Mr. Browning, who was then conducted at the graveside. Burial will be mayor of Norway. The couple moved to in Cemetery Park. The family requests that Iron Mountain in 1895. Mr. Browning, who flowers be omitted. became the first Dickinson county clerk, later was prominent in the mining industry, The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, with the Pewabic mine and the Mineral Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Mining company in Iron Mountain. Mr. ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, October Browning was also, for 15 years, secretary 6, 1948], page ___, column ___ of the Iron Mountain board of education. He died in 1929. Mrs. Emma H. Browning OES Secretary Services for Mrs. Emma H. Browning, Mrs. Browning, who was active in 81, who died Sunday morning at her church and school circles, participated in residence, 412 East B, were held yesterday home-talent theatricals in Norway, and was at Trinity Methodist. The pastor, the Rev. active as a member of the Ladies’ Aid of S.D. Kinde, and the Rev. Ernest Brown, of Central Methodist. She also was secretary First Methodist, officiated. of the Order of Eastern Star for many years Mrs. Henry Dahlquist, Mrs. Reginal [sic and in 1940 became a high priestess in the – Reginald] Julian, Mrs. William Gardipy White Shrine. She was the first president of and Mrs. Alfred Archibald, accompanied at the Parent-Teacher association at the the organ by Mrs. Burnett Pender, sang Washington school, and was prominent in “Under His Wing” and “No Night There.” patriotic activities during both wars. Pallbearers were Dr. Gereon She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Dan Fredrickson, John Weber, Roy Laing, John Goodman, of Iron Mountain, and Mrs. Jelsch, Jack Spencer and Elmer Robbins. Claude Parmelee, of Detroit; five sons, Dr. Burial was in Cemetery Park. Irving R. Browning, Dr. J.L. Browning and The graveside service was in charge of Cecil J. Browning, of Iron Mountain; Dr. past officers of the White Shrine of 27 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Jerusalem, Dr. Frederickson, Mrs. George At the appointed hour the special train Hoyle, Mrs. Jelsch, mrs. Morris Larson, bearing the presidential candidate and his Mrs. G.P. Fugere and Mrs. Frank Morell. party rolled into the Northwestern depot and Relatives and friends at the funeral were stopped directly in front of the stand, which Mr. and Mrs. Claude Parmalee [sic – had been erected for the reception of the Parmelee], of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. Douglas speaker and his friends. Five thousand Browning, of Lombard, Ill.; Lee Browning, of anxious and excited people stood waiting Mount Pleasant; Mrs. Robert Smith[,] of for a glimpse of the hero of the hour, and Menomonie, Wis., and James Hosking, when he alighted from the coach a mighty Victor Hosking and Miss Bess Perkins, of cheer went up that rent the air for blocks Norway. and blocks. The sea of faces were wreathed in WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN smiles and laughter, and every woman [sic – man,] woman and child in the dense crowd felt a sense of excitment [sic – [NOTE: While never a resident of the excitement] and joy at the first appearance Menominee Iron Range, William Jennings of the man and voice which swayed at will, Bryan was one of the few presidential the members of the late Chicago candidates to ever visit the area. The convention. following contemporary newspaper account It was several minutes after the gives the details of his visit.] introduction by Captain Holland, that

William J. Bryan could gain an opportunity The Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, to begin his speech. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume The people went wild at his appearance, XVIII, Number 19 [Saturday, August 29, and well they might, for his is a noble, 1896], page 1, column 2 handsome face. Dressed in a black frock

suit, lay down collar[,] plain club house tie, WILLIAM J. BRYAN and wearing a low cut vest which displayed _____ two small studs in his double pleated white shirt front, he appeared the plain man that Five thousand Pairs of Eyes Gazed on he is. But the face – the nocle [sic – noble] the Handsome Features of the striking features of which would claim one’s Candidate. earnest attention for hours. _____ Bryan is a handsome man and his firm set lips, keen black eyes and high forehead A FINE LOOKING GENTLEMAN is outclassed only by his powerful _____ elqouence [sic – eloquence] and masterly delivery. Sitting beside the candidate, and Such a Crowd Seldom Seen in Iron holding a large and handsome boquet [sic – Mountain. The Speaker Fre- bouquet] of snow-white lilies, sat Mrs. quently Interrupted by Bryan. She too has a face that is a study Applause, Mrs. Bry- and when introduced to the crowd bowed an Here Too. and smiled in a pleasing acknowledgment. _____ At the conclusion of the address a detail (From Wednesday’s Daily) of police was required to escort the

28 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] candidate and his wife to the coach, so manage for the many and while they may anxious were the people to grasp his hand. wish a change in its policy they are unable The train pulled out amid the cheers of to do anything. But here it is different. If the crowd and the sweet strains of music, there is a law which we tired of we can and a real live presidential candidate had repeal it. If we think there is a policy which come and gone, and the voters of Iron will benefit us we can vote for it and it will Mountain are still clamoring for sound be written upon the statute books and be a money and protection. part of our government. Ladies and Gentlemen: Three parties They tell me that what is required now is are declaring that the money question is the confidence. This confidence game is one paramount issue of this campaign, and a to be looked upon with suspicion. Go to a large number of the republican party also money loaner today and tell him you want believe that the money question is the to borrow an amount of money, that you paramount issue of the campaign. This is have confidence that you will soon get the question upon which the parties are employment and be able to pay him back. dividing; this is the question which will, in He will say to you, no, I want an endorser in the majority of cases, determine the vote of whom I have confidence. the people of the U.S. and to the money Mr. Bryan dwelt entirely upon the money question I desire to call your attention for a question and told his hearers that the free few moments. Our opponents go on the coinage of silver would bring silver on a theory that the money question is a parity with gold, and that dollars would be complicated question; too complicated for easier to get because they would be more the people generally to understand; in fact plenty. He failed to explain how gold would some go so far as to say that only a be kept in circulation on a parity with a financier is able to understand the money metal of half its value, and if it failed to question. We who believe in free coinage circulate how dollars would be so plenty go on the theory that the question which even as now. concerns ourselves is well adapted for the people to understand. Applause. MARTIN BRYNGELSON We go on the theory that each citizen is able to determine for himself what the effect Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, of the proposed policy will be and to whom Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume he will intrust [sic – entrust] it for the interest XX, Number XX [Thursday, May 12, of himself and everybody else. So when 1920], page X, column X we find a man that thinks that the money question is too complicated for you, we generally find a man who thinks it is KILLED IN complicated enough for himself. When we ACCIDENT AT find a man who thinks that the money QUINNESEC question is adapted for you, we generally _____ find a man who thinks it is adapted for himself. The money question is not difficult to understand. Martin Bryngelson[,] of Quinnesec, a I like our plan of government for farmer, was killed yesterday on his farm everyone can have a voice in its near Quinnesec while digging around a management. In other countries the few large rock which he was trying to drop into 29 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] the ground. It tipped over and pinned part of his body under it. The right side of his Mrs. Buchman head was crushed and several ribs over his Died Today heart were broken. Mr. Bryngelson was At Her Home alone at the time the unfortunate accident occurred. Another man was working on the Mrs. A.G. Buchman, 63, one of Iron farm at the time but he was a considerable Mountain’s most widely-known residents, distance away. He did not hear any outcry died at 8:15 this morning at her home, 700 and did not know that Mr. Bryngelson had East C street. Although in ill health for the been killed until shortly after noon when he last 12 years, Mrs. Buchman continued to went over to see why he had not come for be active until recent weeks, when her dinner. He found the deceased pinned condition became serious. between the rock and the soil. The boulder The former Gertrude Mossler, Mrs. is four or five feet long and about three feet Buchman was born Aug. 8, 1885, in in thickness and weighs many hundreds of Lawrence, Kans. One of three daughters pounds. born to the late Mr. and Mrs. Moss Mossler, Mr. Bryngelson was born in Michigan, of Lawrence, Mrs. Buchman was the last December 26, 1876, and was 43 years, 4 surviving member of the family. months and 16 days of age. He has She completed her elementary resided at Quinnesec off and on for many education in the schools in Lawrence and years and during the last 6 or 7 years had then enrolled for special studies at the resided there continously [sic – University of Kansas leading to a master of continuously]. Previous to that he lived in oratory degree in speech. She also was a Marquette county for several years. graduate of Columbia College of The decedent is survived by his mother, Expression in Chicago. a brother, Andrew, of Quinnesec, and two At Northern College sisters, Anna and Sophie. After completing her studies, Mrs. Mr. Bryngelson was held in high regard Buchman served five years as head of the by all who knew him and was a very fine arts speech department at the industrious man. University of Kansas. She then went to Upon being notified of the accident Marquette, where, during the absence of Coroner J.B. Erickson[,] of this city, Mrs. Rushmore, then head of the speech impaneled a jury. The inquest will be held department, she served a year on the in Quinnesec this afternoon. faculty of Northern college. When Mrs. The funeral will be held Saturday Rushmore returned from a trip abroad, Mrs. afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Interment will be Buchman went to the River Falls Normal, in made at Quinnesec cemetery. River Falls, Wis., where she headed the speech department for a year. MRS. A.G. (GERTRUDE MOSSLER) Leaving River Falls, Mrs. Buchman BUCHMAN entered Chautauqua work and, with headquarters in St. Paul, continued for two The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, years. Her last engagement as an expert in Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume the field of speech was with the extension ___, Number ___ [Saturday, August 29, division of the University of Wisconsin, 1948], page ___, column ___ where she remained two years. 30 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Her marriage to Mr. Buchman, whom Mrs. Buchman leaves her husband; a she met in Munising, where the family went daughter, Mrs. John Clay, who came here every summer to stay at the Beach Inn, three weeks ago to be with her mother; a took place on Jan. 1, 1916, in Rapid River. son, Robert B. Buchman, Central American Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. representative for the Bacon-Veneer Buchmanwent to Gwinn, where Mr. Company, of Chicago, with headquarters in Buchman had opened a drug store in 1912. LaCeiba [sic – La Ceiba], Honduras The family remained in that city until 1922, Republic, and two grandchildren, Landis when Mr. Buchman came to Iron Mountain Buchman, age two and one-half, and Teddy to open the Buchman Drug store now Ann Buchman, age eight months. located in the Commercial National Bank Brief services for Mrs. Buchman will be building. conducted by the Rev. N.U. McConaughy, Civic Activity pastor of First Presbyterian, tomorrow Active in civic and social groups since afternoon at the Freeman Funeral home. her arrival here, Mrs. Buchman founded a The body will then be taken to Milwaukee Little Theatre Guild, which she headed for a for cremation in Forest Lawn cemetery. number of years. She directed some of the The family requests that flowers be most outstanding plays ever given in Iron omitted. Mountain. Mrs. Buchman also was a charter JOHN LANE BUELL member and one of the organizers of the Home Study club, a cultural group which Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, still is active in the city. She also was Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, active in the Iron Mountain-Kingsford Number 28 [Thursday, December 1, Woman’s club, where she headed many 1904], page 5, column 2 important committees and where she often was called upon to direct benefit plays. It was while she was active in the work of the QUINNESEC ITEMS. club that Mrs. Buchman, at the request of _____ members, arranged for and supervised the first large-scale flower show ever held in the Col. John L. Buell received notice last city. Sunday that he had been allowed a pension She also was active in the auxiliary of of ten dollars per month on the age basis, the Pine Grove Country club where, before account of service as first-lieutenant in the ill health forced her retirement, she served United States regular army during the civil on several committees. war. Col. Buell is seventy years old and Vitally interested in the work of the next year his pension will be increased to Dickinson county Red Cross chapter during twelve dollars per month. the early days of World War II, Mrs. Buchman, despite failing health, accepted Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, the chairmanship of the important volunteer Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 21, services’ department. She continued to be Number 38 [Thursday, October 26, active until her health became so poor she 1916], page 1, columns 1-2 resigned on the recommendation of her doctor. A PIONEER PASSES

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_____ Boulder, and in 1859 and 1860 worked in Central City, Colorado. He engaged in VENERABLE JOHN LANE BUELL mining in Leadville for six months in 1860, and at the Pine Altos mine in New Mexico DIED AT QUINNESEC LAST for a time in the same year. In the spring of TUESDAY. 1861, Mr. Buell started for the Gulf of _____ Mexico, going via El Paso and San Antonio to Fort Davis. By this time Texas had He Discovered the First Mine on seceded and General Triggs had the Menominee Range and Was surrendered the federal troops. Traveling by night in order to escape capture, Mr. the Founder of Quinnesec. Buell finally reached the gulf and secured passage on a vessel used in transporting John Lane Buell, a pioneer and highly paroled soldiers and on May 2nd, 1861, respected resident of the Menominee landed in New York. range, died at his home in Quinnesec, [sic] He entered the commissary department last Tuesday morning, after a lingering as clerk and in August, 1861, was illness, aged eighty-one years, three appointed second lieutenant in the Fourth months and eighteen days. United States Infantry, stationed at Fort John Lane Buell was a pioneer explorer Columbus, New York. Subsequently given of the Menominee range and founder of charge of the North Carolina and Maryland Quinnesec. He was a son of George P. prisoners, having the charge of Mason and Buell, and was born October 12th, 1835, in Slidell. [sic] He took them to Fort Warren, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn county, Indiana. Boston, from where they were released and His paternal grandfather, Salmon A. Buell, put aboard a British man of war. the son of a revolutionary soldier, was born Mr. Buell then went to Washington and reared in Burlington, Vermont. The where he was appointed regimental father, George P. Buell, was born in 1801, quartermaster and commissary. During in Scipio, N.Y.; married to Ann Lane, to McClellan’s advance he had charge of the whom were born Salmon A., George P., baggage and supply train of the Third John Lane, (subject of this sketch), Joana, Brigade. After again joining his command Ann and Julius. he took part in the battle of Bull Run, and at Having completed his early studies in Antietam had charge of the second the public schools at Lawrenceburg, John company of skirmishers. His father being Lane Buell took a scientific course at the ill, Mr. Buell resigned from the army after Norwich Military Institute in Norwich, the battle of Antietam and returned home to Indiana [sic – Vermont]. Going to Kansas Lawrenceburg, Indiana. He subsequently in 1857, he spent a year in Leavenworth, served as aid-de-camp to General John and on October 20th, 1858, was one of a Lore, who operated against the forces of small band of venturesome youths that John Morgan, the daring rebel leader. started overland to Colorado, being the first Entering Harvard College in 1863, Mr. Buell to make the trip from that place. studied law for six months, afterwards On December 20th, 1858, the company returning to Lawrenceburg where he arrived at Cherry Creek, the site of the engaged in farming until August, 1866. present city of Denver. In 1859, Mr. Buell At that time, on account of ill health, Mr. surveyed and platted the present city of Buell decided to try an entire change of 32 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] climate. He came to Menominee, Michigan, one of the commissioners appointed by the and in 1867 put the machinery into the legislature to select four sections of land Jones mill on the bay shore, operating the granted by the United States as a site for mill for two years, in the meantime carrying the capital, which in June, 1820, was on general farming, publishing the located at Indianapolis. At seventy years of Menominee Journal, and as opportunity age Mr. Ludlow accepted the position of occurred, practicing law. assistant United States surveyor, and was In 1871 Mr. Buell paid his first visit to the active in that work until his death at a Menominee range, and on his second visit venerable age at Lawrenceburg, Indiana. in May, 1873, commenced exploring and The funeral services will be held at the laid bare the first merchantable ore ever Quinnesec Catholic church at 10 o’clock to- discovered on the range, finding it in the morrow [sic – tomorrow] (Friday) morning, southeast quarter, township thirty-nine Rev. James Corcoran officiating. The north, range thirty, and naming it the interment will be at cemetery park. Quinnesec mine. The same year Mr. Buell took up a Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, homestead claim, and in 1876 platted the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume village of Quinnesec, which was the XX, Number XX [Thursday, May 27, terminus of the Chicago & North-Western 1920], page XX, column XX railway from 1877 to 1880. Since coming to the upper peninsula Mr. Buell has been Mrs. Buell Is Dead. deeply interested in everything pertaining to its development and advancement, and has Mrs. Ruth Buell, relict of the late John L. been prominent and influential in public Buell, died last Friday noon at the family affairs. Elected to the state legislature in home in Quinnesec after a short illness. 1872, he became an active member of that Mrs. Buell about six weeks ago returned body, and had the distinction of introducing from Lawrenceberg [sic – Lawrenceburg], the first ten-hour labor bill ever submitted to Indiana, where she had spent the winter the legislature. He also also [sic] months with relatives, and was taken ill a introduced the first log lien bill. In 1876 Mr. few days later. Mrs. Buel [sic – Buell] was Buell built the first wagon road made about seventy-eight years of age and a between Twin Falls and the New York farm, native of Indiana. With Mr. Buell, she came and superintended the construction of the to the upper peninsula about fifty years ago, iron bridges at Twin Falls and at Iron first residing at Menominee, and forty-five Mountain. years ago removing to Quinnesec, where On December 31st, 1863, Mr. Buell she had resided ever since. She is married Ruth B. Ludlow, who was born of survived by two brothers, Homer and Stephen Ludlow. Her grandfather, John Stephen, and two nephews, Percy and Ludlow, came to the Northwest Territory in Frank Ludlow, and a niece, Miss Laura 1810, locating in what was afterwards Ludlow, of Lawrenceburg. The funeral was Hamilton county, and served as first sheriff held on Tuesday from St. Mary’s church at of that county. Her father, Stephen Ludlow, Quinnesec, with Rev. John Mockler in was born May 5th, 1790, in Morris county, charge of the services, with interment at New Jersey, and was subsequently a Cemetery Park. Mrs. Buell was a notable pioneer settler of Lawrenceberg [sic – figure in the history of Quinnesec. Her acts Lawrenceburg], Indiana. IN 1820 he was 33 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] of substantial charity were many and she was ever thoughtful of the welfare of her DR. JOHN D. CAMERON neighbors. During the past several years Mrs. Buell has lead a retired life. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 13, Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Number 20 [Thursday, October 8, 1908], Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 25, page 1, columns 1-2 Number 12 [Thursday, August 5, 1920], page 1, column 6 MANY ARE CALLED Option Buell Home. _____

COMMUNITY SHOCKED BY SUDDEN The county poor commissioners have DEMISE OF DR. CAMERON. instructed Prosecuting Attorney Knight to secure an option upon the residence _____ property of the late John L. Buell at Quinnesec, and will recommend that the W.H. Mitchell, Mrs. W.H. Harvey, same be purchased for county hospital Mrs. Charles Olin and Others purposes. The board of supervisors will Are Summoned Home. meet on Tuesday, the 24th, when some action will be taken. The state board of Dr. John D. Cameron died at the family corrections has decided that the building at home on East C street at 9:05 o’clock last present used for a county hospital is Saturday morning. His sudden and entirely unsuited for the purposes and has ordered unexpected death as a great shock to the the supervisors to provide new quarters community. His last illness was only of a forthwith. An agent of the state board will few moments duration. Friday he had been attend the next meeting of the supervisors unusually busy attending the needs of his and he will be consulted relative to the Buell patients. In the evening he had complained property. of a slight cold. Saturday morning, a short time before his death, he called Mrs. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Cameron to his room and asked her to give Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 25, him a stimulant. This was administered. Number 16 [Thursday, September 2, He spoke of pain in the region of his heart 1920], page 1, column 5 and requested that a physician be summoned. Drs. Crowell and Collins were Buell Place Sold. called. By the time they arrived at the home, however, Dr. Cameron was dead. The Buell place at Quinnesec, which the Death was caused by acute heart failure. county anticipated purchasing for a Dr. Cameron was born on August 7th, hospital, has been sold to Joseph 1851, at Williamstown, Glengarry county, Mongrain. The place contains seven acres, Ontario, Canada. He graduated in 1878 a large twelve-room residence and fine from McGill University, in Toronto. On barn. Mr. Mongrain’s deal includes the September 1st, 1880, he came to the furniture in the home and all the tools, etc., United States, locating at Norway, where he and the consideration was $6,500. resided for a year. In 1881, he removed to

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Iron Mountain, having been appointed The honorary pallbearers were: Dr. physician for the Chapin and Quinnesec William T. Carpenter, O.C. Davidson, mines. At that time the mines were George F. Seibert, Dr. J.A. Crowell, Capt. operated by the Menominee Mining Martin Goldsworthy, L.T. Sterling, E.A. company. Quinnesec was the metropolis of Woodward, William Scandling, Edw. E. the range and Iron Mountain was a Brewster, John T. Jones, E.F. Brown, Tom straggling mining location. Dr. Cameron A. Hanna, Chas. T. Hampton, Alfred Cruse, was the first physician to locate John James, Dr. J.A. Bangs, Festus C. permanently in this city. He was followed a Cole, John Russell, of this city; Dr. C.H. year later by Dr. Joseph A. Crowell with Westcott, of Chicago; James whom he was associated for many years. MacNaughton, of Calumet; Jonah Orrison, On February 7th, 1882, at Lancaster, of Houghton; Dr. B.W. Jones, of Vulcan, Ontario, Dr. Cameron was united in and Dr. Swift, of Norway. marriage to Catherine Mary MacRae, who The active pallbearers were: William J. came to Iron Mountain a few months later, Cudlip, Joseph B. Eslick, Gilbert v. and have since have [sic] made this city carpenter, Elmer W. Jones, Gustave A. their home. The union was blessed with Gensch, Richard S. Powell, A.E. Brauns, one child[,] a daughter[,] Miss Elva, now a Samuel Cudlip, William G. Monroe, Dr. young lady. Dr. Cameron’s father’s name Henry A. Newkirk, Silas J. McGregor and was Dougald Cameron who he [sic] was George Irving. one of the leading citizens of Ontario. His During a residence of twenty-seven mother’s name was Margaret MacDonell. years, all this time a practicing physician, In addition to his wife and daughter he is Dr. Cameron had endeared himself to the survived by two brothers and three sisters, people. He was a man without an enemy – namely: Major H.A. Cameron, of a man who numbered his friends by the Williamstown, Ont.; Donald Cameron, of thousands. He was known and loved in Norway; Mrs. John A. Cameron, of nearly every Iron Mountain home. His Summerstown, Ont., and Mary and charities were many and abundant and Margaret Cameron, of Williamstown, Ont. unobtrusive. He was the “poor man’s The funeral was held yesterday from the doctor” in all that the term implies. He was home. It was one of the largest ever held in always responsive to the call of the needy. this city, hundreds of people being unable A manly man, he lead [sic – led] a pure life, to gain admittance to the house. and his home was a perfect home. While of The services were very simple – just a rather retired and modest disposition, he such a service as the man so deeply was always responsive to a call that had for mourned would have planned[.] But while its object the betterment of the community. the services were simple, the evidence of Dr. Cameron was closely identified with the the love borne the departed by the business interests of the city. He was one assembled friends was most affecting. The of the organizers and for many years a parlors were piled high with the choicest director of the First National Bank; also, one blooms that nature could produce. The of the organizers and an officer of the remarks by Pastor Knowles and Rev. Electric Light and Power company. He David C. Jones, of LaCrosse, an old friend, owned considerable improvement real were splendid tributes to a well-spent life, property, including the beautiful home. It and the hymns were his favorites. was in the field of religion that Dr. Cameron was particularly strong. He was one of the 35 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] organizers of the First Presbyterian church One daughter was born to the couple, and had held a leading office ever since the Alva Cameron Gensch, the widow of G.F. organization. He was a trustee of the Gensch, and who died on Dec. 19, 1940. church and also of the Lake Superior Dr. Cameron, before his death in 1908, Presbytery, and had repeatedly was associated with the late Dr. Joseph represented the latter body at the general Crowell, who was then widely-known in Iron assembly. He was a contributor to every Mountain and neighboring communities. cause that had for its aim the advancement The former served several years on the of the work of the Master in Whom he had a board of health. childlike faith. In his death Iron Mountain Mrs. Cameron’s granddaughter, the has suffered a heavy loss. He will be former Catherine Gensch, now the wife of missed in all circles – church, business, James W. Knowles, Litchfield, Minn., and social and the home. The community as a two great-grandchildren, Catherine Mary whole will mourn his untimely demise and and James Knowles, Jr., are the only the community as a whole extend sincere survivors. condolences to the afflicted loved ones. The body will be taken to the residence this evening from the Freeman Funeral MRS. JOHN D. (CATHERINE MARY home. Services will be held at 1 Saturday MacRAE) CAMERON at the residence with the Rev. N.U. McConaughy officiating. Burial will be int eh family lot in Cemetery park. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume ___, Number ___ [Thursday, October MRS. JOHN (MASSIE) CAREY 17, 1946], page ___, column ___ Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Mrs. Cameron Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ Died Today Year, Number _____ [Monday, March 2, At Her Home 1925], page ___, column ___

Mrs. Catherine Mary Cameron, widow of FIRST QUINNESEC Dr. John D. Cameron[,] who was Iron WHITE CHILD DIES Mountain’s first physician, died at 6:30 this _____ morning at her residence, 401 East C. She had been ailing for some time. Word Received of Death Mrs. Cameron, resident of Iron Mountain Of Mrs. John Carey In for the last 60 years, was born in Glenngary county, Lancaster, Canada, where she Wyoming attended school and where she was _____ wedded in 1882 to Dr. Cameron. The latter had come to Iron Mountain from Canada Mrs. John Carey, 45, the first white girl earlier, to serve as doctor for the mining born in Quinnesec, is dead, having passed industry which was then in its infancy. He away at Casper, Wyo. later returned to Lancaster to be married, Mrs. R. Massie, mother of Mrs. Carey, and brought his wife to Iron Mountain. accompanied by her son, Alphonse Massie, left Saturday for Casper to assist in making 36 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] funeral arrangements. It is probable that Number 3 [Thursday, June 3, 1920], the body will be brought to Quinnesec for page 1, column 6 burial, it was said today. Mrs. Carey is survived by her husband DEATH OF MRS. CARPENTER. and five children, John and Mrs. Elliott, in _____ California, Genevieve, Frances and Elizabeth, in Casper. In addition, her Funeral of Highly Esteemed Woman mother and seven sisters and five brothers Held Here Last Friday. survive her. They are: Mrs. John Sullilvan, and Priscilla, Alphonse, Ben, Milton, Wilfred Mrs. Caroline Vilas Carpenter, whose and Donivan Massie, all of Quinnesec, and death was briefly chronicled in the last Mrs. Morris Walsh and Mrs. George issue of The Press, was born in Burlington, Kachoes [sic – break in type font – illegible] Vermont, on August 15th, 1841. She made and Miss Vivian Massie, in Chicago, as well the acquaintance of Dr. William T. as Mrs. James Dougherty and Mrs. Freen Carpenter while he was attending the Narolf in Wyoming. University of Vermont, at Burlington. They Mrs. Carey lived in Quinnesec until 15 were married on May 18th, 1872, at Akron, years ago, when she moved to Casper. Ohio, and settled in Ishpeming, where Dr. Carpenter was physician for one of the CAROLINE (VILAS) CARPENTER mining companies. In 1883, the family moved to Stambaugh and in 1891 – twenty- Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, nine years ago – to Iron Mountain. Dr. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 25, Carpenter came here to accept the position Number 2 [Thursday, May 27, 1920], of physician at the Chapin mine, which page 1, column __ place he held at the time of his death. Mrs. Carpenter is survived by three children – Mrs. Carpenter Dead. Mary, William R., and James S., all of Iron Mountain friends were greatly Washington, D.C., five grandchildren, shocked this morning to learn of the sudden Gilbert C. and Lenora C., son and daughter demise, in Milwaukee, last evening, of Mrs. of the late Gilbert V. Carpenter, one Caroline Vilas Carpenter, wife of the late brother, Dr. Fred C. Vilas, of Stambaugh, Dr. William T. Carpenter. Mrs. Carpenter and two sisters, Mrs. George M. Dodge, of sustained a complete paralytic stroke at the san Rafael, California, and Mrs. W.M. Vilas, home of Mrs. Meyers, in Milwaukee, last of Wimooskit, Vermont. Mrs. Carpenter Monday. She was enroute [sic – en route] had been visiting her daughter and sons in from Washington, D.C. to Iron Mountain to Washington during the past winter, and was spend the summer. The remains will arrive the guest of Mrs. A.W. Myers, in here via the North-Western road to-morrow Milwaukee, on her way home, when [sic – tomorrow] morning and will be taken stricken suddenly with paralysis. She directly to Cemetery Park, where brief lapsed into unto [sic] unconsciousness and services will be held. died without suffering last Wednesday evening – about thirty-six hours after falling Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, ill. The remains were brought to Iron Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 25, Mountain last Friday morning, accompanied by relatives, and were taken to Cemetery Park, where brief burial services were held, 37 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] attended by many mourning friends. Mrs. Capt. Gilbert V. Carpenter is expected Carpenter had been in poor health for the home from Rush College to spend the past several years, deeply mourning the holidays. untimely death of her eldest son, Gilbert, who was a victim of the unholy submarine Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, warfare of the detestable Huns while Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume __, enroute [sic – en route] home form Porto Number __ [Thursday, November 16, [sic – Puerto] Rico, where he had been in 1905], page 1, column 2 the service of the government. Mrs. Carpenter had been prominent in Iron CARPENTER SELECTED Mountain’s social circles for4 many years. _____ Possessed of a gentle and loveable disposition, she won and retained to the Iron Mountain Boy Appointed to the end, many loving friends who will mourn her Position of County Engineer. demise most sincerely. Her death will be regarded in many a home, and the At the last meeting of the board of mourning relatives have the assurance of county commissioners, Gilbert V. Carpenter the deep condolence of the entire was elected county engineer to succeed community. The assurance is theirs that Charles L. Baxter, who will retire the first of the mother they so deeply loved is now a December to accept the position of welcome guest in “the home over there” instructor at the college of mines…[see and united with loved ones that have page 1, column 2] preceeded [sic – preceded] her. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, GILBERT VILAS “BERT” Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 22, CARPENTER Number 50 [Thursday, May 2, 1918], page 1, column 4

Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Mrs. Gilbert V. Carpenter left last Friday Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume __, evening for Washington, D.C., where she Number __ [Thursday, September 9, will meet Mr. Carpenter, who is enroute [sic 1897], page __, column __ – en route] home from Porto [sic – Puerto] Rico. Mr. Carpenter has been engaged for Bert Carpenter left last Tuesday for several months in supervising the Philadelphia to resume studies in the construction of a system of highways at a medical department of the University of new cantonment which the government is Pennsylvania. Bert will be a full fledged [six building on the island. – full-fledged] M.D. when he returns next spring. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 23, Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Number 3 [Thursday, June 6, 1918], Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume __, page 1, column __ Number __ [Thursday, December 21, 1899], page __, column __ AMONG MISSING! _____

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G.V. Carpenter a Passenger on the four of the crew. The schooner is being Torpedoed Str. Carolina. towed by a tug, which was sent to her aid and is expected to arrive early this morning. Gilbert V. Carpenter, of this city, is A boat containing twenty-eight survivors, known to have been a passenger on the twenty-one passengers and seven of the steamer Carolina, which was torpedoed by crew, arrived at Lewes, Del., with the report a German submarine now operating in that sixteen of the thirty-five who had American waters, some time [sic – started from the ship had lost their lives in sometime] last Saturday or Sunday. the storm Sunday night. Mr. Carpenter was enroute [sic – en If the company’s figures as to the route] to Iron Mountain from Porto [sic – number aboard the liner are correct, this Puerto] Rico, where he has been employed leaves forty-two unaccounted for. This for several months in superintending the number might have been crowded into one construction of streets at a new cantonment life boat. The only possible clue to their that the government is building on the fate was held in the fact that an empty boat island. Mr. Carpenter had superintended marked with the name of the Carolina, [sic] similar work at Camp Grant, at Rockford, was picked up at sea by a British steamship Ill., and the government was desirous of which arrived in New York last Tuesday. It retaining his services. However, Mr. had every evidence of having been riddled Carpenter was under contract as county by gun fire. It may have carried the roads engineer for Dickinson and Houghton passengers and sailors who still are counties, and had expected to return to missing. these duties several weeks ago. There was no official confirmation of a Mrs. Carpenter has been in Washington report that several bodies had been washed for several weeks awaiting his return. ashore at Beach Haven, N.J. The Iron Mountain relatives and friends are commander of the coast guard at the point keeping in close touch with Washington, refused either to deny or confirm the report, where Mr. Carpenter has two brothers, and and referred all inquiries to the navy the hope is entertained that “Bert” will turn department. up none the worse for his experience. The Advices from Washington this morning Press will cling to this belief until the are to the effect that all but ten of the 218 contrary is proven. He is a young man of passengers aboard the liner Carolina have undoubted courage, cool under trying been accounted for. Mr. Carpenter is one conditions, and he would have been a of the ten. leader in just such a tragedy as the sinking Mr. Carpenter is supposed to have been of his steamer by a submarine. If he is in the launch, which was capsized. dead, we are certain he died a hero. Christian Nelson, chief engineer of the Officials of the company have placed a lost ship, declares that only seven were lost number of passengers aboard the Carolina, from the launch. when she was attacked 125 miles off Sandy Nelson told of the terrible experience of Hook, at 220, and the crew at 130, making the survivors after leaving the Carolina. 350 in all. “It was getting dark and a storm was Captain Barbour, of the Carolina, brewing,” he said. “We were in No. 5 life reported to the company last Tuesday that boat and we rowed up to No. 1 boat, which he was aboard the schooner Eva B. was motor driven, but the twenty-four Douglass with 150 passengers and ninety- persons in it were unable to start the 39 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] engine. I climbed aboard with my assistant Nearly all other inmates of the launch and we finally started the engine and took were terror-stricken Porto [sic – Puerto] No. 5 in tow. Ricoians [sic – Ricans]. When the storm “All of this time the storm was growing came and the launch water-logged and more. Finally our boat was overturned. All capsized, it was Bert that assumed were thrown into the water. Everybody had command. Working like the hero that he on life belts and we managed to keep was, Bert endeavored to restore confidence afloat. After a great effort I righted the boat and induce the natives to assist in and climbed aboard. The boat was half unwatering the boat. filled with water and we bailed it out, It is the supposition that Bert became working until near daybreak. Then we exhausted at this work, and that, when the started to pick up those floating in the launch again capsized, and he had assisted water. Some had lost their life belts and the others into the little vessel, he was too were clinging to the boat. We found, weak to help himself – and he drifted away however, only nineteen of the twenty-six. into eternity. He had met death in an The other seven had disappeared. We endeavor to save the weaker – died a hero. were then adrift in a water logged boat in This had always been his endeavor in which the engine would not work. A British life – to assist the weaker over the rough tramp picked us up and brought us here.” places and to make the burdens lighter for his fellow men. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Gilbert V. Carpenter was the oldest son Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 23, of Mrs. Carolina Carpenter and the late Dr. Number 4 [Thursday, June 13, 1918], W.T. Carpenter. On June 7th, 1908, he page 1, column 5 was married to Leonora Crowell, second daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Crowell. DIED AS HE LIVED This union was a very happy one and was blessed with two lovable children – Gilbert, A Brief Sketch of the Life of the aged eight years, and Lenora, aged five. Late Gilbert V. Carpenter. Surviving also are two brothers – William and James, of Washington, D.C., -- and The war has come to Iron Mountain. It one sister, Miss Mary, of this city, in charge is no longer “three thousand miles away.” of the city library. The first victim of the treacherous, Bert was forty-four years of age and was murderous Prussians is Gilbert V. born at Ishpeming. After graduating from Carpenter, then whom Iron Mountain had a our high school and the high school at Ann no more highly esteemed citizen. Arbor, he engaged in he [sic – the] study of It is known that Bert, as he was medicine and surgery at several affectionately known, as a passenger on universities. the steamship Carolina when she sailed It was while he was attending a from Porto [sic – Puerto] Rico. It is known university at Philadelphia that war was that Bert was a member of the crew of the declared upon Spain. Bert at once ill-fated launch that left the Carolina when tendered his services to his country, and that steamer was torpedoed by the accompanied the Iron Mountain company to unspeakable Huns. Cuba. He was connected with the hospital corps and in this capacity assumed a guardianship over “our boys” and was of 40 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] great assistance in cases of sickness. never be bedecked with flowers, but he will While in Cuba he was promoted from the live long in the memory of his multitude of ranks to a captaincy and assistant surgeon. friends who will cherish him for his many He won the lasting affections of every noble qualities. The Press in behalf of member of the company in that campaign in these friends extends condolences to the the swamps of Cuba. mourning relatives and assures them of the Upon his return from the war, due to deep sympathy of the community which poor health, Bert decided to abandon the their hero honored as a citizen. study of medicine. He engaged in road engineering work, and while he did not DR. WILLIAM T. CARPENTER have the benefit of a college engineering course, by close application and hard study, Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, he soon won the reputation of being one of Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 15, the best – if not the best – all-round road Number 42 [Thursday, March 9, 1911], men in Michigan. page 1, columns 2-3 He held the position of roads engineer in this county for ten or fifteen years and our splendid highways are monuments of his OBITUARY high efficiency. When war was declared on Germany, Last Thursday evening a telegram was Bert again tendered his services to the received here announcing the sudden government and was sorely disappointed death of Dr. William T. Carpenter at when he was rejected, due to physical Maitland, Florida, where he was at his defects. At a later date, however, the winter home with Mrs. Carpenter and government requested his services as a daughter, Miss Mary, having gone to that road builder at cantonments. city from Washington, D.C., where he had He was in charge of this work at Camp visited his sons, Will and James, for several Grant, Rockford, Ill. His work there was so weeks enroute [sic – en route] from Iron satisfactory that, upon the completion of Mountain. Camp Grant, the government requested The attack from which he died was very him to take charge of similar work at a new sudden. Mrs. Carpenter and Miss Mary cantonment at Porto [sic – Puerto] Rico. were with him at the time of the attack. He He left Iron Mountain for Porto [sic – was in an easy chair and was seemingly in Puerto] Rico about three months ago. Bert good health. Suddenly he called for Mrs. had expected to return to Iron Mountain Carpenter and was unconscious when she more than six weeks ago and reached his side. A physician was While in Porto [sic – Puerto] Rico, Mr. immediately summoned, but when he Carpenter was appointed road Mrs. arrived, heaven had been enriched by the Carpenter had gone to Washington to meet entrance of a noble soul and the angels him.engineer for Houghton county and had were singing a song of welcome. planned to devote two-thirds of his time to Dr. Carpenter’s death was due to a that work. disease of the heart of long standing, and It was ruled otherwise, however. He for several years it had been necessary for became the victim of the murderous Huns him to seek a warmer climate. just as he was entering upon the most The remains arrived here from Florida notable period of his career. His grave may last Monday morning accompanied by the 41 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] members of the family and were taken 1891 he located in Iron Mountain and was a directly form the train to the Cemetery Park. resident of this city at the time of his death. The funeral was strictly a family affair in In 1872, prior to his removal to accordance with the wishes of Dr. Michigan, Dr. Carpenter was married to Carpenter, who, while he dearly loved his Miss Carolina Vilas, of Burlington, Vermont. fellowmen, was desirous of avoiding an He is survived by his wife and four children, ostentations funeral. He had led a quiet viz: Gilbert V. and Miss Mary, of Iron earthly life and it was his desire to enter the Mountain, and William R. and James S.[,] of presence of His Maker as unostentatious as Washington. a child. In the death of Dr. Carpenter, Iron Dr. Carpenter was seventy-three years Mountain, [sic] has lost her best beloved of age at the time of his death and was one citizen. He will be mourned equally in the of the leading physicians of the upper homes of the poor and the rich. Dr. peninsula. He was beloved and honored by Carpenter was a man without an enemy his fellows and was never more happy than notwithstanding that he was brought in daily when he could help the young practitioner. contact in a semi-official way with the Dr. Carpenter was born June 5th, 1838, people and exercised freely his right of at Medina, Ohio, and was a member of a citizenship. In his position as physician at notable family. His father was Judge J.S. the Chapin mine he was ever ready to Carpenter, of Akron, Ohio, and he was a respond to the calls of families. His advice brother to Gen. Gilbert S. Carpenter, of the was sought and heeded by the families United States army, who died a few years under his charge. He responded as readily ago. His sister, Mrs. C.W. Tyler, of Warren, to the call of the non-paying patients as to Ohio, survives him. the call from the one whom he expected to Dr. Carpenter was a graduate of the receive no payment. [sic] His deeds of University of Vermont. charity were like the sands of the sea. During the civil war, Dr. Carpenter was “God bless, [sic] Dr. Carpenter!” was the an agent in the field for the United States prayer that went forth from many an Iron Sanitary Commission and later, after taking Mountain home when news of his beautiful his medical degree at the University of death was received. May he rest in the Nashville, he was an assistant surgeon with supreme peace his earthly labors have won the Army of Tennessee. for him. Again we say, “God bless Dr. After the war, Dr. Carpenter continued Carpenter!” We, as a community[,] loved his medical studies at Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Carpenter. Our full sympathy is with New York City and practiced for several every member of the sorely afflicted family. years in that city. God bless him for his godly deeds! In 1872, on account of a more favorable climate, Dr. Carpenter removed from New FATHER RAPHAEL CAVICCHI York City to the upper peninsula, locating at Ishpeming. Dr. Carpenter was, next to Dr. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Bigelow, the first physician to locate in Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 11, Ishpeming. He became associated with Dr. Number 8 [Thursday, July 12, 1906], Bigelow in the Ishpeming Hospital and page 1, column 3 practiced there for about ten years, when he disposed of his interests to Dr. T.A. Felch and moved to Stambaugh in 1883. In FATHER CAVICCHI 42 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

_____ Number 9 [Thursday, July 19, 1906], page 8, column 4 WAS DROWNED YESTERDAY AFTER- NOON AT LYON’S LAKE. LLTE [sic] FATHER CAVICCHI ______

Was pastor of the Catholic Church Impressive Funeral Services Held at at Vulcan – Former Pastor of Vulcan Last Tuesday. the Local Italian Church. The funeral of Rev. Raphael Cavicchi, Rev. R. Cavicchi, pastor of Saint who was drowned at Lyons Lake, recently, Barbara’s church at Vulcan, was drowned was held at St. Barbara’s church at Vulcan yesterday afternoon, about two o’clock, last Tuesday morning. while fishing at Lyon’s Lake, on the Felch The ceremonies were very impressive Mountain road, about twelve miles north of and began with a recitation of the office for Norway. the dead followed by Pontical [sic – Father Cavicchi went out to the lake with Pontifical] High Mass by Right Reverend three boys from Vulcan and he and one of Bishop Eis, supported by Rev. F. Pawlar, the boys were in a canvass boat. They had assistant priest, Rev. H. Zimmermann, a stone in the boat for an anchor. In deacon, Rev. F. Barth, sub-deacon, Rev. shifting the anchor from one end of the boat J.P. Kunes, first assistant deacon, Rev. A. to the center the boat was capsized. Poulin, second assistant deacon, and Rev. The boy clung to the boat until the other J. Pinten, master of ceremonies. two boys, who were on shore, came out Nearly every priest in the diocese was in with a raft and got him, but Father Cavicchi attendance. Among them were Rev. J.G. drowned before the raft reached the place Pinten and Rev. M. Jodocy, of Marquette, where the boat capsized. Rev. Wm. Stahl, of Bark River, Rev. J.P. As soon as the boys reached the shore Kunes, of Crystal Falls, Rev. James Miller, they started for Norway with the horse to of Dollar Bay, Rev. H. Zimmermann, of give the alarm and get help to find the body. Hubbell, Rev. N.H. Nosbisch, Rev. R.G. They did not reach town until about Jacques and Rev. A. Lango, of Iron eight o’clock in the evening, when a party Mountain, Rev. James Lehnart, of Iron was organized and started out to search for River, Rev. F. Pawlar and Rev. H.A. the body. Another party left Norway about Buckhaltz, of Ironwood, Rev. James three o’clock this morning to relieve them. Corcoran, of Manistique, Rev. A. Poulin and Father Cavicchi was about forty-three Rev. E. Neuman, of Menominee, Rev. John years of age, and was a one time pastor of Kraker, of Munising, Rev. W.H. Joisten, of Holy Rosary church in this city, going from Norway, Rev. A. Deschamps, of Rapid here to Lake Linden, and later to Vulcan. River, Rev. Peter Manderfield, of Rockland, He was an eloquent speaker and was well Rev. F. Glaser, of Spalding, Rev. F.X. liked by his congregation, who will long Barth[,] of Stephenson, Rev. J. Stenglein, of mourn his untimely death. Wakefield, Rev. J.A. Therien, of Niagara, and Rev. J. Piette, of Florence. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, After the funeral obsequies the remains Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 11, were taken to Norway cemetery and laid at

43 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] rest. The cortege was the largest and most and in 1918 transferred to Michigan State, impressive ever seen on the range, all of in East Lansing. She also studied at the the five Catholic societies and a large University of Chicago and University of concourse of citizens of both Norway and Minnesota. She did considerable post- Vulcan, besides many from other towns on graduate work during summer sessions at the range, joined in the procession. This Northern college. demonstration on the part of the people Miss Chambers then returned to only tended to show with what high esteem Mackinac Island, where she taught school the reverend father was held in the for 14 years. She then went to Hardwood, community. where she taught two years, and from there It will be remembered that Father to Hurley, Wis., where she also stayed tow Cavicchi was drowned about two o’clock years. last week Wednesday afternoon, but the Came Here In 1920 body was not recovered until about five She was principal of an eighth grade o’clock Thursday afternoon, and owing to school in St. Paul before transferring in the great distance from town, was not 1920 to Iron Mountain, where she was brought to Norway until nearly noon Friday. made principal of the Lincoln school. In The remains were then prepared for burial 1921 she was made eighth grade and taken to the parsonage at Vulcan, supervisor and the following year was where they lay in state until the time set for named principal of the junior high, a the funeral. position she held until ill health forced her retirement. EVELYN CHAMBERS She left here for Mackinac Island, spent several months in the sanatorium at Petoskey and then, somewhat improved, The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, she was again taken to Mackinac Island. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume She leaves two sisters, Miss Charlotte, ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, January who was granted a leave of absence from 23, 1947], page ___, column ___ the Iron Mountain schools to go to

Mackinac Island last spring, and a married Miss Chambers sister, not immediately identified here, living Died Today on the Island. At Mackinac Services will be held at 10 Friday morning in the Catholic church on the Miss Evelyn Chambers, principal of Iron island. Burial will be in the family lot. Mountain Junior High from 1922 until 1946, when she retired from the teaching J. PARKE CHANNING profession owing to ill health, died this morning at here family home on Mackinac Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Island. Her sister, Miss Charlotte Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 16, Chambers, who also taught school here, Number 45 [Thursday, March 28, 1912], was with her when she died. page 6, column 2 Miss Chambers was born on Mackinac Island, where she was graduated from high ANENT A FORMER RESIDENT. school. She enrolled at Northern college, Marquette, in 1916, staying there two years, _____ 44 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

unique proposition is Tennessee Copper, J. Parke Channing Subject of a High- the only copper mine of any consequence ly Complimentary Sketch. east of the Mississippi, that Standard Oil interests are said to be looking on it with J. Parke Channing, a resident of Iron rolling and covetous eyes, and are already Mountain and the upper peninsula for a somewhat entrenched in its control. number of years, is the subject of a sketch “Mr. Channing is a technical man in the in an eastern paper devoted to copper final sense of the word. He is technical and mines and markets. The author states in practical in all that he undertakes[.] He has part: advanced mining and metallurgy as [“]Mr. Channing’s services in developing sciences and in lectures and articles has porphyry mining and in converting sulphur championed the mining industry and [sic – sulfur] fumes into sulphuric [sic – investment properly based thereon as sulfuric] acid are enough alone to make him deserving of more esteem among remembered for aye in copper mining thoughtful people. A lecture delivered by annals. He may well let the “Who’s Who” him in New York about two years ago on books go to and stand put on the material mining is still vividly remembered as an services he has rendered in mining. He able defence [sic – defense] of the industry. has snatched more than one brand from the He is one man who is not an apologist for burning in making mining and metallurgy legitimate mining, but is aggressive in his more of an exact science. He is indeed a championship of it.” maker of mines, making one or two of them out of low-grade disseminated material Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, which had been thought valueless for the Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ purpose of recovering copper from. At Year, Number _____ [Saturday, October Ducktown, Tennessee, he has built a great 24, 1942], page 3, column 4 sulphuric [sic – sulfuric] acid plant which turns the fumes from the roasting ores into J. Parke Channing a commercial product, instead of causing Dies in California them to spread over all the countryside and produce a crop of lawsuits from the farmers J. Parke Channing, consulting mining around. There was a time when the engineer of New York and for whom Tennessee Copper company was involved Channing, in Dickinson county, was named, in litigation with the farmers of Georgia and died Oct. 11 in Los Angeles, Calif., Tennessee, just like the First National according to an account received here. Copper company has been enjoined and He was a director in the Miami Copper embroiled by Shasta agriculturists, resulting Co., and the Tennessee Copper Co. in the mining interests losing out. Mr. Channing, of advanced age at the Tennessee Copper has no such problems time of his death, was a pioneer in the and is making more money out of fumes technology of mining. Prior to 1900 he was than it is out of ores. Its sulphuric [sic – on the Gogebic iron range of Michigan, and sulfuric] acid is contracted far [sic – for] was one of the first 10 technical men who several years ahead, and is a source of worked on that range, and where he gained such profit to the company that the making his early mining experience. The lure for of copper is a secondary matter. Such a

45 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] copper took him in later years to many where he observed James Colquhoun's points on the continent. Arizona Copper Company's successful Mr. Channing made an early operation profitably concentrating what was examination of the present copper at the time considered to be low grade (3%) properties of the Nevada Consolidated disseminated copper ore. Copper Co., at Ruth, Nevada. In the That same year, Channing examined Robinson mining district, and based on his the Highland Boy mine in Utah, on which copper ore estimate he recommended the the Lewisohns had an option that was building of the 140-mile Nevada Northern about to expire. His examination of this Ry., connecting with the Southern Pacific high grade mine revealed that much of the Ry., and the Western Pacific Ry. In Arizona ore was primary and consequently would he examined copper claims at Globe, which likely extend to depth. He wired his were the founding of the present Miami employers not to let the option lapse, Copper Co. resulting in a profitable investment for them. Channing's next accomplishment for the J. Parke Channing was the son of New Lewisohns was the further exploration of York City attorney Roscoe H. Channing copper properties at Ducktown, Tennessee. (1832-1916) and Susan Parke (Thompson) Channing felt that by combining Lake Channing (1845-1909) and the older Superior mining methods and Montana brother of Roscoe H. Channing (1868- smelting practices, copper could be 1961) and Helen M. (Channing) Migliore produced for ten cents a pound. This (1872- ). At the time of his death, he lived proved to be so and as a result, the in New York City but died in California. Tennessee Copper Co. was a success. He was a respected mining engineer for When pyritic smelting was perfected, whom the village of Channing, Dickinson Channing adopted it for Tennessee Copper, County, Michigan, was named. He further lowering smelting costs. This graduated from the School of Mines at brought about lawsuits from farmers, whose Columbia at age 20 in 1883 and headed crops were adversely affected by the west to examine mine properties in Utah concentrated sulfur smoke. Channing and Arizona. He was the President of the sought advice from a German chemical Tennessee Copper Company and firm, who said acid could be produced by developed low-grade porphyry copper using the chamber process. Tennessee deposits in Nevada and Arizona. He was a Copper Co. thus became a significant major force in the development of the Miami sulfuric acid producer, giving it a profitable Copper Company and other mining co-product. companies. In 1905, Channing made an In his early career, he worked in both examination and report on the property of the copper and iron mines of northern Nevada Consolidated Copper Co. Here, Michigan where he made valuable the observations from his 1897 visit to acquaintances and picked up consulting Arizona Copper Co. "were of incalculable work before heading west. In 1897, his value", for Channing saw that by applying consulting work led to a long professional Lake Superior mining methods, Arizona relationship with the Lewisohn Brothers. Copper's concentrating, and Montana On an Arizona trip in 1897 for the smelting practices, the property would be Lewisohns, Channing took a memorable profitable. Based on Channing's side trip to the Clifton/Morenci district, recommendation, Hayden Stone & Co. 46 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] financed the venture through a stock sale. _____

In 1906, Channing sought new copper RECALLED BY DEATH OF THE projects for the Lewisohns. In December FEE OWNER OF THE CHAPIN. he met an acquaintance in Globe, Arizona, who suggested looking at some ground six _____ miles west of Globe. This lead to optioning some 200 acres of land with no visible How Original Owner Nearly Lost signs of ore, which Channing thought might Fee That Earned His Family have a significant layer of secondary Over Six Millions of Dollars. enrichment. Development started the next month (January 1907). In May, one of the Charles A. Chapin, who inherited an shafts hit 3% copper at a depth of 220 feet. interest in the original fee of the Chapin In less than four years from the initial mine, died at his home in Chicago last discovery, Miami Copper Co was in Wednesday, after a short illness. production. It shares the honor with the Ray His father, Henry A. Chapin, was a Mine as being Arizona's first large scale merchant, located at Niles, Mich. As a side porphyry copper producer. Channing issue he engaged in the logging business in stayed involved with Miami Copper Co. until this vicinity. While so engaged, he became his death. He was honored as one of the financially embarrassed. In making a 2010 American Mining Hall of Fame settlement with his creditors, Mr. Chapin Inductees from Mining's Past by the Mining was very anxious to transfer the Chapin Foundation of the Southwest in Tucson. forty and retain possession of a number of His last will and testament was executed teams of horses and a [sic] logging on October 20, 1942 according to equipment. The creditors refused to information provided by David M. Channing. entertain the proposition. Interred in the Kensico Cemetery in New A few years later, as a result of York per Death Announcement in the New exploratory work conducted by the York Times, 1942. Parke was predeceased Menominee Mining company under the by his parents Roscoe Henry Channing and direction of the late Capt. John Wicks, the Susan Thompson-Channing. He was Chapin lenses of ore were developed. It survived by his brother Roscoe Jr. proved to be one of the largest and richest Services were on 19 Oct 1942 at deposits of ore ever discovered in the upper Church of the Transfiguration on East 29th peninsula. Street, New York. Interment was in the Since the mine was opened up, in the Kensico Cemetery. year 1879, it has shipped between 14,000,000 and 16,000,000 tons of ore, a CHARLES A. CHAPIN round estimate. For many years the operators paid Mr. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Chapin a royalty of fifty cents for each ton Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 18, of ore mined. Later this royalty was Number 24 [Thursday, October 30, reduced to about thirty-five cents a ton. It is 1913], page 1, column 5 fair to presume that the forty acres of land which Mr. Chapin desired to turn over to his A MINE ROMANCE creditors in lieu of a few horses and a 47 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] logging outfit, [sic] enriched the family to the of the Chapin holdings is left in trust for the extent of over $6,000,000. widow and children. Fifty thousand dollars The elder Chapin, soon after the mine is left to each of the children except where was opened, spent a portion of each such child is under 30, when it will be held summer season in Iron Mountain and kept in trust until that period arrives. The will in close touch with the property. Many provides that unless Mr. Chapin has stories are told of his peculiarities. He already given $200,000 to charity the nursed his wealth with great care and at the trustees are empowered to make up that time of his death was considered one of the amount from the estate. richest men in Michigan. The son, Charles A. Chapin, possessed HENRY AUSTIN CHAPIN man of the traits of the father. The writer cannot remember that he ever visited Iron Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Mountain – certainly not since our Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 3, residence. He evinced but little interest in Number 30 [Thursday, December 15, the district which had made him a 1898], page 1, column 3 millionaire, and his contributions to the welfare of this community were insignificant HENRY A. CHAPIN IS DYING. in comparison with his great wealth. Of late years, Charles A. Chapin has _____ resided in Chicago, where he owned much real property. He was also the controlling Interesting Story of the Start in Life Told owner of several large water-power by a Niles Correspondent in a Detroit enterprises in Southern Michigan and in Paper. Indiana. He was a native of Michigan, born From the Detroit Evening News. in Edwardsbourough, and was sixty-seven years old at the time of his death. He is H.A. Chapin, the multi-millionaire, and survived by a wife and several children. owner of the famous Chapin iron mine and

other mines in the upper peninsula, is Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, critically ill and not expected to live at his Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 18, home in Niles, this state. His son, C.A. Number 25 [Thursday, November 6, Chapin, has been summoned from 1913], page 1, column 3 Chicago. Henry A. Chapin was born in Chapin Left $4,651,000. Massachusetts in 1813. When a year old[,] his parents removed to Ohio. They resided Charles A. Chapin, owner of the fee of there until 1836, when they moved to the Chapin mine, who died Oct. 22nd, Michigan, locating in Niles. When the leaves an estate estimated at $4,651,000 to future millionaire grew to manhood he his widow and seven children, according to embarked in the business of selling goods a petition which was filed with the and buying produce and wool. He decedent’s will in probate court at Chicago. managed to eke out a living in this Mrs. Emily C. Chapin, the widow, is given business, but fortune did not seem to smile life estate in the family home at 61 East upon him. He struggled along, first in one Goethe street, Chicago, and the remainder business and then in another. Meanwhile

48 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] his debts accumulated and his creditors serious for some weeks. Two days before were pressing him closely. In 1864 he his death he became unconcious [sic – bought the fee to what is known now as the unconscious], and he passed away in that Chapin mine. The land was almost condition. worthless, and Mr. Chapin endeavored to Henry A. Chapin was 85 years old. He sell it, and even tried to turn it over to his was born in Massachusetts, but when he creditors, but they refused to accept it. In was a year old his parents started west and 1880 the mine was developed, and it located in Ohio. They resided in Ohio for proved to contain the largest deposit of ore 22 years, and then moved to Michigan, which had hitherto been discovered in the locating at Niles. Young Chapin first United States. The output has been more embarked in the business of selling goods than 4,000,000 tons. Mr. Chapin at once and buying produce and wool. Fortune did became wealthy, and is now considered the not smile on him, and his life was a wealthiest man in Michigan, his fortune precarious one. being estimated at from $15,000,000 to He kept struggling along, however, first $30,000,000. in one business and then in another, with Besides the mining fee, Mr. Chapin is his debts accumulating and his creditors interested in large financial institutions in pressing him hard. In 1864 Mr. Chapin Chicago and South Bend, Ind., and is the bought the fee to the land upon which the largest stockholder in the Niles and Ohio Chapin mine was later developed. The paper mills in that city. He is owner of land was considered worthless, and when much real estate, and his palatial residence the purchaser tried to sell it no one would in Niles, built at a cost of over $200,000, is touch it. Then Chapin tried to get his one of the finest in the state. Mr. Chapin creditors to accept the land, but they also has always enjoyed the best of health, refused to have anything to do with it. having a strong constitution, despite his Meantime Mr. Chapin plodded along advancing years, and until his present until 1878, when iron was discovered in the serious illness had never complained of claim adjoining his, where Iron Mountain sickness. When yet quite young he married now stands. He let the right to work the and his only child is C.A. Chapin [Charles land for a royalty of 40 to 50 cents a ton to A. Chapin], in whose care the father’s the Menominee Mining company, made up heavy interests are largely confided. of Milwaukee people, the Van Dykes, A. Conro, J.J. Hagerman and N.P. Hulst, who Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, was the first general manager of the mine. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 3, Later Ferdinand Schlessinger secured Number 31 [Thursday, December 22, control of the property, and after he failed, it 1898], page 9, columns 3-4 passed into the hands of the Vanderbilt interests, and is now being worked by DEATH OF HENRY AUSTIN CHAPIN. Senator Mark Hanna, of Ohio, and _____ associates. In a single year Mr. Chapin rose from a H.A. Chapin , the owner of the fee of the small merchant just recovering from the Chapin mine, which made him a multi- effects of bankruptcy to a capitalist with an millionaire, died at his residence in Niles income of $200,000 per year. last Saturday morning. Mr. Chapins [sic – The land on which the mine was located Chapin’s] case has been considered was purchased originally at the suggestion 49 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] of one of Mr. Chapin’s sons-in-law, who commission at $566,850, of which was at that time connected in an editorial $561,000 was in the ground and $5,850 capacity with the Marquette Mining Journal. was in the improvements. After it became so very valuable, suit was 154 Van Buren street, 25x150 feet; brought against Mr. Chapin on a claim that valued by the Tax commission at $51,200, he had promised, if the investment in the of which $47,500 is in the ground and land proved a good one, to give the relative $3,700 in the building; under ninety-nine a certain portion of the proceeds. Mr. years lease to R.J. Gunning, expiring in Chapin claimed their [sic – there] was no 1989. such an agreement. The case was settled 44 to 50 Sherman street, in two pieces, out of court on the payment of a large sum one 25x102 feet, the other 75x36 feet east of money to the plaintiff. frontage; valued by the tax commission at Mr. Chapin became interested in many $155,060, of which $103,500 is in the ventures, all of which added to his wealth, building [sic – ground] and $51,560 in the which was recently estimated to be about improvement. $20,000,000. 130 Sherman street, 19x130 feet, east Until his present fatal illness, Mr. Chapin frontage; lot valued by the Tax commission had never complained of illness. He was at $11,850. married when quite young. Three children, Mr. Chapin leaves a sister, a Mrs. a son and two daughters, were born to him. Griffith, and a nephew, a Mr. Griffith, the The son[,] C.A. [Charles A.] Chapin[,] lives latter being a railroad man in Bourbon, Ind. in Chicago, and the daughters are dead. Edward P. Chapin, Marshall P. Chapin and For some time C.A. Chapin has had the Mrs. Andrew Anderson, of South Bend, practical management of his father’s large Ind., are distant relatives. Mr. Chapin had estate. two married daughters, who died many Henry A. Chapin had about $1,000,000 years ago. The husband of one of them, invested in Chicago real estate. The after the value of Mr. Chapin’s land became Tribune says his last purchase of any known, put in a claim and Mr. Chapin importance in Chicago was that of the settled with him [for] $50,000. It is said the property at 320 to 340 Franklin street, with man lost it all in California. a frontage of 220 feet and a depth of 255 In Niles, Mr. Chapin was interested in feet to the river, with a good dock frontage. the Niles and Ohio paper mills. In South The entire property is occupied by the Bend he was the heaviest stockholder in Western Stone company. Mr. Chapin the South Bend Electric company, a plant bought the property in 1889. In addition to valued at about $180,000. his down-town holdings he owned a portion of the tract of land between Wentworth and The two paragraphs below are from two Stony avenues, south of Seventh-ninth historical markers in Niles, Berrien County, street. He owned from eighty to 100 acres Michigan. The Chapin House is the city hall near the Wentworth avenue end of the for Niles, Michigan. tract. Title to all his down-town properties is in The Chapin House. This Queen Anne the name of H.A. and C.A. Chapin. The style house, completed in 1884, was the properties are as follows: Henry A. Chapin family home until 1902. In 320 to 340 Franklin street, 220x225 feet 1932, when the City of Niles bought the east frontage; valued by the Tax property at auction for $300, the Chapin 50 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] children stipulated that it be used only for civic purposes. Now serving as the Niles City Hall, the house is built of local brick and terra-cotta tile. The interior is ornamented with leaded glass windows and transoms, handcarved woodwork, and stenciled ceilings. In 1939 the Works Progress Administration joined the carriage house to another outbuilding, thus creating the Fort St. Joseph Museum structure. The museum holds over 10,000 items, including Fort St. Joseph and Potawatomi Indian artifacts, local memorabilia, and a collection of drawings by Chief Sitting Bull.

Henry Austin Chapin. Henry A. Chapin (1813–1898) spent most of his early life in Ohio. He married Ruby N. Nooney in 1836 and settled in Edwardsburg, Michigan. In 1846 Chapin and S.S. Griffin opened the Kate Chiesa first general store in Niles. With his son Charles, Henry A. later established an IRON MOUNTAIN – Kate Kaye Chiesa, insurance and loan agency. Their firm had 105, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 19, interests in nearby paper mills and electric 2017, at Manor Care in Kingsford. companies and real estate in Alabama, She was born on Sept. 19, 1912, in Illinois and Michigan. The bulk of the family Cusick, Wash., to the late Chester Edwin capital came from the discovery of iron ore Rice and Kate Howe. Kate’s family moved in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Chapin to Oconto, Wis., immediately after her birth. Mine near Iron Mountain began operations She married Tulio Joseph Chiesa on March in 1879. “Mr. H.A.” as he was known 16, 1935. Tulio preceded her in death on received up to $300,000 yearly in royalties Jan. 1, 1985. from the mine. Owing to the Great Kate lived a very exciting life, Depression, the Chapin Mine closed in experiencing more change than the 1934, after fifty-five years of continuous average individual. She traveled across the production. plains of the U.S. via covered wagon to Wisconsin, endured the Great Depression, experienced the inventions of trains (steam KATE KAYE (RICE) CHIESA engine), electricity in homes, television, The Daily News, Iron Mountain-Kingsford, automobiles, appliances, computers, mobile Dickinson County, Michigan, [Saturday, phones and the list goes on. December 23, 2017], page 2, columns Residents of Dickinson County would 3-4 frequently visit her to listen as she told them story after story about the logging industry or the “Great Depression.” Her descriptive details of the stories were fascinating and

51 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] when you left, you felt you just experienced Yard Was Resident the event. Here 48 Years She learned to drive at the age of 77. _____ Her kindness was unmatched, as she always helped a family or friend. She F.C. Cole, aged 83, resident of Iron played a huge role in the Kingsford Mountain for the last 48 years and genealogy club and has passed the family proprietor of the City Lumber yard here, history onto her grandchildren. died at 5:35 o’clock last evening at his Survivors include her grandsons, Tige home, 212 West E street, following an and Jayne, who reside in North Carolina; illness of the last two weeks from Todd and Lisa, who reside in Georgia; and pneumonia. TJ and Joann, who reside in Texas. She He was stricken Sunday, October 23, also has seven great-grandchildren: and had been confined to his bed since Taylor, Tanner, Janae, Jaclyn, Jillian, then. William, and Nicolas. Festus Clarke Cole was born December She was preceded in death by a son 16, 1855, in Iberia, Morrow county, Ohio. It and daughter-in-law, Patrick and Bonnie is the same county in which Warren “Becky” (Rahoi) Chiesa. Gamaliel Harding, former president of the In honoring her wishes, Kate’s ashes United States[,] was born, and Mr. Cole’s will be spread in the woods as she loved father, Henry W. Cole, was instructor of the outdoors. music in Ohio Central College at Iberia, Memorials may be made to the Almost where former President Harding was later a Home Animal Shelter in Kate’s memory. student. Condolences may be expressed to the In 1863, when Mr. Cole was eight years family of Kate Chiesa online at of age, the family moved to Oakland www.enashbuneralhomes.com. county, Mich., where the senior Cole The family has entrusted the Erickson- established the family on a farm at Clyde. Rochon & Nash Funeral Home with the Here the children were given such arrangements. educational advantages as could be obtained in a one-room country school. FESTUS C. COLE Festus Cole continued at the county school until 1870, when his father died. Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Shortly thereafter his mother moved with Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ her family to Ann Arbor. Year, Number _____ [Wednesday, Entering high school at Ann Arbor in November 2, 1938], page ___, column 1874, Mr. Cole was graduated in June ___ 1877, and in the fall of the same year he entered the University of Michigan. FESTUS C. COLE Specializing in literature, he was graduated SUCCUMBS FROM from Ann Arbor in 1881, with the degree of BRIEF ILLNESS bachelor of philosophy. Among his classmates was the late H.M. Pelham, _____ former Iron Mountain attorney. Appointed Superintendent Proprietor Of Lumber

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In the summer of 1881 Mr. Cole was sold to the O’Callaghan brothers, of appointed superintendent of school [sic – Norway. schools] at Lyons, Mich., and began his Meanwhile, Iron Mountain was on the duties there in the fall of that year. At the upgrade once more and in 1897 Mr. Cole end of the year, however, he accepted an returned to this city and reopened the offer from the board of education at lumber yard, this time in partnership with Hinsdale, Ill., and he was superintendent of the junior Parmenter. About a year later the schools there from 1882 to 1885. He partnership was dissolved and Mr. Cole entered the Hinsdale system at the continued as sole owner of the property organization of its high school and it was until 1926, when it was reorganized under under his regime that the first high school the same ownership, but in corporate form. class was graduated in 1885. It was continued under that status to the Believing that a greater opportunity present day. awaited him in a larger community, Mr. Although not prominent politically, Mr. Cole applied for the professorship of Cole served a brief time as supervisor from mathematics in the West Division high the fifth ward. He was actively interested in school at Chicago, Ill., then the largest high education and was president of the Iron school in that city, with an enrollment of 900 Mountain board of education for 10 students. He was accepted, but remained consecutive years. His tenure of office there only one year, leaving in 1886 to covered the formative period when the become associated with the S.A. Maxwell system was first reaching out for the company, of Chicago, wholesale book and nucleus of the present organization. stationery concern. He stayed there four L.E. Amidon, for whom the new North years. Side school was later named, was At about that time Mr. Cole was superintendent then and with Mr. Cole on persuaded by a close personal friend, E.L. the board were the late Dr. Joseph A. Parmenter, Jr., who was then situated in Crowell and the late Hugh McLaughlin. It Ingalls, Mich., with his father, to come north was largely through the efforts of these four and look over the country. Mr. Cole came men that the new senior high school and learned, shortly after his arrival, that he building was achieved. had been appointed manager of the City First Commission Lumber Yard, in this city. Although having Mr. Cole was a member of the first had little previous experience in this commission elected by the city to draft a business, he went to work. new charter. He was a member of the Pine Panic of 1893 Grove Country club when it was organized Then came the panic of 1893, and the in 1902, a member of the board of trustees lumber yard was one of the industrial of the Iron Mountain General hospital, victims. Iron Mountain did not begin to director of the Commercial Bank of this city emerge from that panic for about two years. and also of the Detroit and Northern Mr. Cole, in 1894, joined the younger Michigan Building and Loan association. Parmenter in the operation of the Sturgeon He was a charter and life member of the mill, on the Sturgeon river, near Vulcan. Knights of Pythias lodge in this city, was These were lean years for the lumber chancellor commander of the lodge for five business, but the Sturgeon mill was placed years and was six times a delegate to the on a firm footing and in the fall of 1926 was grand lodge sessions. He was also a member of the Rotary club of Iron Mountain 53 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] and was a delegate to the international pastor of the First Presbyterian church, convention at Toronto, in 1924. conducted the services. He was a member of the Cloverland Burial was in Cemetery park. Retail Lumber Dealers’ association, a Pallbearers were William Lewis, E.C. subsidiary of the Wisconsin Retail Lumber Bradley, J.W. Simpson, Rex Mallory, B.R. dealers’ association and was president of Miller and H.D. Convis. the latter organization for the last two years. Among the out-of-town relatives and Finally, he had been an active member friends who attended were H.M. Cole, of the First Presbyterian church here during Madison, Wis.; Mrs. H.L. Grill, Saginaw, his residence in the community. Mich.; Rossiter Cole, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. He was married on October 25, 1894, to Harvey, Benton Harbor, Mich.; Mrs. Murlin, Miss Myrtle Moon, who died at her home Wayland, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Harold here on March 25, 1933. Buswell, Crystal Falls; Mr. and Mrs. Michael There are two children, Mrs. H.L. Grill, Farrell, Wells, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Jack of Saginaw, Mich., and Harold M. Cole, of Burt, Wausau, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. P.B. Madison, Wis. A granddaughter, Jeannette Spear, Sr., Marquette; Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Grill, lives with her parents in Saginaw. Sweeney, Pembine; Don S. Montgomery, Mr. Cole has one brother and one sister. Milwaukee, Wis.; Clarence S. Walker, They are Rossetter Gleason Cole, of Columbus, Wis.; A.H. Forsmo, Wausau, Chicago, Ill., and Mrs. M.J. Prall, of Belding, Wis.; D.W. Seaton, Hancock, and Dr. and Mich. Mrs. E.P.Lockart and Mrs. Boyd Kelly, of The body will remain at the J.B. Norway. Erickson and Son mortuary until 10 o’clock tomorrow morning, when it will be removed AUGUST C. COOK to the residence. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, o’clock tomorrow afternoon at the home, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 20, with burial in Cemetery park. The Rev. Number 20 [Thursday, September 30, N.U. McConaughy, pastor of the First 1915], page 1, columns 3-4 Presbyterian church, will conduct the service. A.C. COOK CALLED Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, _____ Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ Year, Number _____ [Friday, November LEADING LAWYER RESPONDS TO A 4, 1938], page ___, column ___ SUMMONS FROM ABOVE. _____

Cole Services Close of a Career Closely Identified Funeral services for Festus C. Cole, With the History of Dickinson aged 83, pioneer Iron Mountain resident County and Our City. who died at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, at his home, 212 West E street, were held at 1:30 August C. Cook departed this life at the o’clock yesterday afternoon at the family home on Carpenter avenue about residence. The Rev. N.U. McConaughy, two o’clock last Monday afternoon. Mr.

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Cook had been in poor health for a year or Mr. Cook was one of the leaders in the more and during the past two months had historical fight which resulted in the been confined to his home. The immediate enactment of the law organizing Dickinson cause of his death was acute pneumonia county from territory taken from following a nervous breakdown. Menominee, Marquette and Iron counties. The funeral was held this morning from This fight was won in the face of vigorous St. Mary’s church and was attended by a opposition in the legislature of 1892, and large concourse of friends, many being soon after the required legislation was present from Norway and other range secured Mr. Cook was appointed towns. prosecuting attorney by the late Gov. Mr. Cook is survived by his wife, one Winans. [NOTE: Dickinson County was daughter, Mrs. Will C. Crago, and two sons, formed in 1891.] Jay and Clarence, and the following sisters: Mr. Cook was a member of the county Mrs. Nicholas King, of Ravensdale, board in 1893 and 1894, representing the Washington, Mrs. Martha Potter, of Eureka, fifth ward. During his term of office the California, Mrs. Dorothy Jacker, of court-house and jail were erected and Mr. Livermore, California, Mrs. Mary Kohen, of Cook and Messrs. MacNaughton and Kelly Berlin, Wis., and Mrs. Fred Henghtler, of served the people “well and faithfully” as a Appleton, Wis. Mesdames Kohen and building committee. [NOTE: The court Henghtler were in attendance at the funeral. house and jail were erected in 1896.] Mr. Cook was born in Millhausen, Mr. Cook was a member of the lower Prussia, on May 14th, 1857, and came to house of the Michigan legislature during the this country with his parents in May, 1867, session of 1885-6, representing the district locating at Marquette, where he attended then comprising Dickinson, Iron and Baraga the city schools and studied law in the office counties. He was elected bs [sic – by] a of the late W.P. Healey, at that time a vote of 2,890 to 1,060 received by John f. prominent member of the bar. Fitzpatrick, his Democratic opponent. He He was admitted to be bar in 1880 and gave the duties of the office his close located in Norway, in 1881. While residing attention, spending the entire winter at at Norway he enjoyed a large law practice Lansing, but the position did not appeal to and was elected prosecuting attorney of his nature and he declined a re-nomination. Menominee county in 1888. He also In the election of 1902, he was elected represented Norway as a member of the prosecuting attorney and held the office for Menominee county board of supervisors. six years. During his term of office he While residing in Norway he was engaged successfully prosecuted some of the most in the newspaper business, owning and notable criminal cases in the history of the editing the Norway Chronicle, now the upper peninsula. Current. In the spring election two years ago, Mr. In 1885, he became associated in the Cook was the candidate of the National law business with Herbert M. Pelham and Progressive party for justice of the supreme the relationship was maintained until his court. Prior to that[,] he had refused the demise. The firm maintained offices in this nomination for congressman. city and at Norway, and Mr. Cook did not The writer was a next-door neighbor to remove to Iron Mountain until the fall of A.C. Cook for more than twenty years. We 1889, when the present home on Carpenter found him a thoughtful, helpful and kindly avenue was occupied. neighbor. A man of strong personality, he 55 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] was intense and strenuous in his likes and and is attended to his new home by the dislikes. Mr. Cook was also a good fighter. best wishes of many friends. He fought in the open and fairly. As a lawyer, he had few, if any, equals in the FLORENCE, BESSE AND ALICE upper peninsula. He was particularly strong COTTERILL as a trial lawyer and as a cross-examiner. (THE COTTERILL SISTERS) He was most thorough in preparing his cases and his legal victories were brilliant.

As a family man Mr. Cook was also The Cotterill Sisters were the famous intense. His love for the members of his concert trio whose home address was in family was most abundant – so bountiful Iron Mountain and whose work had taken that it was almost severe. During his last them into the leading cities of the United illness, before forced to retire, his every States and abroad. thought was to provide for their comfort and The trio was composed of Miss Besse, happiness after his demise. He understood pianist; Miss Florence, violinist and an that his time was short, and his last work accomplished vocalist; and Miss Alice, who was to provide for the future of his sons. As played traps, marimbas and did dramatic a citizen he commanded the respect and reading. esteem of the community. He was one of The Cotterill Sisters played for private Iron Mountain’s strongest citizens from a parties for the Countess De Stubner, Earl of mental standpoint and we will miss him in Ancaster, Lord Willowby of London, our council rooms. Mr. Cook was pre- England, and for many state governors. eminently a self-made man. He won his Mary Roberts Rinehard said of the Cotterill education and position under the most Sisters: “If you appreciate the finer things discouraging circumstances. To the of life you will find joy in the music of the mourning relatives The Press conveys the Cotterill Sisters. They play your favorite sympathy of many friends. “May he rest in operas, tuneful ballads, and have a peace.” repertoire of music that is as beautiful as it is unusual – and executed by real FRANKLIN COPELAND musicians.” The Cotterill Sisters opened a Novelty Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Nook Studio in Iron Mountain in 1931. The Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 25, studio was a combination of gift shop that Number 1 [Thursday, June 3, 1920], dealt in imported art wares, gifts and interior page 1, column 4 decorations and a studio where Miss Bessie, assisted by her sisters, taught all Removes to Milwaukee. forms of art craft work. Miss Bessie studied sculpturing at Otis Art Institution in Los Franklin Copeland, who has held a Angeles under the well-known California position with the Penn Iron Mining company pastel artist, Harry Linder; and other for more than forty years, has resigned and branches of art including oils, tapestries, removed to Milwaukee, where he will make water colors, pottery, at Chicago Art his home with his daughter, Mrs. B.W. Institute. Hicks. Mr. Copeland will be missed in the In 1954 Miss Bessie Cotterill died. Her social and business circles of the county two sisters moved back to Iron Mountain

56 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] and resided at their home on 619 East “F” 619 East F Street, vacant [1939] Street. Miss Florence died on August 8, Alice Cotterill, Musician; Bess Cotterill, 1972. Miss Alice Cotterill is at the present Musician; Florence Cotterill, Musician, all time (1978) at Pine Manor Nursing Home. living at 619 East F Street, Iron Mountain [1946] Born From Iron, pp. 159-160 with Mrs. Sarah McLean (widow of Jerry), photograph 619 East F Street, Iron Mountain [1935] Alice Cotterill, Florence Cotterill, 619 Parents: East F Street [1961] David Cotterill, born May 29, 1862 in Wisconsin. Died October 1, 1907, aged 45. Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Escanaba, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 2, Delta County, Michigan. He married Sarah Number 40 [Saturday, May 27, 1922], Angeline White in 1890. page 1, column 7 Sarah Angeline White McLean was born in September 1870 in Michigan. She later SISTERS PLAYING married Jeremiah McLean. She died April 9, 1945, in Mount Dora, Lake County, IN GOLDEN STATE Florida. She is buried in Lakeview _____ Cemetery, Escanaba, Delta County, Michigan. Her tombstone reads Iron Mountain Well Ad- SarahCotterill McLean. vertised in California, Jeremiah McLean was born March 5, Says Miss Cotterill 1864, in Neenah, Winnebago County, _____ Wisconsin. His parents were Dennis E. McLean (1833-1872) and Mary Garvey The Cottterill Sisters, internationally McLean (1834-1914). He died November known musicians, whose home is in Iron 18, 1930, in Iron Mountain, Dickinson Mountain, are at present filling a contract at County, Michigan, aged 65. He is buried in the Hotel Maryland, Pasadena, Calif., Lakeview Cemetery, Escanaba, Delta according to word received here today from County, Michigan. Miss Bessie Cotterill. Incidentally, she Bessie [Besse on tombstone] Cotterill, added, Iron Mountain is receiving a large born September 11, 1891, in Iron Mountain, amount of publicity in California papers so Dickinson County, Michigan. Died that the city is becoming well known. September 21, 1954, aged 63. Buried in Part of Miss Cotterill’s letter follows: Lakeview Cemetery, Escanaba, Michigan. “We are playing a concert each evening Block 34, Lot 5. in the salon and on Saturday evenings for Florence Cotterill was born August 24 dancing parties held in the Garden Court, [29], 1894 in Michigan. She died August 8, where the guests dance on a splendid 1972, in Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, outdoor floor. Our orchestra is augmented Michigan, aged 77. She is buried in on dance evenings by Eugene Conklin, Lakeview Cemetery, Escanaba, Delta saxophonist, and Roy Butin, banjoist of County, Michigan. Victor record fame. “During our sojourn in Pasadena we are Jerry McLean (Sarah), engineer, 619 living in one of the Maryland bungalows. East F Street, Iron Mountain [1925] 57 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

William McAdoo, (former secretary of the appeared in the limelight, then that is treasury and director general of railroads) something to be proud of. and his wife and two little girls are our That is what has been accomplished by neighbors, having the next bungalow. the Cotterills. Unaffected by the prominent “We will return to Long Beach the latter position they occupy and by the virtual tons part of June to fill a summer engagement – and tons of publicity showered upon them, the seaside for the summer is wonderful. they retain a feeling of love for Iron “We always boost Iron Mountain and the Mountain and Cloverland that is still papers mention it very often – so it is well unimpaired. advertised in California.” They’re From Cloverland. Pictures of the trio have been printed in Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, every important paper in California and in Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 2, practically all instances the reading matter Number 204 [Thursday, December 14, has referred to the sisters as coming from 1922], page 5, columns 1-2 [with clover- Iron Mountain or Cloverland. And why? leaf photo in columns 3-4] Simply because they told the reporter who interviewed them that this was their home, Fame Fails To Dim not New York, Chicago, San Francisco or some other large community. Cotterill Sisters’ Love And in advertisements, pictures of the For Home Town sisters always appear in a cloverleaf, such _____ as the photograph accompanying this article, and on the stem the word They’re Always Know as Cloverland is synonymous with the term Being From Iron Moun- Cotterill sisters. Iron Mountain is not unappreciative of tain or Cloverland the Cotterills. In fact, the Rotary club, at its _____ meeting Tuesday, appointed a committee to draw up a resolution of appreciation and To entertain the highest, even royalty, to send it to the sisters. This committee, meet the highest, to be on intimate terms composed of M.J. Fox, M.E. Richards and with them – that is the almost daily Tom Gander, did its work yesterday and experience of the Misses Florence, Bess today the resolution, accompanied by a and Alice Cotterill, known nationally as the large box of candy and a larger bouquet of Cotterill sisters, musicians of wide spread flowers[,] will be presented to the trio. fame. Leaving For Coast. But the ability to meet on equal terms Tonight the Cotterills, who have been those who direct the destinies of nations, visiting their mother, Mrs. J. McLean, will who have fortunes in their grasp or who are leave for Pasadena, Calif., where they will regarded as the pre-eminent leader sin their fill a winter engagement at the Hotel particular line, can be accomplished by Raymond. They will conclude this contract daily contact with these personages and in May and then intend to go to Hawaii. then it ceases to be an accomplishment. Next summer they will return to Iron However, if at the same time there exists a Mountain. strong love for the old home town, old home ties and old friends who have never 58 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

“Do you ever intend to give up Iron this sobriquet. The Iron Mountain Mountain as your home town?” they were organization is their “home” club. asked. Iron Mountain had several opportunities “Absolutely not,” was the answering during the summer of hearing the sisters chorus. “You know,” explained one of and well appreciates their ability. In them, “whenever we go into a hotel we addition to the piano, violin, xylophone and register our address as Iron Mountain. Our other instruments, they amuse with songs ads always speak of Cloverland and many and recitations. They have received times persons have asked us, ‘What is this several flattering offers to go on big time Cloverland?’ Of course, they are given an vaudeville circuits but have so far refused explanation. We never intend to drop this them, preferring to stay off the stage. title and wherever we are we’ll be the They have attained a reputation for Cotterill sisters from Iron Mountain, being refined, neat and well appearing, Michigan.” presenting programs that please the most The Cotterills, each one of whom is an fastidious. They intend to maintain this accomplished musician, have played in the standard for their organization as well as east and the west. Last season they were keep after their names the words Iron at Pasadena and have played at all the Mountain and Cloverland! principal cities in California. Governors, princes and movie stars have listened to The Rotary Resolution and praised their music and California Whereas the Cotterill sisters who have would like to claim the trio as its own. been spending several weeks with their Charles Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks are parents in this city, are about to leave on an to them “Charlie” and “Doug”, they say how- extended musical engagement to the do-you-do to this governor or that business Pacific coast; monarch. And with equal cordiality the And whereas they have by numerous salutation is returned. appearances before Rotary clubs in the The hotel to which the Cotterills are United States become known as “The going is not a cheap affair. Oh, no. It has Rotary Girls”; scores of small cottages in connection Therefore Be It Resolved, that the which rent for the small sum of $7,500 a Rotary club, of this city, their home club, season, the season being four months long. extend to them its appreciation for their The sisters will have one of these cottages splendid character, talents and – but it is included in their contract. achievements, and the best wishes of the Girl’s [sic – Girls’] Orchestra. club for a prosperous journey and safe In playing for dances the sisters have return, and that in extending this two extra musicians and the orchestra is appreciation the club feels that it is but known as the “All Star Five.” This season echoing the sentiment of the people of this they hope to organize a girls’ orchestra of city as well as the pride that all Cloverland 10 or 15 pieces, probably the first of its size takes in their achievements. in the country. The Cotterills are also known as the The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, “Rotary Girls.” During previous trips to the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 4, coast they have stopped off at various cities Number 140 [Thursday, September 25, and entertained the Rotary clubs, hence 1924], page 3, columns 3-4

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trio consists of three charming young RADIO PUBLICITY sisters, the Misses Bess, Florence and Alice Cotterill. RECEIVED BY CITY “Miss Bess Cotterill, the pianist, is a _____ pupil of Emil Liebling, and from what we heard last night, a credit to this great Cotterills Continue to Ad- teacher. The second sister, Miss Florence, vertise Iron Mountain is both violinist and an accomplished vocalist, while the third sister, Alice, plays On Coast the drums, xylophone and marimba phone. _____ “This array of talent in one family aroused much enthusiastic comment from Although Iron Mountain does not the audience last evening. Their program possess a broadcasting station, it showed much sympathetic understanding nevertheless has become known to a large of the large number of persons in radioland portion of radioland through the efforts of who like to listen to the familiar melodies the Cotterill sisters, the trio of musicians which lile on the borderland between the whose home is here and who have gained ballad and classic type of composition. considerable renown on the West Coast. Reveal Artistry. The sisters, Bess, Florence and Alice, “The four Indian love lyrics, the ‘Evening are now spending their annual vacation in Star,’ from ‘Tannhauser,’ MacDowell’s ‘To a Iron Mountain, visiting their mother who Wild Rose,’ and several Spanish numbers resides here. They will return next month to were given by the Cotterill Trio with a Los Angeles. smoothness of ensemble and unmarred Several radio programs have been tonal beauty borne of long hours of practice given by the trio and their home town, Iron and harmonious living. Mountain, has been mentioned by the “Florence Cotterill sang a group of four announcer in introducing the various English ballads, including ‘How Long Ago,’ numbers. The sisters advertise themselves ‘Carry Me Back to Old Virginy,’ and ‘A Bit of as being from “Cloverland,” a reproduction Irish.’ She has a delightful ballad voice and of a three-leaf clover with a picture of one of last evening her crisp diction carried to the them in each of the leaves being a trade farthest corner to which radio penetrates. mark. “Alice Cotterill, who is an accomplished Get Favorable Review. reader, gave three pianologues, Their radio efforts have brought them accompanied by her sister, Bess. A thousands of applause cards. In reviewing pianologue is a difficult thing to broadcast one of their radio programs, Claire Forbes because the balance between the Crane, critic on the Los Angeles Times, instrument and the speaking voice must be wrote: perfectly maintained throughout, regardless “Everyone takes delight in an artist who of mood or inflection. This feat was not only sounds well to the ear but is performed successfully last night. attractive to the eye as well. It was too bad Going to Chicago. last evening that the radio family could not “The first two numbers were ‘Not have seen as well as heard the talented Understood,’ and ‘Foolish Question.’ The Cotterill Sisters, trio, presented through the third selection brought back memories of all courtesy of the Westlake Mary Louise. The who had known and loved Daddy 60 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Silverwood. It was the familiar ‘I Want My Chicago Musical college. At Chicago she Flowers Now.’ Mr. Silverwood was very also took a post graduate course as the fond of Miss Cotterill’s rendition of it and youngest pupil of Emiel Leibling, then the gave her the first autographed copy of it. only living pupil of Franz Leizt, world “The Cotterill Sisters are going to famous pianist. Chicago to fulfill a professional engagement An accomplished sculptor and oil but will be back at the Mary Louise in painter, Miss Cotterill at one time conducted November.” an art studio in Iron Mountian. Pianist For Trio Miss Cotterill was the pianist for the popular trio that for many years toured the United States, playing concert music at exclusive hotels and winder and summer resorts. Her sisters, the Misses Alice and Florence, who survive her, completed the trio. Famous for their concert and after- dinner music, the Cotterill sisters played long engagements at hotels and resorts in Florida, New Jersey, New York, California,

Bermuda, Arizona and other states. Most The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain- of their winter engagements were in Florida. Kingsford, Dickinson County, Michigan, Friends may call at the Buchanan- Volume 34, Number 13 [Tuesday, Villemur-Tondin Funeral home starting at 7 September 21, 1954], page 2, columns tonight. Monsignor A.C. Pelissier will recite 1-2 the rosary at 8 tomorrow night at the funeral home. Services will be held at 8:45 Thursday Miss Besse Cotterill Dies morning at the funeral home and at 9 at SS Suddenly At Hospital Here Mary and Joseph church. The remains will be taken to Escanaba for interment at the Miss Besse Cotterill, of 619 East F Lakeview cemetery. street, member of the widely-known Cotterill [Besse Cotterill, daughter of David and Sisters instrumental concert trio, died Sarah Angeline (McIntyre) Cotterill, was suddenly at 2 a.m. today in the Dickinson born September 11, 1891, in Iron Mountain, County Memorial hospital. Menominee [later Dickinson] County, Miss Cotterill, ailing for the past year, Michigan.] suffered a relapse at her home yesterday and was taken to the hospital, where her The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain- condition became critical. Kingsford, Dickinson County, Michigan, Born in Iron Mountain, Miss Cotterill was Volume 52, Number 102 [Wednesday, educated in parochial schools in Chicago August 9, 1972], page 2, columns 4-5 and graduated from St. Mary’s Academy, of O’Neill, Neb. She also graduated from Otis Well Known Art School of Los Angeles, Calif., and the Resident

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Succumbs Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Miss Florence Cotterill, of 619 East F Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume __, St., died at 2:35 p.m. Tuesday at the Number __ [-----day, November --, Memorial Hospital, following an illness of 1986], page __, column __ the past year. Miss Cotterill was born in Iron Mountain, Alice Cotterill and as a child moved with her family to IRON MOUNTAIN – Alice Cotterill, 85, Chicago, where she attended school and of Iron Mountain[,] died Thursday graduated from John Marshall High School. [November 20,. 1986] at the Hyland She started her musical education at the Nursing Home, following a long illness. Chicago Musical College as a violinist and Miss Cotterill was born Dec. 14, 1900 in vocalist, under the tutelage of Frank Winter. Chicago. She was preceded in death by Following completion of study at her father, Dave Cotterill, her mother, Sara Chicago Musical College, Miss Cotterill McLean Cotterill, in 1945, and two sisters, went to Omaha, Neb., where she was Bess Cotterill and Florence Cotterill. associated with the Community Chatuaqua She and her sisters had long musical program. She later started playing careers, studying extensively in music, art engagements in Pasadena, Calif., Phoenix, and elocution in Chicago. They were Ariz., Bermuda, Los Angeles, Havana, known as the Cotterill Sisters and played Cuba, New York City, and St. Petersburg, many musical engagements years ago in Fla. Los Angeles and California, St. Petersburg, She retired from playing professionally Fla., Bermuda and New York City. The in 1954, at which time she returned to Iron Cotterill Sisters were well known and Mountain and had made her home here traveled extensively. They also conducted since. She was employed at the VA and taught art and operated a gift shop in Hospital here, retiring in 1966. Iron Mountain for a few years. [Novelty She leaves a sister, Alice of Iron Nook Studio, opened in 1931] Mountain, and other relatives in the area. Miss Cotterill had her poetry published Friends may call at the Tondin-Ross and proceeds form the sale of her poems Funeral Home from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. went to the Rotarians. Although she Thursday. Liturgical prayers will be recited traveled extensively, Miss Cotterill made at 8:15 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Iron Mountain her home most of her Services will be held at 9:10 Friday lifetime. morning at the funeral home and at 9:30 at Visitation will be from 9 to 10 a.m. SS Mary and Joseph Church. Rev. Fr. Friday at the Tondin-Ross and Freeman Raymond J. Zeugner will offer the Mass of Funeral Home. Services will be at 10:30 the Resurrection. a.m. Friday at SS Mary and Joseph Church. Burial will be in Lakeview Cemetery in Fr. James Donnelly will offer the Mass of Escanaba. Christian Burial. Burial will be in Lakeview [Florence Mary Cotterill, daughter of Cemetery in Escanaba. David and Sarah Angeline (McIntyre) Cotterill, was born August 24, 1894, in Iron The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Mountain, Menominee [later Dickinson] Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 10, County, Michigan.] Number 188 [Wednesday, November 19, 1930], page 2, column 3 62 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Mrs. McLean, her daughters said today, DEATHS had not been ill, and death came suddenly in the morning hours. Her daughters were JEREMIAH McLEAN with her in the cottage they occupied at the resort center. Funeral services for Jeremiah McLean, Mrs. McLean was born in Kenosha, age 66, who died at 11:45 o’clock yesterday Wis., a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John morning at his home, 619 East F street, will McIntyre. After her father’s, death her be held at 8:30 o’clock tomorrow morning, mother was married to James McNamara, at the home, and at 9 o’clock at St. Mary’s and the family moved shortly thereafter to church, the Rev. Fr. P.N. Fillion officiating. Quinnesec, where the McNamaras The body will be taken to Escanaba, where conducted the first hotel in that community. interment will be made in Lake View There was then no railroad or highway to cemetery. Iron Mountain, and the journey was made in [Jeremiah McLean, son of Dennis E. earliest days by ox--team. McLean (1833-1872) and Mary Garvey Worked In Norway McLean (1834-1914), was born March 5, Some time later Mrs. McLean went to 1864, in Neenah, Winnebago County, Escanaba to live with her grandmother, Wisconsin. He is the second husband of Mrs. Lambert Brown. She attended St. Sarah Angeline (McIntyre) Cotterill.] Joseph’s convent there, and after completing her studies was employed, for a The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, time, by the Escanaba Press. She then Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 25, obtained work at the Norway Current, Number 5 [Monday, April 16, 1945], published by the late James Knights [sic – page 2, column 3 Knight], and resided in Norway with the Knight family. Services For Mrs. McLean was first married, at Florence, Wis., to David Cotterill. About Mrs. McLean eight years after his death, she married At Escanaba Jerry McLean, former well known conductor Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah for the North Western railroad, who died McLean, mother of the Misses Bess, here many years ago. Florence and Alice Cotterill, talented and Since Mr. McLean’s death, his widow widely-known musicians, and who died had lived with her three daughters, who are suddenly early Monday morning, April 9, at widely known as a musical trio and have Mt. Dora, Fla., were conducted at 10 played winter engagements at many Saturday morning at St. Patrick’s church, in popular resort centers in the east and Escanaba, by the Rev. Fr. Norbert south. Mrs. McLean traveled with her Freiburger. Burial was in Lakeview daughters on these engagements, and cemetery. returned here, every summer, to live with The Misses Cotterill arrived here them. The mother and daughters were Saturday night, after attending the packed and ready to leave Florida for Iron ceremony, and will spend the summer at Mountain, last week, when Mrs. McLean their residence, 619 East F. was stricken. [Sarah Angeline McIntyre, daughter of Thomas and Bridget McIntyre, was born in 63 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

September, 1870, in Michigan. Her father Mr. Croll leaves a daughter, Mrs. Louise was born in Wisconsin and her mother was Price, Battle Creek; a son, Hugo, in Detroit; born in Ireland.] granddaughter, Patricia Price; grandson, Lee Crowell; a sister, Mrs. Louise AMOS MAX CROLL Carmichael, Hibbing, and two brothers, Emil, of Orlando, Fla., and Fred, of Cleveland. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, The body was taken yesterday to the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Perala Funeral home at Negaunee. ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, July 25, Funeral arrangements have not been 1945], page ___, column ___ completed.

A.M. Croll The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Dies After Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Long Illness ___, Number ___ [Thursday, July 26, 1945], page ___, column ___ Amos Max Croll, 73, jeweler and watchmaker in Iron Mountain for the last 23 A.M. CROLL years, died at 7:45 last night at the Funeral services for Amos Max Croll, residence of Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Freeman, 73, jeweler and watchmaker here, who died 832 East I, after an illness of the past Tuesday night at the residence of Mr. and several months. He had been critically ill Mrs. Carl E. Freeman, 832 East I, will be for the last two months, when he moved held at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon at the from the Harding hotel, where he formerly Perala Funeral home in Negaunee, with lived, to the Freeman residence. burial there. Born July 5, 1872, in Ishpeming, Mr. Croll remained there for several years, MRS. AMOS M. (VERA F. where he learned watch-repairing and the FREEMAN) CROLL jewelry business. Later he moved to Norway and subsequently to Aurora, Minn., The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, where he was also in the jewelry business, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume before coming to Iron Mountain in 1922. ___, Number ___ [Monday, May 3, For the past few years, Mr. Croll had 1943], page ___, column ___ maintained a watch-repair stand in the

Aimone and Fornetti barbershop on East Ludington. Mrs. V.F. Croll, Mr. Croll married twice, firs to the former Nurse, Dies Miss Rose Muck, of Negaunee, who died, At Her Home and later, after arriving here, to the former Miss Vera Freeman, daughter of the late Mrs. Vera F. Croll, 63, resident of Iron Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Freeman, pioneer Iron Mountain for 61 years and widely known in Mountain residents. His second wife, the city and district, died shortly after 4 formerly night operator at General hospital, o’clock yesterday afternoon at her home, died on July 29, 1943. 306 East Ludington street, after an illness of six months.

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She was born Oct. 22, 1880, in Norway, Mich., and came here with her parents, Mr. Miss Jeannette Crowell and Mrs. Edwin Freeman, when she was only two years old. The elder Freemans, IRON MOUNTAIN – Miss Jeannette according to historical accounts, were the Crowell, 88, of 403 West [sic – East] third family to settle in Iron Mountain, Ludington st. [sic - St.], Iron Mountain, died making the trip from Norway by ox-cart [sic Tuesday morning [August 10, 1982] at – oxcart], over a rough timber trail. Americana Healthcare Center in Kingsford. Mrs. Croll received nurse’s training at Miss Crowell was born July 1, 1894, in Ypsilanti, and returned her to join the staff Iron Mountain, daughter of the late Dr. and of the former St. George’s hospital. Later Mrs. J.A. Crowell, pioneer residents of Iron she served at Dr. Bray’s hospital at Mountain. Bewabik, Minn., and returned here to enter Miss Crowell was a graduate of Iron the former Scandinavian hospital, now the Mountain High School. She later graduated General. from McAllister College with a degree in Had Many Friends physical education. She taught in the Iron She was night supervisor at the General Mountain School System and during World hospital for 14 years, until six months ago, War I was a physical therapist in the U.S. when she retired because of ill health. Army Auxiliary. During her long service as nurse[,] Mrs. Miss Crowell was an avid golfer and Croll made many friends. She was own the Pine Grove Country Club and U.P. recognized, also, as highly efficient in her women’s golf championship on many work. occasions. She received special honors at Besides her husband, Amos M. Croll, a the Pine Grove Country Club’s diamond step-daughter and step-son survive. They jubilee observance in 1977, and was are Mrs. Gordon L. Price, Battle Creek, selected queen of the Iron Mountain Mich., and Hugo Croll, Detroit. Other Centennial parade and associated activities survivors are two grandchildren and four in 1979. brothers, Rudolph K. and Carl E. Freeman, Miss Crowell was a life member of the Iron Mountain; Verner C. Freeman, Pine Grove Country Club. Marinette, and Dewey, Niagara. She leaves an adopted daughter, Mrs. Mrs. Croll was a member of the White Beranrd [sic – Bernard] (Lisbeth) Lieberman Shrine and the Order of Eastern Star. of Oak Ridge, Tenn., two granddaughters The body is at the Freeman Funeral and several nieces and nephews. home, where funeral services will be Friends may call at the family home at conducted Wednesday by the Rev. James 403 East Ludington St. from 6 to 8 p.m. G. Ward, Escanaba, former pastor of the Thursday. Holy Trinity Episcopal church here. Private family services will be held Thursday at the family home. JEANNETTE CROWELL Brial will be in Cemetery Park. The Erickson-Rochon Funeral Home is Iron Mountain Daily News, Iron Mountain- in charge of arrangements. Kingsford, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XX, Number XX [XXXXX, DR. JOSEPH ADDISON CROWELL August XX, 1982], page X, columns X-X 65 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, the only other person in the building. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 18, Hearing the noise, she came running to the Number 153 [Friday, October 14, 1938], top of the basement steps and saw Dr. page 3, column 3 Crowell lying on the floor, a pool of blood about his head. DR. CROWELL IS Mrs. Anderson summoned two young men who carried the aged surgeon up the INJURED IN FALL basement steps to an automobile and he INTO BASEMENT was taken to the hospital where Dr. W.H. _____ Huron treated his injuries. Dr. Crowell, pioneer resident of Iron Plunges Through Open Mountain, recently observed his 85th birthday, and plans for a function at which Trap Door At Chamber he was to be [the] guest of honor, Of Commerce sponsored by the Iron-Dickinson County _____ Medical society, were in the making here today. Dr. Joseph A. Crowell, aged 85, dean of the Dickinson county medical faternity [sic – The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, fraternity], is in the Iron Mountain General Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 18, hospital with a deep gash on the left side of Number 160 [Saturday, October 22, his head and a slight concussion as the 1938], page 2, column 1 result of an accident occurring at 9:45 o’clock this morning when he fell through a SHOCK OF FALL trap door opening into the basement of the Iron Mountain-Kingsford Chamber of PROVES FATAL Commerce building on Stephenson avenue. TO DR. CROWELL His condition at noon was reported as favorable, although he suffered a severe Aged Iron Mountain shock. Physician Dies At Hos- Dr. Crowell had entered the building and was walking about the long table in the pital This Noon. center of the main room, looking at tourist literature. The trap door, located at the Dr. Joseph A. Crowell, aged 85, resident north end of the building, had been left and active in practice here for the last 57 open, although two chairs had been placed years, died at 12:25 o’clock this afternoon at the side as a guard. in the Iron Mountain General hospital from Dr. Crowell grasped one of the chairs to shock received when, on Friday, October set it aside so that he could pass by. He 14, he fell through the trap door at the Iron failed to see the open door, stepped into it, Mountain-Kingsford Chamber of Commerce and plunged headlong down the steep building and struck his head on the cement steps, landing on the cement floor of the floor of the basement, eight feet below. basement about eight feet low [sic – below]. Although he had appeared to rally Stenographer Summons Help during the last few days, Dr. Crowell Mrs. Walden Anderson, stenographer to yesterday suffered a relapse. Don Smith, secretary of the chamber, was 66 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

A week ago yesterday at about 9:45 Dr. Crowell established St. George’s o’clock in the morning Dr. Crowell visited hospital, on Merritt avenue, near Fleshiem the chamber building and, while walking street, and directed that institution for many about the long table in the center of the years. main room, failed to notice the open trap Dr. Crowell was subsequently joined in door, in front of which two chairs had been practice here by Drs. G.H. Belhumeur and placed. He grasped one of the chairs to set Leslie Coffin. That arrangement continued it aside, and as he did so stepped into the until Dr. Coffin resigned to accept the opening in the floor and plunged to the appointment of mining physician and basement. surgeon at Painesdale, Mich., and the He was carried to an automobile and subsequent death six years ago of Dr. taken to the hospital. Belhumeur. Born in New Jersey Following Dr. Coffin’s departure, Dr. Dr. Crowell was born September 28, D.R. Smith, formerly of Crystal Falls, 1853, in Rahway, N.J. He attended school entered the office here with Drs. Crowell there in his early boyhood and, when 12 and Belhumeur. Since Dr. Belhumeur’s years of age, entered the New Haven death, Drs. Crowell and Smith have Military academy. In 1872 he was maintained the practice. graduated from Rutgers college, in Rutgers, Fellow of Surgeons College Vt., and in 1877 embarked on a trip to Dr. Crowell was a member of the staff of England. the General hospital; member and past Returning from Europe he entered the president of the Dickinson-Iron County University of New York, and received his Medical Society; member of the Michigan M.D. degree at that institution in 1880. State Medical Society and of the American Later that year he moved to Stephenson, Medical Association and a Fellow of the Mich., and established a practice there, American College of Surgeons. remaining about a year and a half. In the He was formerly actively associated with latter part of 1881, Dr. Crowell came to Kiel the Masonic and Elks lodges in the city. [sic – Keel] Ridge, outside the east city Dr. Crowell was mayor of Iron Mountain limits, as assistant to Dr. John D. Cameron, in 1882 and 1883 and at the time when, with whom he was later associated in Iron during the latter year, a strike occurred Mountain. among the miners of the Ludington and He came to Iron Mountain in 1882 and Chapin properties. All of the men in both was wedded that year to Miss Leonora mines were out for two weeks and those Schumacher, who died here in 1922. Dr. days, Dr. Crowell often recalled, were Crowell was the first physician and surgeon troublesome in the city. to practice general surgery in the district. For many years Dr. Crowell was In 1883 Drs. Cameron and Crowell were physician and surgeon here for both the named physicians here for the Oliver Iron Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific and the Mining company. At that time there were Chicago & North Western railroads. He 300 miners under their medical care. The was also a member of the Iron Mountain number increased to 1,400 in 1890. board of education when the present senior Oliver Hospital Physician high school was built. In 1882 the first hospital was built at the Chairman of Exemption Board Chapin mine, and Dr. Crowell was staff During the months following America’s physician and surgeon. Some years later, entry into the World war, Dr. Crowell served 67 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] as chairman of the Dickinson county McConoughy, pastor of the First exemption board, and was instrumental in Presbyterian church, Mrs. Ellen Andrews the high degree of efficiency attained by sang “The End of a Perfect Day,” which that group. was Dr. Crowell’s favorite selection. Vitally interested in the civic, The Rev. McConoughy also read a brief educational, social and political life of the service and eulogy at the grave in community, Dr. Crowell had a prominent Cemetery park. Pallbearers were Arthur part in the early development of the city, Jones, Carl Israelson, Ed. Sandercock, and maintained that active interest Norman C. Bartholomew and L.D. Tucker, throughout his life. He was widely known of Iron Mountain, and H.J. Fisher, of Iron for his professional skill and, although his River. office hours were restricted during the past Among the out-of-town relatives and few years, his services were frequently friends who attended were Dr. B.W. Jones, sought as consultant. Mrs. Wright and Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Baxter, With the exception of the last few of Houghton; Dr. and Mrs. L.E. Coffin, of months, Dr. Crowell visited his office daily. Painesdale; Dr. and Mrs. E.H. Libby and Recently, periodic illness had kept him at Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Fisher, of Iron River; Mrs. home on occasions, but he had resumed Stephen Royce, Mrs. F.J. Larson and Mr. his daily schedule when the accident and Mrs. Will Jayne, of Crystal Falls; Dr. occurred. Frederick Vilas, of Stambaugh; Mrs. Ronald Two daughters and one son survive. Conkey, of Minneapolis; E.W. Jones, Mrs. They are Mrs. G.V. Carpenter and Miss Gertrude Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon Jeanette Crowell, of this city, and Joseph A. Boyer, of Marquette; Mrs. William Crago, of Crowell, Jr., of Oneco, Fla. There are 13 Duluth, and Dr. and Mrs. William Fiedling, grandchildren and one great-grandchild. of Norway. Arrangement of funeral services has not been completed. JAMES D. CUDLIP

The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, The Menominee Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Menominee County, Michigan, Volume 18, Number 162 [Tuesday, October XI, Number 29 [Thursday, October 10, 25, 1938], page 3, column 5 1889], page 5, columns 2-3

DEATHS Guilty of Adultery at Least. James Cudlip, who was recently Crowell Services employed at the Hamilton shaft, married a wife some years ago. There is nothing Funeral services for Dr. Joseph A. remarkable in that. It often happens that Crowell, aged 85, dean of the Dickinson men do such things, but as a rule a man county medical fraternity, who died early thinks one wife at a time is enough, and it is Saturday afternoon at the Iron Mountain on this point that James has shown himself General hospital, were held at 4 o’clock to be somewhat eccentric. As the story yesterday afternoon at the residence, 403 goes, his first wife was a little “off color” East Ludington street. During the services when he married her, and became more at the home, conducted by the Rev. N.U. deeply dyed in the sins of the world 68 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] afterwards. After several quarrels James Place of marriage: Florence, Wisconsin decided to have nothing more to do with his Occupation: miner faithless wife, and probably no one will Birthplace: England blame him for that either. Mrs. Cudlip Residence: Iron Mountain, Michigan consoled herself for being thus cast off by Parents: James D. Cudlipp [sic – Cudlip] becoming a mistress of a house of ill-fame and Jane Cudlipp [sic – Cudlip] in Escanaba. James meanwhile fell in love Bride: Mary Jane Berryman with Miss Mary Berryman, of this city, who Birthplace: New Jersey something over a year ago accompanied Parents: George Berryman and Elizabeth him to Florence one cold winter’s day, and Berryman it was supposed at least that they were then James D. “Jim” Cudlip and there married. But James had neglected the formality of getting a divorce Born: October 31, 1856, Swansea, South from his first wife. It is not likely, however, Wales that wife No. 1 would ever have made any Married: Mary Jane Berryman fuss about it but for the occurrences of the Died: December 13, 1922, Iron Mountain, past few days. Miss Lillie Berryman has the Dickinson County, Michigan past summer shown a disposition to lead a Buried: Hekmoo Lot 234, Cemetery Park, reckless life. She has been out late at night Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, – all night occasionally, so report says – Michigan and recently was so indiscreet as to get intoxicated. This naturally stirred up a little The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, rumpus at home and Lillie skipped to Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 2, Escanaba and became an inmate of Mrs. Number 203 [Wednesday, December Cudlip No. 1’s domicil [sic – domicile]. 13, 1922], page 1, columns 6-7 Because Mrs. Berryman compelled her daughter to return home Mrs. Cudlip No. 1 “Jim” Cudlip, County has seen fit to break up her husband’s Clerk, Dies Following second matrimonial arrangement. The Illness of Two Weeks charge of adultery has been preferred _____ instead of that of bigamy, because so far the prosecuting attorney has been unable Heart Trouble and Dropsy to get testimony to prove conclusively Cause Death of Prominent Cudlip’s second marriage. It is probable, Public Official however, that before the case comes up in _____ court the charge will be changed to that of bigamy. Cudlip at his examination before James D. Cudlip, county clerk of D. Bergeron last Tuesday plead guilty of Dickinson county and known to hundreds of adultery and was bound over to the circuit friends as “Jim”, died at 11:30 o’clock last court in the sum of $1000. night following an illness that became acute two weeks ago. Death was caused by FLORENCE COUNTY, WISCONSIN, heart trouble and dropsy. MARRIAGES Up until the time that he was stricken, Mr. Cudlip was on duty at the court house. Groom: James D. Cudlipp [sic – Cudlip] During the two weeks that he was confined Date of marriage: September 8, 1888 to his bed he constantly hovered between 69 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] life and death and scores of inquiries have entered on his second full term regarding his condition were made daily at January 1. the court house. While his condition was Distinguished Appearing. grave, it was believed at times that his life Mr. Cudlip was one of the most would be saved, but several attacks distinguished appearing men in the county reduced his strength and he was unable to and although familiarly known as “Jim”, was combat the diseases that afflicted him. often taken by strangers to be a retired Mr. Cudlip was 66 years of age. He was military officer or capitalist. Those who born in Swansea, Wales, October 31, 1856 approached him with this idea in mind and came to the United States when about treated him with the upmost respect but few 18 years old. For several years he worked there were who, after talking to him for a in the east and during that time was few minutes, were not put entirely at their married. Three children, all of whom are ease. living, were born. Later domestic troubles He often liked to sit down and spin tales entered his life and he was divorced. of the days gone by and, being well read Pioneer in Peninsula. and a deep thinker, told his stories in a He was one of the pioneers of the upper language that was both descriptive and peninsula, coming to this country about 35 beautiful. His reminiscences have provided years ago. For a time he was employed in more than one court house employe [sic – the mines at Ishpeming and the copper employee] with a pleasant half hour’s country and then came to Iron Mountain, entertainment. working in the mines here. He married an In addition to his widow, Mr. Cudlip is Iron Mountain girl, Mary Jane Berryman, survived by seven children, James B., of and she survives him. Several children Oshkosh, Wis., John, William S., and Doris, were born to this union and four of them are of Iron Mountain, Mrs. Claude Elliott, of still living. Minneapolis, Mrs. Thomas Hardgrove, of Shortly after coming here, Mr. Cudlip Gwinn and Mrs. Ida Brown, of Vancouver, relinquishes [sic – relinquished] his position B.C., several grand children [sic – in the mines and took up clerical work. He grandchildren] and other more distant served as truant officer for more than 20 relatives. years and it was his proud boast that school Funeral arrangements have not yet children had never “sassed” him, but had been definitely completed but will probably always been on friendly terms with the man be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. who was charged with the duty of seeing Mr. Cudlip was a member of the that they did not play “hookey.” He was Presbyterian church and services will be also city clerk of Iron Mountain for over 16 held there, Rev. R.C. Cully, officiating. years and held the office of city assessor Interment will be in cemetery park. for several years. Mr. Cudlip was probably the most well Mr. Cudlip entered the county’s employe known [sic – well-known] and one of the [sic – employ] when he was appointed to most prominent men in the county and serve out the unexpired term of Herbert announcement of his death caused extreme Asp, clerk. At the next election he was sorrow throughout the entire district, returned to the office by an overwhelming especially to the pioneer residents who vote and repeated this victory at the polls have known him intimately since he came last November. Had he lived, he would here.

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The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, liked men in the county and the news of his Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 2, death was the main topic of discussion Number 204 [Thursday, December 14, yesterday and today. 1922], page 2, column 1 Scores of persons have visited the home to pay their last respects to “Jim.” FUNERAL OF ‘JIM’ Rich and poor alike knew him as a friend CUDLIP WILL BE and they have been eager to give this final HELD TOMORROW tribute to him. _____ Mr. Cudlip was one of the pioneers of Dickinson county, coming here about 35 Services to Take Place at years ago. After working in the mines a Presbyterian Church short time, he took up clerical work and At 2 O’clock served for a number of years as truant _____ officer, city clerk and city assessor of Iron Mountain. Had he lived he would have EXPRESS SYMPATHY entered on his second full term as county _____ clerk on January 1.

Scores of Friends Visit The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Home to Pay Last Re- Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 2, spects to Clerk Number 204 [Thursday, December 14, _____ 1922], page 2, columns 2-3

Funeral services for James D. Cudlip, A Few of The Many Tributes Dickinson county clerk who died at 11:30 To “Jim” Cudlip o’clock Tuesday night, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 [sic – 2:00] R.C. Browning, secretary of the school o’clock from the home at 915 River avenue. board – The cortege will proceed to the “He has been a splendid public officer, Presbyterian church where services will be always attended to his duties in a faithful conducted at 2:30 o’clock under the manner and was true in every respect. The direction of Rev. R.C. Cully. The casket will community loses a valuable man.” then be taken to Cemetery park, where R.F. Brown, president of the First interment will be made. National Bank – The clerk’s office at the court house will “Mr. Cudlip was one of the oldest be closed all day tomorrow. Practically all residents of this city and has held a great county officials plan to attend the funeral many important offices for years. I was and during these hours no business will be associated with him when he was city clerk, transacted at the court house. It is city assessor and county clerk. He always expected that the funeral procession will be filled these positions with great ability and a a long one as Mr. Cudlip was intimately strict regard for honor and perhaps, at the known to hundreds of persons who conclusion of his work as a public officer, regarded him as a close friend. he stood in a higher position in the Expressions of sympathy for his death confidence of the general public than any have been heard in all quarters. Mr. Cudlip other person who has held similar positions was one of the most prominent and well in this county.” 71 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

M.B. Travis, superintendent of schools – _____ “He was the most efficient attendance officer that I ever had the privilege of One of the Best Known and Most working with. He was always sympathetic Popular Public Officials of the with the public and yet appreciated the County Passes to the Great Unknown necessity of school attendance.” _____ L.J. Will, merchant – It is with much regret that the Current “Mr. Cudlip was one of the most chronicles the death of James D. Cudlip, for prominent citizens in Dickinson county. He more than three decades a prominent factor was known to every man, woman and child in the official corps of Iron Mountain and as ‘Jim.’ He always had a kind word and Dickinson county. smile for everyone. He was loved by all An affable, genial gentleman, an and Dickinson county loses one of her best efficient and conscientious public servant, citizens in ‘Jim.’” his unexpected demise will be regretted Dr. L.E. Coffin, member of school board throughout the entire county and more – especially by those within whom he was “When James D. Cudlip passed away brot [sic – brought] in contact in the course this community lost a man who for many of daily business. years had served his fellow citizens to the The following extract form the Iron best of his ability. He was a most capable Mountain News of Wednesday, will be of and faithful public servant.” interest to many: George Eisele, assistant superintendent “James D. Cudlip, county clerk of of the Oliver Iron Mining company – Dickinson county and known to hundreds of “I have known Mr. Cudlip for 32 years, friends as “Jim”, died at 11:30 o’clock last as a miner underground and in public office night following an illness that became acute and he has always done is work in a two weeks ago. Death was caused by capable manner. He was one of the most heart trouble and dropsy. efficient county clerks in the state of Up until the time that he was stricken, Michigan.” Mr. Cudlip was on duty at the court house. Gilbert Fugere, merchant – During the two weeks that he was confined “I have known Mr. Cudlip for 25 years to his bed he constantly hovered between and have never met a finer gentleman. He life and death and scores of inquiries was one of the most accommodating men regarding his condition were made daily at who has ever held public office. He was the court house. While his condition was always first to lend a helping hand and grave, it was believed at times that his life made friends with people in all walks of life. would be saved, but several attacks I feel that Dickinson county has lost one of reduced his strength and he was unable to its most competent servants.” combat the diseases that afflicted him. Mr. Cudlip was 66 years of age. He was The Current, Norway, Dickinson County, born in Swansea, Wales, October 31, 1856 Michigan, Volume XXXVIII, Number 46 and came to the United States when about [Saturday, December 16, 1922], page 1, 18 years old. For several years he worked column 1 in the east and during that time was married. Three children, all of whom are COUNTY CLERK CUDLIP living, were born. Later domestic troubles ANSWERS DEATH’S CALL entered his life and he was divorced. 72 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Pioneer in Peninsula. beautiful. His reminiscences have provided He was one of the pioneers of the upper more than one court house employe [sic – peninsula, coming to this country about 35 employee] with a pleasant half hour’s years ago. For a time he was employed in entertainment. the mines at Ishpeming and the copper In addition to his widow, Mr. Cudlip is country and then came to Iron Mountain, survived by seven children, James B., of working in the mines here. He married an Oshkosh, Wis., John, Wm. S., and Iron Mountain girl, Mary Jane Berryman, Doris, of Iron Mountain, Mrs. Claude and she survives him. Several children Elliot [sic – Elliott], of Minneapolis, Mrs. were born to this union and four of them are Thomas Hargrave [sic – Hardgrove], of still living. Gwinn and Mrs. Ida Brown, of Shortly after coming here, Mr. Cudlip Vancouver, B.C., several grand children relinquished his position in the mines and [sic – grandchildren] and other more took up clerical work. He served as truant distant relatives.” officer for more than 20 years and it was his proud boast that school children had never MRS. JAMES D. (MARY JANE “sassed” him, but had always been on BERRYMAN) CUDLIP friendly terms with the man who was charged with the duty of seeing that they did not play “hookey.” He was also city The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, clerk of Iron Mountain for over 16 years and Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 7, held the office of city assessor for several Number 208 [Monday, December 12, years. 1927], page 2, column 7 Mr. Cudlip entered the county’s service when he was appointed to serve out the Deaths unexpired term of Herbert Asp, clerk. At _____ the next election he was returned to the office by an overwhelming vote and MRS. J.D. CUDLIP repeated this victory at the polls last November. Had he lived, he would have Mrs. James D. Cudlip, aged 54, a life- entered on his second full term January 1. long and well known resident of this city, Distinguished Appearing. died at about 9:10 o’clock a.m., yesterday, Mr. Cudlip was one of the most following an acute illness of the past few distinguished appearing men in the county days, resulting form intestinal influenza. and although familiarly known as “Jim”, was Although Mrs. Cudlip had been in ill often taken by strangers to be a retired health for the past 10 years, her recent military officer or capitalist. Those who illness, beginning Friday, of last week, was approached him with this idea in mind the direct cause of her death. treated him with the upmost respect but few Yesterday, also, was the fifth there were who, after talking to him for a anniversary of the death of Mr. Cudlip, few minutes, were not put entirely at their formerly county clerk and one of the most ease. widely-known citizens of the district. He often liked to sit down and spin tales Four sons survive. They are James B. of the days gone by and, being well read of Kansas City, Mo., and John L., William and a deep thinker, told his stories in a and Robert, of Iron Mountain. Mrs. Cudlip language that was both descriptive and is also survived by her mother, a resident of 73 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] the Copper country, who was expected here today. Two sisters, Mrs. H.D. Keaber Sam Cudlip and Mrs. A.J. Davey, of Milwaukee, arrived Died Saturday here this morning. A third sister, Mrs. Silas At His Home Hebard, resides in Calumet, and a fourth, Mrs. J.A. Minnear, lives in Kingsford. There are also two brothers, Tom, of Detroit, and Sam Cudlip, 71, resident of Iron George, of Calumet. Mountain for 64 years and pioneer druggist of the city, died at 4:45 Saturday afternoon The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, at his residence, 100 West Fleshiem, after Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 7, an illness of the last year. Mr. Cudlip and Number 209 [Tuesday, December 13, his brother, William J. Cudlip, vice-president 1927], page 2, column 3 of the First National bank, are believed to be the oldest residents of the city, in point Deaths of years since their arrival here in 1880. _____ Mr. Cudlip was born Jan. 22, 1873, in Calumet, the son of Mr. and Mrs. James MRS. J.D. CUDLIP Cudlip. In April, 1880, when only seven years of age, he moved with his family to The funeral of Mrs. J.D. Cudlip, who Iron Mountain. His brother, W.J. Cudlip, of died Sunday morning, following an acute this city, yesterday recalled that experience. illness form intestinal influenza, will be held Three-Day Trip at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon from her “The trip from Calumet, across Portage home, 915 River avenue, with interment in Lake to Houghton, required one day,” he Cemetery Park. The Rev. N.U. said. “We stayed at Houghton that night, McConaughy, of the Presbyterian church, and the next day went on, by train, to will officiate. Humboldt – the second day’s trip. On the third day we traveled, also by rail, to Mary Jane (Berryman) Cudlip Quinnesec, and then by team and buckboard to Iron Mountain. I had often Born: 1873, New Jersey, United States of told my brother that , although we left America Calumet together, I was the first to arrive in Married: James D. Cudlip Iron Mountain – because I was in the front Died: December 13, 1927, Iron Mountain, seat of the buckboard which brought us Dickinson County, Michigan here from Quinnesec, and he was in the Buried: Hekmoo Lot 234, Cemetery Park, back.” Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, The town of Powers was then identified Michigan only as Section 42, and Iron Mountain, Section 36 [sic – Section 30], Mr. Cudlip said. Arriving here, the Cudlip family SAMUEL CUDLIP moved into one of only five frame houses which then comprised the north side, and The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, which were situated just north of what is Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume now Fourth street. The senior Mr. Cudlip ___, Number ___ [Monday, December was one of the first employes [sic – 11, 1944], page ___, column ___

74 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] employees] at the newly-developed Chapin occupancy, is believed to be one of the mine. oldest in the Upper Peninsula. Three years later, in 1884, James Mr. Cudlip was married on Aug. 16, Cudlip built a house on the south side of 1894, to Miss Bertha Cruse, in a ceremony West Fleshiem, in the 100 block, across the conducted in the First Presbyterian church street from the present Sam Cudlip by the Rev. Donald Morrison. Besides his residence. It was then the popular belief widow, he leaves two daughters, Mrs. that Fleshiem street would be the principal Phyllis Cudlip Knapp, of this city, and Mrs. thoroughfare in the city, and Mr. Cudlip later Genevieve How, of LaGrange, Ill., and one added two more houses, one on the south son, Merlin A. Cudlip, vice-president of the side of Fleshiem and the other on the north, McLouth Steel company, Grosse Pointe, where the Sam Cudlip family now resides. Mich. There are two brothers, James Attended School Here Cudlip, Pasadena, Calif., and William J. Sam Cudlip attended school in the city, Cudlip, of this city, and a sister, Mrs. Walter and often recalled that the late Mrs. E.G. Truettner, formerly of Bessemer and now Kingsford, then Miss Minnie Flaherty, was living at Grosse Pointe, Mich. his teacher. He left school to enter the drug Mr. Cudlip was a charter member of the store of the late E.J. Ingram, whose widow, Pine Grove Country club, maintaining his Mrs. Kate Ingram, now 81, lives in membership until his death, and a former Florence, Wis. The Ingram store, later member of the Iron Mountain Elks club. removed, was then situated on the present Funeral services will be conducted at 2 site of the Beckstrom and Greenquist tomorrow afternoon at the J.B. Erickson decorating company, at 117 North and Son mortuary by the Rev. N.U. Stephenson. McConaughy, pastor of the First Mr. Cudlip left the Ingram establishment Presbyterian [church]. Burial will be in after eight years to enter the employe [sic – Cemetery park. employ] of the late George Siebert [sic – Seibert], former prominent druggist. A few The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, years later he acquired a one-fourth interest Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume in the Siebert [sic – Seibert] store, and, 22 ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, years ago, bought the business outright. December 13, 1944], page ___, column When Mr. Siebert [sic – Seibert] retired, Mr. ___ Cudlip actively conducted the business until January, 1943, when illness forced him to SAMUEL CUDLIP retire. He had since been in close touch Services for Samuel Cudlip, 71, who with the business, while under treatment at died Saturday afternoon at his residence, his home. 100 West Fleshiem, were held at 2 During Mr. Cudlip’s absence from the yesterday afternoon at the Erickson and store, situated at Stephenson and Hughitt, Son Mortuary. The Rev. N.U. McConaughy the business has been managed by Harry officiated at the service during which Mrs. Bottger, druggist. E. Robichaud played organ music. Many Prescriptions Active pallbearers were Harry Bottger, Since Mr. Cudlip entrered the store, Adolph Lundberg, Valentine Moroni, Dalbert approximately 520,130 prescriptions have Miench, Fred Cowling and Joseph F. white. been filled there, and the store, from the Active honorary pallbearers were Dr. W.H. first day of Mr. Siebert’s [sic – Seibert’s] Alexander, A.B. Bracco, A.M. Chalmers, 75 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

George Clements, L.J. Suino and H.J. recommendation made at the meeting of Fisher, and the honorary pallbearers, the board of supervisors which was Herbert Beard, A.G. Buchman, E.F. Brown, requested by the judge. He was George Eisele, G.P. Fugere, J.M. Garvey, recommended by the supervisors without a Walter A. Henze, Ben Seaman, Charles D. dissenting vote and no names in opposition Symonds and W.W. Thompson. were offered. Burial was in Cemetery Park. When the supervisors had officially Here for the funeral were Mrs. Walter F. voiced their selection it was transmitted to Truettner, Mrs. Clayton J. Purdy, Mr. and Judge Flannigan who declared he was well Mrs. M.A. Cudlip and William B. Cudlip, satisfied and immediately wrote the order Grosse Pointe; Mrs. John L. Garvey, appointing Mr. Cudlip to the vacancy. Milwaukee; Mr. and Mrs. Julian How, Shortly after Prosecuting Attorney J.C. LaGrange, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Knight, acting as a notary, swore in the new Fisher and Fayette Brown, Iron River, and clerk and he was making arrangements this Mrs. Ione Rezin, William Rezin and Mrs. afternoon for his surety bond of $2,000 William Bottger, Crystal Falls. which must be filed with the county. Mr. Cudlip succeeds his father, James WILLIAM S. CUDLIP D., who died recently. He served as deputy clerk under his father and, during the The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, latter’s illness and since his death, has Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 2, been in charge of the office. In addition to Number 211 [Friday, December 22, his other qualifications, the supervisors held 1922], page 1, columns 6-7 that his familiarity with the routine of the office especially entitled him to the CUDLIP NAMED appointment. COUNTY CLERK “Of course I am gratified that I was BY FLANNIGAN appointed,” Mr. Cudlip declared this _____ afternoon, “and I am thankful both to the supervisors and Judge Flannigan.” Appointment Follows The appointment also brings about a Recommendation By vacancy in the position of deputy clerk, who Board of Supervisors is named by the clerk. Mr. Cudlip has not _____ yet decided who will get this position, declaring that he has not considered the NO OTHER NAMES matter. “This much will be sure, however,” _____ he said. “The deputy clerk will be hired only for his ability to take care of the county’s Only One Proposed For business and not because of any political Office: Sworn In Im- attachments.” mediately Because of the fact that his father was _____ re-elected clerk at the November election, the new term opening January 1, Mr. Cudlip William S. Cudlip this morning was will hold office the balance of this term and appointed clerk of Dickinson county by also the next two years. Judge R.C. Flannigan following a

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The Current, Norway, Dickinson County, Thomas Davidson. His father was a native Michigan, Volume XXXVIII, Number 47 of Norway, was reared and educated and [Saturday, December 23, 1922], page 1, learned the trade of ship carpenter. After column 1 coming to America he was employed for many years at his trade, first in Milwaukee WILLIAM S. CUDLIP and later in Green Bay, where he died at SUCCEEDS HIS FATHER the venerable age of ninety years. His wife _____ was a native of Norway, and likewise attained venerable years. Of their six The death, last week of county clerk children the three still living are David J., James D. Cudlip created a vacancy in the Mary and Otto C. office of county clerk and clerk of the court. Otto C. Davidson had his education in While the appointing power lay in Circuit the public schools of Green Bay, and at Judge R.C. Flannigan, he asked for an sixteen began clerking in a bank. In 1882 expression of choice by the board of he was given a position as bookkeeper at supervisors and a special meeting of that Briar Hill mine, in Norway, Michigan, and at body was held yesterday at the count the end of one year was made courthouse and the choice of the meeting superintendent of the mine. Since then his being William S. Cudlip, son of the late time and interests have been alternated clerk, and for some years his deputy. between mining and banking. After a year Judge Flannigan on being advised of the as mine superintendent he became teller in preference of the supervisors, immediately a bank at Green Bay, but in 1886 returned made the appointment, the appointee was to mining, and for two years had charge of sworn in by Prosecutor J.C. Knight and the Florence Mining Company's properties W.S. Cudlip is now county clerk, a fact that as superintendent. From January, 1889, to is pleasing to the many friends of both 1901 Mr. Davidson was superintendent of father and son. the Commonwealth mine. His home has been in Iron Mountain since 1901, in which OTTO CONRAD DAVIDSON year he became superintendent of the Oliver Mining Company's properties on the Menominee range, and subsequently was History of Michigan by Charles Moore, 1915 promoted to general superintendent of the

properties on the Menominee and Gogebic As a banker and mining operator Otto C. ranges, with headquarters at Iron Mountain. Davidson has been prominent in the Since 1902 Mr. Davidson has been Northern Peninsula of Michigan for the past president of the Commercial Bank of Iron thirty years. The two successive positions Mountain. Mr. Davidson is well known in that marked his early business experiences Masonic circles, having affiliations with were as clerk in a bank and bookkeeper at Washington Lodge, A. F. & A. M., at Green a mine, and at the present time Mr. Bay; with Marinette Chapter, R. A. M.; with Davidson is president of a bank at Iron Marinette Commandery, K. T., and with the Mountain and general superintendent of the Milwaukee Consistory of Scottish Rite. Oliver Mining Companies' properties in the In April, 1889, Mr. Davidson married Menominee and Gogebic ranges. Charlotte S. Dickinson, a native of Otto C. Davidson was born at Green Stamford, Connecticut. Her father, William Bay, Wisconsin, June 22, 1857, a son of Edmund Dickinson, was born in New York 77 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

City in 1824, in 1844 graduated from the The Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Law School at Litchfield, Connecticut, and Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume thereafter had a varied career in his XVII, Number 34 [Saturday, December profession and in practical affairs. After 14, 1895], page 5, column 3 practicing law two years, he spent three years on a whaling voyage, and then J.D. DAY DEAD. became one of the pioneers in mining _____ development on the Upper Peninsula. He had charge of the Bohemian mine and later Superintendent of Metropolitan Iron of mines at Houghton, Houghton county & Land Co. for Many Years having been his home until 1865. The following two years were spent in Jefferson D. Day, superintendent of the developing silver and gold mines near Metropolitan Iron & Land company, and one Boise City, Idaho. After three years in New of the oldest and most widely known York City, he returned to the Upper residents of Ironwood, died at five o’clock Peninsula in 1870, and was superintendent Thursday afternoon at the home of his of the work at the New York mine for brother-in-law, Hon. Chas. Smith of Lake Samuel J. Tilden. In 1881 he entered the Linden, Houghton Co., at the age of 55 employ of Tuttle Brothers, and for eight years after a lingering illness of Bright’s years had charge of the Commonwealth disease. mine. In 1889 Mr. Dickinson took charge of For more than a year Mr. Day had been the Colby mine at Bessemer, and four in poor health. Four weeks ago, in years later, in 1893, went to Daiquiri, Cuba, company with Mrs. Day and daughter, he to develop the Spanish-American mine at went to Lake Linden, his friends deeming a Santiago. Owing to the turbulent political rest from business cares and a change and economic conditions on the island advisable. Since Sunday it was known that preceding the independence of that island the patient could not survive, and the end from Spanish control, he returned to the came Thursday. United States in 1896, and was agent for Jefferson D. Day was born in the Aetna Powder Company at Florence, Chautauqua county, New York, March 15, Wisconsin, until his death on June 15, 1840, the fourth in a family of seven 1899. Mr. Dickinson married for his second children – four sons and three daughters. wife Elizabeth Sargent, a native of Boston His father, Abram Day, also a native of the and a daughter of Rev. John Sargent, a Empire state, was one of a family of five Unitarian minister of Boston. Rev. John sons that served in the war [sic – War] of Sargent married Charlotte White, who was 1812, their father being a drum major in that descended from one of the early settlers of war. It was as a drummer boy that Abram Salem, Massachusetts. Mrs. Davidson was enlisted. When he was only twelve years of one of a family of seven children. Mr. and age he was taken into the home of General Mrs. Davidson have four sons: Ward F., Jackson and was reared by that gentleman, Harold O., Norman H. and Otto C., Jr. remaining with him until reaching his twenty-fourth years. JEFFERSON D. DAY Mr. Day spent his boyhood days in Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties, New York, and received his education in

78 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] the common schools. He remained a Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, member of the home circle until 1864, when Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, he came to the upper peninsula of Number 29 [Thursday, December 8, Michigan. For two years he served as 1904], page 5, column 5 surface boss in one of the copper mines of Houghton county, following which he was BRIEF CITY NEWSITES. with the Calumet & Hecla company for two _____ years. Later he removed to Ishpeming, holding Oliver J. DeRoshay, a resident of the successively many positions of trust in city for fifteen years, died last Monday of connection with the Lake Superior Iron pneumonia, after a short illness. He was company, of that place, serving as assistant sixty-eight years of age and leaves a wife superintendent and remaining there eleven and three sons. The funeral was held years. From 1879 to 1882, Mr. Day was yesterday morning from St. Mary’s church, assistant superintendent of the Menominee Rev. N.H. Nosbisch officiated, and was Mining company, and for the past fourteen attended by the members of the G.A.R. years has been superintendent of the mines Post and Ancient Order of United of the Metropolitan Iron & Land company. Workmen, of which he was a member. His His first work for that company was in the life was insured for $2,000 in the latter Felch mountain district, north of Iron organization. Mountain, the company in 1885 transferring its operations to Ironwood. His connection with this city dates from JAMES S. DICKEY the very beginning of the town. It was Mr. Day who built the first dwelling house and the first mine boarding house in Ironwood. WILLIAM DICKEY When he became superintendent of the Metropolitan Iron & Land company, his first Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, pay roll had a list of 16 names , the next Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 5, month the number increased to 100, and it Number 5 [Thursday, June 21, 1900], continued to increase until at one time he page 8, column 3 had 2,300 men under his employ. Politically Mr. Day always affiliated with Wm. Dickey, of Billings, Montana, the Democratic party, bur recognized true formerly a resident of this city, arrived last worth in persons of all political faiths. night to visit his brother, James. The two He was married at Hancock, Michigan, brothers had a trading post in the seventies in 1868 to Miss Jennie Hague, a native of near the present site of the Quinnesec that place and a daughter of Thomas cemetery, and afterward Wm. Dickey kept a Hague, one of the early pioneers of livery barn here. He left Iron Mountain Houghton county. They have no children of sixteen years ago and now has a stock their own, but have an adopted daughter, ranch in Montana. Florence. – Ironwood News Record. CAPT. WILLIAM EDMUND OLIVER J. DeROSHAY DICKINSON

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The Florence Mining News, Florence, copper mines in that district. He followed Florence County, Wisconsin, Volume this occupation for a period of fifteen years XIX, Number 27 [Saturday, June 17, and in 1865 went to Idaho and engaged in 1899], page 1, column 3 gold and silver mining, near Boise City, until 1867, when he returned to New York and CAPT. W.E. DICKINSON. entered the employ of the Erie Railroad _____ Company. In 1870 Mr. Dickinson went to Ishpeming to take the management of the The Veteran Mining Man and Jurist at New York mine, owned by Samuel J. Rest – His Illness and Death – Sketch Tilden, the great Democratic statesman and of a Busy and Useful Life presidential candidate. In the spring of 1881 he took up a residence in Capt. William E. Dickinson, aged 75 Commonwealth, this county, succeeding years, district attorney of Florence County Capt. James Tobin as superintendent of the and one of the pioneers of the county, died Commonwealth mine. Capt. Dickinson held at his home in this city at about 1 o’clock this position until November, 1888, when he Thursday afternoon. He had been in rather resigned to accept the superintendency of feeble health for several months past, the big Colby mine at Bessemer, Mich., his suffering from some internal trouble, and son-in-law, Capt. O.C. Davidson, soon came home from the Mesaba on Monday afterward succeeding him at the last feeling quite ill. He continued to grow Commonwealth mine. In the fall of 1890 worse and at a consultation of physicians Capt. Dickinson resigned the management held on Wednesday it was decided to of the Colby and went to Cuba to take the perform an operation for strangulated superintendency of the Spanish-American hernia. The aged patient never recovered Company’s iron mines located in the from the shock caused by the operation, he mountains in the province of Santiago de having lapsed into a state of Cuba. While there he built the celebrated unconsciousness Thursday morning in Daiquiri pier for the loading of ore and which condition he remained until his death which was used by the U.S. government at 1 o’clock. last year for the landing of troops from the William E. Dickinson was born in New transports. He remained in Cuba between York City, May 30, 1824, his parents three and four years when he came to removing to Litchfield, Conn., when he was Florence, and shortly after his return a child. Here he was reared and educated, entered the employ of the Aetna Powder studied law and was admitted to the bar at Company as a traveling salesman, with the the age of 21 years, and subsequently Mesaba range as his principal base of practiced his profession in Stonington, operations, and was engaged in this Conn., for a number of years. Tiring of occupation when stricken down by the office confinement, the young man finally illness which culminated in death. While a went to sea and during a period of five resident of Commonwealth, Capt. Dickinson years made long whaling voyages as served for a number of years with great captain’s mate. Mr. Dickinson came to the ability and faithfulness as chairman of both Lake Superior district in 1850, settling in the town and county boards of supervisors, Ontonagon County and taking the and at the time of his death was serving his management of the Bohemian and other second term as district attorney, a position to which he was two times elected by the 80 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] unanimous vote of the people of Florence engaged in mining in Cuba, died at County. This fact attests to the Captain’s Florence, on Thursday last. popularity and the high esteem in which he Capt. Dickinson was one of the best was held by his fellow-citizens. Capt. known men in the iron country. He was a Dickinson was married four times. His wife native of New England and a man of who survives him was Miss Lizzie G. education and uncommon natural gifts. Sargent, whom he married at her home in When the Menominee iron range was Boston, Mass., September 5, 1867. He is opened up about twenty years ago he was survived by seven children, including Mary placed in the charge of the Commonwealth (Mrs. N.R. Hart), of Stamford, Conn., mine, ant that property was developed into daughter by his first wife, and Charlotte an important producer of ore under his (Mrs. O.C. Davidson), Christine, Edward, management. Harold, Frank and Lulu, all children of his It was during his residence at the present wife. Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson have Commonwealth mine that the abduction of lost three children by death and one son, his son Willie, then six years old, attracted Willie, was abducted at Commonwealth in the sympathy of the entire country to the November, 1881, and it is believed by his Dickinson family. The lad started home mother to be still living. from school one November afternoon, in Funeral services were held at the 1881, and was seen going toward his residence, Central Ave., at 3:30 o’clock this father’s house, about a mile distant, but afternoon, Rev. W.H. Cash, of Iron River, disappeared while traversing a lonely officiating. The services were very simple, stretch of road that passes through a wood consisting of the Episcopalian burial and from that day to this he has not been service, with no sermon or choir-singing, seen by his family. Many clues were the family carrying out Capt. Dickinson’s followed and Capt. Dickinson spent a oft-expressed wishes in making this fortune searching for his boy, but the quest arrangement. At his particular request, was fruitless. also, no floral tributes were received from The captain never recovered from the friends of the deceased or family. shock of this cruel blow and was not the same man after his child disappeared. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Some years ago Capt. Dickinson went Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 4, to Cuba to become superintendent of iron Number 5 [Thursday, June 22, 1899], mines in the vicinity of Santiago. From the page 6, column 3 island he returned to Wisconsin and went to the Gogebic, where he was engaged in CAPT. DICKINSON DEAD. mining for a time. After that he decided to _____ give up mining altogether and having been admitted to the bar in his youth, he returned Pioneer Menominee Range Mining Man to Florence and engaged in the practice of Died Last Thursday at Florence. law, a profession [in] which he had always taken an interest, even when engaged in Capt. W.H. [sic – E.] Dickinson, a well- another line of work. He was elected known mining man, who was formerly district attorney of Florence county and superintendent of the Commonwealth and made a capable official. No man in this also the Colby mine, and at one time region was more highly esteemed by the people who had deep sympathy for the 81 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] captain on account of the heavy misfortune Eisele, connected with the Oliver Iron that fell upon him. He was twice [sic – four Mining company on the Menominee and times] married. A daughter by his first wife Gogebic ranges. is the wife of Geo. D. Swift, formerly of Active Church Worker Ironwood, but now treasurer of the Lake Mrs. Eisele was an active member of Superior Consolidated Mines at Duluth. the former St. Mary’s church in the city, and Capt. Dickinson has represented one of of the Church of St. Mary and St. Joseph the large powder companies for several since the former structure was destroyed by years, and was a frequent visitor to this city. fire and the two congregations were joined. His death will be greatly deplored by She was formerly active in the Altar hundreds of warm friends in this district. Society of the old St. Mary’s church, and the Delphian society of this city. MRS. GEORGE J. (HARRIET Besides her husband, two sons and one RIENDEAU) EISELE daughter survive. They are Lewis G. Eisele, of this city; Dudley E. Eisele, of Appleton, Wis., and Mrs. Louise E. Brown, The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, of Iron Mountain. One brother and two Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume sisters also survive. They are Maxim, of ___, Number ___ [Monday, January 5, Samuel, Idaho; Mrs. Ernest Spears, of 1942], page ___, column ___ Bruce, Wis., and Mrs. George Brennan, of Pond Eddy, New York. Mrs. Spears has Mrs. Eisele arrived in the city, to attend the funeral. Dies Suddenly Seven grandchildren also survive. At Her Home The body will remain at the Buchanan- Villemur-Tondin Funeral home here from 4 Mrs. George J. Eisele, aged 72, resident this afternoon until the hour of the service, of Iron Mountain for 51 years, died which will be at 8:30 tomorrow morning, at suddenly at 5:15 Saturday afternoon at her the funeral home. At 9 a.m., there will be a home, 801 West Brown street, after a brief solemn requiem mass at the Church of St. illness. Mary and St. Joseph. The Rev. Fr. A.C. Mrs. Eisele had gone for a short walk, Pelissier will be celebrant of the mass. as was her daily custom. She returned Burial will be in Cemetery park. home, and was stricken shortly thereafter with a heart attack. AUGUST ERICKSON Mrs. Eisele, the former Harriet Riendeau, was born Aug. 14, 1869, in The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Oconto, Wis., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Lewis Riendeau, one of the oldest families ___, Number ___ [Monday, May 15, in that section of Wisconsin. Her father was 1950], page ___, column ___ a lumberman, widely known in the state. In 1890 Mrs. Eisele moved to Iron Pioneer Of Mountain and established a millinery store on the site now occupied by the postoffice Area Died [sic – post office] building. She was Yesterday married on Nov. 25, 1892, to George J.

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August Erickson, 83, resident of this made a trip through the west, setting up his area since 1887, died at 7 a.m. yesterday at photographic equipment in a tent as he his home, 713 East B, after an illness of traveled, and recording many points of about three years. interest along the way. Mr. Erickson was born July 3, 1866 in In the latter part of 1882 he returned to Varmland, Sweden, and came to America Chicago, and shortly thereafter was married in 1887, residing in Norway. He moved to to Anna Lie, a native of Heningvaerd, Iron Mountain in 1892 and worked in the Norway, Europe. They moved to Coridon, Chapin mine before retiring several years Iowa, and later resided in Minneapolis, ago. Minn., before coming to Florence, Wis., Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Louise where, on July 4, [1883] Mr. Eskil bought a Erickson; three sons, Reuben Erickson, photographic studio. David Erickson and Rudolph Erickson, of Thereafter, during the “boom” years Iron Mountain; seven grandchildren, and along the Menominee and Iron ranges [sic one great-grandchild. – Menominee Iron Range], Mr. Eskil set up Services will be held at 2 Tuesday branch studios in Norway, Crystal Falls and afternoon at the Erickson and Son Iron River, maintaining his residence at mortuary. The Rev. A.E. Ellison, pastor of Florence. He came to Iron Mountain in Immanuel Baptist, of which Mr. Erickson 1891, and established a studio in his own was a member for over 50 years, will building on east Hughitt street. officiate. Industrial Library The body may be viewed at the In the succeeding years Mr. Eskil made Mortuary. a complete picture library of this region’s principal industries – mining and lumbering. JORGEN JOHANSEN ESKIL Many of his photographs were included in geographic text books [sic – textbooks] of that day, and a selected group was shown The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, where Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 21, it drew considerable attention. Number 234 [Thursday, January 15, An enthusiastic and skillful skier in his 1942], page 2, column 1 youth, Mr. Eskil formed the first ski club in

the district, at Florence, in the early ‘80’s. J.J. Eskil Dies After moving to Iron Mountain he organized At His Farm Home several other ski clubs in the Upper Peninsula, and was credited with the

pioneer effort which established skiing as a Jorgan J. Eskil, aged 84 and resident of major sport in the peninsula. Iron Mountain for more than 50 years, died His picture collection today contains a at 9 o’clock last night at his home, 1513 snap of what is believed to be the first Oslo street, after an illness of seven toboggan ever seen in this area. The months. He had been confined to bed for picture was taken at Florence. the past month. In 1905 Mr. Eskil gave up photography Born Feb. 22, 1857, in Andenes [sic – to establish a farm near the south city limits, Anderes], Norway, Mr. Eskil came to this where he had since resided. He became country in 1880, locating in Chicago. He interested in scientific farming; was an studied photography there and in 1882 organizer of the Dickinson County Grange, 83 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] and achieved many production records at The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, his farm in the city. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume __, Mr. Eskil, records show, was the first Number __ [Saturday, July 18, 1942], farmer in the immediate area to produce page __, column __ more than 300 bushels of potatoes to the acre. Apples grown on his property won Jack Eslick first place in awards in several county and state fairs, and at Wisconsin state Succumbs To expositions. His apple orchard today is one Long Illness of the heaviest producers in the region. Bee Expert John C. Eslick, 82, resident of Dickinson The Eskil apiary, developed soon after county for nearly 60 years, former the farm was established, was for years a undersheriff and a familiar figure in Iron show place for resident and tourist visitors. Mountain where he served as marshal at Built and developed along strictly scientific homecoming and Fourth of July lines, it was pointed out by agriculturists as celebrations for many years, died yesterday a model for small-farm honey production, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. R.H. and Mr. Eskil welcomed the curious groups Powell, Chicago Heights, Ill., where he had who came there, almost every day, to walk resided for several years. He had been in with him along the rows of hives, and watch failing health for several years. his skillful handling of the swarms. Born May 18, 1860 at Mass, in Until stricken ill Mr. Eskil made daily Ontonagon county, he was educated in the trips to town, and was a familiar figure, schools of that county and for a time was walking leisurely along Stephenson avenue. associated with his father, James Eslick, in He seldom rode on his visits to the a grocery business in Calumet. business district, preferring the daily “hikes” Leaving Calumet, he was employed in which he enjoyed, regularly until confined to the mines at Ishpeming, and in 1879 came his home. to Dickinson county where he worked at the Mr. Eskil is a life member of the Iron Quinnesec mine and later, for Patrick Mountain blue lodge of Masons. O’Connell, an early day bottling works Besides his widow, survivors are three proprietor. He also resided for a time in sons, Odin and Harold, of this city, and Florence, where he was agent for a brewing Rolf, of Phoenix, Ariz., and two daughters, company. the Misses Ragna Eskil, of Chicago, and Came Here in 1886 Norma, of Flint. Five grandchildren also In about 1886, he came to Iron survive. Mountain where he was engaged for 15 Funeral services will be held at 2:30 years with James Langdon in a draying Saturday afternoon at the Erickson and Son business, and later established a bottling mortuary. The Rev. George C. Weiser, business at the rear of his home at Iron pastor of the Holy Trinity Episcopal church, Mountain and Hughitt streets, with his sons will conduct the services. Burial will be in Claude and Carter. Cemetery Park. Mr. Eslick was one of the original members of the Iron Mountain fire JOHN C. “JACK” ESLICK department, belonging to company No. 1, a charter member of Victoria lodge, Sons of

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St. George, the Iron Mountain Elks lodge Mrs. Eslick was born in Peshtigo, and the Modern Woodmen of America. Marinette county, August 29, 1865, and He is survived by four daughers, Mrs. was 53 years of age. She resided at Powell, of Chicago Heights; Mrs. T. Peshtigo at the time that place was Lantzas, of Chicago; Mrs. B.C. Fancher, destroyed by fire in 1871. She came to San Angelo, Texas, and Miss Gertrude V. Quinnesec in 1877 where he resided for Eslick, of Lansing; three sons, Harry B., of several years. The decedent, whose Los Angeles, Calif. and Carter and Claude maiden name was Margaret Jane Brooks, of Detroit; five grandchildren and two great- was married to John C. Eslick in grandchildren. September, 1881 [sic – 1882]. The body will arrive here this evening Mr. and Mrs. Eslick moved to this city in and will be taken to the Erickson and Son its early days and were pioneer residents. mortuary, pending funeral arrangements. The deceased is survived by her husband, four daughters, Della of this city, MRS. JOHN C. ESLICK Gertrude of Spokane, Washington, Oris and (MARGARET JANE BROOKS) Dorothy of this city, and four sons, William of this city, Harry who is with the American Expeditionary forces in France, Carter and The Norway Current, Norway, Dickinson Claude of this city, also two sisters, Mary County, Michigan, Volume __, Number Morrison of Kenosha, Wis., and Mrs. __ [Saturday, March 15, 1919], page __, Charlotte Laydon of this city, two brothers, column __ Henry and Charlie Brooks of Stambaugh,

Mich., and tow grandchildren, William and ESTEEMED WOMAN DEAD. Marie Annabelle Eslick of this city. _____ Mr. [sic - Mrs.] Eslick was a member of the Lady Maccabees, which organization will attend the obsequies in a body. The silent messenger of death has The funeral will be held tomorrow removed from our midst a highly respected afternoon at 2 o’clock from the home on and esteemed pioneer resident, Mrs. John East A street, Rev. J.H. Oatey officiating. C. Eslick having passed from this life at Interment will be made at Cemetery park. – 9:45 o’clock at her home Friday night. Her Iron Mt. Tribune-Gazette, March 10. death came suddenly and was a shock to her loved ones and host of friends. The cause of her demise was heart failure. The JOSEPH B. ESLICK deceased had been ailing at intervals for the last two years but her condition was not The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, considered alarming. She attended to her Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume __, household duties on the day of her death Number __ [Monday, July 6, 1925], and there was nothing to indicate that the page __, column __ Grim Reaper was near at hand. She retired at about 9 o’clock or so and not long J.B. Eslick, Two Terms afterward was suddenly seized with a sinking spell, her death occurring about ten Mayor Here, Passes Away minutes later. She passed away before _____ medical assistance could be procured. 85 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Ailing for Two Years, Mr. Eslick started his political career Prominent Citizen Dies; here in 1910 when he was elected Served in Council Ten alderman of the fourth ward by an overwhelming majority. He was re-elected Years. to the same office in 1912, 1914, 1916 and 1918 and was appointed president of the Joseph B. Eslick, 69 years old, former council during the last four years of his Iron Mountain mayor and a resident of the incumbency. Mr. Eslick was twice an city for more than 44 years, died this unsuccessful candidate for sheriff. morning at 6 o’clock at his home, 212 East In 1920, Mr. Eslick was elected mayor of C Street. Death was attributed to kidney Iron Mountain by the largest majority ever trouble. accorded a candidate for that office up to Mr. Eslick had been in failing health for that time. His majority was over 1,000 more than two years and death was not votes. Mr. Eslilck was returned to the unexpected. The former mayor, who was executive position the following year. He one of Iron Mountain’s most prominent was also county superintendent of the poor barbers, was forced to sell his shop a year for one year, receiving the appointment ago because of his illness. from the board of supervisors. Born in Upper Peninsula. “Father” of Paving Plan. Mr. Eslick was born April 29, 1866 at Mr. Eslick has been called the “father” of Greenland, Ontonagon county. When a the Stephenson avenue pavement. It was child he moved with his parents to the during his term of office that the council Copper country, where his family resided decided to bond the city for the pavement until Mr. Eslick was 11 years old. and the issue was carried by a good margin The family moved to Quinnesec in 1879 despite the fact that the opposition was and two years later came to Iron Mountain, strong. Mr. Eslick was an ardent supporter Mr. Eslick having resided here continuously of the movement to pave the main street since that time. and he has been given credit for being While a resident of Quinnesec, the responsible for starting the work. former mayor worked as a newsboy on the Through the efforts of Mr. Eslick, the city Chicago & North Western railroad. After was also given the property at the St. Paul two years of that work, he started as an depot for park purposes. It had been apprentice in an Iron Mountain barber shop, planned to name the grounds “Eslick Park.” several years later buying the business Funeral arrangements have not yet from his employer. been completed, awaiting word from out-of- Mr. Eslick was married to Miss town relatives. Katherine McIntyre, of Kenosha, Wis. The ceremony was performed at Marinette. Five children were born to them, the Misses JOHN NICHOLSON FAITHORN Verna, Florence and Katherine Eslick, and Dr. Ben Eslick and Howard Eslick, all of Faithorn Centennial 1887-1987, K.N. Iron Mountain. Deacon Two brothers, James S. Eslick, of Los Angeles, and John C. Eslick, of Iron John N. Faithorn emigrated to Chicago Mountain, also mourn his death. from England around 1865-1870. He went Elected To Council. to work for John R. Walsh, banker and 86 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] railroad tycoon, and rose in the ranks to celebration on the weekend of July 11th. Vice President of the Chicago & Alton He recalls hearing tales of his grandfather Railway Co. and of the Wisconsin-Michigan at his father’s knee and said his father was Railroad. He later became President of the very proud to have a town in Michigan Wisconsin Central Railroad and President named after his father, John Nicholson of the Chicago Terminal Railroad, the Faithorn. Walter further stated, “My father beltline of the Midwest. During this time, would have loved to have joined you in Mr. Walsh became involved in some such a celebration. He will be there in illegalities and his empire collapsed. Mr. spirit, however, and so will Grandfather Faithorn, a scrupulous, remained John, two benign ghostly celebrants whom I unscathed and became more prominent would like to walk with me in your parade.” after the imprisonment of Mr. Walsh. George R. Faithorn, a great-nephew of He was elected President of the John N. Faithorn, is continuing the family American Railroad Freight Association tradition and interest in railroading. He is around 1885 and lived in St. Louis for a employed as a Locomotive Engineer for the brief period. Otherwise, he remained in the Southern Pacific Transportation Co. in Chicago area. He was married and was a California. strict disciplinarian with his children. He K.N. Deacon was conservative in his politics. When Teddy Roosevelt was President, HIRAM D. FISHER John Faithorn and others were indicted by the United States Government for violation H.D. Fisher, the founder of the city of of the new Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The Florence, came to this locality from case went back and forth in the courts, Menasha, Wis., on a prospecting tour, in ending up in the Supreme Court. They felt 1871. He traveled all through the this was a legal exercise in determining the Menominee range, and located the authority of the government, i.e., an Florence mine in 1873, and discovered the example of their anti-philosophy. Although Commonwealth mine in 1876. He began they lost on a tie, none were punished. Mr. active mining operations in the Florence Faithorn – as did the prominent railroad mine about the time of the building of the officials and bankers – had to give up one Chicago & North Western railroad, which of his positions. made its survey in 1879, and completed the John N. Faithorn was a self-made man. building of the road to what is now the city He came to this country with nothing and of Florence, October 14, 1880. On first rose to prominence. He was involved coming to the place, Mr. Fisher took up 480 strictly in the business end of railroading, acres of government land, mining property, becoming a well-known and respected and on the lake 240 acres more. Later, he administrator. located twenty thousand acres of mining We are fortunate in that we have been and timber land, between the years 1873 able to contract Walter E. Faithorn, Jr., and 1876. From the first he has located in grandson of John N. Faithorn. He lived for all about fifty thousand acres. In the spring many years in the Chicago-Evanston area of 1880 he and Menominee Mining Co. had and now resides in Chevy Chase, surveyed and platted the present city of Maryland. Florence, and on March 16, of that year, He was thrilled to learn of our had the lots put on the market. The village Centennial and plans to be with us for our 87 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] was named in the honor of the wife of Dr. Keyes, who was born in Wisconsin, N.P. Hulst. Mr. Fisher, it may be said, daughter of Capt. Joseph and Olive located permanently in this in 1880, and (Williams) Keyes, who were natives of owned a half interest in the fee of the mine, Northfield, Vt., and who, in 1837, came to which he leased to the Menominee Mining Wisconsin and located at Lake Mills, where Co. Since coming here he has built Mr. Keyes built a saw and grist mill, laid out extensively, and some of the best buildings the town, and made it his home until 1853, in the place have been erected by him, when he moved to Menasha, built a including the bank building, and Masonic sawmill, and made that his home until his Block, which were erected in 1889. death about the year of 1875. To Mr. and Mr. Fisher is a native of Vermont, born Mrs. Fisher have been born four children: in Vergennes, August 27, 1832, and is a Olive (now Mrs. Oliver Evans), of Iron son of Hiram and Hannah (Champion) Mountain; Katie (widow of E.J. Ingram), Fisher, who were also natives of the “Green also of Iron Mountain; Nellie (wife of A.M. Mountain State.” The father died in Pinto), of Omaha, Nebr.; and Laura, at Vermont, in January, 1879, in his seventy- home. seventh year; his wife passed away in Fraternally, Mr. Fisher is a member of 1882, in her seventy-third year. They were Fisher Lodge, No. 222. F. & A. M.; of the parent of four children: H.D., our Marinette Chapter, No. 57. R.A.M.; and of subject; Cyrus (drowned in 1873, off the United Workmen and Royal Arcanum. Halifax), who was admitted to the bar in the In the Masonic lodge he passed all the high courts of London, and was a prominent chairs, and was senior warden of the Grand member of the Cobden Club, and an Lodge in 1894-5. In politics he is a attorney of some note in London; Laura Republican, and served as postmaster at (now Mrs. Silas E. Wright), of Rutland, Vt., Florence from 1880 to 1887. Mr. Fisher is and George P., who resides on the old farm one of the best posted men of the in Vermont. northwest country, and there is hardly a foot The subject of this sketch was reared in of land in all the territory with which he is Vermont, and spent his boyhood and youth not familiar. In addition to locating the on the home farm. He was educated in the mines of Florence and Commonwealth, he common schools of the State, and in early also discovered the Armenia Iron Mine, life learned the carpenter and joiner trade. east of Crystal Falls, Mich. His business At the age of twenty-one he came west to interests have been very extensive, and, in Oshkosh, Wis., but soon afterward went to connection with real estate, he is interested Menasha, where he was engaged in in the bank at Florence, and Commercial general merchandise business for some Bank of Iron Mountain, Mich. In the years. In 1801 he sold out his store, and development of this section he has certainly commenced in the insurance business, in been a very active man, and the credit for which he continued for a time, or until its prosperity is largely due to his efforts. coming to Florence. While in Oshkosh, however, he was engaged as clerk in the [Commemorative Biographical Record of old Winnebago Hotel, winter, and as clerk the West Shore of Green Bay, Including the on a boat in the Fox and Wolf rivers, during Counties of Brown, Oconto, Marinette, and the summer season. While residing in Florence, J.H.Beers & Co., 1896] Menasha, on January 31, 1861, Mr. Fisher was united in marriage with Miss Emily O. 88 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

NANCY (FORD) FLAHERTY Flaherty was an aunt of Henry Ford, the automobile king. One of her last joys was Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, the fact that, in the world war, an even Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 24, dozen of her decendants [sic – Number 46 [Thursday, April 8, 1920], descendants] were fighting for her adopted page 1, column 4 country. These included a son, a son-in- law and ten grandsons. Grandma Flaherty DIED AT DEARBORN. was held in high esteem here. Possessed of a most neighborly and generous _____ disposition, it was her delight to contribute to the comforts and pleasures of her Grandma Flaherty, for Many Years neighbors, and she will be long a Resident of This City. remembered for her many deeds of charity.

Mrs. Nancy Ford Flaherty, well-known in ROBERT JOSEPH FLAHERTY Iron Mountain as Grandma Flaherty, died on March 20th, [sic] at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Gardner, at Dearborn, Mich. Grandma Flaherty was born in Ireland on October 26th, 1834, and was therefore eighty-six years of age. She had been in poor health for the past several years. Mrs. Flaherty came to this country with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ford, when she was eleven years of age. Upon her marriage to Thomas Flaherty, she removed to the copper country, where for thirty years Mr. Flaherty was employed as an expert prospector for the Calumet & Hecla company. Later the family removed to Marquette and in 1880 came to Iron Mountain. Mr. Flaherty preceded the family a few months, coming here before the Chicago & North-Western road was extended to the city. Mr. Flaherty died at Dearborn about thirteen years ago and since that time Grandma Flaherty has made her home with her children, of late years with Mrs. Gardner. Grandma Flaherty is survived by seven children, viz.: Robert H., of Port Arthur, Ont., Mrs. James Gardner, of Dearborn, Mich., Mrs. C.A. McDonald, of The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Detroit, Mrs. Edward G. Kingsford, of Iron Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 2, Mountain, Thomas S. Flaherty, of Seattle, Number 163 [Tuesday, October 24, Mrs. J. Russell Jones, of Tacoma, and Guy 1922], page 2, column 1 J. Flaherty, of San Francisco. Grandma 89 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

‘NANOOK OF NORTH’ off in the same fashion that primitive fruit peddlers put a high gloss on apples. HERE NEXT WEEK “Walrus hunting and the landing of a _____ monster, seal spearing through the ice, fishing with a fly of ivory, sledless belly- Wonder Picture Directed whopping down steep hills – these are a by Nephew of Mrs. few of the peaks of this film of which the E.G. Kingsford spectators feel themselves sitting literally _____ on the top of the world.”

The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, One of the biggest picture treats of the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 2, year, “Nanook of the North,” will be Number 165 [Friday, October 27, 1922], presented at the Colonial theatre Monday page 2, column 1 and Tuesday. The film, which was photographed entirely in the arctic regions, 800 miles north of civilization, was directed FLAHERTY INVADED by Robert J. Flaherty, a nephew of Mrs. NORTHERN REGIONS E.G. Kingsford, of Iron Mountain. _____ The press has been loud in its praise of the picture, the new York Journal critic Producer of “Nanook of giving the following review: “Education and entertainment along the The North,” Led Five most liberal lines are joyously blended in Expeditions “Nanook of the North.” There is stark _____ tragedy visitable [sic – visible] in every foot of film form one viewpoint; there is Mr. Flaherty, Fellow of the Royal continuous mirth, from another aspect, and Geogrpahical society, nephew of Mrs. E.G. under it all there is a profound, sociological Kingsford, of Iron Mountain, producer and and philosophical basis. photographer of “Nanook of the North,” “All this in six reels that show a day in which will be at the Colonial Monday and the life of an Esquimau [sic – Eskimo] Tuesday, led five William Mackenzie hunter and his family of four. They solve expeditions into north Hudson Bay regions. the housing problem when lost in the snow He discovered and charted the Belcher by building a snow hut. The heating islands of Hudson Bay. question doesn’t trouble them because During the ten years covered by these there is no heat. Do they pay doctor’s bills? explorations, Mr. Flaherty lived in intimate Never, for there aren’t any doctors and the association with the small tribe of Eskimos children literally weep for that old-fashioned who inhabit the Ungava peninsula, one of panacea, castor oil! Yes, they lick the the regions least accessible to white men spoon that feeds them! Whether the on the North American continent. parents indulge in a daily cold bath is not Star Famous Hunter. revealed, though the visible evidence is Nanook, the hero of the story, is a real- against it, but the kids get theirs every life hero. He is chief of the “Itivimuits” and morning, when their mother polishes them famous through all Ungava as a great hunter. The score or so of native families 90 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] constituting the tribe are peculiarly isolated practice and theorise [sic – theorize] the and therefore faithful to their radical genre as visual anthropology, a subfield of traditions and mode of life, and entirely anthropology, in the 1960s. independent of cvilization [sic – civilization]. There is no film, anywhere in the world, Flaherty was married to writer Frances on any subject, so absolutely unique in J. Flaherty from 1914 until his death in several respects, as is “Nanook of the 1951. Frances worked on several of her North.” husband’s films, and received an Academy First, its story is not the product of the Award nomination for Best Original Story fertile imagination of a scenaroist [sic]. It is for Louisiana Story (1948). [Wikipedia] life as it is lived day by day in a barren and uncivilized land. Biography for Second, it was photographed entirely in the frozen north, 800 miles north of Robert J. Flaherty civilization’s most northerly outposts, where the sea is frozen and the land produces Date of Birth: 16 February 1884, Iron nothing; where the average temperature is Mountain, Michigan, USA. 35 degrees below zero! Date of Death: 23 July 1951, Brattleboro, Third, it was developed and printed in Vermont, USA (cerebral thrombosis). the north, with the assistance of Eskimos, Birth Name: Robert Joseph Flaherty who were taught how to develop. To do Spouse: Frances H. Flaherty (1914-23 this, coal, costing $120 a ton[,] had to be July 1951 (his death) 3 children brought over a thousand miles from Trivia: An explorer for Sir William Winnipeg! Mackenzie's Canadian railroad, he mined Fourth, Mr. Flaherty shows the Eskimo, for ore and mapped areas in Hudson Bay, not as a freak or a curiosity, but as a and founded Flaherty Island in the Belcher superman – a man who has nothing’ a man archipelago, some 70 km long and 40 km whose whole life is a struggle for a mere wide. existence, and yet he is happy, content and His documentary Nanook of the North peace-loving. (1922) was sponsored by French fur company Revillon Freres, which provided Robert Joseph Flaherty, F.R.G.S. (16 $50,000 for Flaherty's 16-month expedition February 1884, Iron Mountain, Michigan – halfway to the North Pole. Despite being 23 July, 1951, Dummerston, Vermont) was rejected by five distributors, the film opened an American filmmaker who directed and in New York City in 1922, after its success produced the first commercially successful in Paris and Berlin, and grossed well over feature length documentary film, Nanook of $40,000 in its first week. the North (1922). The film made his Upon his death in 1951, poet e.e. reputation and nothing in his later life cummings called him "a god among man," equaled its success, although he continued and Orson Welles compared him to Henry the development of this new genre of Daviid Thoreau and Walt Whitman, docufiction, e.g. with Moana (1926), set in describing him as "one of the two or three the South Seas. greatest people who ever worked in the medium." He is a progenitor of ethnographic film. Attended Upper Canada College in Jean Rouch and John Collier Jr. would Toronto and the Michigan College of Mines 91 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] back in his home state, where he met future school system. He soon drifted back north wife Frances, who shared his interest in to his father, the mines and the wilderness. music. In a last ditch effort at an education, Didn't take up film seriously until the age Flaherty attended the Michigan College of of 38, but in 1948, NY Times writer J. Mines. There he met Frances Hubbard, the Donald Adams called Flaherty the "only Bryn Mawr-educated daughter of a noted creative genius yet to appear" in geologist. The two shared a love of the cinematography. wilderness and for each other. However, Though he had traveled the world, his after seven months Flaherty left the school home in Vermont, Black Mountain Farm, and returned north to work with his father, had a Celtic motto above the fireplace exploring iron deposits. There he learned to meaning "Wander No More." map, to prospect and most importantly, to Reportedly, in shooting Moana (1926), travel and survive in unknown country. Over he was the first director/cinematographer to the next few years he worked for various use panchromatic film stock, rather than the mining expeditions and (between travels) standard orthochromatic stock, in a full- became engaged to Frances. Then, in length feature film. 1910, he was hired by Canadian railroad Eldest of six children of Robert and builder William Mackenzie to explore the Susan Flaherty, who moved the family to east coast of the Hudson Bay—a journey north west Ontario, Canada, when Robert that would introduce him to the Eskimos of was 13 years old. the region. Tells the story of his making of his Between 1910 and 1912 Flaherty made documentary Nanook of the North (1922) in two explorations of the islands of the his book "My Eskimo Friends" (1924). eastern Hudson Bay. Traveling by foot, by Personal Quotes: A film is the longest sled and by canoe he mapped the region distance between two points. (one of the Belcher Islands is now named Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. for him), took still photographs and got to "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890- know the native Eskimos. When Flaherty 1945". Pages 330-345. New York: The set off on his third journey in 1913, H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. Mackenzie suggested that he bring along a motion picture camera. The novelty Robert Joseph Flaherty appealed to Flaherty, who bought a Bell (February 16, 1884 - July 23, 1951) and Howell and took a three week course in camera technique. During the expedition, he filmed some 70,000 feet (more than 17 By Dennis Doros (1998) hours worth). When he returned from his

travels, Flaherty made one print of the Bob Flaherty was born in Iron Mountain, footage in Toronto, but accidentally Michigan and spent most of his childhood in dropped a cigarette and burned the nitrate mining towns and camps. For several years negative—only an unedited print survived. Flaherty lived in an isolated community Flaherty also took time out to marry without a school and there he learned how Frances. Encouraged by his wife, Flaherty to hunt and track in the wild from local determined to make a new film and looked Indian friends. Flaherty was later sent to for financial backing for the project. He board at Upper Canada College in Toronto, found a patron in John Revillon of Revillon which was modeled after the English public Frères, the French furriers. Flaherty 92 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] returned to the Hudson Bay in 1920 with The film explores the lives of the lovely and the sole purpose of making a motion gentle Samoans and culminates in a ritual picture. tattooing. Although not on the same level as Nanook of the North, the film Flaherty Nanook or some of Flaherty’s later work, shot for Revillon Frères, tells the story of Moana was received with critical acclaim the Eskimos’ struggle to survive under and popularity on its release. In fact, John almost unimaginably severe Arctic Grierson coined the term "documentary" to conditions. Although it was not the first describe the film. During the making of "documentary," or even the first film shot on Moana, Flaherty, the independent location with native actors, Nanook was the filmmaker, had his first conflict with the first film of its kind to achieve mass studio system when Paramount insisted he popularity and critical acclaim. Hollywood cut the film for a slightly shorter running director Rex Ingram praised the film: time. "Nanook is one of the most vital, dramatic After Moana, Flaherty was and human films that has ever flashed commissioned by actress Maude Adams to across the screen." The film’s success make a short film for the Metropolitan opened the door to a new era of filmmaking Museum of Art, The Pottery Maker (1925). by establishing that "non-fiction" films could That same year he also made an be both low cost and highly profitable (in impressionistic study of Manhattan, Twenty- terms of both box office and prestige) for Four Dollar Island (released in 1927). Irving the studios. While the Hollywood moguls Thalberg, M-G-M’s boy genius, then invested millions to make blockbusters like approached Flaherty to make another Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments, Pacific island film, an adaptation of they found that for less than a tenth of the Frederick O’Brien’s "White Shadows in the amount they could finance films like Chang, South Seas." On location in Tahiti, Flaherty The Silent Enemy and Simba, and reap found himself utterly out of his element. He benefits far beyond the profit line. In a was uncomfortable co-directing with W. S. sense, Nanook of the North created an Van Dyke II and couldn’t produce at the excitement and appetite for documentaries pace that the M-G-M studio system both with filmgoers, filmmakers and studio required. Eventually, discouraged by how heads. little he was contributing to the film, Flaherty In 1923, Jesse Lasky of Paramount left the production: the finished film is offered Flaherty the opportunity to shoot a largely Van Dyke’s work. film anywhere in the world—so long as it In 1929, the Fox Film Corporation hired turned out to be another Nanook. Flaherty, Flaherty to make a film on the Acoma along with his wife and family, traveled to Indians of New Mexico. But once again, his the village of Safune on the Samoan island difficulties working under studio conditions, of Savi’i to record the traditional culture of a along with the advent of sound films, civilization which was rapidly changing and scuttled the project. It was at this point that becoming westernized under British rule. Flaherty met the famed German director F. The result was Moana: A Romance of the W. Murnau and joined forces to make Tabu. Golden Age. Shot in black and white on Their partnership was fraught with serious panchromatic film, Moana has an almost personal and professional conflicts. stereoscopic look—the figures seem solid Ultimately Murnau took creative control of and real and the colors of the island foliage the film, but controversy still remains on appear as varying shades of silvery-gray. each man’s contribution to the final 93 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] production. Flaherty himself confused the bankrupt and angry Flaherty back to issue several times. Later in life he stated to America to direct a feature about the Georges Sadoul that Tabu was "Murnau’s problems of erosion. Typically, Flaherty film." But in letters to his wife in 1930, proved unable to make a propaganda piece Flaherty claimed with some pride the and instead questioned the success of the authorship of Tabu’s story and for many New Deal’s, "modern" farming methods and years referred to Tabu as "our" picture. focused on America’s dispossessed. The Historian Mark Langer notes that the Land was released quickly (nontheatrically similarity of Tabu’s storyline to those of only) and then effectively pulled from Moana and (more significantly) Acoma, distribution by the government (it did not proves Flaherty’s original assertion. appear overseas). Edited by Helen van After Tabu, Flaherty was broke and Dongen and scored by Richard Arnell, it is discouraged—there was no future for him in interesting to note that one of the Hollywood, but where could he make his cinematographers hired for the project was kind of films? When negotiations fell Floyd Crosby. through for making a documentary in the In 1948, with funding from Standard Oil, Soviet Union or Germany, Frances Flaherty Flaherty set off to explore the Louisiana contacted her husband’s old friend and bayous. Louisiana Story centers around a champion, John Grierson, now the head young local boy and his interactions with Empire Marketing Board Film Unit in the drillers working the towering oil derricks. London. For Grierson’s unit, Flaherty shot The film features magnificent night shots of the footage for Industrial Britain, but due to the rig (including footage of a real gas blow) overspending the budget and time and beautiful sequences involving the allotment, he did not write the narration or wildlife of the bayou. Virgil Thomson’s edit the film. In London, Flaherty met masterful score, Helen van Dongen’s Michael Balcon of British-Gaumont who brilliant editing and young Richard agreed to back an unscripted film to be shot Leacock’s beautiful cinematography added in the Aran Islands off the west coast of to Flaherty’s magnificent poetry. Louisiana Ireland. Man of Aran chronicled the lives of Story won the Venice Film Festival’s the fishermen who eked out a living on the International Prize that year for its "lyrical rocky islands. It was the first film Flaherty beauty." It was to be Flaherty’s last film. He had complete control over since Nanook died on July 23, 1951 having only directed and it proved to be a masterpiece. seven features and two short films. His With the success of Man of Aran came ashes were scattered across his beloved the offer from British producer Alexander Black Mountain, Vermont. Korda to film Rudyard Kipling’s novel The importance of Robert Flaherty "Elephant Boy" in India. Like all Flaherty’s cannot be measured by today’s definitions. previous contacts with studios films, the The term "documentary" was first production proved to be a disaster. Korda mentioned by John Grierson in connection took over the footage after the completion to Moana and still today that connection of shooting, added dialogue and scenes has distorted Flaherty’s rightful place in (directed by Zoltan Korda) and reworked history. Flaherty was not the first to seek the film into a mixture of melodrama and out exotic cultures — in fact, he was heavily star vehicle for newcomer Sabu. influenced by meeting Edward S. Curtis in Two years later (1939), Pare Lorentz, the mid-teens and seeing In the Land of the then head of the US Film Service, invited a Head Hunters. He was not the first to gain 94 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] wide popularity in the "travelogue" genre — luck, after being yelled at by a customer for there was Herbert Ponting’s With Scott and literally a half hour (it was over a missing the Antarctic and Lowell Thomas’ With print of Diary of a Lost Girl), my sympathetic Lawrence in Arabia. His filmic genius for boss told me to go to the Regency to check story-telling and his legendary "eye" turns out their new prints of Nanook and Man of out to be, on research, to be based not as Aran. Both experiences were unforgettable much on his technological prowess but on introductions to the film business, and still endless footage being shot with an even today, I rank Mr. Flaherty as one of the more remarkable ability to edit. great geniuses of cinema and his films As a distributor dealing with filmmakers, among the rare gems that still shine I believe his true reputation should not rest today— never outdated and always solely on his marvelous films, but on the splendid. impact he has had. Flaherty spent years The first article, "How I Filmed Nanook alone filming the Eskimos of Canada, of the North" is a wonderful example of "wasted" several of them on a first effort Flaherty’s story-telling abilities. His few that reportedly was destroyed by accident embellishments are for the sake of (some say, it was so bad, he did it on immediacy as several of the hunts and the purpose). The promise of financial gain, in igloo building were discussed and planned fact, was non-existent. But how many of for the film. However, one should keep in today’s purely independent films (think Sex, mind that Nanook actually performed his Lies and Videotape) not only come out of own "stunts," so the risk, the danger, and nowhere to become a huge success, but the rituals were authentic. In Richard E. also set fashion standards for its time, a Sherwood’s review of Nanook, it should be constant source of inspiration to the Warner noted that it was perceived and celebrated Brothers cartoonists, and created words in 1922 (several years before Grierson’s and images that last way past the memory review of Moana which popularized the of the film itself. The name Nanook, itself, is term documentary) as a drama first and still invoked in mass media. When my son foremost. was eight months old and I asked for an Frances Hubbard Flaherty was not only Eskimo kiss, it dawned on me where this his wife but also served as Dr. Watson to "American" custom descended from. And Robert’s Sherlock Holmes. Collaborator lastly, for anyone who saw the wonderful and self-appointed publicist, "The Odyssey documentary on Mizrahi, Unzipped, of a Film-Maker" is one of her several Flaherty’s film still inspires today’s fashion. attempts to further the myth of the great The tramp look? The porkpie hat? Not even director. It is important to see how Flaherty close. and his wife perceived themselves in terms My love for the exploration movie of history and of course, it is another started when I was in college and read my valuable record in hearing again, how first film book, Kevin Brownlow’s "The War, Nanook came about. The term "non- The West and the Wilderness." The stories preconception" used by Mrs. Flaherty is fascinated me and I even dreamed about true in its essence, that Flaherty tried not to them, but the films seemed locked away impose European ideals or ideas on the and unavailable (there was no one to guide native rituals. At the same time, this furthers me about silent films). Then, by luck, I the myth of Flaherty’s documentary purity turned my work at a college film society into while it denies his masterful abilities as a a real job at Kino International. Even better filmmaker/storyteller. Flaherty did attempt to 95 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] film real native customs but in his quest to classic. The film shows Nanook, an Eskimo show deeper truths, he edited out the hunter, and his family as they travel by invasions of civilization like telephone wires, kayak and dogsled through a frozen machinery, et cetera. It is this myth of wasteland, surviving by hunting, fishing, Flaherty as documentary legend that keeps and trapping. him relegated to the sidelines of film history Hollywood, which had been instead of the equal of Chaplin, Von disinterested in Nanook, now sought Stroheim, Griffith and Eisenstein. Flaherty out, and in 1923 Jesse Lasky Robert Flaherty (1884-1951) was an commissioned Flaherty to produce a film for American documentary filmmaker who, Paramount Pictures. Lasky told Flaherty to beginning with "Nanook of the North", "make me another Nanook. Go where you created a vision of human good will, will, do what you like." Flaherty chose curiosity, and ingenuity in adapting to American Samoa. In February 1926 the nature and civilization. resulting film, Moana, opened in New York Robert J. Flaherty was born in Iron City. It was in a review of Moana that John Mountain, Michigan, on February 16, 1884, Grierson, later the father of the British the son of a mining engineer who took the documentary film movement, first applied boy along on prospecting expeditions and the term "documentary" to a motion picture. to gold mines that he managed in northern Moana is a film of great visual beauty in Canada. Flaherty had little formal which Flaherty explored the possibilities of education, starting late and finishing early. a newly developed panchromatic film stock He was expelled from the Michigan College and with it recorded the textures of sea and of Mines after seven months, during which skin in a Polynesian paradise. Some he spent much of his time camping in the reviewers objected that Flaherty woods. But at the college he met Frances inappropriately included a long sequence of Hubbard, a Bryn Mawr College graduate body-tattooing to give his film an element of and the daughter of a distinguished conflict and suffering. academic geologist. He later married her, Flaherty's next major film, Man of Aran and she became his lifelong collaborator. (1934), described the hard life of fishing Flaherty spent the years between 1900 and farming on the Aran Islands off the and 1920 as an explorer and prospector, west coast of Ireland. Flaherty had by this making several hazardous expeditions to time become a world figure, generally northern Canada. From 1913 to 1915, on recognized as the originator of two expeditions, Flaherty shot 70,000 feet documentary film, and Man of Aran was of motion picture film of Eskimo life. The voted the best film of the year at the Venice negative of this film was destroyed in a Film Festival of 1934. His work, however, darkroom fire when Flaherty dropped a was becoming controversial within the cigarette; the one surviving positive print documentary community and awkward for has been lost. the film industry. The documentary In 1920 Flaherty secured the backing of movement that grew up in 1930s in Great a fur-trading company, Revillon Freres, to Britain under the leadership of John return to the north and make a film about Grierson was devoted to the capacity of film Eskimo life. The result, Nanook of the to describe and influence the social North, was released in June 1922 to conditions of modern, industrial modest reviews and box office receipts but democracies. For these filmmakers, who has for many decades been regarded as a were also articulate theorists and critics of 96 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] documentary at the time, Flaherty's work Rotha, Paul, Robert J. Flaherty, a seemed to have petrified into a romantic biography, Philadelphia: University of vision that evaded the real issues of the Pennsylvania Press, 1983. 20th century. And for the film industry, [Britannica Concise Encyclopedia] Flaherty was difficult in other ways. He preferred to work with a small crew and to PATRICK FLANAGAN shoot enormous amounts of film over an extended period of residence and reflection, Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, which made him an awkward problem for Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 23, the system of studio production. Number 18 [Thursday, September 19, Flaherty's last finished work was 1918], page 1, column 3 Louisiana Story (1945), which describes, from the point of view of a Cajun boy, the introduction of oil drilling in the bayous of DEATH OF PIONEER Louisiana. The film, sponsored by the _____ Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, was photographed by Richard Leacock, later a Patrick Flanagan, Veteran Business major figure in American documentary, and Man, Died on Friday Last edited by Helen van Dongen. Flaherty's films endure, largely because Patrick Flanagan, a resident of the of their great visual beauty, the genuine range for more than thirty-eight years, died respect he showed for his subjects, and at three o’clock last Friday afternoon at the their vision of the largeness of the human family home at Sagola, after an illness of spirit. The people in his films know how to nearly two years. cooperate, how to laugh, and how to Mr. Flanagan was a native of Ireland survive both permanent hardship and the and was seventy-one years of age on mysteries of change. March 17th last. He came to this country Further Reading with his parents when an infant. The family Among the best works on Flaherty are located at Sagola, Wis., where he reached Paul Rotha, Robert J. Flaherty: A Biography manhood. Mr. Flanagan taught school in (1983); Arthur Calder-Marshall, The his early manhood and held the position of Innocent Eye: The Life of Robert J. Flaherty county superintendent. He also followed (1963); Frances Flaherty, The Odyssey of a mining for a short time in a Colorado camp Film-Maker (1960); and Richard Griffith, and while so engaged met with an accident The World of Robert Flaherty (1953). For a that crippled him for life. guide to other sources, see William T. In 1880, Mr. Flanagan removed from Murphy, Robert Flaherty: A Guide to Wisconsin to Norway, where he conducted References and Resources (1978). For a a meat market and general store until his discussion of Flaherty's place in removal to Sagola. documentary film, see Erik Barnouw, Associated with William S. Laing, John Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction O’Callaghan, Richard Wittenberg, Jr., J.M. Film (1974) and Richard M. Barsam, Atley, and Thomas J. Hughes, Mr. Nonfiction Film: A Critical History (1973). Flanagan organized the Sagola Lumber Additional Sources Company about thirty years ago. Messrs. Laing, O’Callaghan and Hughes are now

97 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] dead. Mr. Wittenberg retired from the Development Bureau. He could always be company some fifteen years ago and is depended upon to participate in any now engaged in business in Milwaukee. movement having for its object the Mr. Atley, of Chicago, the remaining upbuilding [sic] of the county and the partner, is still associated, [sic] with the peninsula. Mr. Flanagan was one of the company as secretary and treasurer, a largest taxpayers in the county, owning position he has held for many years. Prior considerable real property in this city and to the death of Mr. O’Callaghan, Mr. Norway in addition to his acreage holdings. Flanagan was vice-president and identified Mr. Flanagan is survived by his wife, with the management of the mill and other one daughter, Mrs. Henry A. Newkirk, and interests. Upon the death of Mr. son, John J. Flanagan, who is now active in O’Callaghan, he became president and the management of the Sagola Lumber manager of the company. company; also two brothers – Thomas, of Mr. Flanagan was closely identified with Iron River, and Bernard, of Green Bay. the history of Dickinson county. He was The funeral was held last Monday at the very active in the strenuous campaign Catholic church at Sagola with Rev. Father which resulted in the organization of the Stahl, of Republic, in charge of the county after one of the hottest contests ever services. The remains were brought to this staged in Lansing. city on the ten o’clock St. Paul train and Following the organization of the county interred at Cemetery Park. The funeral was Mr. Flanagan was appointed judge of a large one, many business men [sic – probate by the late Gov. Winans, which businessmen] of Iron Mountain and Norway position he held for several years. He had attending. held other positions of trust including the The above, in brief, is the story of the offices of supervisor, treasurer and clerk of busy life of a citizen who will be greatly Sagola township. While holding the office missed in our councils. Exact in his of supervisor he was repeatedly elected methods, it can be said that Mr. Flanagan chairman of the county board. never did any person an injustice and that In national and state politics, Mr. he had helped many over the rough places. Flanagan was an intense Democrat. He May he rest in peace. represented his party in several national and many state conventions. In county RICHARD C. FLANNIGAN politics, however, it had been his practice to vote for the best qualified men regardless of The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, party lines. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 7, As a business man [sic – businessman] Number 145 [Thursday, September 29, Mr. Flanagan was most thorough in his 1927], page 1, column 8, and page 2, methods. He had engaged in many columns 1-2 branches of industry – merchandising, lumbering and mining. Until poor health necessitated his retirement he was a NAMED TO SUPREME COURT director of the Commercial Bank. Mr. _____ Flanagan was an enthusiastic believer in the agricultural possibilities of Dickinson ACCEPTS POST county and the upper peninsula and was TENDERED HIM vice-president of the upper Peninsula 98 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

BY GOVERNOR There are also rumors that Senator George _____ Rushton, of Escanaba, will be named by the governor to succed [sic – succeed] Judge Flannigan as judge of this judicial Appointment Comes Upon circuit. Resignation of Justice Judge Flannigan will succeed Justice Steere Joseph H. Steere, dean of the state _____ supreme court, who has resigned in order to be relieved of his arduous duties. The IS WIDELY KNOWN appointment means that Judge Flannigan will be required to spend most of his time in _____ Lansing, the state capital. _____ Green Lauds Service Nor- way Jurist Has Given Judge of Largest Circuit. State Judge Flannigan’s circuit, the largest in _____ the state of Michigan, comprises the counties of Dickinson, Delta, Iron, Marquette and Menominee. He is known Judge Richard C. Flannigan today was as one of the best judges in the state, appointed a justice of the supreme court of particularly with reference to his knowledge the state of Michigan by Governor Fred W. of the law and its interpretation. Green, and will accept. An interesting account of his career is News of the appointment was first contained in Sawyer’s History of the received this morning by The News in an Northern Peninsula of Michigan. Associated Press dispatch from Lansing. Judge Flannigan was born December Confirmation came shortly after noon in the 12, 1857, at Ontonagon, the son of Captain following message from the governor to and Mrs. James Flannigan. His father was Judge Flannigan: for many years engaged in mining in “It is with great pleasure that I tender County Waterford, Ireland, and emigrated you an appointment as a justice of our to the United States in the early forties. He supreme court to succeed Justice Steere, first located in Ontonagon, becoming one of who has resigned. Your years of faithful, the pioneers of the upper peninsula of loyal and intelligent service to the people of Michigan. He was interested in the first Michigan have earned for you this honor. copper mining activities in the Ontonagon “Fred W. Green.” district. Judge Flannigan, who is at his home in Captain Flannigan was married to Ellen Norway, said, following receipt of the Sullivan, also a native of Ireland, who joined governor’s message, that he would accept him after he had been a resident of this the appointment and had so informed the country for several years. They were the governor. parents of 13 children, 10 sons and three Reports that Judge Flannigan was being daughters. considered for the supreme bench have Attended Pioneer Schools been in circulation for several weeks and Richard C. Flannigan acquired his the announcement of his appointment came knowledge of the three R’s in a pioneer log as no surprise to court house officials. 99 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] school house in Ontonagon. Later, when was awarded his university degree as a his father retired from active pursuits, the bachelor of laws. family moved to Marquette. Immediately beginning the practice of When 11 years of age[,] Richard his profession in Marquette, Mr. Flannigan Flannigan obtained a position as checking remained there until 1881, when he located clerk and bell boy at the scales of the in Norway. Successful from the start, he Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon was before long doing business for various railroad. He was transferred to the ore corporations, especially being retained by docks, but work there was discontinued the more important mining companies of each fall, so he attended the ward schools the range. for three winters, making substantial Known for Work. advancement in his education. As an attorney, Mr. Flannigan gained a Desirous, however, of earning wages wide reputation in criminal practice, being each month, Richard Flannigan applied to especially strong in jury trials. After the railroad companies for a position, but abandoning that branch of practice he was the only one open to him was that as agent active and prominent as a business lawyer, at Humboldt. The salary was $20 a month. handling extensive transactions and While considering this offer, he was representing organizations that had large tendered a position in a lawyer’s office at and important financial interests. the same salary, and accepted it, so that he In 1890 Mr. Flannigan was appointed could live at home. attorney for the Chicago & North Western Took Up Study of Law railroad company and filled the position Mr. Flannigan rapidly became interested most successfully until January, 1910, in legal subjects and availed himself fully of when he was appointed judge of the circuit the opportunity to study law. He began court. reading law in the office of his employers, Judge Flannigan was married in 1884. Parkes and Hayden, and at the end of four There is one son, Clement, now a resident years entered the law school at the of Colorado Springs, Colo. University of Michigan. He continued his Until 1896 Judge Flannigan was a studies there for a year. His money then Democrat in politics, but, being opposed to being exhausted, he returned to Marquette the coinage of free silver, he then joined the and entered the law office of M.E. Maynard, Republican party, with which he has since and at the age of 21 applied to the circuit been associated. He has the distinction of court in Marquette for admission to the bar. having served as the first mayor of Norway His admission followed. and was for 18 years a member of the Although the judge had only one year of Norway school board, serving as president university education, several years ago in until appointed circuit judge. recognition of his ability and services on the When on the election of the late Judge bench he Stone to the supreme bench he was (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) tendered the position of circuit judge, he accepted, having been unanimously Flannigan Named nominated as a candidate in both the To Supreme Court Republican and Democratic caucuses. (Continued from Page One) HENRY FORD

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left last Tuesday morning for Sylvania Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Lodge, where they will hunt deer for a week Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 12, or ten days. Number 2 [Thursday, May 30, 1907], page 8, column 3 Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 14, PERSONAL MENTION Number 25 [Thursday, November 11, _____ 1909], page 8, column 3

Henry Ford, of Detroit, the manufacturer PERSONAL MENTION of the famous automobiles bearing that _____ name, spent last Tuesday in the city visiting his aunt, Mrs. Flaherty. Henry J. Ford, the manufacturer of the famous Ford automobile, arrived in the city Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, last Sunday and is the guest of Edward G. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 13, Kingsford. Mr. Ford is an enthusiastic Number 19 [Thursday, October 1, 1908], nimrod and expects to spend a week or ten page 8, column 2 days hunting deer in the vicinity.

PERSONAL MENTION Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, _____ Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 25, Number 22 [Thursday, October 14, Henry Ford, manufacture [sic – 1920], page 1, column 6 manufacturer] of the automobile bearing that name, arrived in the city from Detroit Fords Are Hunting. last Saturday. The trip from Detroit to Iron Mountain was made in one of the latest Henry Ford and his son, Edsell [sic – 1909 [sic] machines. Mr. Ford was Edsel], arrived in the city from Detroit accompanied by two of his experts and the Monday about noon, making the trip in run was made for the purpose of giving the automobile via Menominee and the Ann machine a thorough test. He spent the Arbor ferry boat. The Fords were week in the Witch Lake district with E.G. accompanied here by C.W. Avery, Kingsford. superintendent of the Ford Motor company, William Smith and Charles Sorenson, the Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, metallurgist of the company. Accompanied Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 14, by E.G. Kingsford, the party left here last Number 25 [Thursday, November 11, Tuesday morning for Long Lake, where 1909], page 8, column 1 they expected to do some bird hunting. Incidentally, The Press learns that the visit PERSONAL MENTION also has something to do with iron mines. _____ Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain,

Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 25, O.C. Davidson and son Harold, E.G. Number 23 [Thursday, October 21, Kingsford and son Teddy and Henry J. 1920], page 1, column 4 Ford, the Detroit automobile manufacturer, 101 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Henry Ford, head of the big automobile Will Mine Ore. enterprise, was a visitor in Republic last week. He was accompanied by other While in Iron Mountain last week, Henry officers of the company. While the Detroit Ford and his son, Edsell [sic – Edsel], and men gave out no information as to the their several engineers, did not spend all object of their visit, Republic citizens are their time in hunting birds or in inspecting hoping that one of the company’s logging the local plants. Some time was spent at camps will b established near that town. the Imperial mine, at Michigamme, to which Mr. Ford and his associates spent some Mr. Ford has secured title, including the time in the woods looking over the timber stock of the old holding company. Samples and they departed from there by automobile were taken and the engineers will be called for Iron Mountain, where they inspected the upon for a report as to its value as a Ford new buildings. asset. The Press has assurance that the Ford interests will become miners of iron Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, ore sooner than most people anticipated. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 25, Number 24 [Thursday, October 28, The Daily Tribune-Gazette, Iron Mountain, 1920], page 1, column 6 Dickinson County, Michigan, Forty-Ninth Year, No. 220 [Monday, October 18, OPEN IMPERIAL MINE. 1920], page 1, column 2 _____

Property Long Idle Will Be Resur- FORD WILL EMPLOY rected By Ford Interests. 500 MEN AT THE UPPER PENINSULA CAMPS As a result of recent examinations of that property by his mining engineer and _____ metallurgist, Henry Ford will open the Imperial mine at once. The Imperial is According to The Ford Man, published located in Baraba county on section 25, at the Ford headquarters in Detroit, 500 or town 48, range 31, and a short distance more men will be employed at the from the village of Michigamme. It was company’s upper peninsula camps during opened in 1882 and after that was secured the coming winter, to supply timber for the on lease by the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron new saw mill [sic – sawmill], now under company, who operated it for several years construction in this city. It is also and then gave it up in April 1919. The mine announced that the mill will be kept in has produced 636,533 tons of ore, the last active operation, with day and night crews. shipment being made in 1913. Before A number of camps will be operated, but giving up the mine the Cleveland-Cliffs the publication states that it has not yet company built a substantial steel been decided just where they will be headframe that is still in position near the located on the 400,000 acre tract shaft. The workings of the mine are purchased some months ago by the Ford shallow, less than 200 feet below surface. interests from the Michigan Land & Iron The ore is a limonite, non-bessemer. The company. mine buildings are still standing intact, and 102 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] in good condition, and it will require only a here and watch the operation of the turbo- short time to unwater the levels and begin generator which was recently installed. mining. The decision to begin operations here by the new purchaser will be news The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, gladly received by the people of Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 3, Michigamme who have lacked some such Number 110 [Saturday, August 18, enterprise in which their labor can find 1923], page 1, column 6; page 2, employment. column 1 [photograph on page 1, The opening of the Imperial suggests columns 2-5 that the Ford interests may get busy at other points where ore has been found and that a system of exploration of other lands FORD CAMPING PARTY for mineral [sic – minerals] may be ARRIVES IN IRON inaugurated. – Iron Ore. MOUNTAIN The Iron Mountain Daily News, Iron _____ Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 1, Number 222 [Friday, December 30, 1921], page 1, column 7 PITCHES TENTS IN GROVE NEAR Mr. and Mrs. Ford FACTORY SITE Arrive Here To _____

Attend Wedding Travelled [sic] to Escanaba In Motor King’s Yacht Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford arrived in Iron _____ Mountain this morning to attend the wedding tomorrow evening of Mr. Ford’s cousin, Miss Dorothy Kingsford, to Dr. GREETED BY CROWD Norman Miller. _____ The distinguished visitors were met by Mr. and Mrs. E.G. Kingsford. They arrived Many at Dock When in their special car, the “Fair Lane,” which Party Comes Ashore was attached to the 8:58 Northwestern From Boat passenger train. There was some delay in switching the _____ car and it was after 11:30 before it was “spotted” on a spur at the Ford plant. Henry Ford and party arrived here from Pressed for time because of the delay, Escanaba at 1:15 o’clock this afternoon and Mr. Ford was unable to give an interview will remain for a few days at the Ford Motor but declared, “we [sic – We] are here company’s private grounds at the Cowboy merely to attend the wedding of my cousin, Lake grove, about a mile northwest of the nothing else.” Ford plant. It was expected that Mr. Ford would Included in the party are Mr. and Mrs. spend the afternoon inspecting the plant Henry Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. 103 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Edison, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey P. Firestone, ago by E.G. Kingsford, chief of Ford Harvey P. Jr., Miss Bogue, a friend of the operations in the upper peninsula. Firestones, Mr. E.G. Kingsford, of this city, After motoring through the lower and Mrs. E.G. Kingsford, who joined the peninsula the trucks and motor cars were party here at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon. placed on board a specially chartered Ann The trip was made here in three Lincoln Arbor car cars, which conveyed the passengers, and (Continued on page two.) two additional Lincoln supply trucks and a White pantry car. The party carries PITCHES TENTS complete camping equipment. One of the trucks contained nothing but tents and cots IN GROVE NEAR which were being set up this afternoon. FACTORY SITE Have First Lunch Here. _____ At 2:30 o’clock this afternoon the round camping table was set up, loaded with an Travelled [sic] to Escanaba abundance of food, and the party enjoyed In Motor King’s its first luncheon in Iron Mountain. The table, which comfortably accommodates the Yacht party is in two sections with a revolving _____ center stand so that any of those at the table may turn it around to get any food Ferry and shipped to Escanaba. The big desired. A movie man took pictures of the ship crawled through a blanket of heavy fog group around the luncheon table. and landed at the dock about 3 o’clock this Each car was driven by a chauffeur and morning. a Japanese cook and helper are also Travel on Palatial Yacht included on the staff. The party made the trip from Traverse Speaking for Mr. Ford, Mr. Kingsford City on Mr. Ford’s new sea going yacht, said that the trip to the northern peninsula is Sialia, the third or fourth of the name owned purely recreational and that the motor by him. The new craft is about 300 feet magnate refuses to comment or discuss long and has every known safety device as civic problems. well as the latest in ocean going comfort. When asked what the itinerary of the Crude oil is burned and the tanks hold party would be, Mr. Kingsford stated that enough to carry the vessel 6,000 miles. they plan on visiting all the Ford operations There are 30 men in the crew, three of in the upper peninsula as well as parts of whom divide the day in continuous wireless the copper country. Other than that, he service. said, nothing is known. Mr. Edison, The Sialia arrived in the bay at “commander-in-chief” of the group, will map Escanaba about 1 o’clock this morning and the route. anchored off shore until well along in the The Ford party arrived in Escanaba morning when it docked to allow the party early this morning. His visit was just about to disembark and proceed on their journey as long as the last one he made. Mr. and to Iron Mountain. Mrs. Henry Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Hundreds At Dock Edison and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Firestone By the time the party were [sic – was] have been on a combined motor and ready to come ashore hundreds of people yachting trip and were joined a few days had arrived at the dock and as Thomas 104 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Edison stepped across the gang plant three Escanabans that waited to welcome the cheers were given for him as “the greatest party was given almost a full reel. inventor in the world.” The grand old man The car driven by the Firestones was of electricity is very hard of hearing but he equipped with new balloon tires. Enormous knew what it was all about and nodded his things that are made very light and pumped pleasure as he made his way to the waiting up with only 20 or 30 pounds of air. They car. were fully seven inches in diameter and it is “Hurrah for our next president,” was the said they will be the kind used universally in signal for a whole bunch of cheers as Mr. the future. and Mrs. Ford came down the gangplank and went to their car. [PHOTO CAPTION: Need to copy photo E.G. Kingsford, who many took to be caption from page 1.] Mr. Ford, occupied the car with them. Mr. Ford made no acknowledgement of the The Iron Mountain Daily News, Iron cheering as that is not his way, but his Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, pleasure showed plainly as he carefully Volume 3, Number 110 [Saturday, assisted Mrs. Ford into their luxurious August 18, 1923], page 1, column 4 sedan. Ford Meets Ford Ford Denies Benson’s Story Slowly an old man stepped up and explained to the motor king that his name On Desire To Be President was Ford too and that he was probably _____ some relation to the owner of the million dollar yacht tied up to the dock. Mr. Ford, ESCANABA, Mich. – (Special the motor magnate, asked him what part of Correspondence to The News) the country his relatives came from and Henry Ford laughed today when he was when given the information promptly given a copy of a newspaper containing the declared, “We are no relation.” Allen Benson story which in plain terms Finally all the bags, boxes, books, stated Mr. Ford wanted to be president. It wraps, coats and parcels were loaded into was the first copy Mr. Ford had seen. the trucks and cars and the famous trio with When he was asked if he had mentioned their wives and other members of the party any particular man as the one he would started on the way to Iron Mountain. There make secretary of the navy, Mr. Ford said, were four or five touring cars and three big “I do not remember saying any such thing, trucks. though I might have done so without Pictures of Trip attaching any great importance to it.” There was just one Ford car in the outfit Continuing, he asked, “Would you like to and that was used by the moving picture be the governor?” When the Escanaba machine men, for where the camping party correspondent replied that he did not think goes so goes the movies. They make a he would, Mr. Ford said, “You probably photographic record of the trip. The wouldn’t but that would not keep you from pictures so made are not for public mentioning the name of some man you exhibition but are for the personal use of thought would fill a state position well and Henry Ford and, of course, will prove of saying if you were the governor you would great value to Henry Ford II, who is now a appoint him.” little tot of a few years. The crowd of 105 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Mr. Ford did not indicate in a 10-minute to aid him, but he crew [sic – grew] worse conversation that he had changed his mind and suddenly lapsed into unconsciousness. any regarding his candidacy for the Mrs. Forell called Dr. Huron, who presidency. He is not going after it but like pronounced her husband dead. any other human being would probably be Forell was born August 18, 1907, at willing to accept the great honor if it was Republic. The family resided in Ishpeming, tendered him. but at the time Mrs. Forell was visiting relatives in Republic. Her husband was ALTON FORELL conducting explorations in Florence county, Wisconsin. Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Forell resided in Ishpeming for 13 years, Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ and was graduated from the high school Year, Number _____ [Tuesday, October there. He attended the Northern States [sic 5, 1937], page ___, column ___ – State] Teachers college for one term and came to Iron Mountain in 1925, accepting a ALTON FORELL, position with the Holland Furnace company about six months and then went to work for CITY ENGINEER, the city under Fred H. Hartmann, former DIES SUDDENLY engineer and water department _____ superintendent. Became Engineer In 1936 Attended Council Meeting Forell continued as assistant engineer Last Night; Stricken when Harold Senseman was named to succeed Hartmann, and he was named This Morning engineer and water department _____ superintendent on March 15, 1936, following Senseman’s resignation. Stricken suddenly in bed shortly before He was wedded November 7, 1936, to 7 o’clock this morning, Alton Forell, 30, Iron Miss Mary Zoromski, of the Veribest Beauty Mountain city engineer and superintendent shop. In addition to his widow he leaves his of the water department, died at 7:10 a.m., parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Forell, at his home, 519 West Flesheim street. 1207 West A street, and two brothers, An autopsy performed by Drs. W.H. Gerald, employed at the A. and P. store Huron and James L. Browning revealed here, and Gordon, an employe [sic – that death was caused by coronary employee] of the F.W. Woolworth store in thrombosis, or a blood clot in one of the Duluth. vessels of the heart. Forell was a member of the Knights of Forell went to his office in the city hall Pythias lodge, of this city, and of Our yesterday, worked throughout the day and Saviour’s Lutheran church. last night attended the regular meeting of Funeral arrangements are pending the the city council. According to his wife, he arrival of relatives. appeared in normal health when he returned home. Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Complains of Illness Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ Early this morning, however, it was Year, Number _____ [Wednesday, reported he told his wife he felt ill. She tried October 6, 1937], page ___, column ___ 106 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Evening Star.” All Iron Mountain city Forell Services officials attended the services, the city hall Funeral services for Alton Forell, 30, being closed for the afternoon. Iron Mountain city engineer and Burial In Cemetery Park superintendent of the water department, Burial was in Cemetery park. who died suddenly yesterday morning at his Pallbearers were Cecil Johnson, Albert home, 519 West Flesheim street, will be Mitchell, Phillip Fugere, Clark McGregor, held at 1:30 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Franklin Reese and Harold Anderson, all home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles members of the Knights of Pythias lodge, J. Forell, 1207 West A street, and at 2 with which Forell was associated. o’clock at Our Saviour’s English Lutheran Among the out-of-town relatives and church. The Rev. G.A. Danielson will friends who attended were Mr. and Mrs. conduct the service. Burial will be in Gordon Forell, of Duluth, Mrs. Petta, of Cemetery park. Rhinelander, Mr. and Mrs. August Freeman The body was to be taken at 4 o’clock and Miss Gerda Lemoon, of Chicago, Miss this afternoon form the J.B. Erickson and Agnes Lemoon, of Grand Rapids, Mr. and Son mortuary to the parents’ home. Mrs. R.E. Forell and Miss Anna Forell, of Marshfield, Wis., Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Rhinehart, of South Bend, Ind., Mr. and Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ Mrs. Charles Hager, of Iron River, Mr. and Year, Number _____ [Saturday, October Mrs. Henning Leaf and Mrs. Jack Raher 9, 1937], page ___, column ___ and daughter, of Republic, and Miss Minnie Rian, Mrs. Martin Rian, Mrs. Klefstadt and LAST RITES ARE Mrs. Jacob Isaacson, of Felch. CONDUCTED FOR CITY ENGINEER ARTHUR RALPH FORTIER _____ The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Funeral Services For Alton Forell ___, Number ___ [Monday, July 5, Held Friday Afternoon 1948], page ___, column ______A.R. Fortier Funeral services for Alton Forell, 30, Dies After Iron Mountain city engineer and Heart Attack superintendent of the water department, who died suddenly Tuesday morning at his Arthur Ralph Fortier, 41, president of the home, 519 West Flesheim street, were held Bacco Construction Company, Iron at 1:30 o’clock yesterday at the residence Mountain, and resident of this area for 24 of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. years, died suddenly at 12:30 p.m. Sunday Forell, 1207 West A street, and at 2 o’clock at his summer home at Spread Eagle at Our Saviour’s English Lutheran church. following a heart attack. During the services, conducted by the Mr. Fortier had gone to his cottage with Rev. G.A. Danielson, Miss Ethel Ohman his family, for the holiday week-end [sic – sang “Face to Face” and “Sunset And weekend]. Rising late Sunday morning, he 107 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] complained of illness. He had breakfast, First Presbyterian church. Burial will be in and spent the remainder of the morning Cemetery Park. resting. At about 12:30 p.m., he was Members of the Kiwanis club will meet stricken with a heart attack, and died shortly at 1:45 p.m., tomorrow at the Funeral thereafter. home, to attend the services. Dr. Lambert Rahm, of Detroit, former Iron Mountain man, was with Mr. Fortier The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, when he died. Dr. W.H. Alexander was Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume also summoned from Iron Mountain and ___, Number ___ [Thursday, July 8, was en route to Spread Eagle when the 1948], page ___, column ___ stricken man succumbed. Born In Minnesota Services For Mr. Fortier was born March 1, 1907, in A.R. Fortier St. Paul, Minn. When a boy, he moved with Yesterday his mother to the farm home of his grandfather, Andrew Virch, at Curtis, Wis. Later when Fortier was 12 years of age, the Members of the Iron Mountain Kiwanis family moved to Powers. He remained club formed an honorary escort yesterday there until 1924, when he came to Iron afternoon during services for Arthur Ralph Mountain, and was employed by M.J. Fortier, 41, president of the Bacco Bacco. Construction company[,] who died suddenly Starting at odd jobs, Mr. Fortier at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at his summer home advanced steadily, and in 1929, when the at Spread Eagle. Bacco Construction company [sic – Services at the Freeman Funeral home Company] was incorporated, he became were in charge of the Rev. N.U. actively interested. In 1944 Mr. Fortier was McConaughy, pastor of First Presbyterian. named president of the company, and had Mrs. Ellen Andrews, accompanied by since continued in that capacity. Mrs. E. Rabichaud, sang “Be Still My Soul.” He was president, also of the Home Honorary pallbearers were Frank Botts, Furniture Company, of Iron Mountain; vice- Norman Bates, Edward Verrette, Ben president of Champion, Inc., also of this O’Niel, L. Corey, C. Rigoni, D. Marchi, M. city; a director of the Iron Mountain- Gorrow, Leo Wyss and Walter Sieler. Kingsford chamber of commerce and the Active pallbearers were M.J. Bacco, Carl I. Michigan Road-Builders Association, and a Israelson, Howard A. Uren, J.J. Rigoni, member of the Iron Mountain Elks and Russell Gibson, Edward Hammel, Ambrose Kiwanis clubs. Strand and L.C. Verrette. Besides his widow he leaves two sons, Burial was in Cemetery Park. Arthur R. Fortier, Jr., and John A. Fortier; a Attending from away were Mr. and Mrs. daughter, Miss Mary Lee; a sister, Mrs. J.A. Joseph Grant, of Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. Grant, of Philadelphia, Pa., and three Jean Fortier and children, of Evanston; the brothers, J.A. Fortier, of Waukegan, Ill.; Lee Rev. and Mrs. C. John Buran, of Fortier, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Orbin Menomonie, Wis.; Lee Fortier, of Salt Lake Fortier, of Santa Rosa, Calif. City; Clifford Virch, of Oconto; Mr. and Mrs. Services will be conducted at 2 o’clock Denton Alley, of Green Bay; Mrs. Amanda tomorrow afternoon at the Freeman Funeral Virch and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Virch, of home by the Rev. N.U. McConaughy, of Marinette; A.A. Anderson and Robert 108 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

McCormack, of Escanaba, and M.G. Commonwealth mine, Mr. Foster received Gorrow, of Appleton, former Iron Mountain in a railroad wreck severe injuries, from the resident. effects of which he has never recovered. Messrs. McDonald and Cochrane were E.P. FOSTER killed and Mr. Foster’s death was no doubt hastened by the shock then received. The Florence Mining News, Florence, About two years ago he was appointed Florence County, Wisconsin, Volume XI, agent of the American Express Co. in this Number 41 [Saturday, October 3, 1891], city, but his health has been so poor that page 5, columns 1-2 his son, Frank Foster, has had charge of the business during the greater part of the E.P. FOSTER. time. Three children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Foster – F.E. and E.P. Foster, one of the pioneers and I.W. Foster, and a daughter, now Mrs. F.J. best-known residents of the Menominee Trudell. There is also an adopted daughter range, died at his beautiful home in the city in the family. The announcement of Mr. of Iron Mountain, at 2 o’clock Tuesday Foster’s death is deeply regretted by all afternoon, of kidney trouble. He was 53 who knew him, and has called from the years of age. The Iron Range publishes the many friends of the family deep following biographical sketch of the expressions of sympathy. The funeral deceased. “Mr. Foster was born in 1838 at services were held at the residence at 6 Palmyra, N.Y., where he lived for several o’clock Wednesday afternoon and at 7 years. In 1868 he was married to Miss o’clock the body was taken to the M. & N. Mary J. Phillips, of Sharon, Pa., and after depot and placed on board the Chicago their union they moved to Jamestown bound passenger train. The remains were where they were residents during five taken to Sharon, Pa., for which place L.W. years, when they returned to Sharon, where Foster left on Tuesday evening, in order to the family remained twelve years. They make preparations for the burial. came west in 1880 and Mr. Foster having been engaged as superintendent for the MYRTON JAMES FOX Emmett Mining Company was stationed at Waucedah, where he remained for some The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, time. Later he was placed in charge of the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 21, company’s mine at Keel Ridge where he Number 18 [Thursday, May 1, 1941], remained until work at that point was page 1, columns 1-3 (photograph in abandoned, and when the Hamilton mine in columns 2-3) and page 2, column 1 this city was being developed he came here as superintendent for the Hamilton Ore President company, being associated in this concern Of Lumber with J.T. Jones and others. Since his advent to the place Mr. Foster has made Company Dies this town his home. About three years ago, while on his way to Watersmeet in company M.J. Fox, aged 65, president of the von with Lieutenant Governor McDonald, John Platen-Fox Lumber company, of this city, Cochrane and Supt. O.C. Davidson, of the resident of Iron Mountain for the last 30 years, and widely-known lumberman in the 109 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] district, died at 12:40 p.m. today at the Iron Mr. Fox was associated with the Strouds Mountain General hospital, after a lingering for about four years, living in their home, illness. farming, working in the store and He had been a patient at the hospital performing other jobs. When he was 21 since April 21. years old, the Strouds presented him with a Mr. Fox was born Jan. 2, 1876, in watch, for faithful service, and which he Vermontville, Mich., where he lived until he carried throughout his life. Stroud later sold was two years old, when he moved with his out his business to Conrad Schneider, and parents to Alaska, Mich., about 12 miles Mr. Fox continued in the latter’s employ for from Grand Rapids. The family resided three years. there until Mr. Fox was six years old. He In addition to his other duties, Mr. Fox started school in that small, farming became a school director in the community, community. and in that work met Miss Cloe Edith When Mr. Fox was six years of age, the McCartney, of Charlevoix, a teacher at the family moved to a new home near school. They were married on Dec. 26, Petoskey, Mich. Writing his memoirs some 1901. time ago, Mr. Fox said of that period of his From Horton’s Bay Mr. Fox moved to life: “Our chief conveyance was a yoke of Boyne City, Mich., where he worked for a oxen. The roads were poor where we used year, loading boats, farming and working at to go to market at Petoskey, 12 miles odd jobs in Godfrey von Platen’s lumber distant, and the trip took all day and part of yard. His principal work at that period was the night.” putting in pile bottoms at $1.37 a day. Mr. Fox often recalled his days on the He attended school in Valparaiso, Ind., farm. “I started farming at the early age of for two winters and at the end of the second seven years, watching cattle on the road,” year – in 1896 – went to work for Mr. von he wrote. When 11 years of age he helped Platen. his father clear land, and he was 16 when Mr. Fox started as assistant foreman his father traded the farm of 160 acres for and was made general foreman two years an improved property near Cambrian Mills, later. in Hillsdale county, Michigan. Mr. Fox Came Here In 1910 attended school there for one winter term. In 1910 he left Boyne City and came to Moved To Petoskey Iron Mountain, where he built the sawmill After a year at Cambrian Mills returned which he actively managed until shortly to Petoskey where they remained a year. before his death. The land had been Thereafter they moved to the Van Amberg acquired in 1900 by Mr. von Platen. farm, and cleared about 60 acres of a The von Platen-Fox company, formerly heavily-wooded 80-acre tract. a partnership, was incorporated on August At 18 years of age, Mr. Fox went to work 11, 1920. Godfrey von Platen remained at Horton’s Bay, Mich., a port on Pine Lake. president until his death in 1924. He was His employer was Alonzo J. Stroud. He succeeded by Mr. Fox. clerked in the country store during the Mr. Fox was a former member of the evenings and worked in the sawmill and at state conservation commission; former various odd jobs by day. “This,” he wrote, president and director of the Upper “was the beginning of my business Peninsula Development bureau; first education.” president and active member of the Iron Mountain Rotary club; former director of the 110 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Commercial bank of Iron Mountain and was and was one of several older members of associated with and active in many other the Iron Mountain Elks lodge, who recently fields of endeavor – industrial and civic. were honored for 25 years or more of active He organized the Iron Mountain General association with the organization. hospital association in the city; was its first Besides his widow, six sons and one president and remained a director daughter survive. They are Abbott, general throughout the years. He personally manager of the von Platen-Fox company directed the campaign to raise $45,000 for here; Robert, Chicago representative; the purchase of the hospital, and was James, John, George and Fred, and Mrs. deeply interested in the institution during his Avery Jennison, residing in Green Bay, residence here. Wis. A few years after his arrival he Three brothers and one sister also organized the first commercial club in Iron survive. They are Ned, Vcine [sic – Vince] Mountain, and was active in that and Lester, and Mrs. Alice Breck---son, all organization as well as others of similar of Boyne City, Mich. There are four nature which succeeded it. grandchildren. One of Mr. Fox’s favorite axioms – Funeral arrangements were to be which he practiced faithfully all of his life – completed this afternoon. was “We get out of life only what we put into it.” He gave freely of his time, money The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, and energy for welfare purposes and in the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 21, effort to develop the community in which he Number 19 [Friday, May 2, 1941], page lived and conducted his business. ___, column ___ In his memoirs, also, is the typical philosophy: “The greatest thing that you Services For and I have is our jobs. Work to me means M.J. Fox contentment – trying to do what is right and Tomorrow paying our way as we go along. To me that is our greatest earthly project.” Memorial services for the late M.J. Fox, Public Speaker 65, prominent lumberman who died at Mr. Fox was a capable public speaker, 12:40 p.m. yesterday at the Iron Mountain and his straightforward, common-sense General Hospital, will be held at 10:30 a.m., reasoning found frequent utterance at many tomorrow at the Braumart theater. The gatherings during his 30 years in the city theater was designated for the memorial and district. service because of the large number of He was an ardent conservationist, and friends, in and out of the city, whom it is referred to his membership on the state believed will attend. commission as “one of the most pleasing Prior to the memorial service, at 9:30 jobs I have ever had.” He attended the a.m., a private service, for members of the meetings faithfully, and contributed much family only, will be held at the residence, toward the department’s policies and 1125 Kimberly avenue. practices. The body will be removed at 7:30 a.m., Mr. Fox was a member of the Central tomorrow from the J.B. Erickson and Son Methodist church in the city. He was a life mortuary to the family residence. member of the Iron Mountain Blue Lodge of Masons, and of the Chapter and Council, 111 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

An organ prelude, consisting of several Bishop, Marquette; O.T. Swan, Oshkosh, of Mr. Fox’s favorite hymns, will open the Wis.; W.L. DeWitt, Oconto, Wis.; David memorial service at the theater. The Rev. Downey, G. Harold Earle and Stewart Frank Blair, pastor of the Emanuel Baptist Earle, Hermansville; J.S. Weldman, church, will read the scripture, and the Rev. Bergland, Mich.; F.T. Bueschler, Green N.U. McConaughy, pastor of the First Bay, Wis.; G.Z. Flanders, Escanaba; B.W. Presbyterian [church], will read a prayer. A Flinn, Rockford, Ill.; John Norton, hymn, “A Child of the King,” will be sung by Escanaba; A.C. Wells and F.X. St. Peter, the Central Methodist church [choir], and Menominee; J.D. Mylrea, Wausau, Wis.; the Rev. H.A. Manahan, pastor of the D.C. Curtis, Deerfield, Ill.; F.J. Boyington, Central Methodist [church], will give the Chicago, Ill.; Chalmers Curtis, Petoskey; eulogy. Heber Curtis, Grand Rapids; Isaac Bonifas, Thereafter the choir will sing a hymn. Lake Linden; W.H. Matthews, Memphis, The Rev. Fr. Frank A Seifert, former pastor Tenn.; Walter Prickett, Sidnaw; C.M. of St. Mary’s church in this city, will give the Christiansen, Phelps, Wis.; A.F. Aley, religious allocution. The service will close Escanaba; E.A. Hamar, Chassel, and Geo. with organ selections. McCallum, Ann Arbor. Active pallbearers will be J.R. Hubley, Ushers will be H.F. Early, A.J. Baribeau, Fred Luckman, James Hilger, Andrew Harry Peterson, Frank Taylor and Clyde Anderson, Carl Johnson and William Luke. Swanson. Burial will be in Cemetery park. Honorary Pallbearers Stores To Close – All member stores in Honorary pallbearers will be Archie the Iron Mountain Retail Merchants’ Adams, Oscar Allstrom, Fred Bauldry, association, and some others, will be Oscar Blackberg, Elmer Foster, William closed from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., tomorrow, Gauthier, Joseph Hart, Wesley Kleiber, in respect of the late M.J. Fox, who died William Lewis, Jake Massage, Frank yesterday, and also to permit the Murphy, William Oliver, Joseph Thomas, proprietors and clerks to attend the Arthur Verrette, Lewis Yuhasey, Andrew memorial services, at 10:30, in the Zebel, Steve Zebel, Albert DiStasio, A.J. Braumart theater. In addition, the county Carlson, A.J. LaPonsie, William Todish, building will be closed from 10:30 to 11:30, Herbert Beard, Elmer Small, W.W. and the city building from 10:30 for the Thompson, L.J. Will, Ray Turner, Frank J. remainder of the day. Russell, Al Stridde, Charles D. Symonds, W.J. Cudlip, Dr. George Boyce, Dr. W.H. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Alexander, Z.P. Rousselle, M.J. Bacco, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 21, M.D. Thomas, Fred J. Johnson, E.G. Number 20 [Saturday, May 3, 1941], Kingsford, George Eisele, E.F. Brown, John page ___, column ___ Engblom, Herman Holmes, Charles Saxon, Carl G. Miller, John Scavarda, Louis Tribute Paid Bertoldi, S.J. McCabe, Ben Seaman, Sam To Memory Cudlip, G.P. Fugere, John Flanagan, Of M.J. Fox Joseph Cohodes, O.C. Davidson, E.J.

DeGayner, and That he “met the challenge” presented John Bush, Negaunee; George Harder, by the many problems of his day, and that Wells; A.E. Halderman, Milwaukee; George 112 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] he “lived all of the principles that have “Wherein lay the secret of his life? We made America what it is today,” was the believe it lies within the text which he, tribute paid the late M.J. Fox, lumberman himself, selected for this hour. ‘I have and community leader, by the Rev. M.A. fought the good fight. I have finished my Manahan, pastor of the Central Methodist course. I have kept the faith – II Timothy church, at the memorial services held at 4:7.’ … 10:30 this morning at the Braumart theater. “Without faith man can do nothing. With Mr. Fox died at 12:40 p.m. Thursday, at faith he can do anything. If one has faith in the General hospital, after an illness of God, man and life, nothing can deter him more than a year. from reaching high attainment among his Private services were held at 9:30 this fellows. … morning at the family residence, 1125 “Man Among Men” Kimberly avenue. “It is not extravagant to say that M.J. Prominent mining and lumbermen, Fox was a man among men. He speaks to railroad officials and many others who knew the past with a life well spent. He speaks to and respected Mr. Fox during his long and the present with faith to go on. He speaks useful life, attended the memorial service, to the tomorrow with an example to which opened with an organ prelude, emulate.” comprising several of Mr. Fox’s favorite Following the eulogy the choir sang a hymns, and played by Ed Hickey. hymn. The Rev. Fr. Frank A. Seifert, The Rev. Frank Blair, pastor of the former pastor of St. Mary’s church in this Emanuel Baptist church, read the scripture, city, gave the religious allocution in which and the Rev. N.U. McConaughy, of the First he paid high tribute to Mr. Fox for his many Presbyterian [church], gave the prayer. benefactions, his tolerance and his The Central Methodist choir sang “A Child prominent and effective place in the social of the King,” after which the Rev. Manahan and economic development of the gave the eulogy. community. The service closed with organ A “Good American” selections. “A good American has passed on,” the Active pallbearers were J.R. Hubley, Rev. Manahan said. “One who lived all the Fred Luckman, James Hilger, Andrew principles that have made America what it Anderson, Carl Johnson and William is, has gone from among us… Swanson. Employes [sic – Employees] of “Nothing we may do or say can the von Platen-Fox mill and a long list of contribute, in any way, to the life that has men with whom Mr. Fox was closely gone on. His faith has triumphed. The associated, socially and in business, during voice of the Eternal will say: “Well done, his life, were honorary pallbearers. thou good and faithful servant. Thou art a Burial was in Cemetery park. workman that needeth not to be ashamed.” Members of the Upper Peninsula “The words that I speak are not to the division, state conservation department, dead, but to the living. It is for us the living attended in full uniform, arriving here this to cherish the heritage thus bequeathed. morning from Marquette, Crystal Falls and No greater thing can be said of any of us elsewhere. than this: ‘He was a man.’ This is the greatest need of our world today. … We MRS. M.J. (CLOE EDITH believe our friend adequately met this MacCARTNEY) FOX challenge. 113 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

because of her many kindnesses to those The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, who were sick or in need. She was a Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume favorite with the young people and for many ___, Number ___ [Tuesday, December years was superintendent of the Sunday 1, 1942], page ___, column ___ school of the Central Methodist church. Deeply religious, Mrs. Fox assisted in Mrs. M.J. Fox the organization of many of the auxiliary Dies After groups at Central church, and they grew sturdily under her direction. Two of the Long Illness more prominent organizations she founded, and which are a memorial to her efforts, Mrs. M.J. Fox, aged 67, one of Iron were the Missionary society and Brown’s Mountain’s most prominent women, died at auxiliary, named for Mrs. Ernest Brown, 1:30 yesterday afternoon at her home, 920 wife of a former pastor. Stockbridge avenue. A resident of the city Active in Club Work for the last 32 years, she had been in ill Despite her work for her church, which health about a year, but was seriously sick called for much of her time, Mrs. Fox found for only two weeks. She was the widow of time to work with cultural clubs, and to the late M.J. Fox, of the Von Platen-Fox prepare talks and book reviews for various Lumber company. programs in Iron Mountain and neighboring Mrs. Fox, the former Cloe Edith communities. She was a member of the MacCartney, was born April 1, 1875, in Iron Mountain-Kingsford Woman’s club, Hartland, N.Y., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tuesday Study club, Chautauqua Study George MacCartney. She came to club and P.E.O. Sisterhood. Even when Michigan as a girl and studied at the State her health gave out she did not discontinue Normal in Ypsilanti, for which she was her memberships. graduated. Surviving Mrs. Fox are a daughter, Mrs. Following graduation, she accepted a Avery Jennison, Iron Mountain; six sons, positon in Horton’s Bay, where she met the Abbott Fox, Iron Mountain; James, Two man who later was to become her husband, Rivers, Wis.; Robert, Chicago; John, who, at that time, was employed in a saw Detroit; Staff Sergeant George Fox, Scott mill. She later resigned her position to Field, Ill., and Seaman Fred Fox, attending teach in Benton Harbor, which she left to go the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.; to Ypsilanti as a critic teacher, a positon five grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Anna which she held until here marriage on Metcalf, Charlevoix. December 27, 1901, in Charlevoix. The body may be viewed at the Resided in Boyne City Freeman Funeral home after 8 tonight. It Mr. and Mrs. Fox lived, following their will be taken to the home at 11 tomorrow marriage, in Boyne City, from where they morning. moved to Iron Mountain in 1910. Mr. Fox Funeral arrangements will not be died May 1, 1940. completed until Seaman Fox, en route From the time when the family took up home from Norman, arrives here. residence here until a year ago, when ill health required her retirement, Mrs. Fox The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, had been active in church and civic life of Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume the community, where she was beloved ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, 114 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

December 2, 1942], page ___, column Well-Known ___ Woman Dies In Hospital Mrs. M.J. Fox Funeral services for Mrs. M.J. Fox, who Mrs. Ernest Gall, 65, a resident of the died Monday afternoon, will be held at 2 area for the last 51 years, died at 5:15 tomorrow at the residence, 920 Stockbridge yesterday in General hospital after a avenue. The Rev. Percy L. Lomas, pastor month’s illness from heart trouble. of Central Methodist church, will be in Mrs. Gall, born April 14, 1883, in charge of the service. Boscaswell, Cornwall, England, came to this country in 1897. She was prominent in The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, church work and in Anchor Rebekah lodge, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume where she was a past noble grand. ___, Number ___ [Friday, December 4, Mrs. Gall also held several district 1942], page ___, column ___ offices in the Rebekah lodge, being a past district president, past financial secretary Mrs. M.J. Fox and past treasurer. She also was active in Funeral services for Mrs. M.J. Fox, Central WSCS circle of Trinity Methodist pioneer resident of Iron Mountain who died church, of which she was a member. Monday at her home, 920 Stockbridge Leaves Family avenue, were held yesterday afternoon at She leaves her husband; two sons, the residence. The Rev. Percy L. Lomas, Frederick Gall, of Iron River, and Ernest pastor of Central Methodist church, Gall, Jr., of Iron Mountain; three daughters, officiated. Mrs. Joseph Caruso, of Berwyn, Ill.; Mrs. During the service, Mrs. N.U. Vernon Rich, of Iron Mountain, and Mrs. McConaughy sang “In The Garden,” Earl Stolberg, of Calli [sic – Cali], Colombia, accompanied by Mrs. E.B. Andersen. South America; a sister, Mrs. Mable The pallbearers were Mike Early, Karl Morrison, of Iron Mountain, and nine Von Platen, Ray Hubley, Harry Peterson, grandchildren. Frank Taylor and Fred Luckman. Burial Services will be held at 2 Tuesday at the was in the family plot in Cemetery park. Erickson and Son Mortuary with the Rev. Attending from away were James Hilger, S.D. Kinde, pastor of Trinity Methodist, Rockland; Arthur LaPonsie, Duncan officiating. Burial will be in Cemetery Park. Cameron, Edward Cameron and William The body was prepared for burial at the Swanson, Trout Creek; Irving Cady, Mass; Erickson and Son Mortuary, where it may Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Curtis, Deerfield, Ill., be viewed starting at 2 tomorrow. and Gordon Aley, Elgin, Ill. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, MRS. ERNEST GALL Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, January The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, 12, 1949], page ___, column ___ Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume ___, Number ___ [Saturday, January 8, Mrs. Ernest Gall 1949], page ___, column ___ Services for Mrs. Ernest Gall, who died at 5:15 Friday at General hospital, were 115 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] held at 2 yesterday at the Erickson and Son Wolverine Cleaners and Dyers, 403 Morturary with the Rev. S.D. Kinde, pastor Carpenter, and last visited the of Trinity Methodist, officiating. establishment on Friday, Jan. 18. Mrs. Earl Sheveland, Mrs. Wilfred Yesterday, however, Mr. Garvey Gardepy, Mrs. Ivar Anderson and Mrs. complained of not feeling well. Death was Reginald Julian sang “Rock of Ages” and not unexpected. “Abide With Me.” They were accompanied Born in 1860 at the organ by Mrs. Burnett Pender. Born Aug. 20, 1860, at Freedom, Wis., A brief memorial service was conducted Mr. Garvey was graduated in 1877 from the in the Funeral home by Anchor Rebekah Appleton, Wis., high school. Thereafter he lodge, of which Mrs. Gall was a past-officer taught school at Mackville and at [sic – past officer]. Members provided a Greenville, Wis. In 1880 he went to guard of honor for the casket. Ishpeming, as clerk for the North Western Pallbearers were Harry Wright, Thomas railroad, and while there he learned Peters, Ben Rule, John Maynard, Thomas telegraphy. Later he went to Powers, as Grenfell and Edward Watts. Honorary telegrapher, and when not employed pallbearers were Mrs. Thomas Hosking, fulltime at that job (under the railroad’s Mrs. Anna Gray, Mrs. Jennie Roberts, Mrs. seniority system) he managed the Archibald Henrietta Cain, Mrs. Harry Wright and Mrs. store there. Thomas Berdinner. Mr. Garvey remained in Powers for Burial was in Cemetery Park. three years and was transferred by the Out-of-town relatives and friends at the North Western railway to Ishpeming, as funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gall and telegrapher. Later he was assigned as family, of Iron River; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph chief clerk in the office of the North Western Caruso and family, of Berwyn, Ill. district superintendent at Escanaba. In 1891 he was promoted to station agent for JOHN M. GARVEY the North Western railroad and the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railway, at Oconto, Wis. During that The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, summer, also, he helped blaze the trail for a Dickinson County, Michigan, 31st Year, new right-of-way through Antigo, Wis. Number 239 [Tuesday, January 22, In 1905 Mr. Garvey was appointed 1952], page 2, columns 1-2 yardmaster for the North Western in Iron

Mountain, remaining in that capacity until John M. Garvey, Pioneer 1909. In the latter year he left railroading to Of City, Died Here Today become engaged in the wholesale and retail flour and feed business in Iron John M. Garvey, aged 91, pioneer Iron Mountain. His office and warehouse were Mountain resident and businessman, died established in what was then part of the first at 2:30 this morning at his residence, 408 store-building constructed in Iron Mountain, West Fleshiem, after a brief illness. on the site now occupied by the G. and H. Although operated upon in April of last Texaco station. year, Mr. Garvey had been in fairly good Sells Business health, except for a persistent anemia In 1926 Mr. Garvey sold his business to which developed last October. He made the Gannon Grocery Co., at Marquette, but frequent trips to his place of business, the remained as manager for one year. In 116 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

1927 he became an agent for the Bankers Otherwise active in civic affairs, Mr. Life and Penn Mutual Insurance Co., with Garvey in 1914 was a member of the Iron his son, Robert, of Iron Mountain. Three Mountain board of education. years later, in 1929, Mr. Garvey established Climax of Career the Wolverine Cleaners and Dyers, again in Perhaps the real climax of his long and association with his son, Robert. Father active career came in October, 1950, when and son have since conducted the business – in recognition of his service to the together. Catholic church – Mr. Garvey was officially Mr. Garvey was the youngest of five and publicly recognized by Pope Pius XII, children. His parents came from Ennis, who in a personal letter written from the County Claire, Ireland, and he was baptized Vatican bestowed his blessing upon the at St. Nicholas church, in the town of Iron Mountain man. Freedom, Wis. On Nov. 9, 1893, he was Three sons and two daughters survive. married in Green Bay to Marie Louise They are Dr. John L. Garvey, professor of Hoeffel. Fifty years later Mr. and Mrs. neurology at the Marquette University Garvey celebrated their golden wedding School of Medicine, and in the private anniversary at the home of their son-in-law practice of neuro-psychiatry in Milwaukee; and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. F.W. Riley, in Dr. Paul H. Garvey, associate professor of Milwaukee. Mrs. Garvey died Dec. 13, neurology, University of Rochester, New 1944. York; Robert L. Garvey, Iron Mountain; Mrs. Fraternal Activity Helen Ruth Riley, of Milwaukee, and Mrs. In 1901 Mr. Garvey became a charter Patrick J. Trottier, Iron Mountain. There are member of the Green Bay Council, Knights two grandchildren, Nancy Louise Riley, of of Columbus. Last year Mr. Garvey Milwaukee, and Patrick J. Trottier, Jr., Iron attended the golden anniversary of the Mountain. Green Bay Council as one of the four Services Thursday charter members then living. In 1911 he Services will be conducted at 8:30 a.m. became a charter member, also, of the Thursday at the Buchanan-Villemur-Tondin Baraga Council, K. of C., in Iron Mountain. Funeral home and at 9 a.m. at the Church In recognition of his work for the Baraga of SS May and Joseph. The Very Rev. Fr. Council, the Knights of Columbus, on Oct. A.C. Pelissier will intone the solemn 1, 1950, inducted a class from Dickinson requiem mass. Burial will be in Cemetery county into the first three degrees of the Park. Order, naming the group the John M. Members of the Baraga Council, Knights Garvey Class. of Columbus, and the Iron Mountain Rotary In 1921, Mr. Garvey joined the Iron club will attend. Mountain Rotary club as a charter member, The body may be viewed starting at 1 and at the time of his death was one of only p.m. tomorrow at the Funeral home. At 8 two charter members surviving. The other tomorrow night the Knights of Columbus will is William J. Cudlip, president of the First recite a Rosary, with the Very Rev. Fr. National bank of Iron Mountain. Recently, Pelissier, at the Funeral home. Mr. Garvey was honored and presented Members of the family have asked that with a gift by the Rotary Club for serving 27 flowers be omitted. consecutive years as secretary. He was also the third president of Rotary in Iron CAPT. MARTIN GOLDSWORTHY Mountain. 117 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

When one stops to consider the great The Menominee Range, Iron Mountain, deliberateness with which the murderous Menominee County, Michigan, Volume deed must have been planned, and how the XI, Number 6 [Thursday, May 2, 1889], conspirators must have cooly [sic – coolly] page 5, column 2 discussed and contemplated the murdering of five persons, four of whom they certainly M.R. Goldsworthy, former manager of could not have had any grudge against, the the Standard Oil company’s business in the awfulness of the crime becomes startlingly upper peninsula, and who skipped to manifest, the blood runs cold, and we Canada a few weeks ago just as an become painfully aware of the lowness, the investigation of his books was revealing the depravity, to which mankind can sink. fact that he was considerably short in his It is hard, too, to realize and admit that accounts, returned to Hancock last week Iron Mountain, with her reputation for being and is now employed in Wright & Stringer’s the most law-abing [sic – law-abiding] town insurance office. Goldsworthy’s friends in the Lake Superior region, contains such made up his shortage to the company and vile and cowardly specimens of mankind they will not molest him. among her citizens. [NOTE: Not sure if there is any The Press could respect and forgive a connection with M.R. Goldsworthy in this man who would attempt to revenge a article and Capt. Martin Goldsworthy.] wrong, real or imaginary, upon the person inflicting that wrong, but the English Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, language does not contain words Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 1, sufficiently strong to express our loathing Number XX [Thursday, June 18, 1896], and contempt for a group of persons who page 1, columns XX would not only deliberately conspire to inflict a horrible death upon the person A MURDEROUS DEED. whom they fancy has wronged them, but _____ would also murder his wife and children. Death by burning over a slow fire, such as

is inflicted in Texas for a much less crime, A Cowardly Attempt to Massacre is none too severe punishment for the Capt. Martin Goldsworthy loathsome scoundrels. and Family. Up to the hour of going to press the police search for the fiends had been A dastardly attempt was made to fruitless. There is not the slightest clue to massacre Capt. Martin Goldsworthy and work upon, and The Press fears that the estimable family at about one o’clock last villains may escape unpunished. Every Monday morning by exploding two powerful effort is being made, however, to hunt down dynamite cartridges under the residence on the conspirators and The Press, with all Main street. good citizens, can only hope that the The deed is on par with the awful blackest crime ever attempted in the upper Haymarket tragedy which startled the peninsula may be fully exposed. civilized world a number of years ago, and A visit to the partially wrecked home of that Capt. Goldsworthy, his wife and three Capt. Goldsworthy, [sic] shows the great bright children were not blown to atoms is deliberateness with which the massacre certainly no fault of the cowardly fiends. was attempted – shows, too, that the 118 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] conspirators were familiar with the interior The noise of the explosion was distinctly plan of the house. One of the cartridges heard in all parts of [the] city, many people was placed directly under the sleeping being aroused from their slumber. apartment occupied by Captain and Mrs. Windows were shattered in Alderman Goldsworthy and the other under the Sandercock’s home, and Dr. Cameron’s hallway. Mrs. Goldsworthy is of the opinion family were [sic – was] alarmed by stones that the one under the sleeping-room and chunks of wood descending on the exploded first, followed in about thirty roof. seconds by the second under the hallway. Altogether it was a night of terror in the She was up at the time, having been Chapin Location, and The Press hopes it aroused by hearing strange noises around may never be repeated. the house – undoubtedly made by Capt. Goldsworthy can give no reason conspirators engaged in planting the shots. why he should be singled out for such a The Captain was called, but, fearing no dastardly attack and his manhood will not danger, endeavored to make his wife permit him to suspect any person of so believe that the noises she had heard were unhuman [sic – inhuman] and cowardly an not unusual. But Mrs. G. was not satisfied, act. and she call [sic – called] her son John, It is probable the supervisors will offer a who occupies a room on the second floor. heavy reward for the capture of the fiends John had just gone to the window to on Monday next. investigate when the first explosion occurred, closely followed by the second. It The Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, is fortunate that he was aroused, for the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume explosions dislodged a large section of XVIII, Number 9 [Saturday, June 20, plaster which fell on the bed he had just 1896], page 1, column 6 vacated, and he thus escaped serious injuries. A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE. The house was not very badly shattered _____ by the explosions, the force of the powerful explosives being spent in the cellar, not having a solid backing. Mrs. Goldsworthy’s Dynamiters Attempt to Blow up the wakefulness undoubtedly saved the lives of Residence of Capt. Goldsworthy. the family, for it is highly probably [sic – probable] that the conspirators heard her Some murderous scoundrels made an calls and were frightened away before they unsuccessful attempt to blow up the had completed their nefarious work. residence of Capt. Martin Goldsworthy last As soon as possible the police were Monday morning, and only failed in their informed and a general alarm turned in. It purpose of destroying the house and killing was found impossible to call up police their inmates through their miscalculation of headquarters by telephone and an the direction in which the force of the investigation at daylight resulted in the explosive would be expended. Two discovery that fifteen if the wires leading to charges of dynamite were put under the the Menominee Range company’s building, one under the porch and one exchange had been tied together in the rear under the southwest corner of the building. of the Wood block. Many people connected At the latter point the cellar is located, and this incident with the general conspiracy. an opening had been made to let in light 119 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] and air. The damage done the building and county authorities ought to offer liberal the force of the explosion indicate that rewards for the apprehension of the guilty much larger quantity of powder was put in parties, and we presume will do so. At the here than under the front porch. Mrs. time of this writing no arrests have been Goldsworthy was aroused from her sleep made. about one o’clock Monday morning by a noise as thought some one was trying to A History of the Northern Peninsula of raise a window, but before an investigation Michigan and Its People: Its Mining, could be made the explosions occurred, Lumber and Agricultural Industries by first under the front part of the house Alvah L. Sawyer, Chicago: The Lewis followed by a much heavier one under the Publishing Company, 1911, Volume II, rear, and under the room occupied by the pages 927-928 captain and his wife. The force of the explosion was sufficient to tear off the CAPTAIN MARTIN GOLDSWORTHY. – siding for several feet in each place, but For fully three decades Captain Martin probably four times as much in the rear, as Goldsworthy has been actively identified in the front. There was unquestionably with mining, the chief industry of the Upper enough dynamite placed under the building Peninsula, being connected almost the to have blown it into kindling wood and entire time with the Chapin Mine, for nearly killed the occupants, had it stood on a stone twenty years having served as captain. foundation, or been so situated that the Like many other of Iron Mountain’s most force of the explosive had met with a valued and worthy citizens, he is of English greater resistance downward. The captain birth and breeding. He was born, and his wife and three children occupy December 4, 1849, in the parish of Saint sleeping rooms on the west side of the Cleer, county of Cornwall, England, the house, and as this side of the house was county which was the home of his chosen by the would-be murderers, it is ancestors for several generations. evident they hoped to kill the entire family. Martin Goldsworthy, the Captain’s This is the most villainous attempt that ever father, was born in Lanivet parish, Cornwall came under the notice of the writer, and no county, England, and as a boy began work trouble or expense should be spared to as a miner. He subsequently followed bring the scoundrels to justice. Another mining in Lanivet and Saint Cleer parishes pecular [sic – peculiar] circumstance is that during his entire life. He married Jane the telephone wires leading form the central Chapman, who was born in the parish of office toward the police station had been Lanivet, county Cornwall, a daughter of tied together, so that when the captain Elizabeth (Vernon) Chapman, and they attempted to call up the police station he became parents of nine children, as follows: was unable to do so, and had to request Martin, the special subject of this sketch; that a messenger be sent from the Jane; Elizabeth; John; Mary Ann; telephone office to the police station. In Catherine; Joseph; Ellen; and Hannah. order to do this they had to in some way get Having attended school pretty much on the roof of Wood’s block, over which regularly until twelve years old, Martin about fifteen wires pass in the direction of Goldsworthy, Jr., then began working in a the police station. These were all tied Cornwall county mine, and was thus together showing that the crime had been employed until 1872. Realizing the superior premeditated for some time. The city and advantages given miners in America, he 120 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] emigrated to this country, and the following brightened by the advent into their year was employed as a miner at household of three children, John Martin, Humboldt, Marquette county, Michigan. Jane and Mary. John M. was graduated Going then to Houghton, he worked in the from Iron Mountain High School with the Calumet and Hecla Mine for six months, class of 1896, and was subsequently and then settled in the territory of Utah, graduated with honors from the Michigan where he remained until November, 1874, School of Mines. He is now a successful being engaged in silver mining at Little mining engineer. The two daughters were Cottonwood. Going from there to Idaho, both graduated from Downer College, in Captain Goldsworthy was for a while Milwaukee, and Mary is now an instructor in engaged in gold mining, first at Rocky Bar that institution. and later at Silver City. In August, 1875, he Captain Goldsworthy is prominent in started on a return trip to England, to visit Masonic circles, belonging to the Iron his old home in county Cornwall. Two Mountain Lodge, No. 388, A.F. & A.M.; to months later he married, and directly after Iron Mountain Chapter, No. 121, R.A.M.; to that important event in his life he began Hugh McCurdy Commandery, No. 43, K.T.; mining in Yorkshire, England, continuing and to Ahmed Temple, Order of the Nobles there until the fall of 1879. Then, leaving of the Mystic Shrine, of Marquette. He is his family in Cornwall, the Captain returned also a member of Iron Mountain Lodge, to the United States, and for a few months I.O.O.F., and of Victoria Lodge, Sons of worked as a coal miner in La Salle, Illinois. Saint George. In April, 1880, he came to Iron Mountain, Dickinson county [sic – Menominee SAMUEL GOMPERS County], Michigan, traveling by rail to Quinnesec, the railway terminus. In the [NOTE: While never a resident of the Ludington Mine, just opened, he found Menominee Iron Range, Samuel Gompers employment, and remained there six was a significant historical figure who months, after which he was employed for a visited Iron Mountain. The following similar length of time at the Norway Mine. contemporary newspaper account gives the In April, 1881, he secured employment as a details of his visit.] miner in the Chapin Mine, with which he has since been officially connected, having Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, first been promoted to pit boss, then to Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 1, assistant captain, and in the fall of 1890 to Number 7 (Thursday, July 9, 1896), his present position as captain. page 8, column 3 On October 25, 1875, Captain

Goldsworthy married Mary Davey, who PERSONAL AND SOCIAL. was born in the parish of Saint Neot, county

Cornwall, their marriage taking place in the Hon. Samuel Gompers, of New York, same Episcopal church in that parish in president of the United Federation of Labor, which her parents, John and Mary arrived down from Ishpeming last Saturday (Kearst) Davey, were married. John night and spent Sunday at Hotel Wood. Davey, who operated an engine at the Sunday afternoon he addressed a large mines, was a life-long resident of county audience at the opera house and his Cornwall, as was his good wife. The union remarks were most conservative. Mr. of Captain and Mrs. Goldsworthy has been 121 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Gompers has the reputation of being the Mountain; four grandchildren, and a ablest and fairest leader of a labor nephew, John Lloyd, Jr. organization in this country, and he fully The former Sarah Ann Lloyd, Mrs. sustained that reputation while here. Grenfell came to this country as a child with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Evan R. Lloyd. MRS. T.H. (SARAH ANN LLOYD) The family first settled in Pennsylvania, GRENFELL where Mr. Lloyd worked as a shift boss in the coal mines. The family later moved to Florence, The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, staying only a few weeks, and then came to Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Iron Mountain, where it has since resided. ___, Number ___ [Friday, April 15, 1949], page ___, column ___ ABE GRONLUND Mrs. Grenfell Succumbs At The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Her Residence ___, Number ___ [Friday, July 25, 1941], page ___, column ___ Mrs. T.H. Grenfell, 73, a resident of Iron Mountain for the last 65 years, died at 1:30 Abe Gronlund this morning at her resdence [sic – residence], East A street, where she had Dies After lived for some 58 years. Mrs. Grenfell, Brief Illness widely-known in the city, had been confined to her bed for about three weeks. Abe Gronlund, 49, 301 West C street, She was active, despite prolonged ill resident of Iron Mountain for many years, health, in the work of First Presbyterian formerly proprietor of the Iron Mountain church, the Ladies’ Circle of the church, the Mercantile company, West B street, until it Order of the Eastern Star and the was destroyed by fire several years ago Wimodausis. and recently district representative for a The body, prepared for burial at the flour company, died at 8:30 a.m. today at a Erickson and Son Mortuary, may be viewed Detroit hospital. Mrs. Gronlund was with starting at 3 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. him and will arrive here tomorrow. Members of the Eastern Star will remain Mr. Gronlund was manager of the with the body. Mercantile for many years before Services have been tentatively purchasing the stock of the establishment scheduled for 1:15 Monday afternoon at the and becoming proprietor. He left for Detroit Funeral home and at 1:30 at First recently to seek medical attention. Presbyterian with the Rev. N.U. He was active in the Iron Mountain Elks McConaughy, pastor, officiating club, a former member of Rotary here, and Leaves Family was prominent in many civic activities Mrs. Grenfell, who was born Feb. 22, during his long residence in the city. 1876, in Wales, leaves her husband; a Besides his widow survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Forrest Peters, of Abrams, daughter, Lorrice; a son, Thomas, and four Wis.; a son, Llewelyn Grenfell, of Iron sisters, Mrs. A.B. Hargrave, Bayfield, Wis.; Mrs. Andrew Ostrand, Crystal Falls; Mrs. 122 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Gilmore Jenkin, Ishpeming, and Mrs. Carl Number 51 [Thursday, May 4, 1916], Cullander, Iron Mountain. page 8, column 3 Funeral arrangements are not complete. The body will be brought here and taken to OBITUARY the J.A. Payant funeral home. Christopher Grossbusch, a resident of The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Iron Mountain for the past thirty-six years, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume passed away yesterday morning, after a ___, Number ___ [Monday, July 28, lingering illness. He was seventy-one years 1941], page ___, column ___ of age and leaves one son, Frank, of Waterloo, Iowa, and five daughters, Mrs. ABE GRONLUND Thomas J. Sheehan, Mrs. Peter Brouillire and Misses Mary and Clara, of this city, and Funeral services for Abe Gronlund, 49, Miss Madalene, of Minneapolis. Mr. who died at a Detroit hospital Friday, were Grossbusch was born in Rottensdorf, Rhine held at 2 p.m. yesterday at the residence, Province, Germany, where he learned the 301 West C street. The Rev. Ernest Brown, shoemaker’s trade. He came to America in of Negaunee, conducted the service. Burial 1872 and spent six years in Illinois, was in Cemetery park. Minnesota and the copper country, before Mrs. William Russell sang, “Beautiful coming to Iron Mountain. In the year 1880 Isle of Somewhere,” and Mrs. Russell and he bought a lot on Stephenson avenue and Mrs. John Possi sang, “Raise Me Jesus.” built a frame building. The lower story was Mrs. Rudolph Gayan was the accompanist. used for a confectionery store and shoe Pallbearers were Leo Mortensen, James maker’s shop and the upper story for living Roberts, E.J. DeGayner, S.J. McCabe, rooms. In the year of 1886, his building Domenic Michela and Russell E. Kesler. was burned and he built a small store at the Attending from away were Charles corner of Stephenson avenue and Flesheim Richard, Mr. and Mrs. A. Ostrand, W. [sic - Fleshiem] street, where he again Ostrand, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Richard, D. started in the confectionery business. Richard, Mr. and Mrs. John Alberg and Mr. Afterwards he moved his confectionery and Mrs. Carl Erickson and daughter, store to the Pascoe building, near the Odd Crystal Falls; Mr. and Mrs. Abe Gronlund Fellows block, and later to the building and Miss Hilda Gronlund, Dollar Bay; A.B. recently occupied by Charles Parent. In the Hargrove, Bayfield, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. year 1889, Mr. Grossbusch built a brick Gilmore Jenkins, Ishpeming; Mr. and Mrs. building on the site of his first frame store. H. Reynolds, Escanaba; Mrs. V. Bard, Four years later he opened a furniture store Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. L. Williams and Mr. and undertaking parlors in the building now and Mrs. Willard Anderson, Stambaugh, known as the city hall, later moving into his and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sather, Minneapolis. own building, where he continued in business until the year of 1906, when he CHRISTOPHER GROSSBUSCH retired to private life. Three years ago he was elected city treasurer and held the office one year. Mr. Grossbusch was a Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, member of the Sons of Herman and the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 20, Knights of Columbus. Funeral services will

123 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] be held at St. Mary’s church next Saturday December 9, 1948], page 2, columns 1- morning by Rev. James Corcoran. The 2 [with portrait photograph] Knights of Columbus will attend the funeral in a body. Mr. Grossbusch will be mourned T. Hardgrove by many friends. Died Suddenly

THOMAS H. HARDGROVE, JR. In Cleveland

Thomas H. “Tim” Hardgrove, Jr., 41, son The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain- of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Hardgrove, 737 Kingsford, Dickinson County, Michigan, Cass avenue, Kingsford, and widely known Volume 28, Number 173 [Tuesday, in this community, died at 6:30 last night November 2, 1948], page 2, column 2 [December 8, 1948] in the Criele Memorial

hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, of burns which Iron Mountain he suffered on Sunday, Oct. 31, while Man Burned lighting a fire in a laundry stove at his home By Explosion in Petoskey, Mich. He had been taken on Nov. 30 from the

Little Traverse hospital at Petoskey to Thomas H. “Tim” Hardgrove, Jr., son of Cleveland, for treatment by specialists. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hardgrove, 737 Cass Suffering second and third-degree burns avenue, Kingsford, was seriously burned at about the legs, arms and body, his about 1 p.m., Sunday [October 31, 1948] condition had been reported as somewhat when a laundry-stove he was attempting to improved until yesterday, when he suffered light, in the basement of his home at a relapse. Petoskey, Mich., exploded, igniting his The accident occurred as Hardgrove clothing. was attempting to light the fire with a Hardgrove suffered second and third combustible liquid. The stove exploded, degree burns about the legs, body and showering flames and liquid over the arms, according to a long distance call from coverall suit he was wearing. The flames his wife to his parents in Kingsford. quickly enveloped his body, as he struggled The former Iron Mountain man had to free himself from the suit. dumped a quantity of inflammable liquid Although severely burned, he managed into the stove, according to the report, and to rip the suit away, and walk upstairs. it was believed that a spark form a former Neighbors assisted his wife in calling an fire in the stove ignited the fluid, causing the ambulance and removing Hardgrove to the explosion. Hardgrove, wearing a cover-all Little Traverse hospital, where his condition suit, was quickly enveloped in flames, remained critical until he was taken to which caused severe burns. Cleveland. He is in the Little Traverse hospital, at Born At Ishpeming Petoskey. Born May 31, 1907, at Ishpeming, “Tim”

Hardgrove – as he was better known to his The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain- many friends – moved when a year old, Kingsford, Dickinson County, Michigan, with his parents, to Gwinn, Mich., where Mr. Volume 28, Number 204 [Thursday, Hardgrove, Sr., was employed in the engineering department of the Cleveland 124 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Cliffs Iron Company. The family remained Shortly before his discharge from the there for 16 years, after which Mr. Army, Hardgrove was married, in Hardgrove came to Iron Mountain to be Birmingham, Ala., to Miss Dorothy Bartlett, employed in the plant-protection of that city, who survives him. He also department of the Ford Motor company, a leaves a daughter, Miss Corrine Hardgrove, position he still holds. now residing in Menominee. Mrs. Hardgrove and her son remained in Returned From Service Munising until the latter was graduated form Returning from the service, Hardgrove the Gwinn high school in June, 1924, resumed work for the state gas and vehicle leaving shortly thereafter to reside in division, and moved to Munising, where he Kingsford. established headquarters. He remained Later Tim Hardgrove entered the there less than a year, when his territory employ of the Triangle Gas Company, in was expanded to cover the northern part of charge of the Cass avenue station. In 1936 lower Michigan. He and Mrs. Hardgrove he entered into partnership, at the station, then moved to Petoskey. Shortly before the with Tracy Wales, the two conducting the accident which caused his death, he had business, jointly, for about two years. been given another promotion, and was Other Positions preparing to leave for his new headquarters Thereafter he was employed, briefly, by at Lansing, the state capital. the Hallenbeck Oil company, of Iron During his residence here, Hardgrove Mountain, and later – also for a brief period was active in community affairs, and – as an accessory salesman for the Lewis particularly athletics. He was a skilled G. Eisele Lumber and Fuel company, Iron tennis player and golfer, and was prominent Mountain. He then obtained a position in also in winter sports, hunting and other the accounting department of the Penn Iron activities. He was manager of the first Pine Mining company, at Vulcan, remaining until Mountain ski tournament in Iron Mountain. the miens were closed down. Thereafter he The body will be brought here tomorrow applied for an appointment to the gasoline from Cleveland, and will be taken to the and vehicle division of the Michigan J.B. Erickson and Son Mortuary. secretary of state’s department, and was Funeral services will be held Saturday accepted. He was continuously employed afternoon, the hour and other arrangements with the state department until the accident to be determined after Mrs. Hardgrove, the of Oct. 30 [sic – October 31]. widow, arrives here tonight, by automobile, In August, 1942, Hardgrove left Iron from Detroit. Mountain with one of the first draft contingents from Dickinson county. He was DIED YESTERDAY trained at Fort Custer, Battle Creek, Mich., [portrait photograph] and assigned to Fort McClelland [sic –

McClellan], Ala., where he entered a course Thomas H. Hardgrove, Jr., above, of of training in administrative work. Petoskey, former well-known Iron Mountain Qualifying in this department, he was resident, died at 6:30 last night in the Criele assigned to the Headquarters Detachment Memorial hospital, at Cleveland, Ohio, form at Fort McClelland [sic – McClellan], the results of burns which he suffered in an remaining until he was discharged in June, accident last Oct. 31 at his home in 1946. Petoskey.

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have been postponed until 2 p.m., on The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain- Monday. Kingsford, Dickinson County, Michigan, Severe weather between Cleveland and Volume 28, Number 205 [Friday, Chicago was reported as the probable December 10, 1948], page 2, column 6 cause for delay in the arrival of the body in Iron Mountain. It had been received this Obituary morning in Milwaukee, however, and will arrive in Iron Mountain at about 7:20 Services for Thomas H. Hardgrove, Jr., tonight, via the Milwaukee Railroad. 41, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. It will be taken to the J.B. Erickson and Hardgrove, 737 Cass avenue, Kingsford, Son Mortuary, to await funeral services on and who died Wednesday night in the Monday. Criele Memorial Hospital at Cleveland, Oho, The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain- as a result of burns suffered in an accident Kingsford, Dickinson County, Michigan, Oct. 31 at his home in Petoskey, will be Volume __, Number __ [Saturday, held at 2 tomorrow afternoon at the J.B. December 5, 1942], page __, column __ Erickson and Son Mortuary. IN ALABAMA The Rev. J.W. Robertson, of the Holy [military portrait photograph] Trinity Episcopal church, will conduct the service. Pvt. Thomas Hardgrove, Jr., above, son Officers of the Uren-Cooper Legion post of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hardgrove, Sr., will conduct military services at the grave. 737 Cass avenue, is in special training with The body, which was to arrive here at Headquarters Detachment, 7th Regiment, 9:40 tonight, via the Milwaukee road, will be at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Tim was sent received, instead, at 3:40 a.m., according to from Fort Sheridan to Fort McClellan, and notification sent today to the Erickson has remained there. He was recently mortuary. transferred from the 23rd Battalion, Company C., at the Fort, where he The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain- completed training in combat duty. Kingsford, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 28, Number 206 [Saturday, THOMAS H. HARDGROVE, SR. December 11, 1948], page 2, column 4

The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain- Hardgrove Services Kingsford, Dickinson County, Michigan, Postponed To Monday Volume 39, Number 302 [Monday, April 4, 1960], page 3, column 1 Because the body of Thomas H. Hardgrove, Jr., 41, who died Wednesday Death Takes evening in the Criele Memorial Hospital at Resident Of Cleveland, Ohio, from burns suffered in an accident last Oct. 31 at his home in Kingsford Petoskey, Mich., failed to arrive early this morning, as expected, funeral services, Thomas H. Hardgrove, 79, of 737 Cass originally set for 2 o’clock this afternoon, avenue, Kingsford, resident of this community for the past 40 years, died at 11 126 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Saturday morning [April 2, 1960] in the Son Funeral Home. Rev. Canon J.W. Dickinson county Memorial hospital. Robertson, of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Mr. Hardgrove was born Aug. 15, 1880, church, officiated. Burial was in Cemetery in Ireland, and came to this country with his Park. parents when he was a child. He lived in Gwinn prior to moving here. He worked for JOSEPH HAMBLEY the Ford Motor Co. until retiring just before the company’s operation here was closed. The Daily Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson He leaves his wife, Clara, and three County, Michigan, Second Year, Whole nieces. No. 519 [Monday, March 14, 1898], Friends may call at the Erickson and page 3, column 3 Son Funeral Home.

Services will be held at 3 tomorrow afternoon at the funeral home. Rev. Canon OLD SETTLER GONE. J.W. Robertson, pastor of the Holy Trinity _____ Episcopal church, will officiate. Burial will be in Cemetery Park. One of the Pioneers of the Range Dies After a Long Illness. MRS. THOMAS H. (CLARA M. _____ CUDLIP) HARDGROVE, SR. WAS SURROUNDED BY HIS The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain- FAMILY. Kingsford, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 42, Number 300 [Tuesday, April _____ 2, 1963], page 2, column 3 Came to Iron Mountain Eighteen Years Death Takes Ago – Has Lived in Ontonagon and Houghton – Was the Father of Resident Of Ten Children. Kingsford _____

Mrs. Clara Hardgrove, 84, of 737 Cass Joseph Hambley is dead. avenue, Kingsford, died Saturday [March One of the most honorable and kindliest 30, 1963] at the Dickinson county Memorial of the few pioneers of the Menominee hospital, following a long illness. range died Sunday afternoon at 4:45 Born May 1, 1878, in Calumet, Mrs. o’clock at the family residence, 110 East Hardgrove resided in Kingsford for many Fleshiem street. Surrounded by a loving years. She was preceded in death by her wife, children and grandchildren[,] Mr. husband and a son. Hambley passed peacefully away after a She leaves a sister, Mrs. Leah Elliott, of lingering illness. He has been confined to Detroit; a half-brother, William Cudlip, of his bed since November last with stomach California, and a daughter-in-law, in trouble, and during the period of his illness Alabama. bore his sufferings uncomplainingly. Private services were held at 1:30 Mr. Hambley was known to nearly every yesterday afternoon at the Erickson and man, woman and child in this city, and he 127 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] had a personal acquaintance with every The Daily Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson former resident and old settler of the County, Michigan, Second Year, Whole Menominee range. Expressions of deep No. 520 [Tuesday, March 15, 1898], sorrow are today heard on every hand page 3, column 4 because to have known Joseph Hambley was to know a man of strict integrity with a EPISCOPAL BURIAL SERVICE. friendly disposition, kind and true. _____ Joseph Hambley was born in Cornwall, England, in 1829. In 1851 he married Miss Funeral of Joseph Hambley Will be Held Hanna Rowett, of his native town, and later Wednesday Afternoon. emmigrated [sic – emigrated] to America going direct to Ontonagon. From there he _____ moved to Houghton, where he followed his occupation of mining. Eighteen years ago The funeral service of the late Joseph Mr. Hambley, with his family, moved to Iron Hambley will be conducted by the Rev. Mountain and for a number of years Henry J. Purdue, at the Episcopal church conducted the old Chapin boarding house. tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. The Ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs. casket will not be opened after leaving the Hambley[,] three of whom are dead. residence, 110 East Fleshiem street, and Besides his loving wife the deceased is the family request that those who wish to survived by Mrs. Hanna Langdon, Nelson, view the remains will come to the house. B.C. [British Columbua], Mrs. Mary Bice, Belividere [sic – Belvedere], Ill., John The Daily Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson Hambley, Victoria, B.C. [British Columbia], County, Michigan, Second Year, Whole Mrs. Nellie Palmer, Boston, Mass., and No. 521 [Wednesday, March 16, 1898], Mrs. Kate Blight, Mrs. Eliza Spear, Joe page 3, column 3 Hambley and Miss Katie Hambley, of this city. The latter is a grand-child [sic – MANY MOURNING FRIENDS. grandchild] and a member of the family, _____ having been raised by her grand-parents [sic – grandparents] since a baby. Besides All That was Mortal of Joseph Hambley the immediate relatives there are fifteen Consigned to the Grave This grand children [sic – grandchildren] living. Afternoon. All the children were present at the death _____ bed Sunday except the two who reside in British Columbia, and they have been notified. The funeral service of the late Joseph Definite arrangements for the funeral will Hambley, the pioneer resident who died not be made until word is received from Sunday, was held at the Holy Trinity relatives and friends who reside elsewhere [Episcopal] church at 2 o’clock this and desire to be present at the sad rites of afternoon, the Rev. Henry J. Purdue the deceased. officiating. Long before the funeral cortege Tomorrow the Tribune will announce the left the residence on east [sic – East] full arrangements for the funeral. Fleshiem street, crowds of friends and former associates of the dead man called with flowers and to look for the last time on 128 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] the remains of their departed friend. there to Jersey City, N.J., where he lived a Telegrams and letters of condolence were short time. Coming to the iron country he received from friends in distant states, and lived at Ishpeming a few months and then this morning a beautiful floral wreath was returned to the copper country for a short received from friends in Commonwealth. residence. In March, 1879, hewent [sic – The church was well filled during the funeral he went] to Quinnesec, where he resided services, which were brief, while a long two years, coming to Iron Mountain in 1881, string of carriages followed the remains to and has resided here and at Homestead their last resting place at Quinnesec. The continuously ever since. He followed the pall bearers [sic – pallbearers] were: John occupation of miner for a number of years, Blackney, Wm[.] Hosking, John Wicks, working at the present Chapin mine, then James Davis, Richard Hosking and R.G. known as Section 30 mine, and doing Thomas. exploratory work at Keel Ridge. After this and until twelve years ago he engaged in EDWARD HARVEY, SR. dairying, draying and the sale of wood and coal in this city, removing to his large farm in Homestead, Wis., in 1895, where he has Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, since made his home. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 21, Mr. Harvey was mayor of Iron Mountain Number 43 [Thursday, March 8, 1917], during 1903, and served his constituents page 1, column 1 well. He had a pleasing way of dealing with

his fellowmen, and made and kept their A PIONEER PASSES friendship. He was active in all of his life _____ matters up to the hour of his breaking down. He had been in his usual health up EDWARD HARVEY, SR., DIED to last Wednesday, when he was taken with heart failure and removed to St. George LAST MONDAY OF HEART Hospital for treatment. On Friday he FAILURE. sustained a stroke of appolpexy [sic – _____ apoplexy] and shortly after lapsed into unconsciousness and remained in that Resident of Iron Mountain and condition until his death on Monday Homestead for Thirty-Six Years – afternoon. Deceased was married in England, his wife passing away several A Former Mayor. years ago. To them were born eleven children, one of them dying at the age of Edward Harvery [sic – Harvey], Sr., was five years. There are left to mourn seven born in Hayle, Cornwall, England, August sons and three daughters, the children 17th, 1847, and died in Iron Mountain on being William, of Eveleth, Minn.; Mrs. Mary Monday, March 5th, 1917, aged sixty-nine Rowe, of Franklin Furnace, N.J.; Joseph, of years, seven months and eighteen days. Gilbert, Minn.; Martin, of this city; George, Mr. Harvey came to the United States of Virginia, Minn.; Mrs. Jane Bowden, of form England about fifty years ago, settling Gilbert, Minn.; Eddward, of this city; Mrs. first at Calumet, where he worked in the Eliza Carbis, of this city; John, of mines for a year. He then went to Idaho, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Thomas, where he remained three years, going form 129 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] of Salamanac, New York; there is also one was 16 years of age, and was married in brother and two sisters in England. 1904 to Mr. Harvey, former lumber In the passing of Edward Harvey, Sr., contractor, who retired from active work this community has lost a good citizen and about 10 years ago. the family a kind and considerate father. Mrs. Harvey leaves two daughters, Mrs. The Press joins with the many friends of the Merritt Bausser, Indianapolis, Ind., and Miss deceased in sympathy to the bereaved Mary Harvey, teaching school near Ann ones. Arbor; three sons, Martin, Jr., Iron The funeral services will be held this Mountain; John, Rockford, Ill., and James, afternoon at 2:00 o’clock form the Central Iron Mountain, now attending the University M.E. church, Rev. J.A. Oatey officiating; of Michigan; a sister, Mrs. Raymond interment at Cemetery park. The Masonic Holmes, Indianapolis, Ind.; a brother, Martin and Odd Fellow orders, of which deceased D. Thomas, Iron Mountain, and two was a member, will attend the funeral in a grandchildren. body. Mrs. Harvey was a member of the All of the children except the son John, Trinity Methodist Ladies’ Aid and the of British Columbia, are in the city to attend Eastern Star. the funeral services. It was impossible on Services will be conducted at 2 Monday account of weather conditions for this son at the J.B. Erickson and Son mortuary by to be present. the Rev. S.D. Kinde. Burial will be in Cemetery park. Pall bearers will be Edward MRS. MARTIN (ELIZABETH Ordidge, James Grigg, Herbert Beard, THOMAS) HARVEY Joseph Anderson, Walton Hosking and James Quick. Martin Thomas, brother of the The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, deceased, arrived here last night from Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Florida, where he is spending the winter, to ___, Number ___ [Friday, March 15, attend the funeral. He will leave early next 1946], page ___, column ___ week, to return to Florida.

Mrs. Harvey The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Dies Suddenly Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume At Her Home ___, Number ___ [Tuesay, March 19, 1946], page ___, column ___ Mrs. Martin Harvey, 66, resident of Iron Mountain for 50 years, died at about 4:30 Mrs. Martin Harvey yesterday at her residence, 1,000 [sic – Services for Mrs. Martin Harvey, 66, 1000] Cedar avenue, after an illness of only who died last Thursday afternoon at her a few days. Mrs. Harvey was stricken home, 1000 Cedar avenue, were held at 2 Monday night, with a heart ailment, and yesterday at the Erickson and Son failed to survive. Mortuary. The Rev. S.D. Kinde officiated. She was born Feb.23, 1880, in Redruth, Pallbearers were Edward Ordidge, Cornwall, England, the daughter of the late James Grigg, Herbert Beard, Joseph Mr. and Mrs. John P. Thomas. She came Anderson, Walton Hosking and James to Iron Mountain with her parents when she Quick. Burial was in Cemetery Park.

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Out-of-town relatives and friends at the brothers, the late Arthur Hassell, and Axel, funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Bausser, the latter now residing in Deweyville, Utah. Indianapolis; Miss Mary Harvey, Dearborn; In 1926 he joined the city police force, and Mr. and Mrs. John Harvey, Rockford, Ill.; in 1938 was named chief, succeeding the James Harvey, Ann Arbor; Mrs. Raymond late William O. Ferzacca. Holmes, Muncie, Ind.; John C. Harvey and Recently named president of the Upper Mrs. George Harvey, Virginia, Minn., and Peninsula Association of Law Enforcement Martin Thomas, Florida. Officers, Mr. Hassell was to have conducted his first meeting last week at GUST A. HASSELL Gladstone, but illness forced him to remain at home. He had been active in the U.P. Association since its organization, and was The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, vice-president prior to the recent annual Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume election. ___, Number ___ [Monday, February Mr. Hassell was a member of the Order 17, 1947], page ___, column ___ of Vasa, the Swedish Fraternity of America

and the Knights of Pythias. Gust Hassell, Police Chief Besides his widow, the former Anna For Nine Years, Died Sunday Frangquist, he leaves two daughters by a former marriage – Mrs. Clarence Graffe and Gust A. Hassell, age 61, resident 58 Mrs. Jack Nelson, both of this city; a years; member of the Iron Mountain police brother, Axel, in Utah, and two sisters, Mrs. force for 21 years and chief of police for Bernt Rasmussen, of Norway, Mich., and nine years, died at 9:15 last night at the Mrs. Florian Bromberek, of Chicago. General hospital, where he had been a Services have been tentatively arranged patient since Wednesday. for 2 p.m. Wednesday, to be conducted by Ailing for some time past, Chief Hassell the Rev. Paul Johnson, pastor of First became critically ill Tuesday night. On Covenant. The place will be announced. Wednesday, he wa taken to the hospital, for Reno Romagnoli, night sergeant of X-ray examination and observation, which police, is acting chief of police, until an revealed an intestinal obstruction. On appointment is made. Saturday morning he was operated upon by Dr. W.H. Alexander. Reviving somewhat The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Sunday morning, he suffered a relapse late Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume in the day, caused, his physician said, by a ___, Number ___ [Tuesday, February weak heart. 18, 1947], page ___, column ___ Born March 31, 1886, in West Smoland, Sweden, Mr. Hassell came, when he was Gust Hassell three years old, to Iron Mountain with his Services for Gust A. Hassell, 61, Iron parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Ole Hassell. Mountain police chief who died Sunday He attended school in the city and later was night in General hospital, will be held at employed, for several years, as a pumpman 1:30 tomorrow at the Erickson and Son at the Chapin mine. Mortuary and at 2 at First Covenant. The Joined Force In 1926 Rev. Paul Johnson will officiate. The body Mr. Hassell left the mine to enter into a will be placed in the receiving vault in carpenter-contractor partnership with his 131 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Cemetery Park. The Knights of Pythias laboratory of the Chapin mine, and in 1902 swill attend in a body. was named chief chemist, remaining until the mine was closed in 1932. JOHN H. HITCHENS On Nov. 20, 1903, Mr. Hitchens was married to Miss Anna Cole, who died Sept. 3, 1927. Two children were born of that The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, union – W. Howard Hitchens, now of Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Marshall, Mich., and J. Orval [sic – Orville], ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, of Holt, Mich. November 20, 1946], page ___, column On Nov. 20, 1928, Mr. Hitchens married ___ Miss Irene Elliott, who survives him.

Active in community affairs, Mr. J.H. Hitchens Hitchens served, for one term, as fourth Died Tuesday ward supervisor on the county board. At His Home He was a member of the Iron Mountain Masons and the Knights of Pythias. John H. Hitchens, 73, resident of Iron Besides his widow and two sons, he Mountain for 60 years; former chief chemist leaves a sister and brother, Miss Elsie at the Chapin mine here for the Oliver Iron Hitchens and Josiah Hitchens, 314 East A Mining company, and in recent years an street, this city. insurance representative, died at about 3 Funeral services will be held Friday yesterday afternoon at his home, 417 East afternoon, the time and place to be C street, after a long illness. Critically ill for announced. The Rev. S.D. Kinde will the past year, he underwent an operation, officiate. in February of this year, at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, He had been confined to his home most Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume of the time for the past several weeks. ___, Number ___ [Thursday, November Born Jan. 20, 1873, at Tretharrup, 21, 1946], page ___, column ___ Parish of St. Clear, Cornwall, England, Mr. Hitchens came to this country with his John H. Hitchens parents in April, 1886, locating first at Services for John H. Hitchens, who died Plymouth, Pa., where the family remained Tuesday at his residence, will be held at 2 for six months, before moving to Port tomorrow afternoon in the Freeman Funeral Horton, N.J. Employed, for a time, in a silk chapel. The Rev. S.D. Kinde will officiate. mill at Port Horton, Mr. Hitchens left again Burial will be in Cemetery park, where with his family, in 1899 [sic – 1889 – ?], for the Masonic lodge will conduct the Iron Mountain, where he had since resided. graveside service. Started At Chapin Working at various jobs in the The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, community, Mr. Hitchens enrolled in the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume International Correspondence School for a ___, Number ___ [Saturday, November course in minerology [sic – mineralogy], 23, 1946], page ___, column ___ and earned the second-highest rating of any student then graduated in that course John H. Hitchens from ICS. In 1892 he started work in the 132 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Services for John H. Hitchens, who died After making arrangements to have Tuesday at his residence, 417 East C, were Alwyn obtain gasoline, Holland started to held at 2 yesterday at the Freeman Funeral rejoin Mrs. Holland, still in the stalled car. home. The Rev. S.D. Kinde officiated. He was stricken as he stepped from the Mrs. Alfred Archibald, accompanied by house, and died a few minutes later. Mrs. Burnett Pender, sang “In the Garden” Born in England and “The Lord’s Prayer.” Mrs. Pender Born Oct. 1, 1872, in Liverpool, played “Abide With Me” and “It Is Well With England, Mr. Holland came to Iron My Soul.” Mountain when he was 10. He was Pallbearers, members of the Masonic employed for many years in the offices of order which conducted the graveside the Oliver Mining company, until the Chapin service, were Morgan Leonar, Ambrose mine was closed. Recently he had been Strand[,] Richard Erickson, Rudolph employed on the tract index project in the Malberg, Wesley Davis and Wade register of deeds office, and had worked as Hayward. usual yesterday. Relatives and friends here for the He was a member and past master of funeral were J. Orville Hitchens, Holt, Mich.; the Iron Mountain Masonic lodge. Howard Hitchens, Marshall, Mich., and Mrs. Besides his widow and son, Alwyn, he is Harold Eastberg, Menominee. survived by two sons and three daughters, Victor Holland and Mrs. R.V. Stevens, JOHN HENRY HOLLAND Milwaukee; Mrs. H.F. Wooding, Chicago; Mrs. Alec Thompson, Detroit, and Marshall Holland, of Iron Mountain; a sister, Mrs. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Robert McCauly, of Chicago, and 14 Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume grandchildren. ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, March The body was taken to the Freeman 18, 1942], page ___, column ___ Funeral home, pending funeral

arrangements. John Holland Dies Suddenly The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, At Son’s Home Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume ___, Number ___ [Thursday, March 19, John Henry Holland, 69, 720 East B 1942], page ___, column ___ street, a resident of Iron Mountain for 59 years, died suddenly at 10:35 last night of a JOHN H. HOLLAND heart attack at the home of his son, Alwyn, Funeral services for John Holland, 69, 396 Hamilton avenue. who died suddenly Tuesday night at the Mr. and Mrs. Holland visited their son home of his son, A.G. Holland, 396 last evening. Mr. Holland was in good Hamilton avenue, will be held at 2 Friday spirits and did not appear to be ill. They left afternoon at the Freeman Funeral home. to drive to their home shortly after 10. Their The [Rev.] N.U. McConaughy will conduct car ran out of gasoline near the Cochran the service. Masonic services will be held, Freight Line offices, on Carpenter avenue, with the Rev. George Weiser, worshipful and Mr. Holland walked to a nearby filling master of the Iron Mountain lodge, in station. Finding it closed he continued to charge. his son’s home. 133 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Mr. Holland, who had been a resident of States when she was 15. The family took Iron Mountain for 59 years, had been up residence here in 1889. employed for many years by the Pewabic She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Jane Mining company, not the Oliver Mining Trethewey, and a son, Walton Hosking, company as reported yesterday. both of Iron Mountain; a brother, Percy Rule, Iron Mountain; four grandchildren, The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Mrs. John G. Angle, Larchmont, N.Y.; Lieut. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume James Tretheway, in the Army, and Earle ___, Number ___ [Saturday, March 21, and Roy Hosking, and one great- 1942], page ___, column ___ grandchild, Christopher P. Angie. Services for Mrs. Hosking, a member of JOHN H. HOLLAND the Iron Mountain Eastern Star chapter, will Funeral services for John H. Holland, be conducted by the Rev. S.D. Kinde at 69, 720 East B street, who died Tuesday 2:30 tomorrow afternoon at the residence. night, at the home of his son Alwin [sic] Burial will be made in the family plot in Holland, were held yesterday afternoon at Cemetery Park. the Freeman Funeral home. The Rev. N.U. Lieut. Tretheway, who is recuperating in McConaughy conducted the service. Burial the Army Hospital, Nashville, Tenn., from was in Cemetery Park. wounds suffered in action, has informed his Masonic services were conducted by family he will be unable to be home for his the Iron Mountain, Blue Lodge, of which the grandmother’s funeral. deceased was a member, with William James as worshipful master. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume MRS. WILLIAM P. (MARY A. RULE) ___, Number ___ [Monday, June 25, HOSKING 1945], page ___, column ___

MRS. MARY HOSKING The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Services for Mrs. Mary A. Hosking, 71, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume who died Thursday night at her home, 921 ___, Number ___ [Friday, June 22, River avenue, were conducted at 2:30 1945], page ___, column ___ Saturday afternoon by the Rev. S.D. Kinde. Mrs. Rudolph Peterson, Mrs. Floyd Eymer, Mrs. Hosking Mrs. Ivan Brown and Mrs. Earl Sheveland, Died After accompanied by Mrs. Helmer Freeman, Brief Illness sang “Face To Face.” Pallbearers were William Williams, Mrs. Mary A. Hosking, 71, widow of Martin Harvey, James Quick, Frank William P. Hosking, one of Iron Mountain’s Cowling, Walter Westrin and Frank Luke. first residents, died at 10 last night at her Burial was in Cemetery Park. home, 921 River avenue, after a brief Relatives and friends here for the illness. She had lived in Iron Mountain for funeral were Mrs. F.A. Angle, Larchmont, the last 56 years. N.Y.; Mrs. Mamie Gribble anod [sic – and] Mrs. Hosking was born Feb. 13, 1874, in Miss Alberta Bosanko, Crystal Falls; Mr. Cornwall, England, and came to the United and Mrs. Thomas Walsh, Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Hathaway and Mrs. Charles Gresens, Jr., 134 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Chicago; Mrs. Martha Mclean [sic] and Mr. and Mrs. Gertrude Clark, of Milwaukee; two and Mrs. Melin, Northville; James Rule, step-sons, Robert and Albert Hoyle, of Iron Kenosha, Wis.; Mrs. Fred Wallis, Mountain; two step-daughters, Mrs. Lucille Milwaukee, and Mr. and Mrs. John Fischer, of Gladstone, and Mrs. Woodrow Pederson, Aurora. Carlson, of Iron Mountain; 13 grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. Martha MRS. GEORGE (JOHANNA MACK) Stromer, of Royal Oak; Mrs. Sarah HOYLE Marquarth, of Wisconsin Rapids; Mrs. Reggie Northrup, of Milwaukee, and Mrs. Marie Amling, of Oak Park, and two The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, brothers, Emil and August Mack, of Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Milwaukee. ___, Number ___ [Thursday, June 2, Mrs. Hoyle was a member of the 1949], page ___, column ___ Eastern Star chapter and White Shrine. She also was a past high priestess of the Mrs. Hoyle latter. She was active in the Methodist Succumbs To church; Crystal Lake WSCS circle, and the Heart Attack Past High Priestess’ club. The body was taken to the Freeman Stricken with a heart attack as she Funeral home, where it may be viewed after worked about her home at 1104 8 tonight. Services will be held at 10 Stockbridge avenue, Mrs. Johanna Hoyle, Saturday morning at the Funeral home with wife of George Hoyle, Iron Mountain the Rev. S.D. Kinde, pastor of Trinity businessman, died some time [sic – Methodist, officiating. sometime] early yesterday afternoon. Mr. Burial, with the White Shrine conducting Hoyle, who said his wife was in good spirits the graveside service, will be in Goodman. when he was at home for lunch, found the body lying on the floor when he returned The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, later in the afternoon for dinner. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Dr. Charles Steinke, summoned by Mr. ___, Number ___ [Monday, June 6, Hoyle, pronounced Mrs. Hoyle dead. A 1949], page ___, column ___ report on the death was made [by] Frank Tondin, coroner on the west side of the Mrs. George Hoyle county. The Rev. S.D. Kinde and the Rev. Mrs. Hoyle had been in ill health since Ernest Brown conducted services Saturday early fall but had been able to care for her morning at the Freeman Funeral home for home without assistance. Mrs. George Hoyle, 67, who died Born March 3, 1882, in Missouri, she Wednesday at her residence, 1104 had been a resident of Iron Mountain for the Stockbridge. Mrs. Archibald, accompanied last nine years. by Mrs. Burnett Pender, sang “The Lord Is Leaves Family My Shepherd” and “Abide With Me.” She leaves, in addition to her husband, Pallbearers were Bruce Guild, Thomas two sons, Mark Gomber, of Goodman, Wis., Mitchell, Joseph Pavlot, Walter Strand, Carl and Dudley Gomber, of Kenosha, Wis.; two Stolberg and John Jelsch. Burial was in the daughters, Mrs. L.B. Pearson, of Kenosha, Goodman cemetery.

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Graveside rites were conducted by the years later completed the course in mine White Shrine of Jerusalem with Mrs. Ollie engineering at the Sheffield Scientific Rosenquist, of Crystal Falls, worthy high School, receiving his diploma. Continuing priestess in charge. his studies in the same institution another Other participating [members] were year, he secured his doctor’s degree, and in Russell Wills, watchman; Mrs. Stewart September, 1870, became chemist and McFee, chaplain; Mrs. Sylvio Egizii, noble engineer for the Milwaukee Iron Company, prophetess; Mrs. Norman Granger, scribe; at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Two years later Mrs. Verner Freeman, worthy guide; mrs. he traveled through the Menominee range, George Sanford, worthy shepherdess; Mrs. then unexplored, subsequently exploring E.W. Peterson, worthy treasurer; Norman the Breen and Vulcan mines, and the Felch Granger, wiseman; Albert Richards, worthy Mountain range. In 1876 Dr. Hulst was guard; Mrs. Richards, first hand-maiden; made general superintendent of the Mrs. Lillian Hanson, queen; Mrs. Edith Menominee Mining Company, and while Uren, second hand-maiden; Mrs. Anna thus employed opened up the Breen, Hassell, worthy guardian, and Mrs. Harry Vulcan, Norway, Cyclops, Quinnesec, Banbury, herald. Chapin and Florence mines. In 1887, he, Attending from away were Mr. and Mrs. as manager of the Pewabic [Mining] Mack Gomber, of Goodman; Mrs. L.B. Company, opened the Pewabic mine. Pearson, of Kenosha; Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Becoming manager of the iron mining Gomber, of Oconomowoc, Wis.; Charles interests of the Carnegie Steel Company in Baker, of Marinette; Mr. and Mrs. Emil 1897, the Doctor had full charge of the Mack, Mr. and Mrs. August Mack, Mrs. management of the Oliver Iron Mining Northrup, Mrs. J.A. Laurenz and Mrs. Company, and at the Foundation of the Charles Gregorson, of Milwaukee; Mr. and United States Steel Corporation, in 1901, Mrs. Herman Amling, of Chicago, and Mrs. was made vice president [sic – vice- Swan Stromer and John Stromer, of Detroit. president] of its various mining companies, retaining the position until his retirement DR. NELSON POWELL HULST from active pursuits. He is now living in Milwaukee[,] a respected and honored A History of the Northern Peninsula of citizen. He has a practical knowledge of Michigan and Its People, Its Mining, everything connected with mining, and his Lumber and Agricultural Industries, wide experience in this line of industry has Alvah H. Sawyer, Chicago: The Lewis made him an authority on subjects Publishing Company, 1911, Volume II, connected with minerals and mines. pages 702-703 [excerpts from the Dr. Hulst married Florence Terry, and to biography of Harry T. Hulst] them five children have been born, namely: Harry T., Clarence P., Edith R., Alfred N., Although a native of East Brooklyn, New and Alice F. The Doctor belongs to the York, Dr. Nelson P. Hulst was brought up in Milwaukee Club, and is a member of the Alexandria, Virginia, in that city and in Plymouth Congregational church, of which Montgomery county[,] Maryland, being fitted he is a deacon and a trustee. for college. Entering Yale college in 1863 he was graduated from the academical [sic The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, – academic] department in 1867, and two Dickinson County, Michigan, Year 2, Number 228 [Saturday, January 13, 136 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

1923], page 1, column 1; page 2, R. Nursey, Thomas and Bartley Breen, of columns 1-3 the town of Menominee, in 1866 located a “mine,” which is the Breen property that is Death of Dr. Hulst Removes now the center of several court battles. “No further explorations,” the history says, “were Figure Prominent In proceeded with until 1870, when the fee of Opening Of Menominee Iron the property, consisting of three “forties,” Ore Range having passed into the hands of the discoverers and Judge Ingalls and S.P. _____ Saxton, the latter commenced the first History Of Upper Peninsula Would active mining operations recorded in this Be Incomplete Without Name of region by sinking several test pits and Famous Explorer cutting tow long trenches across the ____ formation. This deposit outcropped adjacent to the present railway station at Waucedah.” The death of Dr. Nelson Powell Hulst on “The work of Mr. Saxton,” the history Thursday at Milwaukee removes one of the continues, “was purely tentative and most prominent figures in the history of the completely primitive, and it was not until development of the Menominee iron ore 1872, when some specimens of the ore had range. reached the hands of the Hon. Harrison It was Dr. Hulst who discovered the Ludington, then governor of Wisconsin, and world famous Chapin mine, opened up the had by him been brought to Milwaukee for Breen mine at Waucedah, the Vulcan, the purposes of analysis, and submitted to Norway and Quinnesec properties and Dr. Nelson P. Hulst, chemist for the performed other valuable exploratory and Milwaukee Iron company, that the business development work. Without him the history attention of representative iron men was of the upper peninsula of Michigan would drawn to the mineral resources of the not be complete. range. The result of this examination Dr. Hulst was the first president of the proving beyond question the high quality of Lake Superior Mining institute, organized in the product as tested, the company decided 1893, and is well known to mining men of to proceed with the thorough exploration of this community, numbering among his close the country, and to this end the services of acquaintances O.C. Davidson, Dr. Hulst – who was vested with superintendent of the Oliver Iron Mining plenipotentiary powers – were secured. So company for the Menominee and Gogebic with proper regard for the eternal fitness of ranges, and E.F. Brown, of the Pewabic things the expert who had put to crucial test and Mineral Mining companies. the latest virtues of the specimens as Although ore was discovered on the submitted, was further entrusted with the lower Menominee range before Dr. Hulst responsibility of determining the commercial came to this territory, it was not until after value of the alleged ore beds of the new his arrival that extensive mining operations Menominee. In explanation of the doctor’s were undertaken. peculiar qualifications, it might be Breen Boys First. mentioned that he was a graduate of Yale, According to the history of the and of the class of 1870 of the Scientific Menominee iron range compiled by Walter School of Mining Engineers. 137 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Came Here Same Year. Hulst but only a banded ore (a formation of “In pursuance of this far-sighted policy jasper-rock and iron ore, resting upon each on the part of the Milwaukee Iron company, other in layers like a sandwich) was found. Mr. Hulst departed for the wilderness in the At the same time Mr. Dickey’s homestead, month of June of the same year, acting west of Quinnesec, and the Curry mine under the instructions of J.J. Hagerman and property, were explored for ore by Dr. Hulst. J.H. Van Duke, of Milwaukee, the chief The history quotes Mr. Whitehead as promoters of the corporation named. He follows: “Besides our own work in 1873, visited the Breen location and other points, John L. Buell had also been doing some on and returned to headquarters fully satisfied the Quinnesec property and had actually with the results of his investigations. He carted some ore to Menominee, and this organized a working party, and in the was the third great step towards opening up following October re-visited the same the iron range. objective point with a force of seventy men, “The first step was by the Breen boys; sank test pits on the Waucedah property the second by the explorers under Dr. and elsewhere, and worked west and north Hulst, for the Milwaukee Iron company, the to Felch mountain, prospecting and third by the shipment of ore by Mr. Buell.” exploring as he went, and building supply In telling of the purchase of the Florence roads into otherwise inaccessible places. mine site for $1.25 an acre and the During this period he discovered the Vulcan development that followed, the history mines, where the typical blue soft hematite, declares that the owners, “in delicate which characterizes the product of the acknowledgment of Dr. Hulst’s ‘good works’ range, was found in abundance, and was called the new venture ‘Florence’ in honor thus employed in interpreting the of a prominent member of the explorer’s hieroglyphics of these dull escarpments, family.’ This was Dr. Hulst’s wife and later until 1873, when the memorable financial the town and county were called Florence. panic descended like a bolt out of the clear Discovers Chapin. sky, buried further speculations, and left The renewal of mining operations at everything at a standstill until 1876. At this Vulcan resulted in Dr. Hulst “again being in time every pine cruiser was a mineral harness” and in 1878 he discovered the expert – in his mind thought not one in celebrated Chapin mine of Iron Mountain. twenty could tell ‘trap rock’ from ‘iron ore.’ The first shaft was sunk – a continuation of As a matter of fact, however, with the a test pit – and at a depth of between 60 exception of Dr. Hulst, John L. Buell and and 70 feet ore was first disclosed. In 1880 Raphael Pumpelli [sic – Pumpelly], there the first shipments of ore form this bonanza were but one or two other science explorers amounted to 34,556 tons. In 1890 these on the entire range.” shipments had increased to 742,843 tons Explored Range. and since that time, with possibly one or Much of Dr. Hulst’s work was done with two exceptions, a large yearly record has Lewis Whitehead, engaged by him as chief been maintained and the mine is still in of a party of explorers and who left operation. Negaunee on September 18, 1872, for the In the history of the upper peninsula by scene of development. They made A.L. Sawyer, Mr. Buell is quoted as saying, explorations all over the range and in the “No more striking illustrations of the rapid winter of 1873 Iron Mountain or the development of iron ore in our country, or in Ludington mine property was tested by Dr. the world is observable than in the rapid 138 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] opening of the lower Menominee range, an d the Iron River, Crystal Falls, Gogebic and Funeral Of Minnesota districts. “The first exploring party to enter the Mrs. Hulst territory embracing the Menominee range At Milwaukee was Dr. N.P. Hulst, of Milwaukee.” Some of the Leaders. ISHPEMING, June 5 – Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Buell also called attention to a few of Harry T. Hulst have gone to Milwaukee, the men who “linked their destiny” with the called there because of the death early development of this country. “We are proud yesterday, of Mr. Hulst’s mother, Florence of them,” he declared, “proud of their Terry Hulst, for whom the town of Florence, positions and their prosperity, proud to think Wis., was named. that the range can claim them, with all the Mrs. Hulst was born April 16, 1861 [sic], enviable reputation they have acquired as in Hartford, Conn., the daughter of Mr. and practical miners – can claim them as some Mrs. Frank H. Terry. of its most complimentary productions. The family moved, in 1856, to Among these we find the names of Hulst, Milwaukee, when that city was little more Cole, Davidson, MacNaughton, Jones, than a village with unpaved streets, with Brown, McLean and many others.” cows and pigs roaming at large and Indians In honor of Dr. Hulst, the Hulst school, in going door to door peddling fish. The family Iron Mountain, located on East Ludington homestead on East State street is now part street, was named after him. of famous Juneau park. Dr. Hulst at one time served as manager As a child Mrs. Hulst attended a private of the Pewabic Mining company, and at school and later was a student of the another period, was in charge of the Oliver Milwaukee Female seminary. Iron Mining company’s operations in this Came to U.P. In 1875 district. He also served as an official of the Mrs. Hulst became associated with the Oliver company. In 1875 Dr. Hulst was early history of the Upper Peninsula married to Florence Terry, of Fond du Lac, through her marriage in 1875 to Dr. Nelson and he brought his bride to this country. He P. Hulst, Yale graduate who had come to was 81 years old at the time of his death Milwaukee from Alexandria, Virginia. He and was looked upon as probably the most spent several years on the Menominee prominent figure in the uncovering and range developing ore properties there and early development of the Menominee was responsible for a large number of the range’s huge ore deposits. He last visited developments in that district. Some of the Iron Mountain about seven years ago. richest ore of the range was located through his energies and direction. FLORENCE (TERRY) HULST Mrs. Hulst left the comparative luxuries WIFE OF of small-town Milwaukee to be with her husband in the wild country of the DR. NELSON POWELL HULST Peninsula. For some time they made their

headquarters at a northern Wisconsin Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, mining camp and Mr. Hulst was delighted Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ and gave consent when miners asked that Year, Number _____ [Friday, June 5, they be allowed to name the town after his 1942], page 3, columns 5-6 wife. Florence, Wis., remains today as the 139 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] perpetual reminder of her days in the _____ location when it was little more than a headquarters for her husband’s exploratory Funeral Yesterday Afternoon Under work. Masonic Auspices – Knights Templar With the exception of the years spent in and Mystic Shrine and Consistory. the Upper Peninsula Dr. Nelson Hulst and his wife made their home in Milwaukee. Edward J. Ingram, one of the pioneer They built a home on Knapp street, then business men [sic – businessmen] of this considered “very far out,” and lived in it all city, died suddenly at his home on East B their married life, with the exception already street last Tuesday morning about 2 mentioned. o’clock, from valvular heart trouble. Mr. In 1928, five years after the death of her Ingram was about his business as usual husband, Mrs. Hulst sold the Knapp street until Saturday night, and apparently in good home and built her home on Newberry health. He made an engagement to go boulevard. fishing with Herb Armstrong little thinking She was a retired member of the that when the time came for him to keep his Woman’s club of Wisconsin and was the appointment he would be one of the great oldest member of the Plymouth church. majority for whom the pleasures, trials and Mrs. Hulst leaves three sons, Harry T., ambitions of this life have no further of Ishpeming; Clarence P., of New York interest. Mr. Ingram complained of feeling City, and Alfred N., of Cambridge, Mass.; unwell Sunday, but it was not until late six grandchildren and three great- Monday that his case was reported as grandchildren. dangerous, and the first news of his Interment will be made in Milwaukee. sickness to many was the report of his death Tuesday morning. Mr. Ingram was [NOTE: There are some factual errors in born in Linden, Iowa county, Wis., in 1861, this obituary. Mrs. Hulst’s birth year and had he lived one day longer would appears incorrect. She did not live in the have been just 32 years old at the time of mining camp which became Florence, his death. He came to Quinnesec in 1879 Wisconsin, but lived in Vulcan, Michigan. where he was employed a short time as She wrote a story about those years which druggist by Jos. Scheller [sic – Schaller]. appeared in Michigan History Magazine.] He was one of the first pioneers to come to Iron Mountain and engage in the drug EDWARD J. INGRAM business, which he conducted successfully up to the time of his death. On the 24th of The Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, January, 1884, he was married to Miss Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Kate Fisher, his now bereaved widow, and XV, Number 26 [Saturday, September three beautiful children have blessed their 30, 1893], page 1, column 3 union. Mr. Ingram was deputy postmaster for eight year’s [sic – years] previous to Grover A PROMINENT CITIZEN DEAD Cleveland’s first election to the presidency, _____ and was one of the first board of aldermen

elected in this city, serving his ward EDWARD J. INGRAM DIES SUDDENLY faithfully and well for two years. He would LAST TUESDAY MORNING. no doubt have been re-elected to that office 140 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] without opposition had he not positively James, a prominent Iron Mountain business refused to accept the nomination. He was man [sic – businessman] and former city a man of most happy and genial alderman, died in June, 1930. disposition, sterling integrity, a devoted Mrs. James, who was born March 23, husband and father, kind friend and good 1863, in Durham, England, came to this city citizen, and his death is deeply deplored by when she was 19. all who knew him. His funeral was held at She leaves three sons, Harold J. James, his late residence yesterday afternoon at of East Chicago, Ind., and Garnet H. James two o’clock under the auspices of Iron and Irving G. James, of this city; two Mountain Lodge F. & A.M., of which he was daughters, Miss Gladys James, of Iron a member. Delegations were also present Mountain, and Mrs. Ruth Solomon, of from Florence, Norway and Crystal Falls Whiting, Ind.; 11 grandchildren, and eight Lodges. Mr. Ingram was also a member of great-grandchildren. the Menominee Commandary Knights Mrs. James was a life member of the Templar, the Marquette Consistory and Order of the Eastern Star; a charter Mystic Shrine and a large delegation of the member of the White Shrine, and a charter Knights came up to escort the remains of member also of the Women’s Guild of Holy their late comrade to its last resting place. Trinity Episcopal. Also members of his class in the Consistory Services will be held at 2 Saturday at and of the Mystic Shrine were present. Holy Trinity with the Rev. J. William Promptly at 2 o’clock brief funeral services Robertson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be were commenced at Mr. Ingram’s late in Cemetery Park. residence, conducted by Rev. D. Morrison, The body, prepared for burial at the where hundreds of sorrowing citizens had Freeman Funeral home, will be taken to the already assembled, after which the remains residence at 5 this afternoon. were conveyed to the Quinnesec cemetery, where the impressive Masonic burial The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, service was conducted by Iron Mountain Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Lodge. ___, Number ___ [Monday, December 22, 1947], page ___, column ___ MRS. JOHN (AMELIA) JAMES Mrs. Amelia James Services for Mrs. Amelia James, 84, The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, who died Wednesday night at her home, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 305 West B, after a brief illness, were held ___, Number ___ [Monday, December Saturday afternoon at Holy Trinity. The 15, 1947], page ___, column ___ Rev. J. William Robertson officiated.

The choir, accompanied by Mrs. R.C. Mrs. James, Hanna, sang “I Heard A Sound of Voices Age 84, Died Around the Great White Throne” and “Hark, Last Night Hark My Soul.” Pallbearers were Fred Solomon, Mrs. Mrs. Amelia James, 84, a resident of James’ son-in-law, and Harold James Jr., Iron Mountain for the last 65 years, died at Cecil James, Clarence James, John James 9 last night at her residence, 305 West B, and Robert James, her grandsons. after a brief illness. Her husband, John Burial was in Cemetery Park. 141 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Here for the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. house and, accompanied by James, forced Fred Solomon, of Whiting, Ind.; Mr. and entrance. Mrs. Harold J. James, of East Chicago, James told police that a neighbor Ind.; Harold James, Jr., of Griffith, Ind.; Mrs. ‘’phoned his wife yesterday afternoon and Math Doyle, of Keewatin, Minn.; Mrs. said that the lights at the A street residence Emma James, of Frankfort, Mich.; Mrs. had been on all night, and that Mrs. M.C. Solomon, of Chicago; Mrs. A. Hart, of Elizabeth James had not been seen about Green Bay; Cecil James, of San Antonio, her home. Texas; Clarence James, of Buffalo, N.Y., No Inquest Scheduled and Robert James, of Land O’Lakes. Chief Romagnoli summoned Coroner Erickson and Dr. D.R. Smith, who MRS. RICHARD H. (ELIZABETH examined Mrs. James and pronounced her KING) JAMES dead. No inquest will be held. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the residence and at 2 p.m. at The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Trinity Methodists. The Rev. S.D. Kinde will Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume officiate. Burial will be in Cemetery park. ___, Number ___ [Thursday, November Born May 23, 1876, at Lehigh, Iowa, 18, 1948], page ___, column ___ Mrs. James leaves a daughter, Mrs. Viola Jacobson, of Stambaugh; a son, Richard Body Of Aged James, of Chicago; four sisters, Mrs. Newt Woman Found Henson, Mrs. James Marsch and Mrs. Nick At Her Home Scapa, of Chico, Calif., and Mrs. Charles Henley, of Des Moines, Iowa; a brother, The body of Mrs. Elizabeth James, 72, William King, of Marquette; six wife of the late Richard H. James, and well- grandchildren and one great- known in this area, was found at 4:30 p.m. granddaughter. yesterday – lying on the kitchen floor of her Mrs. James was a past matron of the residence where she had resided alone Order of Eastern Star, past high priestess since the death of her husband in May, of White Shrine and past president of the 1938 – by police and her brother-in-law, Cloverland chapter of the Rebekah lodge. William James, 1218 Stockbridge. Her Mr. James died in May, 1938. death, believed to have taken place The remains, now at the Payant-Rochon sometime Tuesday night or yesterday Funeral chapel, will be taken at 11 a.m. morning, resulted from a heart attack, tomorrow to the residence. according to Coroner Everett B. Erickson. James, Chief Romagnoli and Officer The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Sparpana forced open a locked door Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume leading to the kitchen and found the body ___, Number ___ [Thursday, November on the floor, Romagnoli said. 22, 1948], page ___, column ___ William James ’phoned the police station at 4:20 p.m. yesterday and informed Mrs. Elizabeth James Chief Romagnoli that “something was The Rev. S.D. Kinde conducted services wrong” at Mrs. James’ residence. The chief for Mrs. Elizabeth James at 1:45 Saturday and officer Sparpana, [sic] then went to the afternoon at her residence, 407 West A, and at 2 at Trinity Methodist, where he is 142 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] pastor. Mrs. Alfred Archibald, accompanied Johnson later joined the Michigan at the organ by Mrs. Burnett Pender, sang National Guard in July 1959, and reached “No Night There” and “God Will Take Care the rank of Chief Warrant Officer Four Of You.” before his discharge in April 1964. He died Pallbearers were Reuben Erickosn, at age 77 and was buried in DeWitt George Hoyle, Elmer Foster, Fred Knight, Cemetery, De Witt, Michigan. Albert Healey and Ernest Horngren. Johnson's official Medal of Honor The White Shrine, of which Mrs. James citation reads: was a worthy high priestess, conducted its He practically single-handed protected ritual for the dead in the church. the left flank of his company's position in Burial was in Cemetery Park. the offensive to break the German's gothic Here from away to attend the funeral line. Company B was the extreme left were Mrs. Viola Jacobson and Mrs. Blanch assault unit of the corps. The advance was [sic – Blanche] Iwows [sic] of Stambaugh; stopped by heavy fire from Monticelli Ridge, Mr. and Mrs. Richard James, of Chicago; and the company took cover behind an Mrs. H.A. Bublick, of Danville, Ill.; A.F. embankment. Sgt. Johnson, a mortar Wallin and son, Ralph, and William King, of gunner, having expended his ammunition, Marquette; William King, Jr., of Escanaba; assumed the duties of a rifleman. As Mr. and Mrs. Fred Godlove, of Marenisco; leader of a squad of 7 men he was ordered Mrs. Herbert Richardson, of Caspian, and to establish a combat post 50 yards to the Mrs. John Quayle, Mrs. August Sorby and left of the company to cover its exposed Mrs. Harold Priest, of Iron River. flank. Repeated enemy counterattacks, supported by artillery, mortar, and OSCAR GODFREY JOHNSON, JR. machinegun fire from the high ground to his front, had by the afternoon of 16 September killed or wounded all his men. Collecting Oscar Godfrey Johnson, Jr. (March 25, weapons and ammunition from his fallen 1921 – May 13, 1998) was a United States comrades, in the face of hostile fire, he held Army soldier and a recipient of the United his exposed position and inflicted heavy States military's highest decoration – the casualties upon the enemy, who several Medal of Honor – for his actions in World times came close enough to throw hand War II. grenades. On the night of 16–17 Johnson joined the Army from his September, the enemy launched his birthplace of Foster City, Michigan in heaviest attack on Company B, putting his October 1942, and by September 16, 1944 greatest pressure against the lone defender was serving as a private first class in of the left flank. In spite of mortar fire which Company B, 363rd Infantry Regiment, 91st crashed about him and machinegun bullets Infantry Division. On that day and the which whipped the crest of his shallow following two days, near Scarperia, Italy, he trench, Sgt. Johnson stood erect and single-handedly held his position at his repulsed the attack with grenades and unit's left flank after all other members of small arms fire. He remained awake and his squad had been killed or wounded. He on the alert throughout the night, frustrating was subsequently promoted to Sergeant all attempts at infiltration. On 17 and, on July 19, 1945, awarded the Medal September, 25 German soldiers of Honor. surrendered to him. Two men, sent to reinforce him that afternoon, were caught in 143 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] a devastating mortar and artillery barrage. in Sharon, Pennsylvania, in June, 1894, at With no thought of his own safety, Sgt. the age of seventy-seven years. At the Johnson rushed to the shell hole where time of his death he was the oldest they lay half buried and seriously wounded, mechanic in that city. covered their position by his fire, and John T. Jones spent the first twenty- assisted a Medical Corpsman in rendering three years of his life in Pittsburg. He aid. That night he secured their removal to attended school until he was twelve years the rear and remained on watch until his old and then commenced work in the rolling company was relieved. Five companies of mills as an apprentice to the trade of a German paratroop regiment had been millwright and engineer. His father being a repeatedly committed to the attack on master mechanic, young Jones came Company B without success. Twenty dead naturally to this work and ere long became Germans were found in front of his position. an expert. In 1869 he went to Sharon, By his heroic stand and utter disregard for Pennsylvania, where he had charge of the personal safety, Sgt. Johnson was in a machinery and furnaces of the Keel Ridge large measure responsible for defeating the Furnace of Sharon. He remained there enemy's attempts to turn the exposed left until June, 1881, when he came to the flank. Menominee Range and located at Keel Ridge, as superintendent of mines, having JOHN TYLER JONES under his supervision the Emitt [sic – Emmett], Keel Ridge, Iron River, and Ludington & Hamilton mines. He was the JOHN T. [JOHN TYLER] JONES, of first to prospect for the last named mine. Iron Mountain, Michigan, is superintendent He has also been connected with various of the Ludington & Hamilton mine, and is other mines, and has done much to one of the most prominent men of the advance the mining interests of this section Menominee Range. We take pleasure in of the country, and is well and favorably presenting a sketch of his life to the readers known as an authority in his line of work. of this work. Mr. Jones and his family occupy one of John T. Jones was born in Pittsburg, the finest and most elegantly equipped Pennsylvania, September 14, 1847. His homes in Iron Mountain. This residence father, Thomas J. Jones, a native of was built by him in 1891, at a cost of Wales, settled at Pittsburg when he was $7,000. He was married, in 1871, to Miss thirteen years of age. Both Thomas J. and Rachel A. Milligan, a native of Pittsburg his father, John, were iron workers, as was and a daughter of John Milligan, of that also our subject’s maternal grandfather, Mr. city, the Milligans being a prominent Quaker Williams. Grandfather Williams emigrated family. They have had eight children, six of from Wales to this country and located at whom are living, viz: Albert, Elmer, Pittsburg when his daughter, Margaret, the Carrie, Rachel, Ruth and Arthur. Harry mother of John T. Jones, was four years and Margaret are deceased. old. In that city the parents of our subject Politically, Mr. Jones is in harmony with grew up and were married, and as the the Republican party, and has served as a years passed by sons and daughters came member of the City Council. He is identified to brighten their home, eleven in all, nine of with Iron Mountain Lodge, F. & A.M. whom reached maturity, John T. being the [Memorial Record of the Northern third born and eldest son. The father died

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Peninsula of Michigan, 1895, pages 329- hour. Mr. Jones will place the boat in Lake 330] Antoine.

Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, The Daily Mining Journal, Marquette, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 11, Marquette County, Michigan, Volume Number 7 [Thursday, July 5, 1906], __, Number __ [Monday, May 7, 1928], page 1, column 2 page 7, columns 1-2

Beautiful Home. JONES OPENED Probably the most beautiful country IRON MINES ON home in the upper peninsula is that of Mr. THREE RANGES and Mrs. John T. Jones on the banks of Lake Antoine. It contains about twenty _____ acres and embraces many natural advantages. Nature has been aided very Pioneer in Industry, Who materially in the work of beautifying by Mr. Died in Sharon, Pa., Promi- Jones. This spring Mr. Jones planted some nent Figure in Develop- fifteen hundred fruit trees and nearly all are ment in Upper Peninsula. flourishing. He is now engaged in building _____ a large greenhouse. In this connection it is interesting to note that the glass used in the IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich., May 6 – construction of the building was used for a (Special to The Mining Journal) – number of years in the Ferris wheel, which John Tyler Jones, aged 81 years, one of was recently destroyed at St. Louis. the foremost figures in the earliest development of upper Michigan’s iron Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, mining industry, died Friday at his old home Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 14, in Sharon, Pa. Number 51 [Thursday, May 12,1910], Although having divided his time during page 1, column 4 the later years of his life between relatives at Marquette, Sharon, Pa., and this city, Mr. Gift of Motor Boat. Jones had visited here frequently, and was a familiar figure. He was personally John T. Jones has been notified that a acquainted with most of the pioneer mining handsome motor boat had been shipped to men on the upper Michigan range, with his address. The craft is a present to Mr. many of whom he had at one time or Jones from Richard Schell, a well-known another been associated in some phase of capitalist of Duluth. Mr. Schell has an the industry. extended reputation as the owner of several Opening 17 mines throughout the of the fastest motor boats in the country Mesaba, Gogebic and Menominee ranges, and we believe that he now holds the and interspersing that with the championship cup for western waters. The concentration of several blast furnaces for boat Mr. Schell has presented to Mr. Jones the furtherance of his theory relative to the I about thirty feet long and has a metallization of low-grade iron ore, Mr. guaranteed speed of twenty-six miles an Jones’ long and useful career was both colorful and productive.

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Born in Pittsburgh. him throughout the mining properties of the John T. Jones was born September 14, Kimberly company, embraced every phase 1847, at Pittsburgh, Pa. His paternal of the industry. grandfather, John Jones, was born in In 1883 Mr. Jones moved to Iron Carmarthen county, Wales, where he Mountain where he took up his residence followed the trade of hatter during his early on a beautiful estate of 140 acres in the life. About 1831, accompanied by his northeast part of the city, bordering on Lake family he came to America, locating at Antonine [sic – Antoine]. A large part of Pittsburgh, then a small settlement. that land he later improved, and upwards of Mr. Jones’ father, Thomas J. Jones, was 1,000 fruit trees were set out. The a lad of 12 when he came with his parents residence is still one of the most to the United States. He began when a picturesque and attractive homes young boy to learn how to run an engine, throughout the district. and later became a mechanical engineer. In 1888 Mr. Jones superintended the He was afterwards a master mechanic at construction of a blast furnace at Iron River, Pittsburgh, moving from there to Sharon, and, moving up on the Mesaba range in Mercer county, where he continued his 1890, he opened the Pewabic mine, in work. He married Margaret Williams, a Minnesota. In 1893 he opened the native of Wales, and nine children were Hamilton mine, at Iron Mountain. born of that union, Margaret, Mary, John T., Interested In Research. Thomas, Arabelle, Emma, Alice, Philip and During all of this time Mr. Jones was Carrie. keenly interested in research work on metal Brought up in Pittsburgh and obtaining alloys. He was firmly convinced – and his education in the public schools, John T. engineers today believe his theory will Jones began at the age of 12 to work with shortly be justified – that low grade or lean his father, under whose instruction he ores could be metallized, through his became a skilled mechanic. process, to compare in market value and Employed At Furnaces. for their industrial worth to the high-grade In 1874 Mr. Jones went to Sharon, Pa., product. where he set up machinery for the Keel It was during his work on the Mesaba Ridge Furance, and was employed there at range that, despite a flood of criticism from Middlesex and other furnaces until 1881. the mining engineers then operating on the In 1880 Mr. Jones, learning of the vast range, that Mr. Jones demonstrated the iron deposits discovered in explorations economic feasibility of loading ore directly throughout this region, and the rapid from the open pit mines into the cars for development taking place here, moved to shipping, rather than employing the stock the upper peninsula of Michigan. Shorly piles then so common throughout the open after his arrival he assumed the pit properties. management of the mining properties of The fact that his method was substantial P.L. Kimberly, whose operations were then is proven by the general practice among all in progress at Keel Ridge, Iron Mountain open-pit properties throughout the various and Iron River. Later these operations Lake Superior ranges today. There are no were transferred to the Mesaba range. more stock piles at the open pits. Mr. Jones was the first “district mine Before leaving the Mesaba range Mr. superintendent” to hold such an office in the Jones opened the Adams mine at Eveleth, upper peninsula, and his duties carrying Minn. 146 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

It was in 1903 that Mr. Jones entered are exhausted, that method will have to be actively upon the effort to prove up his employed if the iron industry is to survive. theory relative to the metallization of lean Aided Government. ores. From 1903 to 1909 he constructed When America entered in the World war several small furnaces, to test out the Mr. Jones devoted much of his time to process, and in 1909 [sic] he built the Ardis experimental work for the United States blast furnace on Grand boulevard, one of government, concentrating on metal alloys. the most completely-equipped plants of its He pursued that activity later in Minnesota, kind throughout the district. The process and, in the later months of the war, at worked perfectly, but the cost of operation Knoxville, Tenn. was still too high to be of any economic During that period also Mr. Jones went benefit to the industry. Mr. Jones could not up into Canada where for some time he compete with the lower cost of getting out supervised the activity at the Road the high grade ore. Consolidated mines, Goodreau [sic – For five more years Mr. Jones fought on Goudreau], Ont. and, in 1914, he built another furnace at Returning to Marquette in 1920, Mr. Marquette. Here more than 1,000 tons of Jones retired from active work, and devoted low-grade ore were metallized by the Jones much of his time to his private research and process. Still the cost of production proved experimental studies. Since then he has the stumbling block and Mr. Jones decided, moved about between Marquette, Iron again, to try it out in a new field. Mountain and Sharon, residing the greater He went to Salt Lake City, Utah, built part of the time during the past few years another experimental furnace and later with his son and daughter-in-law in this city, returned to Republic, where he Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jones, 306 West C superintended the construction of his fourth street. experimental blast furnace for the Wed in 1870. metallization of low grade ores. He was Mr. Jones was married October 19, assisted in his persistent effort by many of 1870, to Rachel Milligan, a native of the leading geologists, mining and chemical Pittsburgh. Mrs. Jones died in his city experts of the county, all of whom December 6, 1926. conceded the perfection of the process, and Three daughters and three sons survive. who were eager to see the experiment They are Mrs. E.W. McDonell, of brought down to a practical and economic Covington, Ky., Mrs. Walter J. [Ardis] basis. Blenko, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Mrs. Paul J. Mining and chemical experts of the Lewis, of Yakima, Wash., and A.G. Jones, United States government are today Detroit, Elmer, Marquette, and Arthur, Iron conducting similar experiments at the Mountain. Eleven grandchildren also governmental stations in Pittsburgh, Pa., survive. and Washington, D.C. It is along precisely Mr. Jones was a member of the the same lines as those followed by Mr. American Institute of Mechanical Jones that the government experts are now Engineers; the American Institute of Mining at work in the effort tot devise some Engineers and of the Upper Michigan economical means of putting the theory into Mining Institute. He was also a member of actual operation. It is conceded that in the the Iron Mountain blue Lodge of Masons. years to come, when the high grade ores

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The Mining Journal, Marquette, Marquette County, Michigan, Volume __, Number Mother of Elmer W. Jones __ [Wednesday, May 9, 1928], page 2, Was the Wife of Prominent column __ Expert on Iron Mining. _____ JONES FUNERAL RITES HELD IN IRON MOUNTAIN – Mrs. John T. IRON MOUNTAIN Jones, 74, wife of a man whose name will _____ be forever linked with the development of iron mining in upper Michigan and whose IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich., May 8 – generous assistance was a large factor in (Special to The Mining Journal) – his ambitious quests, died last night Funeral services for the late John T. [December 6, 1926] at the home of her son, Jones, pioneer mining man, were held here Arthur, 306 West C street. She had been in this afternoon in Holy Trinity Episcopal ill health for eight months and her death church with interment in Cemetery park, the was not unexpected. Rev. James Crosbie officiating. Services at Mrs. Jones was a Dickinson county the grave were in charge of the Masons. pioneer and had been a resident of the The body was received here Monday Menominee range for 35 years. She came and taken to the home of Arthur J. Jones, to Quinnesec in 1881, residing there three 306 West C street. years and then moving to Iron Mountain. Relatives who came here to attend the She lived here until 1913, when the family funeral were Mrs. Paul J. Lewis and moved to Marquette and later to Pittsburgh, daughter, Pauline, of Yakima, Wash.; Mrs. the place of her birth. With her husband Thomas Davies, of Sharon, Pa., Mrs. E.W. she returned to Iron Mountain in McDonell, of Covington, Ky.; Mrs. W.J. September, 1925. [Ardis] Blenko and son, Walter, Jr., of The old Jones place, a large residential Pittsburgh, Pa., A.C. Jones, of Detroit, and area on the shore of Lake Antoine, was at Elmer W. Jones and daughters, Dorothy, one time a showplace in Iron Mountain and Gertrude and Patricia, of Marquette. the property also contains evidences of Mr. Jones’ experiments in iron ore smelting. Mrs. Jones was one of the most prominent RACHAEL (MILLIGAN) JONES, women in the city and was known for her WIFE OF unassuming manner and charitable JOHN TYLER JONES character. Her death will be regretted by a large circle of friends. The Mining Journal, Marquette, Marquette The funeral will be held Thursday. County, Michigan, Volume __, Number In addition to her husband, she is __ [Thursday, December 9, 1926], page survived by six children, Albert G., of 2, column 3 Detroit; Elmer W., of Marquette; Mrs. Paul J. Lewis, of Yakima, Wash.; Mrs. W.J. MRS. J.T. JONES [Ardis] Blenko, Pittsburgh; Mrs. Edwin W. PIONEER ON RANGE McDonald, Covington, Ky., and Arthur, of Iron Mountain. _____ 148 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

ABRAHAM KHOURY hope he could return to Iron Mountain at an early date. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Khoury was born in Syria. He came to Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Iron Mountain 54 years ago, when he was ___, Number ___ [Friday, March 14, 21, and established a confectioner’s store. 1941], page ___, column ___ He was active in business at various locations, until about 30 years ago when he Abe Khoury opened the store at 305 Stephenson avenue, the present location of Khoury’s Reported Dead Beer Garden, now operated by his son. Mr. In Syria Khoury retired about 10 years ago. He owned several business and residential The “long way home” has ended for properties in Iron Mountain. Abraham Khoury, 75, veteran Iron Mountain Members of his family today were confectioner and real estate dealer, awaiting information from the American according to word received by his children consul at Beirut to obtain verification of Mr. here yesterday afternoon. He was reportd Khoury’s death. The letter received here [sic – reported] to have died in a small city was signed by Mrs. Khoury, and mailed near Tripoli, Syria, where he had been Jan. 30. living since the summer of 1939. He is survived by his widow, three sons, Mr. Khoury left Iron Mountain in July, Samuel and William, of Iron Mountain, and 1939, to revisit his native land. That fall he Albert, of Detroit; and six daughters, Mrs. was married to a Syrian girl, and started Stella Shada, Grand Island, Neb.; Mrs. arrangements for their return to the United Sophie Shada, Fremont, Neb.; Mrs. Evelyn States. Delays encountered in obtaining Vercella, Detroit, and Mrs. Anna Warner, permission for Mrs. Khoury to enter this Miss Rose Khoury and Mrs. Katherine country held the couple until June of 1940, Safronek, of Iron Mountain. when their passage was booked. In the same month Italy declared war on THOMAS KING France, and the Mediterranean sea became unsafe for passenger travel. The Khourys The Florence Mining News, Florence, were compelled to abandon plans for Marinette County, Wisconsin, Volume I, traveling to the United States until war in Number 9 [Saturday, February 26, the Mediterranean had ceased. 1881], page 3, column 3 In frequent letters to his children, Mr.

Khoury expressed his desire to return to the TOM KING, of Lake Chicagon [sic – United States, but war blocked the way. Chicagoan Lake], informs us that in addition The fall of France and the unsettled to the Mackinaw trout and white fish in that condition of the French-mandated country sheet of water, that there are plenty of complicated his stay there. herring. From all accounts Lake Chicagon Hoped To Return [sic – Chicagoan Lake] must be a kind of When his last letter was received here, subdued paradise and we think we must a month ago, by Samuel Khoury, his son emigrate that way soon after the pond lillies and successor in the confectionery [sic – lilies] blossom. Contemplating these business, the aged man still voiced the last may invigorate our aesthetic tastes and

149 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] a combined acquaintance with the former, at Lake Chicagon [sic – Chicagoan Lake], may stimulate our brain. was described on the register of the Florence House, last Monday. The Florence Mining News, Florence, Marinette County, Wisconsin, Volume I, Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Number 9 [Saturday, February 26, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 14, 1881], page 3, column 4 Number 40 [Thursday, February 24, 1910], page 1, column 4 TOM KING, the last chief of the onece [sic – once] powerful tribe of the Thomas King, the venerable chief of the Menominees, called on us the first part of former Menominee tribe of Indians, died at the week. His name shows his mixed his home at Randville last Wednesday blood. He is apparently a powerful man, afternoon, of kidney trouble and the ills weighing two hundred pounds or more, and attendant upon old age. He was eighty- is the sole survivor of eight brothers, three years of age, and is survived by a consequently his title is undisputed. During wife and one granddaughter. his infancy, he tells us, that the great chiefs Just where Mr. King was born cannot be Oshkosh and Keshena, [sic] swayed ascertained, but in his early manhood he absolute power over his red brethren, but was employed by Col. Boswell in the United upon his obtaining his majority, he was States mail service between Green Bay and acknowledged head of the present remnant Copper Harbor, Mich., making the entire of his tribe. His present home is on the distance on foot. borders of the romantic Lake Chicagon [sic Early settlers remember him as owner of – Chicagoan Lake], where he is keeping a a trading post on the Menominee river at a stopping place for tourists and travelers. As point now known as the New York Farm, a he told us his history, we seemed to few miles from Vulcan. He sold the trading discover a shade of sadness overspreading post in 1869 to Eli Wright and removed to his features, and it was in a subdued tone Badwater, five miles north of Iron Mountain, that he told us of the fate of his brothers and kept a half-way house at a point where and the fast disappearing handful of the the old State road crossed the Menominee powerful tribe, who with the Chippeweas river, and in 1879, when the right of way [sic – Chippewa] – or more properly was being cleared between Florence and speaking, the Ojibwas – once swayed Iron River, he kept [a] boarding camp near supreme power over this portion of the the present site of Saunders. A few years country. The Ojibwa tribe is forever later he moved to what is now Randville embalmed in eccentric verse by the and kept another boarding-house [sic – imaginary legend of Hiawatha. Who will boarding house] during the time that the remember the fast fading Menominees? Milwaukee & Northern railroad was being extended from Iron Mountain to Champion. The Florence Mining News, Florence, After the road was completed he remained Marinette County, Wisconsin, Volume I, at Randville, keeping occasional travelers Number 45 [Saturday, November 5, and carrying passengers from Randville to 1881], page 3, column 5 Metropolitan, until ill-health and old age compelled him to give up work, when he –Hon. Tom King was the way the name sold his hotel and retired to his farm a short of the Chief of the Menominee Indian tribe, 150 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] distance from Randville, where he spent the years of age, Mr. Kingsford left to become a last two years of his life. timber cruiser for the former J. M. In business matters Mr. King was Longyear, of Marquette, who was then shrewd at driving a bargain, but always agent for the Canal company. For 23 years upright and trustworthy in his dealings. thereafter, part of the time as a partner of The remains were brought to Iron Herbert Armstrong, of this city, he Mountain last Friday and funeral services continued timber cruising over the Upper held at St. Mary’s church with interment at Peninsula. Park Cemetery [Cemetery Park]. During this period he was engaged, also, in logging and he dealt in land and EDWARD GEORGE KINGSFORD timber, acquiring considerable property. Married in 1890 On April 8, 1890, Mr. Kingsford was The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, married to Miss Mary Frances Flaherty, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume who died here last May 8 after a prolonged ___, Number ___ [Friday, July 30, illness. 1943], page ___, column ___ On June 10, 1908, Mr. Kingsford signed

a contract with the Ford Motor company as E.G. Kingsford, U.P. Pioneer, sales agent in Marquette, and in the spring Dies Suddenly at His Home of 1909 the first Ford cars were brought to Marquette by boat and distributed in the Edward G. Kingsford, 81, resident of peninsula. Iron Mountain for almost 50 years, and for Later Mr. Kingsford moved his business whom the village of Kingsford is named, to Iron Mountain and located in the Chapin died suddenly at about 7 o'clock last night mine warehouse, where he placed his first at his home, 800 West Brown Street, after a Model-T cars and parts. As the business lingering illness, from complications. grew, he moved to the former Freeman Mr. Kingsford, although ailing for some Livery building, where the business was time, was active until shortly before his conducted for five years. death. He drove down town from his home The agency continued to expand and in yesterday afternoon, and visited about the 1913-14 [sic - 1917] Mr. Kingsford built a city. Early last evening he was stricken new garage at Brown and Stephenson, the suddenly. present sales room. His death marks the passing of a man The Ford Plant who, perhaps more than any other, knew In 1921, Mr. Kingsford, as authorized the Upper Peninsula of Michigan across its agent of the Ford Motor company, took length and breadth. options on the present site of the Ford plant Born In Canada here and soon thereafter the platting was Mr. Kingsford was born March 1, 1862, begun for what is now Kingsford village. in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, the son of The Iron Mountain Realty company, Alfred and Anna Kingsford. His family organized with J. A. Minnear as manager, moved, when he was a boy, to a farm at platted Kingsford Heights in the same year. Fremont, Mich., where he worked long Added impetus was given the development hours to acquire the knowledge of farming by the start of construction at the Ford which he retained throughout his life. plant. Remaining on the farm until he was 18 Kingsford village was organized Nov. 16, 151 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

1923, and its chapter submitted to Governor Grosbeck for approval. The By Donald Kingsford charter was approved by village residents on Dec 29 of the same year and since then When Edward was a boy, his family the village has been steadily developed into moved to a farm in Fremont, Michigan, one of the most modern and progressive where he worked long hours to acquire the communities of its size in the peninsula. It knowledge of farming which he retained remains today as a monument to the man – throughout his life. Ed G. Kingsford – whose foresightedness Remaining on the farm until he was 18 brought the Ford plant, now in 100 per cent years old, Kingsford left to become a timber war production, to this district. cruiser for John Munro Longyear, of New Garage Plant Marquette, who was then agent for the Continuing his own business, while he Lake Superior Ship Canal, Railway and Iron supervised the early development of the Company. For twenty-three years Ford plant here, Mr. Kingsford, in 1922, thereafter, part of the time as a partner of constructed a modern garage plant on Herbert Armstrong, he continued timber South Carpenter avenue, in the village cruising over the Upper Peninsula. During which bears his name. This structure, this period he was also engaged in logging, entirely fireproof, served as a Ford and he dealt in land and timber, acquiring assembly plant for several years. considerable property. In 1923, on completion of a three-story On April 8, 1890, Kingsford married sheet-metal warehouse behind the Mary Frances "Minnie" Flaherty, born Carpenter avenue plant, the company December 5, 1865, in Ontonagon, organized a branch at Crystal Falls, where Michigan, to Thomas and Nancy Ann (Ford) another fireproof structure was erected. Flaherty. Nancy Ann (Ford) Flaherty and Continuing to expand, the company in William Ford, father of Henry Ford, the 1934 moved its shop, service and parts famous automobile manufacturer, were department to the South Carpenter avenue sister and brother. Thus Edward G. building, where it remains today. Kingsford's wife Minnie and Henry Ford The Kingsford Motor Car company for were first cousins. several years past has been actively On June 10, 1908, Kingsford signed a directed by E. S. Kingsford, son of its contract with the Ford Motor Company as founder. Besides the son, a daughter Mrs. sales agent in Marquette, and in the spring Norman Miller, survives, residing at Ann of 1909 the first Ford cars were brought to Arbor. Four grandchildren also survive – Marquette by boat and distributed in the Ted, Norman and Mary Miller, of Ann Arbor, peninsula. Later Kingsford moved his and Katharine Anne, of this city. A brother, business to Iron Mountain and located in Frank Kingsford, and a sister, Josephine, the Chapin Mine warehouse, where he live at Fremont, Mich. placed his first Model T cars and parts. As the business grew, he moved to the former [I have only two sisters, Marion and Harriet Freeman Livery building at 216 East A M. Kingsford.] Street, where the business was conducted for five years. Biographical Sketch of The agency continued to expand and in Edward G. Kingsford 1913-14 [sic – built in 1917 at 127-129

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South Stephenson Avenue] Kingsford built Edward Kingsford was in charge of a new garage on the northeast corner of the Henry Ford's wood division in an era when intersection of Brown Street and the chassis of model A’s and T’s were Stephenson Avenue. made of wood. He was sent into the upper In 1920, Kingsford, as authorized agent peninsula of Michigan near Iron Mountain of the Ford Motor Company, took options where he established a plant that harvested on the site of the Ford plant and soon timber. A town grew up around the plant thereafter [sic] the platting began for what and became known as Kingsford, Michigan. became the Village of Kingsford. The Later, the wooden sides of station wagons Village of Kingsford was organized were also fashioned from the timber in this November 16, 1923, and the charter was area. Wood scraps were used to make approved on December 29 of the same charcoal which was then used in the Rouge year. and other factories where steel was being Continuing his own business while he made. supervised the early development of the Edward was not a yes man which is Ford plant, Kingsford constructed a modern what Ford liked to have around him. When garage on South Carpenter Avenue in he expressed his contrary opinions, he was 1922. This structure served as a Ford usually fired and then rehired shortly assembly plant for several years. In 1923, thereafter. There are pictures of Edward on completion of a three-story sheet-metal Kingsford with Thomas Edison, Firestone, warehouse behind the Carpenter Avenue and Henry Ford. plant, the company organized a branch at Crystal Falls. Continuing to expand, the Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, company moved its shop, service and parts Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume department to the South Carpenter Avenue ___, Number ___ [Thursday, August 5, building in 1934. Kingsford's son, Edward 1897], page ___, column ___ S. "Ted" Kingsford, took over as the director of the Kingsford Motor Car Company Mrs. Kingsford had arrived from several years prior to his father's death. Fremont, Michigan, in attendance at the Gardening and bird-lore were bedside of her son Edward, who is very Kingsford's principal hobbies. For several low. years prior to his death, Kingsford supervised the planting and care of more Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, than 500 acres of soybeans at the Ford Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume farm near Grandville. Although he admitted ___, Number ___ [Thursday, August 5, that he was never quite successful in 1897], page ___, column ___ harvesting a full crop due to early frost, he stuck to the project, confident that Dr. Bouffleur of Chicago, general soybeans could be profitably grown in the surgeon of the Chicago, M. & St. Paul Upper Peninsula. railroad system[,] arrived in the city this Mrs. Kingsford died at their home at 800 morning and will assist Dr. Crowell in West Brown Street, Iron Mountain, on May performing a delicate operation upon the 8, 1943, and her husband died July 19 of throat of Edward G. Kingsford. Dr. B. has the same year." (from Kingsford, the Town had remarkable success in performing that Ford Built in Dickinson County, similar operations, and the present one Michigan) promises to be equally successful. 153 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

week he has forwarded to the factory Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, orders for four carloads of machines. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume ___, Number ___ [Thursday, March 2, Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, 1899], page ___, column ___ Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 15, Number 10 [Thursday, July 28, 1910], Ed Kingsford, [sic] killed a wolf near page 6, column 1 Sagola the 1st of the week for which he will receive a bounty of $15.00. BRIEF CITY NEWS. _____ Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 11, Edw. G. Kingsford will erect a large Number 29 [Thursday, December 6, garage and stable on the West Brown 1906], page 5, column 3 street property he recently purchased.

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 17, Edw. G. Kingsford is now the possessor Number 19 [Thursday, September 26, of a Ford automobile. 1912], page 1, column 4

The Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, New Timber Firm. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 16, Number 40 [Thursday, February 22, Edward G. Kingsford and H.A. Harte 1912], page 8, column 3 have formed a partnership under the name of Kingsford & Harte and will engage in the Established Many Agencies. timber business. The firm is now building camps four miles east of Granite Bluff. The Edward G. Kingsford, who was recently buildings will be sufficiently large to appointed distributing agent for the greater accommodate between sixty and seventy portion of the upper peninsula for the Ford men. It is planned to bank about 300,000 Automobile company, has been very feet of logs in addition to railroad ties, successful in establishing county agencies. poles[,] posts and pulpwood. Mr. Harte, Fred E. Parmelee, of this city, has secured until recently, held a position with the von the agency for Delta county; R.B. Webb, of [sic] Platen Lumber company. Crystal Falls, has the Iron county agency; Harry Barr, of Ironwood, Gogebic county; Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, G.W. Stannard, of Rockland, Ontonagon Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume county, and J.F. Dupont, of Larium, has ___, Number ___ [Thursday, July 8, Houghton and Keweenaw counties; Charles 1920], page ___, column ___ Rauer will continue to handle the machines in Dickinson county and has already Edward G. Kingsford has gone to Detroit booked a dozen or more orders, and Mr. to consult with the Ford Motor company Kingsford will give the Marquette county relative to the erection of the Iron Mountain territory his personal attention. During the plant.

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Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, illness. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Funeral services were held at 2:30 ___, Number ___ [Thursday, August 12, yesterday afternoon at the Freeman 1920], page ___, column ___ Funeral home. The Rev. George C. Weiser, pastor of the Holy Trinity Episcopal At a recent meeting of the board, church, conducted a brief service at the Edward G. Kingsford was elected a funeral home and read a prayer at the member of the board of directors of the graveside in Cemetery park. Commercial Bank to succeed the late H. M. Pallbearers were Carl G. Miller, Allan Pelham. The choice is one that will Wittkopf, Abbott M. Fox, Wallace B. commend itself to every patron of the Thompson, Dr. Lloyd Straub and James financial institution. Mr. Kingsford is a Stilwell. pioneer resident of Iron Mountain, having Mrs. Kingsford, the former Mary Frances resided here for more than forty years. Flaherty, was born Dec 5, 1865, in During his early residence he engaged in Houghton, Michigan, one of a family of the land business. For the past eight years seven children. She spent her childhood in he had been district agent for the Ford Marquette and came to Iron Mountain when Motor Co. Mr. Kingsford was very largely she was 16 years of age. Later she taught instrumental in inducing the Ford Motor in the public schools here for six years. Company to locate its immense body plant Married in 1890 in Iron Mountain, for all of which one and all She was married April 9, 1890, to Mr. of us are very grateful. Kingsford, and the couple observed their golden wedding anniversary here three The 1920 Federal Census lists Edward years ago. George Kingsford, 57, as an auto dealer in Mrs. Kingsford was a charter member of Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, the Tuesday Study club and of the Order of born in Canada, and living with his wife, Eastern Star in this city and was the first Mary, 54. president of the Iron Mountain Woman's club. MARY FRANCES (MINNIE) Three children were born to Mr. and FLAHERTY KINGSFORD Mrs. Kingsford, two of whom, besides the husband, survive. They are Mrs. Norman F. Miller, of Ann Arbor, and E. S. Kingsford, The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, this city. A younger son, Siebert, died at Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume the age of four. Grandchildren are Miss ___, Number ___ [Monday, May 10, Katharine Ann Kingsford, Iron Mountain, 1943], page ___, column ___ and Miss Mary Miller, and Norman, Jr., and Theodore Miller, of Ann Arbor. Mrs. Kingsford Died Saturday At Her Home According to her death certificate, Mary was 77 years, 5 months, and 3 days old when Mrs. E. G. Kingsford, 78, resident of Iron she died of arteriosclerosis. Mountain for 62 years and widely known in the community and district, died at about MARY FRANCES “MINNIE” 8:30 Saturday morning at her home, 800 (FLAHERTY) KINGSFORD West Brown street, following a lingering December 5, 1865 – May 8, 1943 155 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

mother, who credited Minnie with saving the By Gloria Boyce child’s life. Early in the century most babies were Minnie Flaherty was christened Mary born at home, and the mothers in Mrs. Frances Flaherty in Ontonagon in 1865, the Kingsford’s neighborhood could count on last year of the Civil War. Her father not just one meal being sent in by Minnie, designed and constructed shaft houses for but complete meals for several days. She the copper and iron mines throughout the was a good neighbor, known for sending peninsula and thus the family resided in the neighborhood children cupcakes and Houghton and Marquette before coming to cookies after her study club and other Iron Mountain in 1880. meetings. Minnie’s mother had been born Nancy Minnie became a staunch and devoted Ann Ford, sister of William Ford, who was member of the Tuesday Study Club, for the father of Henry Ford, the automotive who liked better to learn than she? An avid genius. On board ship during the crossing reader, she never stopped learning until the from Ireland to America, William and day she died. If she were not sure of Nancy’s father died. Nancy was but 11 something, she looked it up. As a result, years old at the time. In other words, she was one of the most interesting Minnie and Henry were first cousins and conversationalists in Iron Mountain. resembled one another greatly in Henry Ford and his wife, Clara, were appearance. always close to his cousin Minnie. The two A small, thin, wiry woman with deep-set couples were very compatible and spent eyes and hair pulled straight back with a much time together. knot in the back, Minnie Flaherty’s quick It was that relationship which led Henry Irish wit, her engaging conversation and her Ford to locate an automotive plant just capacity for trying new things made her a outside the boundaries of Iron Mountain. popular young lady. No doubt these The mines had ceased to operate and the qualities attracted a handsome young town faced a gloomy future. Without lumber cruiser from Lower Michigan named Minnie, there would have been no Edward George Kingsford, and they were Kingsford. married. Three children were born to them: When her son Ted was a freshman at Seibert, who died at the age of 4, Ted and the University of Michigan, Minnie paid him Dorothy. a surprise visit. It is difficult to say who was Minnie, the young matron and mother, more surprised for she found him bruised found herself a busy person. She loved and battered, a member of the freshman working in her garden along with her football team. She told him in no uncertain husband. Theirs was a rock garden, terms that he had been sent to college to reported to be the loveliest in town. get an education – not to play football and When Adelaide Russell was but a small get hurt and that would be the end of that! child, she became very ill. Feeling It was! helpless, Adelaide’s mother sought out the In 1912 the city fathers recognized the advice of her good friend, Minnie Kingsford. need of a city-wide women’s organization to Minnie plunged the sick child into a tub of help attack some of the local problems. At hot water. Too young to remember, the request of the city council, the Tuesday Adelaide was told this story by her grateful Study Club organized what is now known as the Iron Mountain-Kingsford Women’s 156 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Club. Leading citizens and her friends She was buried in the lavender chiffon urged Mrs. Kingsford to take the dress. presidency. In fact, they told her that she alone could get this much-needed The following biographical sketch organization off to a good start, such was submitted by Gloria Boyce appeared on her reputation and character. Reluctantly, pages 170-171 of Born From Iron, Iron she accepted, but went home and indulged Mountain, Michigan 1879-1979: in a good womanly cry – it was going to be such a big job! Then with her fierce Irish MRS. MINNIE FLAHERTY determination she welded together a KINGSFORD flourishing club that is now 100 years old! Wouldn’t she be proud? It was perhaps the "luck of the Irish" for And as she grew older, her pace did not Minnie Flaherty to be born herself, but it diminish. She loved parties, bridge and was not chance but sheer determination company calling. Though she had many and strength of character that governed the friends, few were her contemporaries. Most course of her life. were younger by far. Ontonagon was her birthplace in the While most of us wish we might remain year of 1865. Her father designed and young, Minnie hated to think that she was constructed shaft houses for the various getting older. She loved life so much that, copper and iron mines throughout the when she was in her seventies, she Upper Peninsula, and thus, the family remarked to her young housekeeper, “Oh, resided in Houghton and Marquette before how I envy your youth.” coming to Iron Mountain in 1880. For many years before her death, Her mother was Nancy Ann Ford, sister Minnie suffered an excruciating, painful of William Ford who was the father of the affliction involving the nerves of the face, illustrious automotive genius, Henry Ford. known as tic doloreux. She was On board ship during the crossing from uncomplaining and tried to forget it by being Ireland to America, William and Nancy with people. Her courage did not go Ford's father died. Nancy was but 11 years unnoticed and was an inspiration to all who old at the time. knew her. Minnie Flaherty taught school in Iron Lavender and purple were her favorite Mountain before and after her marriage to colors – the pansy her favorite flower. E. G. Kingsford. Three children were born Minnie looked forward so to the wedding to them: Seibert, who died at the age 4; of a special friend’s daughter, intending to E.S."Ted" Kingsford, and Dorothy. wear a new lavender chiffon dress for the The Kingsfords loved the out-of-doors, occasion. On May 8, 1943, the day of the whether it was nature in her primitive state wedding, Minnie Kingsford died. To the or their handsome well-kept garden. end her mind was bright and alert. She Mrs. Kingsford was known for her quick extracted a promise from her children that Irish wit, her repertoire of Irish songs, and they were not to tell the wedding guests her great store of knowledge, the latter about her death – to go to the festivities and being the result of many years of constant say nothing so that the wedding would be a reading on all subjects. She never stopped happy occasion, unspoiled by the sad learning. If she wasn't sure of something, news. Even in death, Minnie Kingsford she looked it up. As a result, she was one remained in character. 157 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] of the most engaging conversationalists of responsible for the existence of Kingsford. her time. The Tuesday Study Club was an A plaque will be installed next spring on a important segment of her life and it claimed large boulder near the tree, acknowledging her loyalty and avid interest until her death. both Minnie and E. G. Kingsford for their Henry Ford was always close to his roles in local history. cousin, Minnie Kingsford. In fact, the two Minnie was 15 years old when the family couples, the Fords and the Kingsfords, settled in Iron Mountain. Her quick Irish wit, were most compatible and spent much time capacity for adventure, and engaging together. conversation soon made her a popular It was that relationship which influenced young lady. Acquaintances remembered Henry Ford to locate in this area. It was he that Minnie was small, thin, and wiry, who named the new village, Kingsford, and blessed with lovely wavy hair. She Mrs. Kingsford played no little part in this participated in the social activities of her drama. day – parties, taffy pulls, and skating on Submitted by Gloria Boyce Lake Antoine. No doubt these qualities attracted the handsome young timber Another article, also by Gloria Boyce, cruiser, Edward G. Kingsford. They were appeared in The Daily News, Iron married on April 8, 1890. Mountain-Kingsford, Michigan, under the Once a teacher, now a young matron following headline: Flaherty tree honors and mother, Minnie found herself occupied Mrs. Kingsford's contributions. with family and community.. The At long last Minnie Flaherty of Kingsford Kingsfords enjoyed the out-of-doors has received her due. whether it was nature in its primitive state or A flowering crab tree was planted on the working in their handsome flower garden, grounds of the Kingsford High School reputed to be the loveliest in town. The recently to honor Minnie and her husband, house they built is located on West Brown Edward G. Kingsford. Street. Local history accounts have often She was a staunch and devoted credited Mr. Kingsford as the namesake of member of the Tuesday Study Club, for she the town. However, it is important to welcomed every opportunity to advance her remember had he not married Minnie knowledge. An avid reader, she never Flaherty, who was Henry Ford's first cousin, stopped learning until the day she died. he would not have had that distinction. Henry Ford was always close to his In 1920, finally women had received the cousin, Minnie. He was compatible with E. right to vote, but men were not yet prepared G. as well, and the Fords and Kingsfords to give them recognition for anything much spent much time together. Henry and outside of domesticity. Minnie resembled each other in It was that year, 1920, when Henry Ford appearance, having the same spare look was searching the Upper Peninsula for a and deep-set dark eyes. site on which to build a plant, one with When Minnie's son was a freshman at nearby abundant forest land and water. the University of Michigan, his mother paid Several communities qualified, but it him a surprise visit. It was difficult to say appeared that Iron Mountain was favored who was the more surprised for she found because Minnie lived there. him a bruised and battered member of the And so, at long last, future generations freshman football team. Minnie told him in will know that a woman was in great part no uncertain terms that he had been sent to 158 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] college to get an education, not to play ___, Number ___ [Saturday, December football – that he would have to drop 15, 1894], page ___, column ___ football at once – and he did. In 1912 the Iron Mountain City Council Mrs. J. Russell Jones, of Ontonagon, recognized the need for a women's was the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. G. organization to help with some of the local Kingsford, this week. problems. At the request of the council, the Tuesday Study Club organized what is now Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, known as the Iron Mountain-Kingsford Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Women's Club. Leading citizens and study ___, Number ___ [Thursday, May 26, club members urged Mrs. Kingsford to take 1904], page ___, column ___ the presidency. In fact, they believed that she alone could get this much-needed Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Kingsford left organization off to a good start – such was Monday night for Seattle where they will her reputation and character. Reluctantly reside in the future. she accepted, but afterward went home to indulge in a good womanly cry. Then with Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, her fierce Irish determination, she welded Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume together a club that has served our ___, Number ___ [Thursday, June 16, community for 86 years. 1904], page ___, column ___ When she became older Minnie suffered an excruciatingly painful affliction involving Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Kingsford have decided the nerves of her face known as tic to make their home at Seattle, Wash. Their doloreux. At the time there was no address is 1121 34th Street. Mrs. treatment for this disorder. She was Kingsford is in a much better health. uncomplaining and tried to get it off her mind by being among people, especially Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, young ones. Her courage did not go Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume unnoticed. ___, Number ___ [Thursday, August 5, Though ill, Minnie had looked forward to 1909], page ___, column ___ attending the wedding of Catherine Cudlip to Dr. John Garvey, on May 8, 1943. For Mrs. Gardner, of Detroit, is a guest at the occasion she had purchased a lavender the home of her sister, Mrs. Edward G. chiffon dress. On the day of the wedding, Kingsford. Minnie lay dying. Her mind bright and alert, she extracted a promise from her children Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, to go to the wedding, but to say nothing Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 22, about their mother's imminent death. Number 49 [Thursday, April 25, 1918], She wanted the wedding to be a happy page ___, column ___ event, unspoiled by the bad news. Even in death Minnie was a woman of courage and Women in the Council. strength. She was buried in the lavender dress. Mrs. Elwin F. Brown, Mrs. Edward G. Kingsford, Mrs. William H. Jayne, Mrs. The Range-Tribnune, Iron Mountain, Gilbert V. Carpenter, and Mrs. Morgan E. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Leonard attended the tri-county conference 159 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] held last Tuesday at Iron River to perfect plans for the registration of women in There died a few days ago at his home accordance with the request of the federal near L’Anse, the oldest inhabitant of the government. Mrs. Uiren, of Houghton, the upper peninsula, if not the oldest in the upper peninsula chairman, did not attend state. He was Peter Crebassa, aged 94 the session as had been agreed, and it years, who came to Lake Superior, then a evolved upon Mrs. Leonard to explain the virgin wilderness, in 1822, from his home in object and benefits to be derived from the Quebec. He settled in L’Anse and has registration. resided there continuously since that date, a period of more than three-quarters of a More About MARY FRANCIS(MINNIE) century. He came to the upper peninsula a FLAHERTY: quarter of a century before the opening of Medical Information: She had tic doloreux the first mine of copper or of iron and lived to see both the copper and iron district the Children of EDWARD G. KINGSFORD and greatest mining fields of their kind upon the MARY FLAHERTY: globe. As a fur trader and agent of the American Fur company he often came in SEIBERT KINGSFORD, b. 1892, Iron contact with John Jacob Astor, the shrewd Mountain, Dickinson County, German butcher, who founded the richest Michigan; d. February 26, 1896, Iron family in America, and whose descendants Mountain, Dickinson County, hobnob with royalty. The old gentleman’s Michigan. Burial: 1896, Quinnesec, mind remained active to the last and many later moved to Iron Mountain were the interesting tales of the past that Cemetery came from his lips. DOROTHY FORD KINGSFORD, b. March 28, 1897, Iron Mountain, JOHN C. KRUSE Dickinson County, Michigan; d.

January 11, 1986, Asheville, Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Buncombe, North Carolina. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 12, EDWARD SCOTT (TED) KINGSFORD, Number 24 [Thursday, October 31, b. August 21, 1898, Iron Mountain, 1907], page 1, columns 1-2 Dickinson County, Michigan; d.

January 25, 1963, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan. AWFUL ACCIDENT ALFRED KINGSFORD, b. August 1898, _____ Michigan. JOHN C. KRUSE MISTAKEN FOR PETER CREBASSA A BEAR AND SHOT BY FRIEND. _____ The Daily Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson

County, Michigan, Second Year, Whole No. 561 [Monday, May 2, 1898], page 3, His Death Was Instantaneous, the column 5 Neck Being Broken – Accident Occurred at Witch Lake. Traded With John Jacob Astor.

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About one mile east of Witch Lake, in Kruse held a rear position. The men were sight of the Michigamme river, at about in plain hearing distances of each other all 10:15 o’clock last Monday morning, John C. the time. Kruse, a well-known citizen of Iron While the men were occupying these Mountain, was mistaken for a bear and shot positions, Mr. Kruse was heard to call, dead by George W. Gibbons, a highly- “Here she comes[,] I am right on her heels! respected farmer residing in that vicinity. Get ready!” The shooting was entirely accidental Mr. Gibbons no sooner heard the call and Mr. Gibbons is held blameless by the when, looking down into the ravine, [he] friends of the dead man. saw a dark object in couching position, Mr. Kruse and Edward G. Kingsford left running through the bushes. He called, Iron Mountain last Sunday morning for “Look out, I am going to shoot![”] The call Witch Lake, their errand being to hunt bear, was repeated, and was distinctly heard by reported to be numerous in the immediate Mr. Kingsford. Seeing the dark object for a vicinity. They made their headquarters at second time, and believing it impossible for the summer home of A.F. Wright. Mr. Krause to have reached the point in Monday morning, Mr. Kingsford and Mr. view and getting no response from Mr. Kruse called at the home of Mr. Gibbons, a Krause, Mr. Gibbons fired. few rods distant from the Wright cottage, Hearing the crash of the falling body in and induced him to accompany them on the bushes, and fully believing that a bear their hunting trip. had been killed, Mr. Gibbons and Mr. Mr. Kruse wore a black, fuzzy jacket. Kingsford both ran to the point. Mr. Mr. Kingsford tried to induce him to change Gibbons was the first to reach the place it for one of another color, and warned him and to his intense horror found he had shot of the danger of hunting black bear in such his friend. He was soon joined by Mr. a garment. Enroute [sic – En route] Mr. Kingsford. Poor Gibbons was in almost a Kingsford once more endeavored to induce demented condition and Mr. Kingsford was him to remove the coat, but Mr. Kruse completely unnerved. It was a time to test treated the warning lightly, and went to his to the utmost the nerve of a brave man. Mr. death. Kingsford, however, was equal to the The party crossed the lake to the occasion. Assuring Mr. Gibbons of his Michigamme plains, about a mile distant sympathy, and that he would assuredly be from the cottage. These plains are held blameless for the awful accident[,] Mr. overgrown with hazel bushes of the tall Kingsford succeeded in quieting the man. variety. The party had not entered this An examination proved that Mr. Kruse growth for any considerable distance before must have been killed instantaneously. The they sighted three bears engaged in ball from the rifle had cut the vertebral feeding on the hazel nuts. column, breaking the neck, and coming out The hunt was on. The three men, all at the right cheek. There was no outcry – skilled hunters, all cool and collected, no struggle – no pain. separated, the plan being to drive the Assistance was secured and the body animals into a corner at a belt of hardwood was removed to the Wright cottage. and kill them all. Mr. Kingsford then hastened to Witbeck Mr. Kingsford was at a point in advance and telephoned the sad news to George F. of the bears, Mr. Gibbons was on a small Seibert, who informed the relatives and hill overlooking a ravine to the right and Mr. friends. 161 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

On the St. Paul afternoon passenger the adds to the sadness of the terrible accident. following friends left for Witch Lake: Mr. The young lady is prostrate with grief, and and Mrs. George F. Seibert, Mrs. Kingsford, will have the complete sympathy of a wide A.F. Wright, H.M. Pelham, Dr. S.E. Cruse, circle of friends. George J. Eisele, G.F. Gensch, G.V. Mr. Kruse was a man of generous Carpenter, Undertaker Burbank, A.E. instincts and had a wide circle of friends in Robbins, and the writer. his adopted home. The mourning relatives The home of Mr. Gibbons presented a are assured of the complete sympathy of scene of sorrow that we cannot picture. the community. He was a faithful member The father was heartbroken and the of St. Mary’s church and active in its mother, at the point of collapse, was government. He was a member of the courageously confronting the condition and several Catholic orders and held a leading attending to the wants of her little ones. office in the local lodge of Elks. Kind friends assured them of a larger Mr. Kruse was born at the Saginaw measure of friendship, of complete location, near Ishpeming, but at an early sympathy, and offers of every assistance, age moved with his parents to Negaunee, to lighten their load of sorrow. where he reached manhood. His father The remains of Mr. Kruse were brought was a mine carpenter and the son followed to Iron Mountain on the evening passenger in the footsteps of the father. He was a train and taken to the morgue, where they master carpenter at the Volunteer and later were prepared for burial, later being held the same position under Thomas F. removed to the family home on West F Cole at the Regent group of mines. His street. faithfulness and efficiency won the Mr. Kruse came to Iron Mountain from friendship and high esteem of Mr. Cole. the Gogebic range, where he had been Later Mr. Kruse held clerical positions employed at the Tilden mine[,] to accept a under Mr. Cole on the Gogebic range and position with the Oliver Iron Mining when afflicted with an eye trouble he was company. He was placed in charge of the sent to this range and placed in charge of Forest mine, and resided at the mine until exploratory work. He was about thirty-nine the property was abandoned, when he years of age. removed to the city and has since resided Funeral services of a brief nature were at the corner of West F street and Prospect held at St. Mary’s church yesterday and the avenue. A year ago last August death remains were taken to Negaunee for burial entered the family and removed the mother. this morning. The remains and relatives Mrs. Kruse was taken to her former home in were escorted from the late home to the Pennsylvania for burial. train by the Order of Elks, and a delegation Mr. Kruse is survived by a little of the members made the trip to Negaunee. daughter, Forest, aged five years, a father, At Negaunee funeral services will be held at five sisters and one brother. Two of the St. Paul’s Catholic church. sisters and the father resided with him. He also had many relatives on the Marquette MRS. CHARLES (EMMA LARSON) range, where he resided for many years LUNDGREN prior to going to Bessemer. Mr. Kruse was to have been married shortly to a well-known and highly The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, esteemed Iron Mountain young lady, which Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 162 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

___, Number ___ [Monday, March 18, at 8:20 this morning at her home, 1000 1946], page ___, column ___ Prospect avenue. She had been ill about three months. Mrs. Lundgren Mrs. Luxmore was born Nov. 12, 1862, Dies After in Scales Mound, Ill., and in 1873 Brief Illness accompanied her family to Ishpeming. She came to Iron Mountain in 1882 and in that

year was married to Nathaniel Hicks. After Mrs. Emma Lundgren, 74, widow of his death, the following year, she conducted Charles Lundgren, former Iron Mountain a private school and later taught in the old police chief and county sheriff, died at 5 Brown street school, the first public school Saturday at her home, 602 East G. she in Iron Mountain. had been ill only a week. Married in 1894 Mrs. Lundgren was born June 6, 1871, She was married in 1894 to Ben Hicks in Mariestad, Sweden. She went to and accompanied him to Boulder, Col., to Chicago while a young girl and in 1899 took live. In 1896, shortly after the death of her up residence in Iron Mountain. second husband, Mrs. Hicks again returned She leaves three daughters, Mrs. Arthur to Iron Mountain. She accepted a position Holmberg and Mrs. Ivar Harding, Iron in the Lincoln school and taught until 1900, Mountain, and Mrs. Walter Pollock, Detroit; when she was married to T.L. Luxmore. He a brother, Gust Larson, Iron Mountain, and died in 1933. three grandchildren, living in Iron Mountain. She was a member of the Methodist The Rev. Paul E. Johnson, pastor of Episcopal church and formerly was active in First Covenant, will conduct the servies for the Iron Mountain-Kingsford Woman’s club. Mrs. Lundgren at 2 tomorrow at the She made, during the many years that residence. The body prepared for burial at she taught school here, numerous friends, the Erickson and Son Mortuary, was taken who visited and wrote her during her last to the home this morning. illness. Burial will be in the family lot in She leaves a brother, Simon Rowe, Iron Cemetery Park. Mountain; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Will Bennett, Virginia, Minn.; two nieces, Mrs. MRS. T.L. (JULIA ROWE-HICKS) N.C. Bartholomew, Iron Mountain, and Mrs. LUXMORE L.B. Colwell, Kansas City, Mo., and two nephews, W.W. Thompson, Iron Mountain, The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, and William Cundy, Chicago. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Services will be conducted by the Rev. ___, Number ___ [Friday, November 2, Ernest Brown at 2 tomorrow afternoon at 1945], page ___, column ___ the Buchanan-Villemur-Tondin Funeral home. Burial will be in the Quinnesec Mrs. Luxmore cemetery. Died Today At Her Home JOSEPH MARCHAND

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Number 29 [Thursday, December 8, advertised: “Good accommodations by the 1904], page 5, column 2 day or week. A fine bar of wines and liquors in connection.” QUINNESEC ITEMS. _____ In the 1894 Michigan State Census for Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Jos. Marchand, who has been a John Marsch was listed as the 25-year-old resident of Quinnesec for the past twenty head of household, born in 1869. Others years, died last Saturday morning of cancer listed in this household were: Fritz of the throat, at the residence of his son-in- Anderson, hired man, 22; Mary Pavlik, law, Chas. Benson. The deceased was housekeeper, 19; James Kearney, boarder, sixty years of age and had been a sufferer 30; Rudolph Conrad, boarder, 22; Henry from the disease for the past four years. Stencie, boarder, 49; Michael Flynn, The funeral was held from the Catholic boarder, 30; Richard Martin, boarder, 40. church last Monday morning. John Marsch, a railroad contractor and JOHN MARSCH sales stable owner, was listed on page 98 of the Directory of the Cities of Iron Mountain and Norway and the Villages of The Daily Tribune, Chicago, Cook County, Quinnesec and Vulcan, Mich. 1902-1903. Illinois, Volume ___, Number ___ The sales stable was listed at 220 East [Thursday, April 30, 1953], page ___, Hughitt Street. column 2 – Obituaries On page 111 of the J.W. Shannon & John Marsch Company’s Directory of Iron Mountain for John Marsch, 85, of 2300 Lincoln Park 1905-1906, John Marsch was listed as West, retired railroad construction owning a sales stable at 118 East Hughitt contractor, died yesterday in his home. Mr. Street, and also working as a railroad Marsch, who came to Chicago from contractor. His residence was listed at 315 Luxemburg when 18 years old, had been East Hughitt Street. Luxemburg consul general in Chicago since 1935. Surviving are his widow, Elizabeth, On page 146 of The Inter-State and a daughter, Lenora. Services will be Directory Company’s Directory of Iron held at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Clement’s Mountain and Norway and Dickinson church. County Gazetteer For the Years 1907- 1908, John Marsch is listed as a railroad John Marsch was born May 15, 1869, in contractor with an office at 218-220 East Luxemburg, according to his United States Hughitt Street. His home was in Chicago, passport application in 1922 in Illinois. His Illinois. wife was listed as Elizabeth R. John C. Marsch, son of John C. and On page 153 of the Bunn & Simmons’ Augusta (Sluck) Marsch, was married to Iron Mountain City Directory 1892-94, Mary E. Myers, daughter of Edolph and MARSCH & GOTHE (John Marsch and Mary (Wallace) Myers, on December 25, Fred Gothe) were the proprietors of the 1902, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. This may or German Hotel at 407 Merritt Avenue. They may not be John Marsch. 164 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

expects to commence the construction work Anna Marsch, daughter of John and within a few days. He will employ a large Elizabeth (Schneeberger) Marsch, died in force of men and teams and will complete Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, at 1150 the work as soon as possible. Huron Street on October 21, 1918. She The first contract calls for the was born October 22, 1899, in Chicago, construction of a track connecting the Cook County, Illinois, and was a single St. Paul branch with the Wisconsin & white female working as a clerk. She was Michigan road at Quinnesec. buried in Concordia Cemetery. This may or The second contract calls for the may not be the daughter of John Marsch. building of spur tracks from the Aragon mine at Norway and the Penn Iron Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Mining company’s group of mines at Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 12, Norway and Vulcan to a connection with Number 9 [Thursday, July 18, 1907], the main line of the Wisconsin & page 1, column 1 Michigan road. It is probable, too, that contracts will TO INVADE NORWAY soon be let for spur tracks to the Saginaw and Loretto mines. _____ The construction of these lines is evidence that the St. Paul company has ST. PAUL ROAD LET been assured of a considerable tonnage of CONSTRUCTON CONTRACTS ore from the mines in the districts named, a YESTERDAY. district heretofore served exclusively by the _____ Chicago & North-Western road. The Press also hears that the St. Paul

company may finance an extension of Has the St. Paul Company the Wisconsin & Michigan road to Acquired Control of the Wisconsin Escanaba. This report cannot be & Michigan? – Work at Once. confirmed, however. That the St. Paul will have a direct line from the Iron Mountain The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul district to Escanaba in the very near future railway is to invade the Norway and can be safely predicted. Such a line would Vulcan mining districts at once. decrease the miles of haulage over the The St. Paul company has either present Channing route nearly a half. It acquired control of the Wisconsin & would make possible the haulage of nearly Michigan railway or has been successful one hundred loaded cars of ore instead of in perfecting a traffic arrangement equal twenty as now. It would mean largely to an ownership. increased earnings, and that’s what counts The above can be stated authoritatively in the railway world at this age. – the fact developed yesterday. _____ The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul company has let the contracts to John In addition to the above contracts, The Marsch for the building of the necessary Press learns that Mr. Marsch will also build connections. three miles of track from the main line of The several contracts were let in this the Chicago & North-Western road to the city yesterday morning and Mr. Marsch 165 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] new James mine in the Iron River Iron Mountain is to become the district. The James is owned by the northern terminus of the Wisconsin & Mineral Mining company of which E.F. Michigan railway. Brown is general manager. Mr. Marsch will It is now expected that that railway will also build a spur track one mile in length be running passenger and freight trains into to the Kimball mine in the Crystal Falls the city not later than the first of September district for the St. Paul road. – perhaps within two weeks. This is one of the results of the traffic Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, arrangements recently entered into with the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 12, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway Number 10 [Thursday, July 25, 1907], whereby the latter gains entrance into the page 1, column 5 Norway and Vulcan mining districts. The Wisconsin & Michigan company Work Commenced. has let a contract to John Marsch to build the connecting link to the St. Paul branch The exclusive news in the last issue of track to the Vivian mine and the work has The Press that the St. Paul road would at already commenced. The orders are to once invade the Norway and Vulcan push the work as rapidly as possibly [sic – districts, [sic] was soon confirmed. Indeed, possible]. supplies for the extensions were received The connection will be made with the here within forty-eight hours. The work of main line of the Wisconsin & Michigan connecting the St. Paul and Wisconsin & road at a point near the home of John L. Michigan roads at Quinnesec has Buell, east of Quinnesec. commenced. Yesterday afternoon The running of the Wisconsin & Contractor Marsch received two Michigan trains into the St. Paul depot here locomotives to be employed in the work. will not only be a great convenience to the people of Iron Mountain but to all the Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, neighboring towns south to Menominee and Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 12, Marinette. Number 11 [Thursday, August 1, 1907], It is presumed that the present train page 1, column 1 schedule will be maintained. If so it will permit Iron Mountain people to leave home at 6:30 in the morning, transact business in WIS. & MICH. R.R. Norway, Vulcan, Loretto and other county _____ towns and return in time for dinner. Or our people may spend the entire day in WILL RUN PASSENGER TRAINS Peshtigo, Menominee or Marinette and INTO TOWN IN A FEW WEEKS. return home at 11:30 p.m. It will give Iron _____ Mountain four additional passenger train [sic – trains] to and from points in the

county and on Green Bay. Marsch Has the Contract to The arrangement whereby the Connect With the St. Paul – Will Wisconsin & Michigan is permitted to use Run Trains from St. P. Depot. the track of the St. Paul road between Quinnesec and Iron Mountain will no doubt materially increase the business of the first 166 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] named road and give our city greatly Number 15 [Thursday, August 29, improved train service. 1907], page 1, column 4

Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Work Resumed. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 12, Number 13 [Thursday, August 22, Contractor Marsch has resumed the 1907], page 1, column 6 work of building the one and one-half mile of track which is to connect the Wisconsin & Michigan. Wisconsin & Michigan and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railways east of Work on the extension of the Quinnesec. In the condemnation Wisconsin & Michigan road to a proceedings before Probate Judge Miller, connection with the Chicago, Milwaukee John L. Buell was awarded $1,200 for the & St. Paul road east of Quinnesec has right of way across his property and Mrs. been delayed owning to difficulty Thomas McKenna the sum of $700. relative to the right of way. The track will cross property owned by John L. Buell and Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Mrs. Thomas McKenna and the parties Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 12, have been unable to agree as to the value Number 18 [Thursday, September 19, of the lands. Condemnation proceedings 1907], page 1, columns 1-2 have been commenced by the railroad company and a decision will soon be RAILROAD CENTER reached. It is understood that when the Wisconsin & Michigan commences running _____ trains into the city close connections will be made with the morning and evening IRON MOUNTAIN MOST passenger trains on the St. Paul road. IMPORTANT ONE IN THE PENINSULA. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, _____ Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 12,

Number 13 [Thursday, August 22, 1907], page 4, column 1 Contract Has Been Let to Contractor Marsch for Immediate John Marsch arrived here from Extension of W. & M. to City. Cleveland last Monday evening in his handsome Pierce-Arrow touring car. The It has been definitely decided to actual running time from Cleveland to Iron extend the Wisconsin & Michigan Mountain was less than thirty-six hours. railroad to Iron Mountain, and the The car is the largest ever seen here. It contract for grading was let yesterday to has a fifty horse-power motor, can carry John Marsch, who will start the work at nine passengers and run a mile a minute on once. The grading will be completed inside ordinary roads. of sixty days. Detailed information relative to the terminal will be found in the article Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, following, which was put in type early in the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 12,

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Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Contractor Marsch has nearly Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 12, completed the work of grading the right of Number 29 [Thursday, December 5, way for the extension of the Wisconsin & 1907], page 7, column 3 Michigan railway from Cundy to the St. Paul tracks in this city and it is only a question of QUINNESEC ITEMS. a few weeks now when the company will be _____ operating trains over its own line. The steel rails have been laid from Cundy to the John Marsch was in town last Saturday bridge over the county road and the work of and made another reduction in wages on ballasting the track is progressing rapidly. the extension of the Wisconsin & Michigan Railway. About a week ago, the Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, wages were cut from $2.00 to $1.35 per Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 13, day and last Saturday the cut was to $1 per Number 8 [Thursday, July 16, 1908], day. page 6, column 3

Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, QUINNESEC ITEMS. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 13, Number 4 [Thursday, June 18, 1908], A steam shovel was installed last page 1, column 4 Monday at the gravel pit on the Wisconsin & Michigan Railway loading gravel to Rush the Work. ballast the track on the extension to Iron Mountain. Contractor Marsch is now rushing the work on the Wisconsin & Michigan railway Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, extension from Cundy to this city. The right Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 12, of way has been cut out to the St. Paul Number 10 [Thursday, July 30, 1908], tracks and grading crews are working at page 1, column 4 both ends and in the middle. The heavy cut under the pipe line is nearing completion, Nearing Completion. the big steam shovel working steadily. The bridge over the county road is almost The Wisconsin & Michigan railway finished. At a meeting of the city council extension from Cundy to Iron Mountain is last Monday evening the company was nearing completion. Contractor Marsch has granted permission to cross Cedar avenue. finished the grading for the entire distance. The ties are being distributed and the steel Some work remains to be done at the rails will be here as soon as needed. heavy cut under the pipe line to the hydraulic works, but the big steam shovel is Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, removing the earth rapidly. The road-bed Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 13, [sic – roadbed] has been ballasted and the Number 8 [Thursday, July 16, 1908], rails laid to the bridge over the county road, page 1, column 4 and the balance of the work can be finished

168 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] in short order once the excavating is Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, completed. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 14, Number 36 [Thursday, January 27, Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, 1910], page 1, column 3 Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 12, Number 14 [Thursday, August 27, JOHN MARSCH 1908], page 1, column 3 BUYS RAILWAY Wisconsin & Michigan. _____

Work on the Wisconsin & Michigan road CONTRACTOR NOW FULL- extension from Cundy to a junction with the FLEDGED RAILROAD MAGNATE. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul tracks near the turntable in this city is practically _____ finished. The steel rails are in place and the ballasting crew will complete their Private Secretary Olin Buys the labors this week. A little work remains to be Wisconsin & Michigan Railway at done on the bridge over the Chicago & the State Tax Sale. North-Western track. It is probable that the company will commence running trains over The sale of the Wisconsin & Michigan the extension some day next week. The railway for taxes due the state of Michigan present train schedule will be maintained took place at the Menominee county court- for some time, but ultimately changes will house [sic – courthouse] yesterday. be made so as to connect with the morning The railway was bought by H.M. and evening passenger trains on the St. Pelham, of Iron Mountain, for the sum of Paul road. $67,991.08, the sum due the state. Mr. Pelham informed The Press this Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, morning that he was acting as attorney for Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 13, Charles A. Olin, of Chicago. Mr. Olin is the Number 15 [Thursday, September 3, private secretary and auditor of John 1908], page 1, column 4 Marsch, the well-known capitalist and railroad contractor. Over Own Tracks. Mr. Marsch is already the owner of that section of the road extending from Cundy The Wisconsin & Michigan railway trains Junction to Iron Mountain and Mr. Olin was are now operated over the company’s undoubtedly acting for Mr. Marsch in extension from Cundy to this city. The first making the purchase. train left the city over the new line last The immediate future will establish the Tuesday morning. The present train final ownership of the railway. schedules will be maintained for some time The road has made money since it yet. The Wisconsin & Michigan is already secured an Iron Mountain connection and receiving a nice patronage from Iron the business is sufficient to pay a good rate Mountain people and the service is gaining of interest on the bonded indebtedness of in popularity. $1,500,000.

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Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, C.L. Farnsworth, of Cleveland, who was Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 14, also a member of the party, is in charge of Number 38 [Thursday, February 10, the bond deparment [sic – department] of 1910], page 1, column 5 the First National Bank of Cleveland, and had been sent out by his bank to look over VISITING RAILWAY MEN the investment. This bank has financed many of Marsch’s big operations in the _____ vicinity of Cleveland, notable among which was the building of the Belt road. John Marsch Here With W. & M. Supt. Harrison declared that the trip was R’y Officials and Capitalists. connected with a change in the control, but he was not at the present time in a position General Manager Faithorn, Louis E. to say anything regarding it. Hart and W.T. Abbott, officials of the Wisconsin & Michigan road from Chicago, Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, accompanied by Supt. S.N. Harrison, of Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 15, Peshtigo, and John Marsch, who recently Number 47 [Thursday, April 13, 1911], acquired control of the line, made the trip of page 1, column 2 inspection over the system last Sunday, taking dinner at The Milliman. It is the Inspection Tour. understanding of The Press that Mr. Marsch will take possession in the near John Marsch, the new owner of the future. This will lead to a re-organization Wisconsin & Michigan road, arrived in the [sic – reorganization] and retirement of a city from Chicago last Saturday morning number of the present officials. It is accompanied by J.N. Faithorn, who has probable, too, that the main office in held the position of general manager. The Chicago will be closed. gentlemen were met here by M.T. Abbott, who is general counsel for Superintendent Harrison and Messrs. Cook the road, said the trip was made for the and Pelham, attorneys for Mr. Marsch, and purpose of determining whether the a trip of inspection was made over the road property was worth while [sic – worthwhile] in the motor car owned by the road. No getting control of. So far I do not know significance is attached to the trip. what will be done. A lot of money has been spent on the road, probably to see what Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, could be done with it. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 15, Mr. Marsch nowowns $901,000 first Number 50 [Thursday, May 4, 1911], mortgage bonds, the interest on which is page 1, column 3 due in six months, and in addition he has the specific tax titles which he purchased at New General Manager. public sale lately. There is outstanding besides this a total of $1,800,000 in second A bulletin has been issued by Vice- mortgage bonds and stock which were held President Emil Marsch, of the Wisconsin & by the Walsh syndicate, and four-fifths of Michigan road, announcing the promotion which was taken by the First National Bank of S.N. Harrison from the position of of Chicago when the syndicate dissolved. superintendent to that of general manager.

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Mr. Harrison succeeds J.N. Faithorn, of of the district, Mrs. Martin was taken ill Chicago, who is no longer with the road, about three weeks ago. and became effect [sic – effective] last She was born April 18, 1854, in Monday. Mr. Harrison will have his office at Devonshire, England, and came to the Phestigo [sic – Peshtigo]. The promotion States when she was 26. She lived for a will please the gentleman’s many friends. brief time in Kingston, N.Y., and then came to Iron Mountain, where she had lived for Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, the last 64 years. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 20, Her husband, William Martin, died on Number 21 [Thursday, October 7, 1915], Oct. 18, 1923, in Iron Mountain. page 1, column 3 Mrs. Martin leaves two daughters, Mrs. Pearson and Miss Eva martin, of Cleveland, Sold Again. Ohio; two sons, John B. Martin, of Virginia, Minn., and Joseph D. Martin, of Lakewood, Our former townsman, John Marsch, will Ohio, and a step-son, William J. Martin, of be interested in learning that a Marinette Iron Mountain. paper has again sold, for the steenth [sic] The body was taken to the Erickson and time, his Wisconsin & Michigan railroad. Son Mortuary pending the completion of This time the road has been sold to the funeral arrangements. Illinois Central. In the same article we are told that the Illinois Central is to be The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, extended north from Madison to Champion Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume and again south via Florence. In order to ___, Number ___ [Thursday, February make use of the Wisconsin & Michigan, 17, 1949], page ___, column ___ another line will be built to Norway or Constine. It would be cheaper to connect Mrs. Emily Martin with Mr. Marsch’s road in Iron Mountain. Services for Mrs. Emily Martin, 94, who died Tuesday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A.J. Pearson, 406 East A, MRS. WILLIAM (EMILY) MARTIN will be held at 2 tomorrow afternoon at the Erickson and Son Mortuary. The Rev. S.D. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Kinde, pastor of Trinity Methodist, and the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Rev. Ernest Brown, of First Methodist, will ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, officiate. February 16, 1949], page ___, column Burial will be in Cemetery Park. ___ The family requests that flowers be omitted. Woman, 94 Dies After The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Brief Illness Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume ___, Number ___ [Saturday, February Mrs. Emily Martin, 94, one of the 19, 1949], page ___, column ___ county’s few nonagenarians, died at 8:15 last night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mrs. Emily Martin A.J. Pearson, 406 East A street. A pioneer Services for Mrs. Emily Martin, 94, who died Tuesday night at the home of her 171 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] daughter, Mrs. A.J. Pearson, 406 East A, She was married in 1902 to Silas J. were held at 2 yesterday afternoon at the McGregor. Erickson and Son Mortuary. In addition to her husband, Mrs. The Rev. S.D. Kinde, pastor of Trinity McGregor leaves two sons, Clark C. Methodist, and the Rev. Ernest Brown, McGregor and S. James McGregor, and pastor of First Methodist, officiated at the three grandchildren, Barrett, Kenny James services, during which organ music was and Mary Elizabeth McGregor. played by Mrs. Burnett Pender. Active In Club Work Pallbearers were William Clement, Ben Mrs. McGregor, until forced by ill health Rule, John Rule, Reuben Bennett, Fred to give up her work, was active in numerous Knight and Thomas Grenfell. clubs in the city. She was one of the Persons from out-of-town attending the organizers of the Delphian Society and later rites were Miss Eva Martin, of Cleveland, was instrumental in merging the Society Ohio; Joseph D. Martin, of Lakewood, Ohio, with the Chautauqua Study club. and John B. Martin and Thomas Crago, of Services will be held at 1:45 Wednesday Virginia, Minn. afternoon at the Freeman Funeral home, the Rev. N.U. McConaughy officiating. MRS. SILAS J. (JENNIE B. CLARK) Burial will be in the family lot in Cemetery McGREGOR Park. The body may be viewed at the Funeral Home after 7:30 tonight. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, The family requests that flowers be Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume omitted. ___, Number ___ [Monday, November 26, 1945], page ___, column ___ The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Mrs. McGregor ___, Number ___ [Thursday, November Dies After 29, 1945], page ___, column ___ Long Illness Mrs. S.J. McGregor Mrs. Silas J. McGregor, 70, resident of Services for Mrs. Silas J. McGregor, 70, Iron Mountain for 65 years, died at 10:25 the former Jennie B. Clark[,] who died Saturday night at the Trevillian Nursing Saturday night after a long illness, were home. Mrs. McGregor, the wife of Silas J. held at 1:45 yesterday afternoon at the McGregor, state deputy commissioner of Freeman Funeral home. The Rev. N.U. labor, had been ill for some time. McConaughy was in charge. The former Jennie B. Clark, Mrs. Mrs. William Lewis played several of McGregor was born Oct. 15, 1875, in Mrs. McGregor’s favorite hymns before and Ishpeming, and came to Iron Mountain with after the service. her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Clark, Pallbearers were Arthur Lundahl, when she was five. She was a member of Niagara, and Reuben Bennett, James the first class to be graduated, in 1892, Perino, Elmer Jacobson, Floyd Eymer and from the Hulst School and four years ago, George McGowan. Burial was in Cemetery when the graduates held a reunion, took an Park. active part in the program. Relatives and friends her for the funeral were of Mrs. McGregor, who had lived 65 172 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] years in Iron Mountain, were Mrs. W.W. Kimball and Miss Elizabbeth Kenny, Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Oshkosh, Wis.; Mrs. W.J. Clark, Escanaba; Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ Mrs. M.J. Ryan and Mrs. M. Denn, Year, Number _____ [Monday, May 22, Ishpeming; Mrs. Kate Menghini, Norway; 1933], page ___, column ___ Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lundahl, Niagara; Mrs. E. Duchane, Marquette, and Joseph M. SHOCK FROM HIP Moore, secretary of the board of labor, INJURY FATAL TO Lansing. C.M. MEILLEUR _____ MRS. PATRICK McKENNA

Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Former Bank President Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Here Succumbs In XX, Number XX [XXXXX, March 13, Escanaba 1922], page X, column X _____

Mrs. McKenna Dies Cleophas M. Meilleur, aged 72 years, at in Butte, Montana one time president of the former U.S. National and the former American Security John McKenna has been advised by banks, resident of Iron Mountain for about telegraph of the death of his mother, Mrs. 12 years previous to a year ago, and at one P. McKenna, at the home of a daughter in time prominent in upper Michigan banking Butte, Montana. It is expected to bring the circles, died at 8 o’clock last evening in St. remains to Quinnesec for burial. Mrs. Francis hospital, at Escanaba, Mich., as the McKenna was seventy-four years of age. result of shock following an accident at his She had resided in Quinnesec for more home in that city about two weeks ago. than twenty-ight [sic – twenty-eight] years Mr. Meilleur, however, according to and had also spent several years at the members of his family, had been in ill health home of her son, John, in Iron Mountain. for some time previous to the accident, in Four years ago, Mrs. McKenna went to which he slipped from a chair into which he Los Angeles, Calif., to make her home with was being helped by his wife, fracturing his a daughter and was visiting in Butte at the left hip. time of her death. She was the mother of The death of Mr. Meilleur has removed six sons and three daughters and all a man whose life story is an example of survive her excepting Thomas, who was youthful ambition and determined purpose killed in an automobile accident in California which brought him from a small country several years ago. The children are: Mrs. school in his home community to the Jennie Lynch, of Butte, Mrs. Loretta Bright presidency and directorship of several and Mrs. Cecelia Branch, of Los Angeles, banking institutions in the upper peninsula. and James of Quinnesec, John H., of Iron Born in Canada. Mountain, Morris[,] of Warren, Arizona, and He was born July 10, 1861, at Cote St. Ted and Joe[,] of Saginaw, Mich. Jean, Ste. Scholastique, Province of Quebec, Canada, the tenth and youngest CLEOPHAS M. MEILLEUR son of the family. He attended the public 173 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] schools there until May 1, 1872, when he Fate and the judgment of a ticket agent left to make his own way. had much to do with Mr. Meilleur’s next Mr. Meilleur often recalled the day move. In the spring of 1876 he went to when, with an extra shirt and a half loaf of Montreal, walked in to a railroad station and bread under his arms and just 25 cents in asked the agent to name some place in the his pocket, he bade farewell to his family United States where work could be found. and set out to earn his living. For five days The agent said, “try Rutland, Vermont,” and thereafter he trudged about the country, Mr. Meilleur bought a ticket for that place. sleeping in barns, under hay stacks or in He got a job in a marble quarry, worked open fields, wherever nightfall found him. three months and received $25 for his On one night he became lost in a sugar efforts. bush near St. Eustache. He came out in Went To Republic. the morning at a farm house and asked After he left the quarry he was employed permission to work for his breakfast. on [sic] odd jobs at Rutland until 1879, “The farmer’s wife,” Mr. Meilleur had when in company with one Moise Thibault, related, “said I was a ‘loafer,’ and ordered he went to Repbulic, Mich. He worked for me out. Meanwhile, however, I had noticed the Republic Iron company, in the mine, for a loaf of bread in a corner cupboard in the $1.45 a day, meanwhile finding time to kitchen. I walked right in, picked it up and attend school. tucked it under my arm. I was hungry. The In 1880 Mr. Meilleur moved to Norway, woman called out to ‘Herman’ to come in Mich., where for a time he and his brother from the fields. But I wasn’t afraid of Alfred earned their way chopping wood for ‘Herman’ or anybody else. I was too 75 cents a cord. Shortly thereafter, hungry. Anyway, I got the bread, and didn’t however, he returned to Republic and again have to work for it.” was employed by the Republic Iron Found Progress Difficult. company, this time as a woodchopper. For more than a year thereafter Mr. In 1880 Mr. Meilleur left Republic, Meilleur shifted about, trying to find intending to go to Marquette, where he something which offered possibilities for the planned to get a job as an ore train future. He was unsuccessful, however, and brakeman. En route, he heard there was a in the fall of 1872 returned to Ste. job as porter open at the Breitung hotel in Scholastique and found a job paying him Negaunee. He applied and got the job, $2.25 a month, one dollar of which was for remaining there three months. With about pumping a church organ. $70 in cash in his pocket, he went to In 1875 Mr. Meilleur went to upper Ishpeming and was hired by Taleen, Canada to reside with his brothers, Thomas Jochim and company for $20 a month. “I and Alphonse, and also to attend school. was paying $22 a month board and room, By that time, he onoce said, he could read but it was good schooling for me,” Mr. English “fairly well,” but could not Meilleur had said. understand much of what he was reading. Married in 1886. In 1876 he returned to lower Canada and In 1886 Mr. Meilleur was married to got a job paying $8.50 a month. In the fall Miss Pomela [sic] Trambley, at Ishpeming. of the same year he moved to La Chute, They had one son, Theodore, who now Canada, and obtained another job, working resides in this city. That year, also, Mr. through the winter of that year. Meilleur obtained a job with Quinn Brothers, at Ishpeming, where he was steadily 174 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] advanced until 1888, when he went into In 1920 Mr. Meilleur came to Iron business with Urgel Lavigne, at Ishpeming. Mountain and organized what was then the Later that same year the partnership National Bank of Iron Mountain, later the was dissolved and Mr. Meilleur stated in U.S. National bank. He remained as business for himself in what is now known president of that institution until 1927, when as the Gately Wiggins building, at he secured the controlling interest in the Ishpeming. The Meilleur family resided American Security bank, also of this city, over the store. and was named president, holding that Mr. Meilleur prospered somewhat in that position until the bank was bought by the business, and in 1894 he went to U.S. National. Ontonagon, with a capital of $5,000, to The U.S. National bank was closed in organize and open a private bank. May, 1932, and is now under receivership. Although a total stranger in the copper Mr. Meilleur was instrumental in the country, Mr. Meilleur soon won the organization of seven banks, retiring from confidence of the people and his first active work with the closing of the American banking venture prospered, the deposits Security bank. averaging $40,000. Mr. Meilleur’s first wife died here about Fire Swept Town. three years ago. He was married again In 1896 fire swept through the town of about eight months ago to Mrs. Maria Ontonagon, destroying many of the Dube, of Escanaba. Besides the widow, business places, including Mr. Meilleur’s the one son, Theodore, of this city, and an bank. This setback, however, by no means adopted son, Edward, of Detroit, survive. dampened his enthusiasm and his faith in Mr. Meilleur was a member of the Knights what was then an undeveloped country. of Columbus lodge. The $40,000, meanwhile, was in great Funeral services will be held at 8 o’clock demand, as money was needed to start Wednesday morning at Escanaba with rebuilding the town. burial in the Escanaba cemetery. The Rev. A shed of rough boards served as Mr. Fr. Jacques, of Escanaba, will officiate. Meilleur’s bank in that emergency. All demands made by depositors were met by C.J.L. MEYER the bank, despite the handicap under which it was conducted. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, The State Bank of Ontonagon, which Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 13, succeeded Mr. Meilleur’s private bank, was Number 9 [Thursday, July 23, 1908], organized in 1899 with a capital of $15,000. page 4, column 2 In 1909 the bank was reorganized and became known as the First National Bank of Ontonagon, with Mr. Meilleur as FOUNDER OF HERMANSVILLE. president and manager. The institution _____ grew, but in 1912 Mr. Meilleur disposed of his interest in the bank to devote his entire C.J.L. Meyers [sic] Dies Penniless time and attention to the newly-organized in a Hosital at Milwaukee. Negaunee National bank, in which he had also played an important part. C.J.L. Meyer, the former millionaire, who Came Here in 1920. startled the world some weeks ago by

175 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] applying for admission to the Milwaukee that his declining years were comfortable county poor-house, died after a brief illness and happy. at Trinity Hospital, in that city, last Sunday. Mr. Meyer was eighty-six years of age. He CLAUDE MILLIMAN came to Wisconsin many years ago and, locating at Fond du Lac, soon became one Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, of the most successful business men [sic – Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 14, businessmen] of northern Wisconsin. At Number 227 [Monday, January 7, 1935], the height of his career he was reckoned a page 3, column 1 millionarie [sic – millionaire] an [sic – and] his investment [sic – investments] covered many industries. He was the builder and CLAUDE MILLIMAN first president of the Northwestern Union SUCCUMBS AFTER railroad, now a part of the Chicago & North- LENGTHY ILLNESS Western system, and his activities in a business way extended over the whole _____ northern section of Wisconsin and Michigan. He was the founder of Former Legislator Died Hermansville, and was well-known to many Yesterday At His Home Iron Mountain people. In This City Mr. Meyer at one time was a power in _____ Wisconsin politics and twice served as delegate-at-large in national Republican Claude H. Milliman, aged 65 years, co- conventions. He also was mayor of Fond proprietor of the Milliman hotel, resident of du Lac, and his name frequently was Iron Mountain for the past 32 years and mentioned in connection with high positions former Dickinson county representative in of trust in his home city and in the state. the Michigan state legislature, died at 3:50 Mr. Meyer’s business affairs assumed a o’clock yesterday morning at his home, 101 turn for the worse in the panic of 1893 and West B street, following an illness of the thereafter it seemed as if everything he past two years, due to heart trouble. He touched turned out ill. Failing to retrieve his had been confined to his bed for the past fortunes in Chicago by speculation, Mr. several days. Meyer at lease came to the end of his Mr. Milliman was born January 4, 1870, resources. He struggled along for two at Belle Plaine, Iowa. When about seven years in a futile effort to regain a foothold years of age[,] he moved with his family to and two months ago he went to Milwaukee Ripon, Wis., where he resided until 1901. and applied to Agent Gustav Frellson, of He was graduated from the Ripon high the Associated Charities, for admission to school. Returning to Belle Plaine in 1901, the county poorhouse. He told a pitiful Mr. Milliman was proprietor of the Burley story of destitution. House, in that community, until February 1, When Mr. Frellson gave out for 1903, when he moved to Iron Mountain. publication the fact that Mr. Meyer had With his brother, Frank, he had been co- applied for aid, former friends came to the proprietor of the Milliman hotel since then. rescue at once. But Mr. Meyer’s relatives First U.P. Golf President took charge of him, insisting that they always had been ready and willing to see 176 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Shortly after his arrival here, Mr. DeGayner, Hans Danielson, Jack Andrews, Milliman joined the Pine Grove country Jr., Martin D. Thomas and E.J. Hammell, all club, only a year or two after its of this city. organization, and was an active member and outstanding player of that organization WILLIAM H. MITCHELL throughout the succeeding years. He was the first president of the Upper Peninsula Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Golf association and a former upper Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 13, peninsula association champion. Number 20 [Thursday, October 8, 1908], Mr. Milliman was also a member of the page 1, column 2 Rotary club of Iron Mountain, the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He was particularly active in the latter MANY ARE CALLED organization, being chancellor-commander _____ for seven years here, a delegate to the grand lodge of the order for several COMMUNITY SHOCKED BY SUDDEN successive years and associated with the DEMISE OF DR. CAMERON. State of the order, a Pythian adjunct, for _____ four years. Active Civic Worker W.H. Mitchell, Mrs. W.H. Harvey, Always active in civic affairs, Mr. Mrs. Charles Olin and Others Milliman served for several years on the Are Summoned Home. former Iron Mountain board of public works. He served his last term with that group William H. Mitchell, a resident of Iron under Henry Neuens, former mayor of Iron Mountain for more than a quarter of a Mountain and a pioneer resident of the century, died last Thursday shortly after community. dinner at the family home corner of Mr. Milliman served as Dickinson county Carpenter avenue and West D street. Mr. representative in the state legislature during Mitchell had been a sick man for several the years 1928-30, was a member of years and during the past eight months was several important committees and proved a confined to his home. Death was caused capable lawmaker. by cancer of the stomach. He was fifty-five Besides the widow, one daughter, Miss years of age and is survived by a wife and Florence, residing here, survives. A five children. brother, Frank, living here, and a sister, The funeral was held form the Central Mrs. S.E. Mason, of Savana [sic], Ill., also M.E. church last Sunday and was very survive. largely attended. He was a member of the Funeral services will be held at the local Masonic orders, Odd Fellows, Sons of home at 9:30 o’clock Tuesday morning. St. George and National Protective Legion The Rev. James G. Ward, pastor of Holy and many of the members were in Trinity church, will conduct the services. attendance. The floral offerings were The body will be taken by hearse to Ripon, beautiful and abundant. Wis., for burial at about 4 o’clock Tuesday The sermon was preached by Pastor afternoon. Carlyon and was a tender tribute to a Pallbearers, who will accompany the worthy husband and father and good body to Ripon, are Chris Rigoni, Eugene J. 177 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] citizen. Revs. Roberts, Scott and Knowles – Alturas – ?], Calif. Thirteen grandchildren assisted in the services. also survive. Mr. Mitchell was one of the pioneer The body is at the Freeman Funeral business men [sic – businessmen] of the home, awaiting burial arrangements. city. He was engaged in general merchandising for more than twenty years, The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, retiring about three years ago. Prior to Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume engaging in business he was employed at ___, Number ___ [Thursday, March 13, the Chapin mine. He was a good citizen, 1941], page ___, column ___ large-hearted and genial. He was of a retired disposition, but readily won friends. MRS. W.H. MITCHELL It can be said of Mr. Mitchell that he never Funeral services for Mrs. W.H. Mitchell, spoke evil of any one [sic – anyone]. He 76, who died Wednesday [sic – Tuesday] was ever ready to excuse the night at her home, 220 West C street, will transgressions of his neighbors even when be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Freeman he was the victim of the transgressor in a funeral home. The Rev. George Weiser will large degree. He was a true Christian and conduct the service. Burial will be in therefor [sic – therefore] a good citizen[.] Cemetery park. The relatives are assured of the deep sympathy of the community. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume MRS. WILLIAM H. (GEORGINA ___, Number ___ [Saturday, March 15, STRONG) MITCHELL 1941], page ___, column ___

The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, MRS. GEORGINA MITCHELL Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Funeral services for Mrs. W.H. Mitchell, ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, March 76, who died Wednesday [sic – Monday] 12, 1941], page ___, column ___ night at her home, 220 West C street, were held yesterday afternoon at the Freeman MRS. GEORGINA MITCHELL funeral home. The Rev. George Weiser conducted the service. Mrs. M. Hanna Mrs. Georgina Mitchell, 76, wife of W.H. played several selections. Burial was in Mitchell, pioneer hardware dealer, died last Cemetery park. night at the family home, 220 West C street, Pallbearers were Roy Laing, John following a brief illness. Born June 29, VanLannen [sic – Van Laanen], Gale 1864, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, she Parmelee, William Burgess, Cecil Browning came to this city 51 years ago. and Sam Hoyle. Attending the service form Besides her husband, four sons and out of town were Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Turney four daughters survive. They are Harry, and Miss Georgina Mitchell, Appleton, Wis.; Tom and Albert, of this city, and Horace, of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Mitchell and Horace, Chicago, and Mrs. C.B. Turney, of Jr., Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fly, Appleton, Wis.; Mrs. Cecil Johnson, of Long Marquette; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Stockley, Beach, Calif., and Mrs. Kingsley Learned Iron River, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bagley, and Mrs. John Neumier, of this city. Mrs. Hakes and Mrs. William Poyseor, There are two brothers, Thomas Strong, Wilson, Mich. of this city, and Peter Strong, of Altuars [sic 178 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

_____ JOSEPH MONGRAIN His Wife, Daughter and James Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Wauwasong [sic] Jailed at L’Anse; Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 11, Former Resident Badwater. Number 45 [Thursday, March 28, 1907], page 1, column 1 John Negaunee, a veteran member of the band of Indians who made their home Build a Home. at the Badwater reservation, about two miles north of this city, some ten or fifteen Joseph Mongrain is arranging to years ago, was killed at Assinins, Baraga commence work on a commodious home county, on New Year’s day, and his wife on his farm a few miles south of the city on and daughter Maggie and Jas. the Menominee river. It will be a brick- Wasuwasong [sic – Wawasong] have been veneered structure, two stories high with a jailed at L’Anse charged with his death. large basement. It will contain six rooms on The L’Anse Sentinel contains the following the ground floor and five on the second. particulars regarding the alleged crime in its Mr. Mongrain owns 160 acres of splendid last issue: land and he expects to have it all under “John Negaunee, 83 years of age, who cultivation within a short time. lives with his wife and daughter at Assinins, was killed on New Year’s day, and as a [NOTE: Joseph Mongrain’s 160-acre result, Mrs. Negaunee, his daughter farm south of the City of Iron Mountain was Maggie, aged 30 years, and James the land which caused so much controversy Wawasong are being held in the county jail. when he refused to sell it to Henry Ford in James Wauwasong’s [sic – Wawasong’s] 1920 for the price being offered. Eventually story of the crime is related as follows: Ford succeeded in purchasing the land, but “Mr. Negaunee was out of the house on the amount paid remains a mystery. This is the day above named, and some time [sic – the land where the Ford Plant was built, sometime] during the afternoon James beginning in 1920.] came down to the house, having with him a bottle of alcohol. The women and James JOHN NEGAUNEE proceeded to make merry. Shortly after Mr. Negaunee came in, and the story runs to Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, the effect that he objected to the young Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 14, man’s being there. Another tale is to the Number 34 [Thursday, January 13, effect that his wife demanded money of the 1910], page 1, column 3 husband. At any rate, the women got into a tussle with Mr. Negaunee and threw him down. While he was down the girl jumped AGED INDIAN DEAD on his head, when Mr. Wawasong pulled _____ them off, and after this the victim was quiet. This tussle happened about five o’clock in JOHN NEGAUNEE MEETS the afternoon. When it came time to go to VIOLENT DEATH IN BARAGA CO. bed, the women went to pick Mr. Negaunee up and found found [sic] that he departed 179 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] from this life. Dr. R.S. Beckland [sic – Buckland], of Baraga[,] conducted the post The Current, Norway, Menominee County, mortem examination; the inquest has been Michigan, Volume VI, Number 14 postponed for about two weeks. [Saturday, May 10, 1890], page 1, “This is as far as the case has gone yet, column 4 but the officers are steadily working and expect to obtain more information, if such is Died. to be had.” NEWTON – On Friday night, May 2d, Mrs. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Lizzie Newton, wife of William Newton, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 14, and sister of Thomas lark, aged 39 Number 36 [Thursday, January 27, years and six months. 1910], page 4, column 3 Miss Lizzie Lark was born in the parish of St. Germans, Cornwall, England, in Dec., DIED A NATURAL DEATH. 1860. There she spent her childhood. She _____ was married to William Newton and with him came to America. After a time they Relatives of Late John Negaunee went back to England, but about four years Vindicated by Coroner’s Jury. ago they returned to America and settled in Norway. Mrs. Newton has been for more

than two years sick with consumption that The inquest of John Negaunee, who lingering disease which inspire [sic – died on New Year’s night at Assinins, was inspires] with a hope of life and health only called by Coronor [sic – Coroner] William to extinguish it in death. She had been a Hugo, at the Baraga town hall, Mrs. great sufferer, but she sought help from Negaunee, dauhgter [sic – daughter] Him who when on earth devoted his life to Maggie, and Jas. Wawasong, who were the relief of the suffering and died for their present when the old man died, were on salvation, and she passed to the other hand and gave their testimony. world trusting in Jesus Christ. She leaves a Dr. Buckland Testified that Negaunee kind husband, a brother, two sisters and a had several bad bruises on the head, but father and mother, together with many these could not have proved fatal to him. friends to mourn her loss. The funeral He also said that Negaunee was troubled services were conducted by Rev. T.E. with paralysis, which might have resulted in Edwards, at the M.E. church, on Sunday his death. Wawasong testified that all afternoon, and the remains were taken to implicated in this death were intoxicated on Quinnesec for burial. The orders of the day mentioned and while Negaunee Foresters and Sons of St. George attended was mixed up in a fight with his daughter, the funeral in a body. The sympathy of Maggie, the blows he received on the head many friends is extended to the relatives in could not have killed him. their bereavement. After reviewing the testimony the jury rendered a verdict to the effect that they could find no reason to detain the prisoners, STEPHEN NICHOLAS and they were discharged. The Florence Mining News, Florence, LIZZIE (LARK) NEWTON Florence County, Wisconsin, Volume VI, 180 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Number 34 [Saturday, August 21, 1886], reporter “Here I am sound as a dollar again, page 4, column 2 always ready to have fun with the boys and fight for the right.” Steve “Nick.” The Florence Mining News, Florence, Among the visitors from the north Florence County, Wisconsin, Volume VI, recently there were none who attracted Number 35 [Saturday, August 28, 1886], more attention from strangers than Stephen page 4, column 1 Nicholas, of Iron Mountain. Steve Nick, as he is familiarly called[,] was a former An article in the last issue of this journal resident of Neenah, and during his brief headed “Steve Nick,” should have been stop, met many old acquaintances. The credited to the Neenah Gazette, one of the man has a war record, and a good one to fairest, most honorable and brightest [sic – too], while the stories told regarding weeklies in Wisconsin. In the absence of him include many daring deeds and hair- the editor credit was unintentionally omitted. breadth escapes. Steve was a private in the first Wisconsin Regiment Cavalry Co. The Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, C., and on one occasion was surprised and Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 6, captured while out scouting by three Number 26 [Thursday, November 21, Johnnie Rebs, who prepared to take him in; 1901], page 1, column 6 but they did not, and with his huge sabre Steve slashed right and left, mained [sic – SCOUT “STEVE NICK” IS DEAD. maimed] or killed the three and rode safely _____ back to camp. He is endowed with almost superhuman strength, courage is Famous Warrior and Pioneer Expires undaunted, an excellent horseman, and at Grovesville, Wis., Last Tuesday when astride of his horse his gigantic frame towered above those of his companions. “Steve Nick,” one of the most noted When came an order to charge and [sic – scouts of the civil war, died at Grovesville, omit and and add comma] Steve would Wis., last Tuesday. He was a member of draw his huge sabre, ground to a razor the Twenty-first Wisconsin cavalry, and did edge and ride toward the enemy. It was no much gallant service through the entire war. wonder that the majority fled, while those He will be buried to-day [sic – today]. The who remained to do battle found the deceased was for several years a resident northern cavalryman a bad one. Stephen of Iron Mountain. Nicholas has Indian and African blood in his He was born in Rhode Island, and was veins, and appears to lead a charmed life; one of the few survivors of the famous not long since, without cause or provocation Narragansetts [sic – Narragansett], who a colored barber [probably James K. Polk] made such desperate resistance to the in Iron Mountain caught Steve unawares whites years ago. There are stories that he and proceeded to carve his anatomy in the was a direct descendant of King Phillip, most approved manner. The cuts received famed in the Pequod war, but it is doubtful would certainly have ended the career of an if “Steve” ever made the claim. He was a ordinary man, and Steve himself had a modest man, and not inclined to talk of close tussel [sic – tussle] to pull through, himself. He had not been long in the but to use his own expression to the 181 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] regiment before he became generally county when he was 21. He worked in the known, and remained during the war one of mines for many years before retiring. the most popular members. He was a man In addition to his daughter, Miss Etta of striking appearance, and illustrated in his Nord, with whom he resided, Mr. Nord tall, erect form the best type of Indian leaves a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Blomgren, development. Detroit; two sons, Dewey Nord, Iron There is a tradition in the regiment that Mountain, and Roy Nord, Joliet; a brother, he killed eight Texas rangers in the conflict Carl Nord, St. Paul; five grandchildren, and at L’Anguille ferry, but eight is a good many. two great-grandchildren. However, the rebels who captured the few Services will be conducted at 2 survivors of calvary [sic – cavalry] battalion, Saturday afternoon at the Freeman Funeral and Steve among the number, were very home by the Rev. Paul Johnson, pastor of bitter against him for the desperate fight First Covenant [Church]. Burial will be in which he had made; they brought out a wild Cemetery Park. pony, declaring that they would tie him on the animal’s back and turn him loose in the The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, swamp, alleging that Steve was a negro. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume The officers of the batallion [sic – battalion] ___, Number ___ [Monday, September finally convinced them that he was a full 17, 1945], page ___, column ___ citizen of the United States, of Indian descent, and they spared his life, but gave Services for Gust O. Nord, 87, pioneer him harsh treatment until he was resident who died Wednesday night at his exchanged. home, 624 East B, were held at 2 Saturday at the Freeman Funeral home, the Rev. GUST OLAF NORD Paul E. Johnson, officiating. Mrs. Sam Alvar and Mrs. Rudolph The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Johnson, accompanied by Mr. Alvar, sang Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume “Near the Cross” and “In Heaven All Is ___, Number ___ [Thursday, September Gladness.” 13, 1945], page ___, column ___ Pallbearers were Edwin Carlson, Sig Carlson, Gust Pederson, Ragner Maline, Gust O. Nord Linus Anderson, Solomen Erickson, Hugo Johnson and Albin Nelson. Burial was in Died After Cemetery Park. Brief Illness Relatives and friends here for the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nord, Joliet, Gust Olaf Nord, 87, resident of Iron Ill.; Mrs. Ruth Blomgren, Detroit; Mrs. Mountain for the last 66 years, died at 7:15 Emelia Bowman, Florence; Mrs. V.C. last night at his home, 624 East B, after a Freeman, Marinette; Mrs. Charles Johnson, brief illness. Nord, one of Iron Mountain’s Ford River; Mrs. Otto Schulz, Green Bay, oldest residents, came to this city when and Mrs. Gust Bostrom, Norway. there were no railroads or highways in this area. JOHN O’CALLAGHAN He was born March 26, 1858, in Varmland, Sweden, and came to Dickinson

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Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, George under the firm name of Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 11, O’Callaghan Brothers and operated the Number 44 [Thursday, March 21, 1907], saw-mill [sic – sawmill] one mile west of the page 1, columns 1-2 city until 1887, when he moved to Wausaukee, Wis., where he first became HE IS CALLED HOME associated with Patrick Flanagan. _____ In 1882, on February 14th, at Green Bay, Mr. O’Callaghan was married to Miss

Mary McLain. This union, like the first, was JOHN O’CALLAGHAN, WELL- a most happy and sympathetic one, and KNOWN CITIZEN, DIES IN was blessed with ten children. The second CHICAGO. Mrs. O’Callaghan died at Sagola on _____ October 11th, 1901. Four of the children are also with their parents in heaven. Had Been a Resident of the Penin- Those living are Josephine, Elmer, Marie, John, Edward and Clarence. He is sula for Thirty-Eight Years – survived by four brothers – Charles, of A Man of Sterling Worth. Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho, and George, James and Thomas, of Norway, and two sisters, No citizen in all of Dickinson county was Mrs. Mary Monroe, of Iron Mountain, and more highly esteemed that [sic – than] Mrs. Bridget Mahoney, of Buckingham, John O’Callaghan, who died in a Chicago Canada. hospital at an early hour last Friday morning In 1886, Mr. O’Callaghan entered into a [Friday, March 15, 1907] – no citizen more partnership with Patrick Flanagan in the widely known – no citizen had more friends operation of a saw-mill [sic – sawmill] at – no citizen has contributed more to the Wausaukee, Wis. In 1887 James H. Gee general welfare of the county. affiliated with the firm and the North John O’Callaghan was sixty-one years Wisconsin Lumber company was of age and had been a resident of the upper organized with Mr. O’Callaghan as peninsula for thirty-eight years. He was president. In 1888, William S. Laing born in Buckingham, Canada, and when he bought the McGee [sic – Gee] interest in first came to the United States, in 1869, he the company and the saw-mill [sic – located at Escanaba, where he engaged in sawmill] was moved to Sagola. On the lumber business with his brother December 30th of that year the name of the George and John K. Stack. In 1872 he company was changed to the Laing returned to Buckingham, Canada, where he Lumber company. The following year Mr. was united in marriage to Miss Nellie Laing sold his interest in the company to Mahoney. Three children, all of whom John R. Wood and Messrs. O’Callaghan died, were born as a result of this union, and Flanagan a part of their holdings to and the wife followed them home in 1875, John Perkins, of Norway. In 1890, while she was visiting relatives in her Messrs. Wood and Perkins sold their former home. The remains were interred in interests to Messrs. O’Callaghan and the cemetery at Escanaba. Flanagan. On June 11th, 1891, a half In 1876 he came to the range to reside, interest of the business was sold to Messrs. locating at Norway, where he engaged in D. Wittenberg, Sr., D. Wittenberg, Jr., the lumber business with his brother J.H. Wittenberg and J.F. Trottman, of 183 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Cedarberg, Wis., and the name of the dealings with the younger element and he company was changed to the Sagola was interested in their prosperity and Lumber company. In 1897 Messrs. contributed thereto. This world was made O’Callaghan and Flanagan purchased the better by John O’Callaghan and he will be interests of the Wittenberg family, and on welcomed by the heavenly hosts. He was a December 1st, 1899, sold a half interest to man always, a true friend and a model the late Thomas Hughes and J.M. Attley, husband and father. He has gone to his of Chicago. In September, 1905, Mr. reward. The afflicted relatives are assured O’Callaghan sold his interest to Mr. that they have the heartfelt sympathy of a Flanagan, and retired to private life. Mr. wide circle of friends. O’Callaghan was president of all the The remains were received here from companies mentioned above. Chicago last Saturday morning and the In addition to his business duties, Mr. funeral was held from St. Mary’s church last O’Callaghan found time to serve the people Monday morning. The attendance was very in various capacities. For a number of large, many friends coming form years he was a member of the county neighborhood towns. The services were board and at the time of his death was a conducted by Rev. N.H. Nosbisch, county road commissioner. assisted by Rev. W.H. Joisten, of Norway. Soon after retirement from the lumber business Mr. O’Callaghan purchased a The Florence Mining News, Florence, considerable tract of land near Crescent Marinette County, Wisconsin, Volume I, City, Florida, for a winter home, and it was Number 22 [Saturday, May 28, 1881], while engaged in superintending the page 3, column 3 improvement of this property that he contracted a malarial fever that was WE regret to record the tidings of the primarily the cause of his death. He was burning of John O’Callaghan’s saw mill taken sick in the south and was confined to near Norway, on Wednesday of last week. his home at Sagola nearly all summer. The news arrived to us too late for Last fall the family removed to Iron publication last week. The origin of the fire Mountain. Mr. O’Callaghan, prior to as stated to us is that a spark alighted in placing himself under the care of Dr. Senn, the saw dust and before it was noticed, had of Chicago, spent some time in a sanitarium attained such headway, that it was at Milwaukee. At times exceedingly impossible to extinguish it. The loss is encouraging reports were received of his estimated at about $6,000. It is a serious condition. He was hopeful and courageous, loss, coming as it does in the busy season and only a few hours before his death of the year. But John has energy and letters were received form him in which he resources sufficient to rebuilt it, in better anticipated an early return to Iron Mountain. style than it was before. Mr. O’Callaghan will be sorely missed by the people of Dickinson county and he The Florence Mining News, Florence, will be sincerely mourned by a wide circle of Marinette County, Wisconsin, Volume I, friends. He was of an optimistic nature; Number 35 [Saturday, August 27, 1881], there was no phase of life that did not show page 3, column 4 its bright side in his opinion; his advice was sought by his fellowmen and his advice was JOHN O’CALLAGHAN, the biggest invariably good. He was fatherly in his lumberman on the range, toned up our town 184 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] with his presence, about the center of the mill interfered seriously with his contracts, week. He has built on the site of his old mill but he will, with this superior mill, soon have an excellent new saw mill, which has just an opportunity of making up his losses. gone into operation. May abundant success attend him, is the wish of the The Florence Mining News, Florence, MINING NEWS. Florence County, Wisconsin, Volume III, Number 35 [Saturday, September 1, The Florence Mining News, Florence, 1883], page 1, column 6 Marinette County, Wisconsin, Volume I, Number 37 [Saturday, September 10, FIRE AT NORWAY. 1881], page 3, column 3 On Wednesday morning at about 2 JOHN O’CALLIGHAN’s [sic – o’clock a fire broke out at John O’Callaghan] new sawmill, situated on the O’Callaghan’s Opera House, at the foot of site of the one burned down last June, is a Main Street, which had just been fitted up, model of solidity and convenience. It is and opened as a roller skating rink. The 30x120 feet on the ground, with a boiler blaze spread unimpeded to adjoining house 20x40. A planer with planing room buildings and consumed in short order will be attached on the west side, as soon William Dickie’s livery, Lieverthal’s clothing as possible. The capacity of the mill will be store, and the old Nicholson drug store, 30,000 a day, of twelve hours. The which contained some stock. The loss is machinery was built in Oshkosh and is estimated at $25,000, with small insurance. durable and substantial. One 52 inch The origin of the fire is shrouded in mystery. Diston’s circular, one edging and one butting-off saw are used. A sawdust CAPT. JOHN OLIVER conveyor and feeder conveys the sawdust to the fires. The inside of the roof of the The Menominee Range, Iron Mountain, boiler house is lined with sheet iron, which Menominee County, Michigan, Volume will be a great protection against fire. The XI, Number 18 [Thursday, July 25, mill is also supplied with a steam pump and 1889), page 5, column 2 300 feet of rubber hose. In addition to these precautions a number of barrels, kept Death of Capt. John Oliver. constantly full of water, will be placed on the roof, and a stock of buckets will be kept Word was received in this city last close at hand for use in an emergency. Saturday that Capt. John Oliver, of Norway, The outside of the roof is thickly covered superintendent of mining for the Penn Iron with a coat of lime and salt, so that there Mining Company, had died that morning, can be no possible danger from sparks. after a long illness of Bright’s disease and The mill started up on Monday, and will be heart failure. At a special meeting of Iron kept humming right along. A large stock of Mountain Lodge F. & A.M., held Sunday logs are [sic – is] in the yard and more from afternoon, arrangements were made to the adjacent timber are being added all the attend the funeral in a body. A special train time. Mr. O’Callighan [sic – O’Callaghan] of two coaches left this city Monday noon makes a specialty of sawing long timber for carrying about 100 passengers. Arriving at bridges and similar structures. The delay Norway the members of Iron Mountain occasioned by the burning up of his former 185 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Lodge repaired to the Quinnesec Lodge the Central Methodist church. The Rev. room, where they joined their Norway P.L. Lomas will officiate. brothers and proceeded to the late residence [need to copy remainder of The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, article] Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, WILLIAM OLIVER December 1, 1943], page ___, column ___

The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, WILLIAM OLIVER Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Services for William Oliver, 76, who died ___, Number ___ [Tuesday, November Monday night at his residence, 211 West C 30, 1943], page ___, column ___ stret [sic – street], will be held at 1:30

tomorrow at the residence and at 2 at the W. Oliver Central Methodist church, where he was Died Monday long a member. Burial will be in Cemetery At His Home Park. In addition to the survivors announced William Oliver, 76, well known Iron yesterday, Mr. Oliver leaves 14 Mountain resident, died at 11:50 last night grandchildren. His son, Richard, who is in at his home, 211 West C street, from a the service, is a sergeaent [sic – sergeant] heart ailment from which he had suffered on an island somewhere in the Pacific. for the last two months. Mr. Oliver was born Jan. 24, 1867, in The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Cornwall, England, and came to Iron Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Mountain 57 years ago when 19 years of ___, Number ___ [Friday, December 3, age. He lived here continuously, with the 1943], page ___, column ___ exception of about seven months, in the west. WILLIAM OLIVER He was employed in the old Millie mine The Rev. Percy L. Lomas, pastor, and from there went to toe Chapin, where officiated at services at 2 yesterday he served as shift boss and later as afternoon at the Central Methodist church assistant captain. He retired in 1932. for William Oliver, well known resident of He leaves five daughters, Miss Beatrice Iron Mountain[,] who died Monday night at Oliver, Mrs. Joseph Anderson and Mrs. his residence, 211 West C street [sic – Theodore Hallman, Iron Mountain, and Mrs. street], will be held at 1:30 tomorrow. Forest Burtner and Mrs. Fred Prout, Detroit; Services at the residence were at 1:30. three sons, Thomas Oliver, Kingsford; Fred Music for the service was provided by Oliver, Iron Mountain, and Richard Oliver, the church choir, which sang “Rock of serving on an island in the Pacific, and two Ages” and “Abide With Me.’ sisters, Mrs. Hanna Tucker, Pontiac, and Pallbearers were George Symons, Mrs. Janie Bray, Cornwall, England. Morgan Leonard, Fred Luxmore, Sam The body was taken to the residence Trethewey, John Maynard and Reuben from the Erickson and Son Mortuary at 4 Erickson. Burial was in Cemetery Park. this afternoon. The funeral will be held at Relatives who came here for the funeral 1:30 Thursday at the residence and at 2 at were Mrs. Forrest Burtner and Mrs. Fred 186 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Prout, Detroit; Mrs. Hannah Tucker, Mrs. ___, Number ___ [Saturday, July 14, Ralph Burr and Richard Tucker, Pontiac; 1945], page ___, column ___ Mrs. Edwin Jacka, Negaunee; Miss Marion Oliver and Miss Shirley Hallman, Pioneer Died Waudegan, Ill.; Mrs. Peter Danielson, Last Night Florence, and Mrs. Gunnard Hallgren, At Hospital Norway.

John G. Osterberg, 78, former Aurora CARL A. OLSON town treasurer, and school board clerk there for 17 years, died at 6:45 last night in Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, the General hospital, after a lingering Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 15, illness. He has lived in Iron Mountain for Number 11 [Thursday, August 4, 1910], the past eight years. page 1, column 4 Born Oct. 1, 1866, in Skaraborgs Lan, Sweden, Mr. Osterberg came to this county Veteran Business Man. in 1899, settling in Vulcan. Later he moved to Crystal Fals [sic – Falls], and came to Carl A. Oleson [sic – Olson] died at an Iron Mountain in 1902. He remained here early hour last Monday morning of only a short time and the moved to Auora apoplexy, after an illness of only three [sic – Aurora], where he stayed for 35 years hours. He was fifty-five years of age, before returning here, to live, eight years unmarried, and is survived by an aged ago. mother, Mrs. Catrina Kling, and one sister, He was an active member of the Mrs. Charles Asp. Funeral services will be Methodist church. held at the Swedish Methodist church at Besides his widow, Mathilda, he leaves one o’clock this afternoon. Mr. Olson was one daughter, Mrs. Clifford Oman, Iron born in Sweden, January 17th, 1855, and Mountain; three sons, Wesley Osterberg, of came to America in the fall of 1879, locating Florence, Wis., and Edwald and Willard, at Norway, where he entered into Aurora, and 15 grandchildren. partnership with John Eklund in the jewelry Funeral services will be held at 1:15 business. About twelve years ago the Monday at the J.B. Erickson and Son partnership was disolved [sic – dissolved] mortuary and at 2 at the Free Church in and Mr. Olson came to Iron Mountain and Aurora. The Rev. D.S. [sic – S.D.] Kinde entered into partnership with Charles Asp in will conduct the services. a confectionery and notion store and In memory of Mr. Osterberg, a memorial continued in that business until his death. will be placed in the proposed new Trinity He was of a retired disposition, but Methodist church. nevertheless had won the high esteem of a wide circle of friends. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume JOHN G. OSTERBERG ___, Number ___ [Tuesday, July 17, 1945], page ___, column ___

The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, JOHN G. OSTERBERG Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume

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Services for John G. Osterberg, 805 He leaves his widow, Ingrid; a daughter, East A, who died Friday night in General Mrs. Leslie Lundell, of Iron Mountain; two hospital, were held at 1:15 yesterday grandsons, David and Larry Lundell; two afternoon at the Erickson and Son Mortuary brothers, William Ottersen, of Kingsford, and at 2 at the Aurora Free church. The and Otto Ottersen, of Spread Eagle, and a Rev. S.D. Kinde conducted the service and sister, Mrs. Henry Hartman, who divides her the Rev. G.A. Schugren, former Iron time between Port Richey, Fla., and Spread Mountain resident, spoke briefly. Eagle. Mrs. Rudolph Erickson, Mrs. Stella Funeral Thursday Dahlquist, Mrs. Ivan Brown and Miss Services for Mr. Ottersen, a member of Beverly Fayas, accompanied by Mrs. B. the Florence Masonic lodge for the last 32 Pender, sang “Does Jesus Care?” and years, will be held at 2 Thursday at the “Trusting In Jesus.” Erickson and Son Funeral home. The Rev. Pallbearers were George Larson, Oscar Purn, pastor of First Lutheran, will Leonard Wahlstrom, Joseph Ringblom, officiate. Henning Peterson, Oscar Peterson and Burial will be in Cemetery Park. Ernest Lashowski, and flower girls, Mable The remains may be viewed at the Cross, Esther Rudstrom, Audrey Olson and Funeral home starting this evening. Ruth Engstrom. Burial was in the Aurora cemetery. CHARLES PARENT

HENRY OTTERSEN The Menominee Range, Iron Mountain, Menominee County, Michigan, Volume The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, XI, Number 7 [Thursday, May 9, 1889], Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume page 1, column 4 ___, Number ___ [Tuesday, July 1, 1952], page ___, column ___ BILLY PARENT, [sic] was probably the first citizen that arrived in this city, [sic] we Former Store now call Iron Mountain. His brother Manager Dies Charley, [sic] came with him and set up a tent. He sold dry-goods [sic – dry goods], At His Home to the best extent of his ability, and made a fortune. Billy has lived since the stumps on Henry Ottersen, 64, 640 Woodward the pines, and in Iron Mountain, has been a avenue, former manager of the Iron good citizen and proved himself a good Mountain A. and P. Tea company store for man by his charity to all men. – Journal. 14 years and recently an employe [sic – Now, we would like to know whether employee] of Montgomery Ward company, Bro. Berry means to say that Billy Parent died at 1:30 yesterday at his residence, has lived on a pine stump since he came to after a brief illness. Iron Mountain; or whether he has been Mr. Ottersen, born July 21, 1887, in moving back and forth, living part of the Florence, attended school in Florence, time on a pine stump out in the woods, and where he resided until 1923. He came to part of the time in Iron Mountain; or whether Iron Mountain in that year and shortly he means that Billy has lived on raw pine afterward was managing the A. and P. stump for breakfast, fricasseed pine stump store. 188 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] served hot for dinner and stewed pine served hot for dinner and stewed pine stump for supper; that that “the stumps of stump for supper; that that “the stumps of the pines” were wafted to that better land the pines” were wafted to that better land when Billy Parent existed only as a future when Billy Parent existed only as a future possibility; or has Billy lived on the stump possibility; or has Billy lived on the stump since Charley made a fortune? Then, since Charley made a fortune? Then, again; [sic] if Billy was the first man in Iron again; [sic] if Billy was the first man in Iron Mountain, how was it that Charley came Mountain, how was it that Charley came with him and set up a tent? Because with him and set up a tent? Because Charley sold dry goods and got rich, must Charley sold dry goods and got rich, must we conclude that Billy sold wet goods and we conclude that Billy sold wet goods and got so poor he had to go and live on a pine got so poor he had to go and live on a pine stump, and because Billy is a good man, stump, and because Billy is a good man, and charitable to all men, must we infer that and charitable to all men, must we infer that Charley is a bad man and uncharitable? Charley is a bad man and uncharitable? THE RANGE reserves its right to endorse THE RANGE reserves its right to endorse or denounce our contemporary’s item until or denounce our contemporary’s item until these little points are made clear. these little points are made clear.

WILLIAM PARENT JOHN HUNTER PARKS

The Menominee Range, Iron Mountain, A History of the Northern Peninsula of Menominee County, Michigan, Volume Michigan and Its People, Its Mining, XI, Number 7 [Thursday, May 9, 1889], Lumber and Agricultural Industries by page 1, column 4 Alvah L. Sawyer, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911, Volume III, BILLY PARENT, [sic] was probably the pages 1120-1122 [plus engraved first citizen that arrived in this city, [sic] we portrait] now call Iron Mountain. His brother Charley, [sic] came with him and set up a John H. Parks. – Conspicuous among tent. He sold dry-goods [sic – dry goods], the foremost citizens of Crystal Falls, Iron to the best extent of his ability, and made a county, is John H. Parks, head of the John fortune. Billy has lived since the stumps on H. Parks Mercantile Company, a clear- the pines, and in Iron Mountain, has been a headed, progressive business man [sic – good citizen and proved himself a good businessman], who has met well merited man by his charity to all men. – Journal. success throughout his career. He was Now, we would like to know whether born June 4, 1845, at Standing Stone Bro. Berry means to say that Billy Parent township, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, a has lived on a pine stump since he came to son of John Parks, Jr. His grandfather, Iron Mountain; or whether he has been John Parks, Sr., a native of Scotland, moving back and forth, living part of the learned the trade of a rug and carpet time on a pine stump out in the woods, and weaver in his own country, and became an part of the time in Iron Mountain; or whether expert designer. In 1830, accompanied by he means that Billy has lived on raw pine his family, he came to America, crossing stump for breakfast, fricasseed pine stump the sea in a sailing vessel, the voyage

189 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] covering a period of three months. Hunter, settled in Thompsonville, New York, Locating in Thompsonville, New York, he and there spent his remaining years. Mrs. secured a position as weaver and designer, Mary (Hunter) Parks survived her husband, and there spent the remainder of his life. at her death in 1899, leaving five children, Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John Parks, as follows: Jane, John H., William, Jr. was but a boy when he crossed the Elizabeth and Nathaniel. ocean with his parents. Learning the trade About ten years of age when his parents of a weaver when young he followed it for a settled in Wisconsin, John H. Parks time in Thompsonville, New York, and then continued his studies in a log schoolhouse, moved to a farm in Standing Stone with its rude, home-made furniture, township, Pennsylvania. He was much acquiring a practical education. He began given to trade and traffic, and on one when quite young to work in the woods, and occasion, leaving his family on the became an expert in the logging and Pennsylvania farm, spent two years in the lumber business. In June, 1864, his spirit south, a part of the time being employed to of patriotism being aroused, Mr. Parks superintend the slaves who were loading enlisted in Company E, Fifth Wisconsin merchandise at the wharves in Charleston, Volunteer Infantry, and with his regiment South Carolina. That was a time when the took part in many engagements of note. slaved trade flourished, vessels coming to The first important battle in which he port loaded with slaves, who were herded in participated was against Early’s army, in the hold, and when landed were taken to the Shenandoah valley, at the time when the pen, and later put on the auction block. Sheridan made his famous ride on hearing, Visiting Wisconsin in 1854, he prospected at Winchester, thirteen miles away, “The successfully, and in 1855 took his family to terrible grumble and rumble and roar, that state, traveling by the lakes from Erie, Telling the battle was on once more.” Pennsylvania, to Milwaukee, from there Mr. Parks was likewise present at the going by train to Fond du Lac, the railway siege and capture of Petersburg, as color terminus at that time, thence with team to bearer placing his colors on the fort while Outagamie county. That part of Wisconsin twenty-one Rebel flags were still flying from was then in its primitive wildness, with here the ramparts. He witnessed Lee’s and there a white man’s cabin. Buying a surrender at Appomattox, standing within trace of land in Bovina township, he cut fifty feet of Generals Lee and Grant when trees to make room for the log cabin, which the former passed his sword to General was the home of the family for some time. Grant, who passed it back to General Lee. A part of each year, he engaged in logging, In September, 1865, Mr. Parks was teaming the huge logs to the river and honorably discharged from the service, and rafting them to Oshkosh, the remainder of returned to his Wisconsin home. the year being employed in clearing his Soon after attaining his majority, Mr. land and tilling the soil. He met with Parks bought a tract of timbered land in excellent success in his labors, in course of Bovina township, Wisconsin, and while not time having a valuable farm, well equipped employed in logging and [sic – he] devoted with substantial frame buildings, and there his energies to the improvement of his land. lived until his death in 1884. He married Fortune smiled on his efforts, and his land Mary Hunter, who was born in Scotland, was in a comparatively short time and came to the United States with her transformed from a forest into a rich and parents when young. Her father, George productive farm. He was very successful 190 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] as a lumberman, being a pioneer in that A., wife of William Jolliffe, has three business in some parts of Wisconsin. In children, namely: Helen M. and Margaret 1877 he entered the employ of P. Sawyer & J., twins; and John Parks. Mr. Parks has Son, and subsequently continued with their the distinction of having served as the first successors, the Sawyer Goodwin [sic – mayor of Crystal Falls, while previous to Goodman] Company, with whom he came that time he had been president of the to the Upper Peninsula. Iron county was village board. Fraternally he is a member then a vast wilderness, the larger proportion of Crystal Falls Lodge No. 385, F. & A.M.; of the broad acres being covered with a of Crystal Falls Chapter No. 129, R.A.M.; of heavy growth of timber, while Quinnesec Crystal Falls Commandery [sic – was the nearest railway station. He Commandry] No. 43, K.T.; is a charter continued his operations in lumber for a member of Ahmed Temple, Mystic Shrine, number of years, during which time he took of Marquette; and a member of De Witt out over three hundred million feet of Clinton Consistory, at Grand Rapids. lumber. Locating in Crystal Falls in 1884, Mr. Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, Gogebic Parks, in company with his uncle, George County, Michigan, Monday, January 26, S. Parks, embarked in the mercantile 1920, page 2 business, putting in a stock of general merchandise, and at one time did a Crystal Falls Man Succumbs business amounting to more than forty in South thousand dollars a month. At the present John H. Parks, Pioneer Resident, Dies at time the John H. Parks Company carries a Home at Palm Beach, Fla. line of hardware and its accessories, only, having a complete stock, and is doing a Crystal Falls – John H. Parks, another of substantial business, its patronage being Crystal Falls' pioneer residents, died extensive and remunerative. Tuesday of this week at his home at Palm Brought up on a farm, Mr. Parks has Beach, Florida. Death was due to a long never lost his love for agriculture and and chronic illness from which the horticulture, and now has a fine estate, nine deceased suffered for many years, going to miles from the city, bordering on Lake Cuba and thence to Florida in an endeavor Chicago [sic – Chicagoan], where he has to find a mild climate which he could ample barn and stable room for his valuable withstand. Deceased was an intimate stock, houses for his employes [sic – friend of the late Capt. W. J. Richards and employees], and a commodious artistically died two days later and within seven miles constructed log cabin, situated on the lake of the same city. shore, in which he and his family enjoy life Mr. Parks was one of the foremost seven months of every year. residents of Crystal Falls and Iron county Mr. Parks married, April 13, 1876, Eva and was head of the Parks' Mercantile Co. A. Jewett, who was born in Wautoma, for many years. He was a clear headed, Waushara county, Wisconsin, a daughter of progressive business man who met well Eben and Mary (Parks) Jewett, natives, merited success throughout his career. respectively, of Maine and Vermont, and Deceased was born June 4th, 1845, at pioneer settlers of that part of Wisconsin. Standing Stone Township, Bradford county Two children have blessed the union of Mr. Pennsylvania, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John and Mrs. Parks, Ulmer and Edna A. 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Parks, Sr. He began when quite young to On The Road. work in the woods and became an expert in “In traveling around the country a fellow the logging and lumbering business. In sees some funny things, and incidents June 1864, his spirit of patriotism being happen that he will always remember. aroused, he enlisted in Co. F. 5th Here are a few I have experienced to date: Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and with his “One day while traveling across the regiment took part in many engagements of plains of Mexico I saw a fellow racing the note among them being the battle of Early's engine in a Ford car. A small hose from the army in the Shenandoah valley at the time exhaust pipe was stuck into the ground. when Sheridan made his famous ride. ‘What’s the big idea,” I asked my red- headed Texas pal. Killing prairie dogs, he CLAUDE PARMELEE explained as we rode along, the gas from the engine knocks them cuckoo and will kill Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, every one in that hole, a handful of carbide Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ in a hole, [sic] Another time a saw a fellow Year, Number _____ [Tuesday, January put a handful of carbide in a hold [sic – 16, 1923], page 2, columns 3-4 hole], pour some water on it, seal it up and walk away satisfied that something down there was going to get ‘gassed.’ Travels of Champion Are He Took It Allright. Not Without Funny Events “Once, I was in a little burg in Arkansas _____ with another fellow and we were stalled there for the night. While in a hardware Parmelee Relates a Few store that afternoon a colored g’eman came Of The Incidents He in an dasked [sic – and asked] the clerk for a box in and asked the clerk for a box [sic] Has Seen Or Taken ‘Show in town tonight,’ said the clerk as the Part In actor walked out with the blanks. After _____ supper my pal suggested we take in the ‘show.’ It was a drama that started out a Nearly every person in Iron Mountain comedy and ended up like a tragedy. It knows Claude Parmelee, either personally, seemed that the colored g’eman and his by sight or reputation. Parmelee in addition wife had an act with some shooting in it – in to being a resident of Iron Mountain is also fact there was no question about it. a salesman for the Winchester arms [sic – Everything was going fine until the shooting Arms] company and is champion part when he grabbed a revolver and professional rifle shot of the state of chased her spouse around a table. Raising Michigan. the gat she said, ‘heah boy – you all take Incidentally, he covers a lot of territory that’, and let go. With a yell that could have and has traveled the breadth and length of been heard to Keelridge [sic – Keel Ridge, these United States. During these trips he a local mine east of Iron Mountain], our has had many and varied experiences and customer actor grabbed the seat of his while in The News office today he was pants and roared he was shot, killed, and induced to relate a few of them. Here’s his he was shot. The clerk in the store had story: sold him a box of fine birdshot shells in place of blanks, they look just alike and the 192 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] woman made a perfect bulls-eye the first was improving, as he nodded towards the crack and peppered him good and plenty. audience. He was not hurt much, but was inclined to “Last week I was in Chicago and went set down standing up for a week or so. out to Garfield park to skate. The ice was ‘Close shave for him, eh pard,’ said my great and a number of crack speed skaters friend. were out. I was doing a little fancy stuff, “One time while traveling in Oklahoma when a fellow said to another, “That’s with a high powered knight of the road he Bobby McLean,” pointing in my direction. insisted he was going to get a bottle of Pretty soon they came over with a bunch ‘Bob-cat.’ Now ‘bob-cat’ is some stuff that and one fellow said, ‘Mr. McLean could you is all the name implies – corn moonshine; always skate?’ I said, ‘Sure, always, never one drink of that stuff will remove both your even had to practice, just jumped on the tonsils on the way down, but this fellow was first pair of skates I ever saw and it cut, it hard boiled and said the country was was ‘natural” and the only reason that driving him to it and he wanted something Chrsitenan defeated me in Sweden, [sic] with a real ‘wallop’ in it. He gave a coon ten was that he blew a handful of snuff in my ducks to present him with a bottle of ‘bob- face and I had to stop and sneeze twice.’ I cat’. When he got it, he looked at it – pulled never cracked a smile and am wondering if the cork, smell of it and then put the flash Bobby McLean ever had as good an alibi. back in his pocket. He never had the nerve Indian Fooled Her. to take one drop. He is well, alive, and has “in Oklahoma, I saw some funny good eyesight today, so I know he still has characters. I was in a store one day and a that bottle of ‘bob-cat.’ small group of people came in – a moving Spun Some Good Yarns. picture troupe who were there shooting a “I was obliged one time to tell the gang scene I the oil fields. The store was full of around the stove, in a little hotel in Indians. A young woman expressed her Louisiana, all about the wild animals of the wish to have an ‘Indian’ talk to her. north. They wanted me to tell them some Nodding towards a tall dark Indian – or ‘bear stories,’ to hear about the wild cats ‘Savage’ the proprietor asked him if he [sic – wildcats] and what it made ‘em so wouldn’t oblige the young actress. With the wild, etc. It was up to me to entertain that politeness of a Prince of Wales and a bunch, and, as they have the idea that a command of the English language that took traveling man is more or less of a the fair lady by surprise, he said, ‘Madam, professional liar, I thought I might as well what do you wish me to say for you?’ He show them some high class stuff. What I gave her a little Cree, tipped his hat, didn’t tell them about ‘wild animals I had bowed, and left the store with a twinkle in known,” and licked in a hand to hand fight, his eye. ‘My,’ exclaimed the blushing one, would have made James Oliver Curwood her face scarlet, ‘he seems to be well ashamed to write on the subject. I admit I education.’ ‘Er-Yah – Carlyle graduate – handel [sic – handed] them an awful line – if millionaire oil man, owns the town,’ replied a dog had suddenly barked, it would have the proprietor. scared them all plumb stiff. When I had “Sitting in a small resort hotel one them nearly unconscious, a fellow with a evening chewing the rag with the clerk, a grin on his fact like a ‘chessie-cat’ [need to woman and two men came in. The woman copy lines missing here] asked the clerk a thousand questions, kicked on the prices and got the clerk mad. 193 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

He told her he only had two rooms left. ‘Vat Friends here, when notified of the death is the price,’ she asked him. “One dollar of Mr. Parmelee, were told that all members and a half” he replied. “I’ll take vun.” Going of the family were en route to Iron over to the two men she whispered to them, Mountain, where the body will be brought ‘My brodders take vun too,’ she said, tonight in a hearse. It will be taken to the nodding towards the two men. ‘Well, that’s Freeman Funeral Home, pending allright,’ said the clerk, ‘dollar and a half arrangements for services. more.’ ‘Vat-Vat EXTRA, EXTRA.’ said the woman. ‘Yes, madam, it will cost the The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, gentlemen, [sic] a dollar and a half to sleep Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume with his own brother, EXTRA.’” ___, Number ___ [Friday, June 13, 1947], page ___, column ___ FREDRICK E. PARMELEE Services For The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, F.E. Parmelee Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume At 2 Monday ___, Number ___ [Thursday, June 12, 1947], page ___, column ___ Services for F.E. Parmelee, widely- known Iron Mountain architect who died F.E. Parmelee Wednesday in Dorothy Rogers hospital, Dies After Birmingham, Mich., where he was visiting Brief Illness his son, Gale, will be held at 2 Monday at the Freeman Funeral home. The Rev.

Ernest Brown, formerly pastor of old Central F.E. Parmelee, aged 82, 1110 Methodist church, in which Mr. Parmelee Stockbridge Avenue, widely-known Iron held membership, will officiate. Burial will Mountain architect, died yesterday in be in Cemetery park. Detroit, after a brief illness. He returned The body, brought here from lower here recently from California, where he Michigan by hearse, may be viewed at the spent the winter, and then went to Detroit to Funeral home starting at noon tomorrow. visit his son, Claude, and to Birmingham to Mr. Parmelee, a resident of Iron visit another son, Gale. He was taken ill Mountain for 63 years, was born Dec. 17, while in southern Michigan. 1864, in Fond du Lac, Wis., a son of the Mr. Parmelee, a resident of Iron late Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Blanchard Mountain for some 63 years, prepared the Parmelee. architectural plans for many large buildings He was married on Dec. 24, 1889, in not only in this community, but in the Upper Pardeeville, Wis., to Carrie Elliott, who died Peninsula and lower Michigan and in Nov. 4, 1932. The couple was [sic – were] Minnesota. the parents of two sons, Claude, of Detroit, He leaves his wife, Maude; two sons, and Gale. Claude and Gale; two step-daughters, Mrs. Mr. Parmelee was married on Nov. 17, E. Zastrow, of Westfield, N.J. and Miss 1933, in Portage, Wis., to Mrs. Maud Elliott, Alice Elliott, of Washington, D.C.; four who survives him. grandchildren; two brothers, and four Two Sons sisters.

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In addition to his two sons, Mr. Parmele Parmelee, of Birmingham; Mr. and Mrs. [sic – Parmelee] leaves two brothers, Claude Parmelee, of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. Edson Parmelee, of Lexington, Mass., and Stanley Simpson, of Evanston; Mrs. C.C. C.H. Parmelee, of Centralia, Mo.; four Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Whiting and Mrs. sisters, Mrs. C.C. Butler and Mrs. F.A. Edward Johnson, of Virginia, Minn., and Whiting, of Virginia, Minn.; Mrs. A.H. Charles Parmelee, Centralia, Mo. Hunting, of Racine, Wis.; and Mrs. Stanley Simpson, of Evanston, Ill.; four EDWARD L. PARMENTER, SR. grandchildren; one great-grandchild, and two stepdaughters, Mrs. Irving Zastrow and Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, miss Alice Elliott. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 16, A brother, Dr. Milton Parmelee, died Number 49 [Thursday, April 4, 1912], recently in Montebello, Calif. page 1, column 4 Mr. Parmelee, who had been in the architectural and contracting business for some 40 years, retired two years ago. He E.L. PARMENTER PASSES. had been in poor health since last October. _____ He at one time served as tax assessor in Iron Mountain and as president of the Prominent Pioneer of Menominee U.P. Society of Architects. Dies at Home of Daughter. He was a life member of the Masonic and Eastern Star lodges and member of the Edward L. Parmenter, one of the most Knights Templars, Consistory and Ahmed prominent pioneers of Menominee, and Temple of the Shrine. He also served in who had been identified with the growth the Michigan State Guard. and progress of the city from the time it was a mere trading post, passed away last The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Monday morning at eight o’clock at the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume home of his daughter, Mrs. H.A. Vennema, ___, Number ___ [Tuesday, June 17, 1045 Main street. General debility due to 1947], page ___, column ___ old age was the cause of his death, Mr. Parmenter being eighty-two years old. Fredrick E. Parmelee Following a fall which he received Services for F.E. Parmelee, 83, who several months ago, Mr. Parmenter had died Wednesday in Birmingham, Mich., been in poor health, but his condition was were held at 2 yesterday afternoon at the not thought serious until Sunday, when he Freeman Funderal home. The Rev. Ernest was in a semi-conscious state all day. Brown officiated. Edward Parmenter was born at Watkins Mrs. H.P. Toretta Sang “My God and I” Glenn, New York, on August 26th, 1830. and Mrs. Burnette Pender played “Beautiful He came to Menominee in 1867, where he Isle of Somewhere” and “In the Garden.” opened a general store and trading post for Burial was in Cemetery park. the Indians. In 1872 he retired from the Pallbearers were G.A. Gustafson, Milo mercantile business and for several years Hansen, W.w. Scherer, John Peterson, was employed as purchasing agent by the Joseph Franson and Harry Mitchell. Menominee Furnace company. In 1883 he Relatives from out of the city here for built a saw-mill [sic – sawmill] at Ingalls and the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Gale for nine years was engaged in the 195 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] manufacture of lumber and shingles, his _____ partner being Ira Carley. Later he was interested with A.G. Rose in a shingle and Edward L. Parmenter Passes Away lumber mill at Lathrop, Delta county. Of in a Battle Creek Hospital. recent years and at the time of his death Mr. Parmenter was engaged in the nursery business. The last issue of The Press contained a His political career extends through a paragraph stating that Edward L. Parmenter long successions of years. For two years was a patient in the Battle Creek he was justice of the peace, was sanitarium. Last Tuesday a telegram was undersheriff for ten years, and for a period received here stating that Mr. Parmenter of seventeen years was overseer of the had died that morning. The news was a poor. He was also elected as one of the great shock to his many friends. Death was city assessors to fill a vacancy caused by due to ulceration of the stomach and the resignation of James C. Sherman. Two followed an operation. years ago, when the national census was Mr. Parmenter was for many years one taken, Mr. Parmenter had the distinction of of Dickinson county’s most influential and being the oldest census taker in the state of highly respected business men [sic – Michigan. businessmen]. When he first came to the The deceasesd wa a member of the county he engaged in the lumber business. Masonic order under which the funeral was He erected a saw-mill [sic – sawmill] at held yesterday afternoon at two o’clock, Sturgeon and operated the same for a from the home of Dr. and Mrs. H.A. number of years, until sold to the Vennema. The Rev. A.W. Bill will give [sic O’Callaghan brothers. Mr. Parmenter also – gave] the funeral eulogy and will be [sic – operated a lumber yard in this city and was] assisted by the Rev. D.E. Long. finally sold out to Festus C. Cole, who was The deceased is survived by one son associated with him in business. When and two daughters, Edward L. Parmenter, Dickinson county was organized, Mr. formerly of Iron Mountain, now Parmenter was elected school superintendent of schools at Alpena; Mrs. commissioner and he held that office until Leo Nohl, of Milwaukee, and Mrs. H.A. six years ago, when he was succeeded by Vennema, of Menominee. Mr. Parmenter Donald O’Hara. Upon his retirement, he was a brother-in-law to Mrs. A.F. Wright, of was elected superintendent of schools at this city, and was well-known to many of Alpena. Later he attended Columbia our people. Anson F. Wright and F.C. Cole College in New York City, and four years were in attendance at the funeral. ago went to Ellensburgh, Washington, where he was superintendent of a state normal school. The climate not agreeing EDWARD L. PARMENTER, JR. with him, he removed to Colorado and

wasa superintendent of schools at Monte Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Vista. About a year ago, still being in poor Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume health, Mr. Parmenter removed to Ripon, XX, Number XX [Thursday, February, Wis., where he engaged in business as a 1917], page XX, column XX florist.

Mr. Parmenter was a member of one of MOURNED BY MANY the oldest Menominee families. He was 196 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] graduated from the literary department of here and widely known in the city and the state university. He was about sixty district, was almost instantly killed; Carl years of age and is survived by a wife and Lindquist, 73, janitor at the court house, one daughter and two sisters – Mrs. A.K. suffered a fractured left leg, crushed left Venema, of Menominee, and Mrs. Leo hand and cuts and bruises about the head, Noel, of Milwaukee. The funeral will be face and neck, and Edmund Carlson, 71, held this afternoon at Menominee. 528 East A, was bruised and shaken up, The demise of Mr. Parmenter will be but not seriously hurt, in an accident mourned by very many friends in Iron occurring at 5:45 last evening when the car Mountain. As a churchman, citizen and owned and driven by Pederson left highway public official his record was spotless. He US-2 near the south Vulcan limits, crashed was a man of intense convictions and his into a drainage-ditch at the side of the road life was true to his beliefs. As a churchman and jammed against a tree. he was always active and helpful. AS a The three men, friends for many years, citizen he was among the leaders, and as a set out early yesterday morning to visit in public official his record was one to which Menominee, and were en route home when he could point with pride. He was the accident occurred. Peterson was considered the best school commissioner in traveling at a moderate rate of speed, Michigan and under his direction the according to Lindquist and Carlson, as the schools of Dickinson county were at the top car approached the turn-off from the main of the column. Mr. Parmenter was ever highway into Vulcan. It is the detour mindful of the welfare of his fellow men. established there some time ago pending His right hand was always extended to help reconstruction of US-2 over a depression in the weak climb upward and move onward. the highway, above the former mine- It was his endeavor to hide his deeds of workings. charity. They were many. Mr. Parmenter Car Leaves Road leaves many monuments of his helpfulness As Pederson started the turn into in Dickinson county. He will be mourned in Vulcan, the car suddenly skidded to the many homes. The sympathy of the right, left the road, hurtled into the ditch and community goes forth to the bereaved one. slammed against the tree, broadside. It did not turn over. GUST PEDERSON Several persons who saw the accident hurried to the scene. They found the car resting heavily against the tree, blocking the The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, right door, and the other door jammed by Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume the impact. Cornelius Alessandri, of ___, Number ___ [Monday, January 14, Vulcan; Earl LaFreniere, of Norway, and 1946], page ___, column ___ others ran for axes and chipped away the

left-hand door. They then lifted out the Aged Resident three occupants. Meanwhile, several cars Dies After were on hand to take the men to the Penn Car Hits Tree hospital, at Norway. Mr. Pederson died about 15 minutes Gust Pederson, 83, 501 East C; resident after arriving at the hospital. Mr. Carlson of Iron Mountain for 63 years; shoemaker was treated by Dr. William Fiedling, for bruises, and was returned to his home. 197 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Examination of Mr. Lindquist revealed the pastor, the Rev. Paul Johnson, officiating. fractured left leg, below the knee; a badly Burial will be in Cemetery park. mashed left hand and cuts about the head The body, taken from the Penn Hospital, and neck. His condition today was fair, Dr. Norway, to the Freeman Funeral home, Fiedling said. may be viewed beginning at 8 tonight and Thrown Against Wheel until 1 tomorrow, when it will be taken to the Injuries to Mr. Pederson, which caused church. his death, were believed to have resulted Mr. Pederson’s son, E.A. Pederson, when he was thrown forcibly against the Kansas City, Kas., is here for the funeral. wheel of the car, in to the instrument panel The latter’s son and daughter, E.A. and windshield. Mr. Lindquist was also Pederson, Jr., Detroit, and Miss Elizabeth tossed against the front of the car, and Mr. Pederson, Fenton, are expected tonight on Carlson, in back, was thrown forward the Chippewa [train]. against the front seat. The wrecked car was taken to THOMAS PENGLASE LaFreniere;s garage at Norway. State police were notified, and Trooper Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Jack Carstensen went to the scene. Later Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 15, this morning , Frank Tondin, coroner, after Number 29 [Thursday, December 8, talking with Carstensen, said there would 1910], page 6, column 3 be no inquest. Mr. Pederson’s body was taken this morning to the Freeman Funeral home. Died at Ishpeming. Born Jan. 4, 1863, in Konnenberg, Asnundort, Sweden, he came to Iron Thomas Penglase, a pioneer resident of Mountain in 1882, and had since lived here. Iron Mountain, died shortly before noon last For many years past he had conducted a Thursday at the home of his brother, John small shoeshop in the 200 block on Penglase, in Ishpeming, where he has Stephenson avenue. His wife died on July resided for several years. Mr. Penglase is 4, last, in this city. He leaves one son, survived by a wife and two daughters, Ernest, of Kansas City, Kansas; five residents of this city. He was about sixty- grandchildren and a daughter-in-law, Mrs. five years of age and had been in poor Harold Pederson, of Milwaukee. health for several years. Mr. Penglase had Funeral arrangements have been been employed at the Chapin shops for withheld, pending arrival of the son, who many years prior to his illness and was a was reached this morning by telephone. hard-working and faithful employe [sic – employee]. He was a member of the local The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, lodges of Masons and Odd Fellows. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume ___, Number ___ [Tuesday, January 15, IRVING R. PERINE 1946], page ___, column ___

The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Pederson Services Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Services for Mr. Pederson will be held at ___, Number ___ [Monday, April 23, 2 tomorrow at First Covenant with the 1945], page ___, column ___

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from 1942-43. He was trained at Camp Cpl. Perine Van Dorn, Miss., and was sent overseas on Killed April 7 Jan. 4, 1945. In Germany In letters to his wife and the McConaughy’s [sic], written April 5 and received here last Saturday, Cpl. Perine Cpl. Irving R. Perine, 33, husband of said his unit was moving ahead, and that Mrs. Dorothy L. Perine, 330 West Fleshiem, the men “had done a lot of walking,” an instructor in the Iron Mountain Junior preferring to move cautiously, rather than High, and a brother to Mrs. N.U. advancing in jeeps or other vehicles. He McConaughy, of this city, was killed April 7 was believed, then, to be in southern in Germany, according to a War Germany. Department telegram received here last Besides his widow, and sister, here, he night. Cpl. Perine, in charge of a forward leaves his father, Harvey G. Perine, West observation post with the Field Artillery of New Brighton, Staten Island, N.Y., and a the famous “Blood and Fire Division,” of brother, Raymond Perine, of Dongan Hills, General Patch’s Seventh Army, was killed N.Y. while moving up, with his unit, to direct artillery fire. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, The War Department message said that Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume a letter of confirmation would follow. ___, Number ___ [Saturday, July 17, Cpl. Perine was born Nov. 11, 1912, at 1948], page ___, column ___ Dongan Hills, Staten Island, New York. When a boy, after the death of his mother, Services On he came to live with the Rev. and Mrs. McConaughy, then at Stambaugh, and Tuesday For moved with them to Iron Mountain in 1927. Cpl. Perine An outstanding athlete, he played football here, and later at Northern Shipped to this country from Europe Michigan College, Marquette. He was aboard the Army Transport Lawrence graduated from Iron Mountain High in 1929 Victory, the remains of Cpl. Irving R. Perine, and from Northern Michigan College in husband, [sic] of Dorothy K. Perine, 300 1936, with a B.A. degree. In 1943 he was West Fleshiem, will be received on the granted a master’s degree at the University Chippewa Monday night in Iron Mountain. of Michigan. Cpl. Perine, 33, was killed on April 7, 1945, Married In 1938 in Germany. The corporal was married June 22, Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday 1938, to Miss Dorothy Knight, daughter of at the Freeman Funeral home. The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Knight, of this city, and N.U. McConaughy will officiate. Burial will who this year accepted a teaching position be in Cemetery Park. Military honors will in the Junior High. be paid Cpl. Perine. Cpl. Perine taught at Ralph, in West A former instructor at Iron Mountain Branch township, Dickinson county, from Junior High, and a brother of Mrs. N.U. 1936 to 1938, and in Junior and Senior McConaughy, of Iron Mountain, Cpl. Perine High, Iron Mountain, from 1938-1942, was in charge of a forward observation post inclusive. He then taught at Ishpeming with the field artillery of the famous “Blood 199 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] and Fire Division” of General Patch’s Marquette. He was graduated from Iron Seventh Army. He was killed while moving Mountain High in 1929 and later from up with his unit to direct fire. Northern college with a BA degree. In 1943 Outstanding Athlete he was granted a master’s degree at the Cpl. Perine was born Nov. 11, 1912, at University of Michigan. Dongan Hills, Staten Island, New York. The corporal was married on June 22, When a boy, after the death of his mother, 1938, to Miss Dorothy Knight, daughter of he came to live with the Rev. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Knight, of this city. Cpl. McConaughy, then at Stambaugh, and Perine taught at Ralph, in West Branch moved with them in 1927 to Iron Mountain. township, from 1936-38, and in junior and An outstanding athlete, he played senior high school, Iron Mountain, from football here and later at Northern College, 1938-42, inclusive. He then taught at Marquette. He was graduated from Iron Ishpeming form 1942-43, and was inducted Mountain High in 1929 and from Northern on Sept. 1, 1943. He was trained at Camp college in 1936 with a BA degree. In 1943, Van Dorn, Miss., and was sent overseas on he was granted a master’s degree at Jan. 4, 1945. Michigan university. Besides his widow and sister, he leaves The corporal was married on June 22, his father, Harvey G. Perine, West New 1938, to Miss Dorothy Knight, daughter of Brighton, Staten Island, N.Y., and a brother, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Knight, of Iron Mountain. Raymond Perine, of Dongan Hills. Cpl. Perine taught at Ralph, in West Branch township, from 1936 to 1938 and in junior The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, and senior high, Iron Mountain, from 1938- Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 42. He then taught at Ishpeming from ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, July 21, 1942-43, and was inducted on Sept. 1, 1948], page ___, column ___ 1943. He was trained at Camp Van Dorn, Miss., and was sent overseas on Jan. 4, War Hero 1945. Buried With Killed in action on April 7, 1945, in Full Honors Germany, Cpl. Perine was the husband of

Mrs. Dorothy L. Perine, 300 West Fleshiem, Full military honors were paid yesterday, and a brother of Mrs. N.U. McConaughy, of beneath the flag under which he did Iron Mountain. Cpt. [sic – Cpl.] Perine was fighting, to Cpl. Irving R. Perine, soldier- in charge of a forward observation post with husband of Dorothy K. Perine, 300 West the field artillery of the famous “Blood and Fleshiem, who was killed on April 7, 1945, Fire Division,” of General Patch’s Seventh during the invasion of Germany. Army. He was killed while moving up, with Services for Cpl. Perine, who was 33 his unit, toward direct artillery fire. when he lost his life while moving to the Cpl. Perine was born Nov. 11, 1912, at front lines to direct fire, were conducted Dongan Hills, Staten Island, New York. yesterday afternoon at the Freeman When a boy, after the death of his mother, Funeral home by the Rev. N.U. he came to live with the Rev. and Mrs. McConaughy. “Onward Christian Soldiers” McConaughy, then in Stambaugh, and and “The Lord’s Prayer” were sung by Olaf moved in 1927, with them, to Iron Mountain. Blomquist, accompanied by Mrs. Ed An outstanding athlete, he played Rabichaud. Burial was in Cemetery Park, football here and later at Northern college, 200 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] where graveside services were conducted by the Rev. Frederick T. Steen, of PAUL EMER PERSON Munising. Military services were in charge of the The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Uren-Cooper Legion post, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume and arrangements were made by the office ___, Number ___ [Thursday, June 27, of veterans’ affairs. The military escort was 1957], page ___, column ___ Sgt. Raymond LaFountain, of the Army.

Active military pallbearers were Harold Luxmore, Herbert K. McDonnell, Jr., Jack Paul Person Hosking, Ronald Larson, Wilfred Watson, Succumbs At Amos Marston, Fred Trestrail and John C. VA Hospital Symons. Honorary pallbearers were Fred Utley, Robert Schettler, Paul Middlin, Paul E. Person, 66, of 812 East D Ernest Holm, James Corona, Arne Aronson street, a resident of Iron Mountain for the and Mike Jacobs. past 55 years, and a former Ford Motor Co. Firing Squad Members employe [sic – employee], died this morning On the firing squad were Alger at the Iron Mountain Veterans Hospital, Gustafson and Eugene Leardi, following a long illness. commanders, Dudleigh Schroeder, William Mr. Person was born Dec. 29, 1890, at Champion, George Hampel, Morrris Norway, Mich., and came to Iron Mountain Walters, Wayne Saxon, Norman Benson, to live with his parents when he was a boy. Donald Cooper, Walter Larsh and Louis With the exception of a short period of time Fontecchio. he lived in Minneapolis, Minn., Mr. Person The color guard was composed of lived in Iron Mountain from that time. Abraham Spigarelli, Leslie Horngren and He was employed by the Ford Motor Co. Robert Wright, and the color bearers were until retiring in 1951. Anthony Quadrani, Larsh, N.J. Merzlak and A veteran of World War I, Mr. Person Miss Ruth Paquin. Gordon Peterson and served with the U.S. Army in France for 13 George Wickman were the buglers and months. Lloyd Kipp, the drummer. Leo Greenleaf Active In Church represented the Legion. He was a member of the Uren-Cooper The honorary civilian pallbearers American Legion Post of Iron Mountain. A included Earl Weiser, Richard Chard, Milo member of the Immanuel Baptist church, Hanson, Charles Kuila, George Best, Oliver Mr. Person served as a deacon on the LaLonde, Wayne Bradley, Bruce Guild and church board, and was also a Sunday Carl Eiserman. school teacher. In addition, he was a Attending from out-of-town were the member of the Men’s Brotherhood of the Rev. and Mrs. Robert Knight, of Coleraine, church. Minn. He leaves his wife; a son, Earl, of Iron Cpl. Perine was a former instructor at Mountain; a daughter, Miss Better Person, Iron Mountain Junior High. At the time of of Iron Mountain; his mother, Mrs. Alfrida his death, he was in charge of a forward Person, of Turlock, Calif., and three observation post with the field artillery of the grandchildren. famous “Blood and Fire Division” of General Patch’s Seventh Army. 201 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Friends may call at the Erickson and Anderson, Walter Brattlund and Sam Son Funeral home beginning at 10:30 Bergstrom. Burial was in Cemetery Park. tomorrow morning. Attending from away were Mr. and Mrs. Services will be held at 2 Saturday Gust Bostrom, of Norway, and Mr. and Mrs. afternoon at the funeral home. Rev. Julian Elmer Johnson, of Homestead, Wis. Leen will officiate. Burial will be in Cemetery Park. WILLIAM HENRY REZIN The family has requested that flowers be omitted. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain,

Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 15, The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Number 287 [Saturday, March 14, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 1936], page 6, column 3 ___, Number ___ [Friday, June 28,

1957], page ___, column ___ WILLIAM REZIN, Paul E. Person CRYSTAL FALLS Services for Paul E. Person, 66, of 812 DRUGGIST, DIES East D street, who died yesterday morning _____ at the Iron Mountain Veterans hospital, will be held at 2 tomorrow afternoon at the Prominent Citizen Succumbs Last Freeman Funeral Home. Rev. Julian Leen Night; Services On Monday will officiate. Burial will be in Cemetery Park. CRYSTAL FALLS, Mar. 14 – William H. Friends may call at the Freeman Rezin, aged 63, one of Crystal Falls’ Funeral Home. leading citizens and a druggist here for 30 The family has requested that flowers years, died at his home on Marquette be omitted. avenue at 11 o’clock last night. Mr. Rezin continued in the active The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, management of his business until February Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 3 of this year, retiring at that date because ___, Number ___ [Monday, July 1, of ill health. He sought relief at the Mayo 1957], page ___, column ___ clinic in Rochester, Minn., but nothing could be done for him and his condition grew Paul E. Person more critical. Services for Paul Emer Person, 66, of Mr. Rezin was born October 19, 1872, in 812 East D street, who died Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. When he was a Thursday at the Veterans Administration young boy the family moved to hospital, in Iron Mountain, were held at 2 Rhinelander, where he attended high Saturday afternoon at the Freeman Funeral school. After leaving school he taught near Home. Rev. Julian Leen, of Homestead, Rhinelander for several years, after which Wis., conducted the service. he entered the business which was to Robert Anderson sang “Children Of The become his life’s work. He entered the Heavenly Father” and “In The Garden,” employ of the Riordan drug store in accompanied by Mrs. Robert Anderson. Rhinelander, continuing there until January, Pallbearers were Gust Anderson, Gunnard Anderson, Axel Swanson, Charles 202 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

1896, when he went to Iron Mountain to be Robichaud and Ward J. Kelly, of Crystal employed by the Seibert drug store. Falls, and Sam Jacobs, Louis J. Will and Served In Spanish War Z.P. Rousselle, of Iron Mountain. When the Spanish-American war broke out Mr. Rezin became a member of the PATRICK RICE 34th Michigan Volunteers and served in Cuba. Following the close of the war he The Current, Norway, Menominee County, returned to the Seibert store in Iron Michigan, Volume VI, Number 14 Mountain and remained there until October [Saturday, May 10, 1890], page 1, 16, 1906, when he bought out the A.L. column 4 Robbins drug store in Crystal Falls. Since that time he had conducted the Rezin drug Killed on the Loop. store. The business was located in the old

Masonic building until December 27, 1934, Wednesday evening word was brought when the structure was destroyed by fire. to town that Patrick Rice, an old resident Mr. Rezin then opened a store in the Shook here, had been struck by a train while building across the street. walking through the rock cut on the Loop Mr. Rezin was wedded September 8, about a mile west of Fumee. A coroner’s 1909, to Iona Barclay, at Rhindlander. His jury was taken to the scene of the accident widow and four sons survive. The sons are and the body was then brought to town and Paul, of Marquette, Robert, of Detroit, and taken to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Alex. William and John, of Crystal Falls. He also Miller, nephew and niece of [the] deceased, leaves two sisters, Mrs. P.L. Whittier, of from which place it was buried yesterday Rhinelander, and Mrs. William Walsh, of morning. The deceased was walking on Everett, Wash., and a niece, Mrs. Nona the track and being deaf he did not hear the McShane Christensen, of Bessemer. Mrs. approach of engine No. 448, which struck Christensen formerly resided with the him and threw him about 20 ft. breaking his Rezins. back and causing instant death. Patrick Active In Civic Affairs Rice was a brother of Thomas Rice whose Mr. Rezin had always been active in all death was chronicled in these columns a civic affairs and played a prominent role in few weeks ago. He owned a small farm on the development of the city. He was a the state road and besides working that did former president of the Rotary club and considerable work in the lumber woods. served as an officer in the Upper Peninsula Druggists’ association. He was also a member of the Louis Bowman post of the THOMAS RICE American Legion, the Crystal Falls Businessmen’s association, and the The Current, Norway, Menominee County, Knights of Columbus and Elks’ lodges of Michigan, Volume VI, Number 10 Iron Mountain. [Saturday, April 12, 1890], page 1, Funeral services will be held at 9 o’clock column 3 Monday morning at the Guardian Angel [sic] church. The Rev. Fr. Raymond Died. Bergeron will conduct the services and burial will be in the Crystal Falls cemetery. Pallbearers will be Phil M. Shaw, Arthur 203 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

DIED – on Saturday, April 5th, 1890, at his home on the Sturgeon, from pneumonia, Thomas Rowell, 81,pioneer resident of Thomas Rice, aged 54 years. the city and district, and associated with the By the death of Thomas Rice another earliest mining history in the region, died at pioneer is taken from our midst, one who 4 yesterday afternoon at his residence, 301 was known and respected by all and who East E, after an illness of more than a year. will be missed by many others than is He had been confined to his bed for the last relatives. His illness was of but short five weeks. duration and unexpected, having a strong Mr. Rowell was born Sept. 29, 1864, in constitution it was presumed he might again Liskeard, Cornwall, England, and came to be brought back to health but the reaper this country in 1883, locating first at deemed it best to take him away from those Norway. Later he followed the mining who loved and revered him. Deceased was activity of the region to Quinnesec and in born at Douglas, Renfrew Co., Canada, 1885 came to Iron Mountain, where he had January 1st, 1836, and had he lived until since lived. the new year he would have passed the He was married here in 1887. His wife 55th mile stone. At the age of 26 he was died in Iron Mountain, in 1925. joined in marriage to Miss Margret Dorsey, Mr. Rowell was formerly captain of the of Ottawa, Canada, who survives, and old Breen mine, at Waucedah, and of the about three years after they took up Walpole mine in this city. He was also a residence in Chicago where they remained shift foreman at the Pewabic for many two years, then moving to Menekaunee, years, and worked, for a time, at the Wis. In the latter place they remained Chapin. Leaving the mines, he was for 15 about four years and in 1871 they moved to years janitor of the Carnegie library in the the Sturgeon farm where they remained city, until a few years ago when he retired. until his death. He leaves a wife, four He was a life member of the Masonic daughters, Mrs. Alex. Miller, of Norway, and Odd Fellows lodges and, in the early Mrs. John Carroll, of Ironwood, Katie and days, was prominent in civic activities. One Lizzie and two sons, Joseph and Edward at of the few remaining old-time immigrants home. The funeral was held in the Catholic who came to upper Michigan during the church and the interment in the Quinnsec earliest days of mining development, Mr. cemetery. The bereaved family have the Rowell was a familiar figure in the sympathy of the community in their loss of a community, and had many friends. loving father and husband. He leaves his daughter, Mrs. Ed Simms, with whom he lived, and one son, Milton, in THOMAS ROWELL the Navy. Another son, Joseph, died in 1941. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Funeral arrangements are withheld Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume pending word from the son in the Navy. ___, Number ___ [Thursday, June 14, 1945], page ___, column ___ The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Pioneer Died ___, Number ___ [Friday, June 15, 1945], page ___, column ___ Yesterday At His Home 204 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

THOMAS ROWELL businessmen]. Mr. Rundle was born in England and came to this country with his Services for Thomas Rowell, who died parents when he was about one year old, at 4 Wednesday afternoon at his residence, his father, the late Capt. Thos. Rundle, 301 East E, will be held at 2:30 tomorrow settling first in Ontonagon county. In 1879, afternoon at the Erickson and Son when the Chapin mine had been opened up Mortuary. The Rev. N.U. McConaughy will sufficiently to show that it was a valuable officiate. Burial will be in Cemetery Park. property, Capt. Rundle was appointed superintendent and Tom was given a place The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, in the office as bookkeeper. In 1880 Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Rundle Bros. – Thomas and A.J. – bought ___, Number ___ [Monday, June 18, out the hardware store of Kern Bros., and 1945], page ___, column ___ conducted the business successfully for several years. John retired from the firm THOMAS ROWELL about three years ago and Thomas Services for Thomas Rowell, who died continued it alone until failing health Wednesday at his home, 301 East C [sic], compelled him to retire and John again were held at 2 Saturday at the Erickson and returned to this city and bought his brother’s Son Mortuary. The Rev. N.U. McConaughy interest in the business. The deceased has officiated. Mrs. A. Toretta, Mrs. C. Ohman, been one of our most energetic, Mrs. R. Erickson, Mrs. Ivan Brown, Mrs. enterprising and public spirited citizens and Floyd Eymer and Mrs. R.H. Peterson, by hard work and strict integrity had accompanied by Mrs. B. Pender, sang acquired considerable competency. He “Jesus As Thou Wilt” and “Be Still My Soul.” made Iron Mountain real estate his bank Pallbearers were John Hitchens, Roy and all his earnings were judiciously Laing, Ernest Horngren, Will James, invested in good city property. At the time Herbert McDonald and Tom Mitchell. Burial of his death he was the owner of the opera was in Cemetery Park. house block, and other store buildings and residences, the income of which will leave THOMAS RUNDLE his family in comfortable circumstances. In May 1882, he married Miss Jennie Warner, of Muskegon, and two children, a boy and The Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson [a] girl[,] have blessed their union. Mr. County, Michigan, Volume XIII, Number Rundle was for a number of years captain 25 [Thursday, September 24, 1891], of the fire company, and was always the page 1, column 4 hardest worker at a fire. It is likely that he

contracted the fatal disease that terminated Obituary. his life so untimely form exposures thus

endured. The funeral took place this Died, in this city last Tuesday evening, afternoon, under the auspices of the Iron of consumption, Thos. Rundle, aged nearly Mountain Lodge, F. & A.M., and was 34 years. attended by an immense crowd of Mr. Rundle, though a young man in sorrowing friends. years[,] was one of the oldest residents of this city, and for years one of its most prominent business men [sic – GEORGE RUNKEL

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5 years old, born in Wisconsin; Charles George Runkel was born in October, Runkle [sic – Runkel], 3 years old, born in 1839, in Prussia or Germany. He Wisconsin; and Harry Runkle [sic – Runkel], immigrated to the United States. Johann 1 year old, born in Wisconsin. Other George Runkel, probably the same George members of the household were Adelade Runkel, was naturalized in Wisconsin in Fuller, a 17-year-old female born in Ohio, 1855 (Illinois, Northern District and Henry W. Void, a 32-year-old male Naturalization Index). born in Prussia. George Runkel married Eliza Jane George Runkel as well as a J.G. Lockwood, daughter of Charles and [Johann George – ?] is listed on the 1875 Elizabeth (Parks) Lockwood, born in Wisconsin State Census in Lowell Town, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on January 12, Dodge County, Wisconsin. 1844. She immigrated to the United States George Runkel, born in Germany in from Canada with her parents in about 1839, registered as a voter on May 6, 1884, 1853 at 10 years of age. in Los Angles, Los Angeles County, In the 1860 U.S. Federal Census for California. George Runkel, born in Greenfield, Monroe County, Wisconsin, Germany in 1839, registered as a voter on George Runkle [sic – Runkel] is listed as a April 6, 1888, in the Third Ward, Los 20-year-old white male, born in 1840 in Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. Prussia. Eliza J. Runkle [sic – Runkel] is In the 1900 U.S. Federal Census for listed as a 16-year-old white female, born in Weippe, Lolo, Oro Precincts, Shoshone 1844 in Canada. Others living in the County, Idaho, George Runkel, a 61-year- household were: Fred Whitcomb, a 25- old married white male, was listed as the year-old male born in New York; Sumner head of the household, married 40 years Wilber, a 25-year-old male born in and married in 1860, immigrated in 1857, Pennsylvania; Delire Wilber, a 20-year-old father and mother both born in Germany. female born in New York; Edmond His 37-year-old son, George Runkel Jr., Shepard, a 59-year-old male born in New born in Wisconsin, was also a member of York; and Torrence McNally, a 30-year-old the household, as well as Hattie Dickinson, male born in Vermont. a 22-year-old servant born in Iowa. George Runkle (possibly George In the 1910 U.S. Federal Census for Runkel) served as a private in the 129th Kamiah, Idaho County, Idaho, George Regiment, Illinois Infantry (100 days, 1864). Runkle [sic – Runkel] is listed as the head In the 1870 U.S. Federal Census for of the household, a 70-year-old white Lincoln Township, Monroe County, married man born in Germany, parents Wisconsin, George Runkle [sic – Runkel] born in Germany; his wife is Elisa [sic – was listed as a 30-year-old white male, Eliza] J. Runkle, a 66-year-old white born in Prussia between 1839-1840; Eliza married woman born in Canada in 1844, J. Runkle [sic – Runkel] was listed as a 26- parents both born in Canada, immigrated in year-old white female, born in Canada 1850; George W. Runkle [sic – Runkel], between 1843-1844; their children were son, a 44-year-old white single man born in listed as: Julia Runkle [sic – Runkel], 9 1866 in Wisconsin, father born in Germany years old, born in Wisconsin; Mary Runkle and mother born in Canada; another [sic – Runkel], 7 years old, born in resident was Fred Melkersman, a 39-year- Wisconsin; George Runkle [sic – Runkel], old man born in Missouri.

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George Runkel died November 3, 1913, was born December 10, 1864, in in Kamiah, Lewis County, Idaho, and is Pennsylvania [sic]. buried in Kamiah Cemetery. In the 1930 U.S. Federal Census for Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Chehalis, Lewis County, Washington, Eliza Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 18, J. Runkel was listed as an 86-year-old Number 27 [Thursday, November 20, widow, born in 1844 in English Canada 1913], page 1, column 4 [Ontario], who immigrated in 1853. Her father was born in English Canada [Ontario] Range Pioneer Passes. and her mother was born in New York. She was the mother of Julia E. Cogswell, the George Runkel, the man responsible for head of the household, who was listed as a the founding of the present city of Cystal 69-year-old widow, born in 1861 Falls, died recently in Salt Lake City. In (estimated) in Wisconsin. Her father was 1881 Mr. Runkel succeeded in getting the born in Germany and her mother in English North-Western railroad to extend its tracks Canada [Ontario]. Others in the household from Florence to that locality, and Mr. were her brother George W. Runkel, a 65- Runkel and his associates purchased and year-old single man, born in 1865 platted the original townsite, built a saw-mill (estimated) in Wisconsin. His father was to cut the pine logs into lumber with which born in Germany and his mother in English to build the first buildings and developed Canada [Ontario]. Mary L. Rowley, an 80- the small exploratory pits in the year-old aunt of Julia E. (Runkel) Cogswell, neighborhood to the mine stage. For a was also listed and was probably the sister number of years past he had resided at of Eliza J. (Lockwood) Runkel. Kamiah, Idaho. At the Utah city, a few days Eliza Jane (Lockwood) Runkel died before his death, he closed a deal for the December 8, 1930, in Chehalis, Lewis sale of mining properties in Idaho for County, Washington, where she had lived $5,000,000. with her daughter, Mrs. L.K. (Julia Elizabeth Runkel) Cogswell. Charles F. Runkle [sic – Runkel], son of JOHN “SANDY” RUSSELL George and Eliza (Lockwood) Runkle [sic – Runkel], died October 2, 1924, in Seattle, The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, King County, Washington. He was born in Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 1867 (57 years, 6 months, 20 days), and ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, was married to Viola Runkle [sic – Runkel]. November 29, 1939], page ___, column Julia Elizabeth (Runkel) Cogswell, ___ daughter of George Runkel, born in Germany, and Eliza Jane Lockwood, born John Russell, in Canada, died June 23, 1947, in Weippe, Pioneer Of Clearwater County, Idaho. She was born City, Stricken October 8, 1860, in Wisconsin. George W. Runkel, son of George John Russell, or “Sandy,” as he was Runkel, born in Germany, and Eliza Jane known to his many friends, aged 83 years Lockwood, born in Canada, died October 9, and a resident of Iron Mountain for 57 1950, in Kamiah, Lewis County, Idaho. He years, died at 5 o’clock this morning at his

207 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] home, 518 West Brown street, following a Russell, now en route to Iron Mountain from heart attack suffered at 9:30 last night. Detroit, where she resides. One of the oldest pioneer residents of He also leaves one sister, Mrs. Barbara the city, Mr. Russell was associated with White, and a brother, Frank Russell, both of the earliest development of Iron Mountain, Scotland. and was widely known in the district. Mr. Russell was a member of the Iron He was born May 18, 1856, in Banff, Mountain lodge of Masons, and attended Scotland, and came to America in 1879, the First Presbyterian church. locating in Chicago. He resided there three years before moving to Iron Mountain. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Conducted Store Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Shortly after arriving in the city he ___, Number ___ [Thursday, November opened a general store on the corner of 30, 1939], page ___, column ___ Merritt avenue and Brown street, which he conducted for 40 years, retiring 18 years Russell Funeral ago. He had not since actively engaged in Funeral services for John Russell, aged any business. 83, Iron Mountain resident who died at 5 Since retiring from business, Mr. Russell o’clock yesterday morning at his home, 518 had traveled widely, making two trips to his West Brown street, will be held at 2:30 old home in Scotland. He had spent the tomorrow afternoon at the residence. The last several winters in Florida, and was Rev. N.U. McConaughy[,] pastor of the First preparing to go again when stricken. Presbyterian church, will conduct the Although never actively engaged in service. Burial will be in Cemetery park. politics, Mr. Russell served as city assessor for several years, and was deeply The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, interested in the civic and industrial growth Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume of the community. Likewise, during the ___, Number ___ [Friday, December 1, years he was in business, he had an active 1939], page ___, column ___ part in many civic functions, and was recognized for his progressive spirit. Russell Funeral Was Ardent Sportsman Funeral services for John Russell, aged An ardent sportsman, Mr. Russell made 83, pioneer Iron Mountain resident who many trips to the woods during the deer died Wednesday at his home, following a hunting seasons – the last time two years brief illness, were held at 2:30 yesterday ago. His companions on that occasion afternoon at the residence. relate that, becoming confused in his During the service, conducted by the directions, he lost his way for a time, but Rev. N.U. McConaughy, pastor of the First calmly sat down in a clearing and waited for Presbyterian church, Mrs. McConaughy the others to find him. He expressed no sang “Abide With Me,” accompanied by her concern whatever and hiked back to camp daughter, Miss Alice. with the others. Burial was in Cemetery park. Older residents also recall his keen Pallbearers were Abbot M. Fox, Ed sense of humor and his kindly nature. Trestrail, Fayette Brown,Roy Laing, Two daughters survive. They are Mrs. Gottfred Johnson and Donald B. Smith. Reed Dewey, of Detroit, who has been with her father for some time, and Miss Adelaide 208 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Among the relatives and friends Mr. Russell was married in 1893 to attending from out of the city were Dr. Marion Burdon, a native of Green Bay, Thomas Burden [sic – Burdon], Mr. and Wisconsin, and a daughter of one of the Mrs. Raymond Lambeau, Mr. and Mrs. early settlers of that place. For some time Donald Larson and Donald Burdon, all of previous to her marriage Mrs. Russell was Green Bay, and Fayette Brown, of Iron one of the popular and successful teachers River. in the public schools of Iron Mountain. They have one child, Adelaide. John Russell came from a long line of Fraternally, Mr. Russell is identified with Scottish farmers. He came to Iron the blue lodge and chapter, F. & A.M., of Mountain in 1888 [sic] and built a general Iron Mountain; also of the A.O.U.W. His store on Brown Street, which is the oldest political sympathies are with the Republican standing brick building in town. party. [pages 597-598: MENOMINEE (Born from Iron: Iron Mountain, Michigan RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – 1879-1979) MEMORIAL RECORD OF THE NORTHERN PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN – Married in Milwaukee on Wednesday last, 1895] John Russell of Iron Mountain & Miss Marion Burdon, of Green Bay, Wis. (April ABE SACKIM 13, 1893, Iron Mountain-Range Tribune Newspaper.) Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, The complete article can be found at the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, Dickinson County Library, Iron Mountain. Number 28 [Thursday, December 1, 1904], page 4, column 3 JOHN RUSSELL, one of the prosperous merchants of Iron Mountain, Michigan, has BRIEF CITY NEWSITES. been engaged in business here since 1884. That year he opened up a stock of general _____ merchandise on Fleshiem street, continued there until 1887, and then Abe Sackim is in the eastern markets erected the building he has since occupied, securing bargains for the patrons of the this being the first brick building in Iron Paris Store. Mountain. He carries a fine assortment of all kinds of general merchandise and has Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, an excellent trade. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, Mr. Russell was born in Aberdeen, Number 29 [Thursday, December 8, Scotland, May 18, 1858, son of John 1904], page 5, column 4 Russell, who still resides in Scotland. He was reared in his native town and there BRIEF CITY NEWSITES. learned the grocery business. In 1879, on _____ attaining his majority, he came to America and located at Chicago, securing a position Proprietor Sackim has equipped the in a grocery establishment in that city and Paris Store with a new lighting plant. remaining there until 1884, when as above stated, he came to Iron Mountain and Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, became a general merchant. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 16, 209 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Number 22 [Thursday, October 19, containing corsets, notions and yarns. To 1911], page 1, columns 3-4 [Includes a the rear is [sic – are] the departments of two-column photograph labeled “THE bargains and bed furnishings. To the north HOUSE OF SACKIM”] of the notions department will be found the department for ladies’ footwear and in the AN ENLARGED AND rear of both, almost in the center of the building, is the office and wrapping REMODELED STORE department. The neck-wear department _____ occupies a space in the front near the south entrance. Formal Opening and Annual Fall Entering the north entrance one finds on Sale of the Abe Sackim Company his right the shoe department for men and boys, in the center men’s furnishings and on Saturday With Dainty Souvenirs underwear, and on the right the clothing for Lady Patrons. and hat and cap departments. The fixtures in this section of the store are all new, the The remodeled and enlarged very latest inventions for the showing of department store of the Abe Sackim goods to the best advantage, and include company will be formally opened to the modern wall and floor display cases. public next Saturday at which time the In the rear, contained in a solid stone annual fall and winter sale will be annex, is the department containing the inaugurated. ladies’ cloaks and coats, suits, furs and The House of Sackim is now second to millinery. This stock is a very large and no similar establishment of the kind in fashionable one and the lady partrons [sic – Northern Michigan. It is strictly metropolitan patrons] will find all that is new on in all departments and general exhibition. The lines are new and embrace arrangements of stocks, manner of all the latest patterns and styles. conducting business and in furnishings. The entire second floor is devoted to The enlarged store now has a frontage carpets, rugs, curtains, china and on Stephenson avenue of sixty feet and a glassware and house-furnishings. The depth of one hundred and fifty feet stock is a tremendous one and contains all occupying two floors, making it one of the that is late in the several lines. largest in the state. The new steel and The House of Sackim has had a plate glass front, with the large display wonderful growth, due to up-to-date widows, is a very handsome one and has methods of doing business and a added wonderfully to the general determination on the part of the appearance of Iron Mountain’s main management to give the public a square business street. deal at all times. This policy, aided by There are two main entrances to the attentive and thoughtful clerks, supported store from Stephenson avenue. As you by the liberal use of printer’s ink, has won enter the south door on your right hand, you marked success in a field where the find the greatly enlarged dry goods and competition was keen. The business, ladies’ underwear departments containing a during the past few years has had a line of goods that is most complete and wonderful growth and the management was fashionable. In the center is a large display really forced to more than double the counter and on the left the department capacity of the establishment. No 210 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] additional lines have been added in making Cameron building on North Stephenson the enlargement, but all the old ones have avenue. He remained with Sam Rusky for been enlarged and strengthened. Goods four years[.] In 1893 he formed a can now be displayed to a much better partnership with Julius Rusky, the firm advantage and the business handled in a succeeding to the business of Samuel much more comfortable manner. The Rusky. At this time the business was House of Sackim is deserving of the removed to the building now occupied by success attending it. In addition to Mr. Asp & Olson, later removing to Mr. Sackim, the founder of the house, the Sackim’s present stand. In 1895 the firm company includes Ben and Sam Seaman. dissolved partnership, Mr. S. retaining the All of [whom] have been residents of the old stand, where he has conducted city for many years and all deservedly enjoy business ever since. the confidence and esteem of the people of From a small beginning the business the city. May the houses continue to has had a phenomenal growth and today prosper. Mr. Sackim is doing a business in general merchandise second to none in the upper Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, peninsula. This growth is the result of Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 13, constant study of the needs of the trade, a Number 24 [Thursday, November 5, determination to satisfy patrons and square 1908], page 1, columns 3-4 [including dealing. His instructions to his assistants large oval portrait] since commencing business was [sic – were] to satisfy the customer, show no ABE SACKIM partiality in the treatment of customers and act to misrepresent goods [sic]. In addition Announcement is made by circulars and to this he has been a firm believer in the in the papers that the business which Abe value of printer’s ink and expends large Sackim has so successfully conducted in sums yearly in informing the people of the this city during the past thirteen years, [sic] bargains he has in store for them. And he is to be re-organized [sic – reorganized] has always been timely and strictly honest and incorporated. While all the plans have in his announcements. He made it a strong not yet matured, it is known that a stock point never to deceive the public and his company , with a capital of about $50,000, success in a great measure is due to the will be incorporated and assume control of fact that he enjoys the reputation of being a the business about the first of January. “good buyer” in the wholesale markets. Mr. Sackim will retain control of the Invariably his purchases are for cash, and majority of the stock and continue as active the wholesalers, knowing this, are eager to manager. Associated with him will be Ben secure his trade and offer him extra and Sam Seaman, who are now connected inducements. with the business. Soon after engaging in business for In connection with this announcement a himself, Mr. Sackim was married to Miss brief sketch of the business career of Mr. Lillian Barnett, of Chicago. Mrs. S. has Sackim will be of interest. Mr. Sackim proved a most sympathetic helpmate and came to Iron Mountain from Chicago in the husband rightly credits her with much of 1889 to accept a position with Sam Rusky, his success. at that time engaged in business in the Ben Seaman came to the city from Chicago in 1896. He has “grown up in the 211 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] business” and is now Mr. Sackim’s right Every school child from the sixth grade hand supporter. He does much of the up to and including high school pupils is buying and attends to the advertising. He is eligible to take part in the contest. Letters popular with the trading public and enjoys must not be more than 100 words in length the confidence and esteem of the and are to be written upon the topic, “Why community. Is This Store Successful?” Sam Seaman, who is also to affiliate For the best letter received form a high with the new organization, came to Iron school pupil a prize of $15 is being offered. Mountain in 1898[.] His specialty is the A prize of $10 is offered for the best letter clothing and gent’s furnishing business. He from a sixth to eighth grade pupil. Judges has studied his trade and understands all will be J.C. Knight, Frank Morett and W.B. the ins and outs. He is worthy of the Cudlip. confidence he enjoys. The Sackim store has enjoyed an The new organization will give our exceptional growth during the last four community one of the most substantial years. Its most recent expansion was the merchandise houses in the state. The opening of the basement department which business will be continued along the same has since done a large business. During lines as now, the only change being an the year the company also purchased that enlargement of the present departments. It half of the property which it formerly had will have the best wishes of thousands of under lease. The store is one of the oldest patrons. institutions in the city.

Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 5, Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ Number 28 [Wednesday, May 13, 1925], Year, Number _____ [Tuesday, May 5, page 2, column 1 1942], page 3, columns 1-2 [Photograph of Abe Sackim in columns 3-4] ANNIVERSARY IS BEING OBSERVED Sackim Company Observes _____ Fiftieth Anniversary

Sackim Store Opened In Fifty years ago in the spring of 1892, Iron Mountain 33 Years two ambitious young men, Abe Sackim and Julius Rusky, established in the mining Ago town of Iron Mountain a small general store. _____ They did so in the belief that Iron Mountain, at the gateway to the north, was destined to The A. Sackim department store today become a thriving town. Tomorrow that began celebrating the thirty-third store, which thrived and prospered as the anniversary of its opening in Iron Mountain. city grew, will begin an observance of its In connection a sale offering what the golden jubilee. store terms “appreciation values” is being Built on principles of fair dealing, the held and a highlight of this is a school history of the A. Sackim company, from a children’s letter writing contest. small beginning in a space some 26 by 75

212 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] feet, can best be described by one word – until the death of the latter, when Ben, the progress. older of the brothers, assumed full control. Two years after the store started The store continued its steady growth business in the south portion of the present under the direction of Mr. Seaman and in building, Mr. Rusky and Mr. Sackim 1925 two departments were added, in a dissolved partnership, the latter taking over newly built basement. In 1925 the the business which he conducted alone Economy Basement, showing lower priced until the incorporation in 1910, when Ben merchandise, was opened, and in 1926 Seaman and his brother, the late Sam came the popular cash-and-carry grocery Seaman, became members of the firm. department. The business prospered under the Seaman’s Comment management of Mr. Sackim and it was not Mr. Seaman, commenting on the growth long before larger quarters were needed for of the store, said, “We weathered the the stock of men’s and women’s apparel, previous war and all depressions and dry goods, shoes and accessories. It was continued to grow despite the fact that then that an addition for the shoe and chain stores of various types entered the ready-to-wear department was added to the city. We believe we have a store original building. comparable to any department store in the Business Expands peninsula.” By 1914, four years after the Under the management of Mr. Seaman incorporation and 22 years after the start of the company became affiliated with one of the business, the quarters were again found the largest buying offices in New York City to be too small, and the store was again – F. Lilienthal – making possible the expanded. This time the corporation purchase of the finest merchandise at purchased a building immediately to the lowest market prices. Twice a year Mr. north of the old store, and combined the Seaman goes to Chicago and New York, buildings by cutting arched entrance ways attending the style shows and other through the walls. An up-to-date men’s merchandise showings, so that A. Sackim clothing and furnishings department was Company may keep abreast of the times. then opened in the front half of the new The store now has a staff of 35 carefully wing, the rear of which was devoted to trained salesmen and saleswomen, many women’s ready-to-wear. of whom, entering the employ of the It was shortly after this, in 1915, that Mr. company while still in their teens, have Sackim, because of ill health, found it “grown up” with the store. Assisting Mr. necessary to move to a warm climate. He Seaman the heads of departments are Dan then turned the management of the store Goodman, in charge of men’s clothing; over to Ben and Sam Seaman. Although Arthur Chapman, Sr., women’s and not active in the management he has for children’s shoes; Miss Irene Johnson, the last 26 years kept touch with the women’s ready-to-wear; Ben Rusky, the business. It is believed that A. Sackim Economy Basement, and Charles Luber, company is the only mercantile house in the the cash-and-carry grocery department. peninsula conducted at the end of half a The women’s department, which has century under the original ownership. always offered one of the finest lines in the Ben Seaman and his brother Sam city, was redecorated and modernized last continued the management of the store year. Customers Invited 213 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

In observance of 50 years of business in last Monday at the family home in a city where the store has become an Quinnesec, where she had resided for forty institution, the A. Sackim company is years. Mrs. [St.] Denis had been in poor inviting its customers and friends to call. health for several years. Surviving are two There will be sales in all departments, cash two [sic] daughters – Misses Virginia and awards in the amount of $500, flowers for Luella – and a brother, Carl Diedrich, of the women and cigars for the men. Mr. Buffalo, N.Y. Mrs. St. Dennis [sic – Denis] Seaman has arranged to have a fortune will be mourned by many friends who teller at the store, who will give free extand [sic – extend] sympathy to the loving readings to customers. There also will be daughters who had so carefully free bus service to and from the store, and administered to her every want. Nothing numerous events to be announced later. had been left undone to add to her comfort, The store windows and interior have and due to this untiring care the St. Denis been attractively decorated in observance home circle was a beautiful one. The of the jubilee. funeral was held this morning from St. Business places throughout the district, Mary’s church at Vuinnesec [sic – seeing in the A. Sackim company not so Quinnesec] with Rev. James Corcoran in much a competitor as a leader in civic charge of the services. affairs of the city, have extended public congratulations to the firm. R.M. SAMPSON Speaking for Mr. Sackim and the staff, Mr. Seaman promises that the policy of the Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, store in the future will be the same as in the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, past. Number 22 [Thursday, October 20, “Today, as in 1892, the A. Sackim 1904], page 5, column 2 company is a willing partner in the future of our city. It is still fired by the enthusiasm, Was a Pioneer. the courage and vision of its founders – and will go onward to a greater future in serving R.M. Sampson, father of Postmaster the growing needs of Iron Mountain,” he Sampson, of Norway, who died in said. Houghton recently, was one of the copper “Our Golden Jubilee is an expression of country’s staunch pioneers, witnessing its gratitude to our customers and friends.” development from its infancy. He located in Houghton when there was but one small WILHELMINA ST. DENIS house where a prosperous village of 5,000 people now stands. Both sides of Portage Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, lake at that time were covered by dense Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume forests. Unite he was sixty years of age Mr. XX, Number XX [Thursday, XX, ca. Sampson worked as a miner. He came to 1918-1920], page XX, column XX the United States from England when he was twenty-three years old. His birthplace Pioneer Woman Passes. was Devonshire and the date of his birth June 12th, 1827. He leaves two daughters Mrs. Wilhelmina St. Denis, one of the – Mrs. C.D. Hibbard, of Duluth, and Miss highly esteemed pioneers of the range, died Martha Sampson, of Hurontown, – and 214 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] three sons, Henry and William, of Farley, Iowa, where he worked at the Hurontown, and R.M. Sampson, Jr., blacksmithing trade. Shortly thereafter he postmaster at Norway. started out for the Lake Superior district, locating eventually at Ishpeming where he JOSEPH H. SANDERCOCK plied his trade until the panic of 1873. Then he moved to Hallowell, Maine, where he worked as tool sharpener in a granite The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, quarry. He left there a short time later for a Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 7, visit to his old home in England. Number 18 [Saturday, April 30, 1927], Came Here in 1879 page 2, column 1 In July, 1879, Mr. Sandercock returned

and moved to Quinnesec, accepting a EMPLOYE AT MINE position with [the] Menominee Mining RETIRES AFTER 47 company, then owners of considerable YEARS OF SERVICE property throughout this district. He stayed in that community only about six weeks, _____ when he was transferred to Iron Mountain, where the company was making extensive Joseph Sandercock Came explorations. To City When It Was Mr. Sandercock set up his first anvil and Forest forge in the open, between two trees at the _____ east end of what is now the Chapin pit. Iron Mountain was then a town in name only, Mr. Sandercock related today. The region Completing 47 years of service as was heavily forested, with the exception of blacksmith for the Chapin mining property, the district immediately north and south of with 25 years of that time in the employe the pit which Mr. Sandercock described as [sic – employ] of the Oliver Iron Mining “just a plain swamp.” company as blacksmith foreman, Joseph H. A long logging trail led through the Sandercock signed his last daily report district along the route of what is now today, before his retirement from active Stephenson avenue, and this was heavily work. Starting May 1 he becomes a corduroyed [A corduroy road was a road pensioner of the company. Mr. Sandercock with logs laid parallel to one another.] is 75 years of age and is hale and hearty. through the swampy area. Mr. Sandercock Seated at his desk today, Mr. was then the only blacksmith employed Sandercock received the congratulations of about the exploration camp and his work many friends and fellow workmen. consisted largely of sharpening the tools Occasionally an employe [sic – employee] used in sinking the test pits. would drop in for an order. The foreman In 1879 [sic – 1889] the Menominee signed the slips with a flourish, the last he Mining company sold out to the will “okeh” as active head of the Schlessinger interests, who operated the blacksmithing department. property until 1901 [sic –1894], when the Mr. Sandercock was born in England, concern fell into financial difficulties. Mr. November 16, 1852. He moved to America Sandercock continued, meanwhile, as when he was 19 years of age, arriving in blacksmith foreman and it was in that New York May 3, 1871. He went directly to capacity that he was re-engaged by the 215 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Oliver Iron Mining company when it bought J.B. Schwartz, of Crystal Falls, was out the Schlessinger interests during that arrested last week at the instance [sic – past year. insistence] of Geo. Schuber, a German First Building Erected laborer, charged with having committed The building now occupied by the adultery with his wife. Mr. Schwartz is a Columbia restaurant at Ludington street prominent business man [sic – and Stephenson avenue, Mr. Sandercock businessman] of Crystal Falls, and his declares, was the first one erected after the arrest on such a charge creates village of Iron Mountain was platted and considerable surprise. The Drill thinks the incorporated. Only a few families, largely charge is absurd, and that it will never be those of the first miners moving into the brought into court. territory, constituted the population at that time. From then on Mr. Sandercock has SOLOMON STANLEY SCOTT watched the community and its environs grow from a small mining camp to a The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, municipality of approximately 20,000 Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 13, population. Number 233 [Tuesday, January 2, Mr. Sandercock was married February 1934], page 3 column 2 14, 1879, in this city. There are five children, Miss Mabel, Joseph, Edwin, Harold and Howard. The birthdays of Mrs. VETERAN PILOT Sandercock and of Harold and Howard, RETIRES AFTER twins, are the same as that of the wedding LENGTHY TERM anniversary, February 14. _____ The retiring foreman has no plans for the future other than that of continuing his Sol Scott Makes Last Run residence here and “taking life easy,” as he described it this morning. He has been one After 49 Years With of the most trusted employes [sic – North Western employees] of the company and goes on _____ the retired worked with him throughout the list with the good wishes of his employers Sol Scott, aged 70 years, pioneer and those who have years [sic – and goes resident of Iron Mountain, completed 49 on the retired list with the good wishes of years and seven months of active service his employers and those who have worked with the Chicago and North Western with him throughout the years]. railroad Saturday when he piloted his freight engine on his last run from JEROME B. SCHWARTZ Watersmeet to Iron Mountain, arriving here at 4:15 o’clock Saturday afternoon. He The Menominee Range, Iron Mountain, resides at 112 West Fleshiem street. Menominee County, Michigan, Volume There was little ceremony as Scott XI, Number 11 [Thursday, June 6, waved good-bye to the members of his 1889), page 1, column 2 crew, took a last look at his engine and started for home. Arrested for Adultery.

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Sol Scott was born in 1863, and when about my spare time when the fishing only a small boy moved with his family to season opens. I like to hunt and fish, but I Chicago. They remained there only a short don’t hunt as much as I used to. It takes time, moving to Ishpeming, where Mr. Scott too much walking. Fishing is different. I spent his young manhood. He was can just sit – and fish. employed for a time at the old New England mine, north of Ishpeming, and in 1870 The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, moved to Ford River, eight miles south of Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 17, Escanaba. Number 281 [Saturday, March 12, He lived there for nine years, and in 1938], page 2 column 4 1879 moved to the Menominee range, locating first at Norway. In 1882 he came SOLOMON SCOTT to Iron Mountain, and in that year accepted DIES FOLLOWING his first job with the Chicago and North SHORT ILLNESS Western railroad, firing a switch engine. He was continuously employed since that time _____ except for a three months’ period during the depression of 1886-87. Long Time Employe [sic] Of He was married in August, 1898, to Miss North Western Suc- Emma Keene, in this city. cumbs At Home Many changes have occurred in this _____ community since Mr. Scott’s arrival here in 1882. At that time, he said, the North Western line extended only to Quinnesec, Solomon Stanley Scott, aged 74, former although the route to Iron Mountain has locomotive engineer for the Chicago and been surveyed and work was contemplated North Western railroad and resident of Iron on the extension. [The railroad arrived in Mountain for the last 57 years, died at 8:15 Iron Mountain sometime in 1880, as iron o’clock last evening at the Iron Mountain ore was shipped from the Chapin Mine, the General hospital following a brief illness. Cornell Mine, the Keel Ridge Mine and the The family resides at 112 West Flesheim Ludington Mine in that year.] [sic - Fleshiem] street. Scott has always worked the freight runs Mr. Scott was born December 15, 1863, for the North Western railroad, and has in Currie Hill, Canada. In early youth his been an engineer since 1890. family moved to Chicago and after a brief Despite his 70 years, Mr. Scott is active residence there located in Ishpeming, and healthy. He has resided in the same where he spend his young manhood. His home since 1883, having built the father was one of the pioneer mining men in residence in that year. He is a member of the Lake Superior district. the Masonic lodge and o the Brotherhood of Mr. Scott was employed for a time at the Railway Engineers. One daughter, Miss old New England mine at Ishpeming and in Lucille, and a son, Keene Scott, lives [sic - 1870 he moved to Ford River, a short live] at home. distance south of Escanaba. He lived there Asked what he plans to do with all his nine years and in 1789 [sic – 1879] located “spare time” in the future, Mr. Scott said: in Norway where, in that year, he accepted “Well, I’ve got some work to do on my his first job with the North Western road, as fishing tackle, and I won’t have to worry fireman on a switch engine. 217 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Mr. Scott was continuously employed by Number 46 [Thursday, April 5, 1906], the road since that time with the exception page 1, column 5 of a three months’ layoff in the depression of 1886-87. Died Suddenly. He was wedded in August, 1898, to Miss Emma Keen, in this city. His widow Stanley Scott, a former resident of Iron survives him. Mountain but who for the past two years Stopped At Quinnesec has resided in Seattle, Wash., died last When Mr. Scott began his service with Saturday at St. Paul, Minn., while enroute the North Western, the railroad line [sic – en route] to this city. His death is extended only as far as Quinnesec, supposed to be the result of injuries although the route to Iron Mountain had received by falling into a test pit while been surveyed and work was planned on exploring for iron ore near Pine Creek. Mr. the extension. [The railroad arrived in Iron Scott was sixty-two years of age and was Mountain sometime in 1880, as iron ore born in Canada. He is survived by two was shipped from the Chapin Mine, the sons and five daughters; also by three Cornell Mine, the Keel Ridge Mine and the brothers and three sisters. The remains will Ludington Mine in that year.] be interred at St. Paul, where one of his During his long service with the sisters, Mrs. John Mulligan, resides. company Mr. Scott worked the freight runs, principally, since 1890. He resided in the ZACHARIAH SCOTT same house here since 1883, having built it in that year. He was a member of the Iron The Iron Mountain Daily News, Iron Mountain Blue Lodge of Masons, the Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Eastern Star and the Brotherhood of Volume __, Number __ [Saturday, June Railroad Firemen and Engineers. 30, 1923], page _____, columns _____ Besides his widow, one daughter, Lucile

N. Scott, and one son, Keene S. Scott, of Sagola, survive. He also leaves a Fifty Years Wed And Not grandson, Keen S. Scott, Jr., a sister, Mrs. One Quarrel, Says Couple Catherine Stockton, of Atlanta, Ga., and a _____ brother, John Scott, of Marinette. Private funeral services will be held at No Choppy Seas on Mari- 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Freeman Funeral tal Journey of Mr. and home and at 2 o’clock at the First Presbyterian church. The Rev. N.U. Mrs. Zachariah Scott. McConaughy will conduct the service. The _____ casket will not be opened at the church. Burial will be in Cemetery park and Masonic Married 50 years and never a quarrel or services will be conducted at the grave. cross word between them is the enviable experience of Mr. and Mrs. Zachariah Scott, STANLEY SCOTT who today are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary. In telling of the marriage which occurred in Marquette on Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, June 30, 1873, Mrs. Scott said the day was Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 10, cloudy and rain threatened but as the 218 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] minister, the Rev. Stewart Banks[,] worked at a mine situated between Hibbing pronounced them man and wife, the sun and Chisholm, Minn. came out and shone upon them. The Rev. Saw Marquette Panic Banks remarked that it was a good omen The greatest misfortune he had ever and, Mrs. Scott says, “It surely was.” seen, Mr. Scott said, was in Marquette 50 Mr. Scott left home when 15 years of years ago when there was a severe panic age and had gone to the Marquette range, [economic depression]. The range was following the trade of a carpenter. His wife, prosperous and the people spent all the whom he had known at her home at money they made in the summer the panic Lancaster, Ont., came to Marquette later began and there was great suffering. It with her parents and the wedding occurred _____ at this time that Mr. and Mrs. Scott there. returned to Lancaster, where they remained Residents Here 44 Years until conditions in the peninsula became Mr. and Mrs. Scott live at 600 West C stabilized. street and have been residents of Iron Mr. and Mrs. Scott are 77 and 73 years Mountain for 44 years. Immediately after old respectively and are in the best of their marriage they went to Lancaster, health. They have three children living; [sic] where they spent six years[,] but returned to Arthur J., of Caspian; Edward L., of Detroit, the upper peninsula at the request of John and Mrs. John Banfield, of Norway. A son, R. Wood, mining man, who was developing Howard, was drowned in Crystal lake when the old Cornell mine at Lake Antoine. They 11 years of age. They also have 11 lived at Lake Antoine for 18 months and grandchildren. then moved to West Brown street where When asked whether they ever they remained 17 years. From 1912 to expected to see the present growth of Iron 1921 they resided near the Calumet mine at Mountain, Mr. Scott said that if he had Foster City. dreamed such a thing could have taken As early residents of the district, Mr. and place he would be a wealthy man today. Mrs. Scott had many stories to tell of the Mr. and Mrs. Scott were at home development of the district. Mr. Scott built [received visitors] this afternoon between the first house at Munising and the first 2:30 and 5:30 o’clock to their old friends house at the Calumet mine. When they and neighbors. Their daughter, Mrs. returned from the east the railroad took Banfield, and son, Arthur, were present at them as far as Quinnesec and the the reception. remainder of the trip was made by stage coaches. They watched the development Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, of the Chapin mine and were here when the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 5, first shaft was sunk. Number 9 [Thursday, July 19, 1900], While Mr. Scott was in Marquette in page 1, column 2 1873 he worked as a carpenter at the mines and it was there he knew J.B. Knight, Sad Fatality. editor of the Norway Current. All of the Scott’s ______was not Howard, the eleven year old [sic – easy as for ______Scott did not do eleven-year-old] son of Mr. and Mrs. Z. any work because of severe attacks of Scott, was drowned while bathing in Crystal rheumatism. Mining carpenter work has Lake last Tuesday afternoon. Howard, with been his sole occupation and in 1903 he two other boys, was playing on a raft. In 219 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] attempting to navigate it to the shore, the at 4:30 this morning at his home, 300 West little fellow fell into the lake and was C street, following a brief illness. drowned. The body was recovered a few Mr. Seibert went for an automobile ride hours later. Howard was a bright and yesterday afternoon, with members of the lovable boy and the parents have the warm family, and appeared in good health. At sympathy of the community. The funeral about 10:30 last night, however, he was held on Sunday last from the complained of illness. Presbyterian church and was largely He was born December 21, 1853, in attended. New Orleans, La., and was married on March 9, 1881, to Margaret Heyems. He GEORGE FREDERICK SEIBERT came to Iron Mountain in that year and established the Seibert and Schaller drug Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, store on the northwest corner of Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, Stephenson avenue and Brown street. Number 29 [Thursday, December 8, Later he became sole proprietor and moved 1904], page 1, column 4 to the corner of Stephenson avenue and Hughitt street, where Cudlip’s Drug store is Will Build Cottages. now situated. Retired in 1921

Mr. Seibert remained active in the F.X. Hasting, of Green Bay, business until 1921, when he retired. As superintendent of the Lake Superior postmaster in Iron Mountain for two terms, division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. from 1890 to 1898, Mr. Seibert established Paul road, and H.A. Vaughan, of the first mail carrier route in the city. He Milwaukee, division passenger and freight was also a former member of the Iron agent, have acquired tracts of land at Witch Mountain board of education for several Lake adjoining the property of George F. years; a member of the board of public Seibert. In the spring cottages will be works, since abolished, and of the last draft erected thereon and the families will spend board in the city. the summer at this delightful resort. Gardening was his hobby and since his

retirement he spent considerable time The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, working about his home. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Mrs. Seibert died in November, 1938. ___, Number ___ [Friday, August 9, Three daughters and one son survive. 1940], page ___, column ___ They are Mrs. H.F. Fisher, of Iron River;

Mrs. C.R. Conkey, of Minneapolis, Minn., G.F. Seibert and Miss May Siebert [sic – Seibert], Dies After residing at home and James F. Seibert, of Brief Illness Detroit. Mrs. Fisher and Mrs. Conkey are in the city. Seven grandchildren also survive. George F. Seibert, aged 87 years, The body was taken this afternoon from resident of Iron Mountain for the last 58 the Freeman Funeral Home to the years, and formerly proprietor of Seibert’s residence. Funeral arrangements have not Drug store – now Cudlip’s – in the city, died been completed.

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The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, MRS. GEORGE FREDERICK Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume (MARGARET ANNA HEYEMS) ___, Number ___ [Saturday, August 10, SEIBERT 1940], page ___, column ___

Seibert Funeral Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ Funeral services for George F. Seibert, Year, Number _____ [Monday, 87, pioneer Iron Mountain resident who November 21, 1938], page ___, column died at 4:30 yesterday morning at his home, ___ 300 West C street, will be held at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon at the Freeman Funeral home. The body will be taken from the Mrs. Margaret Seibert residence to the funeral home at noon Mrs. Margaret Anna Seibert, age 82, tomorrow. The Rev. N.U. McConaughy, wife of George Seibert, 300 West C street, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will and a pioneer resident of Iron Mountain, conduct the service. Burial will be in died at 2:15 o’clock yesterday afternoon at Cemetery park. the family home, following a brief illness. Mrs. Seibert was born January 14, The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, [1856], in Peru, Ill., and had been a resident Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume of Iron Mountain for the last 54 years. ___, Number ___ [Monday, August 12, Besides her husband, one son and 1940], page ___, column ___ three daughters survive. They are James, of Detroit; Mrs. Roland Conkey, of Seibert Services Minneapolis; Mrs. Bert Fisher, of Iron River, Funeral services for George F. Seibert, and Miss May Leonore Seibert, residing at 87, pioneer Iron Mountain resident who home. There are seven grandchildren. died Friday morning at his home, 300 West Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock C street, were held at 2:30 yesterday tomorrow afternoon at the Freeman Funeral afternoon at the Freeman Funeral home. home, Carpenter avenue. The Rev. N.U. The Rev. N.U. McConaughy, pastor of the McConaughy[,] pastor of the First First Presbyterian church, conducted the Presbyterian church, will conduct the service. service. Burial will be in Cemetery park. Burial was in Cemetery park. Active Mrs. Seibert was a member of the Order pallbearers were Carl Miller, E.S. Kingsford, of Eastern Star. John Neumier, Arthur Jones, Cecil The family has asked that flowers be Browning and Fayette Brown, and omitted. honorary, A.G. Buchman, Ed Sims, Sam Cudlip, H.L. Bordelaies, Louis Stoekly, Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Lorenzo Suino and A.B. Bracco. Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ Among out-of-town relatives and friends Year, Number _____ [Tuesday, attending were Mr. and Mrs. James Seibert, November 22, 1938], page ___, column of Detroit; Mrs. Rollin Conkey, of ___ Minneapolis, Minn., and Mr. and Mrs. Burt Fisher and son Donald, of Iron River, Mich. Seibert Funeral

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Funeral services for Mrs. George F. was called and attempted to revive the Seibert, who died Sunday afternoon at her stricken man. Dr. J.L. Browning, home, 300 West C street, were held at 2 summoned by police, pronounced the o’clock yesterday at the Freeman Funeral cause of death. Dr. Browning said today home. During the services, conducted by that Mr. Sims had been in ill health for the Rev. N.U. McConaughy, Miss Caroline some time, suffering from heart disease Uren sang “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,” and high blood pressure. accompanied by Mrs. Ed Rabichaud. Mrs. Sims is undergoing treatment in a Burial was in Cemetery park. Chicago hospital. Pallbearers were Dr. George Fisher, John Studied Pharmacy and Don James Fisher, Stanley Knap, Born in Ishpeming, Jan. 6, 1880, Mr. Donald Baril and Arthur Jones. Sims came to Iron Mountain with his Among the relatives and friends parents when a child. He attended the Iron attending from out of the city were Mr. and Mountain schools, and after graduating Mrs. James Seibert, of Detroit; Mrs. Roland from high school studied pharmacy as an Conkey, of Minnesota; Dr. George Fisher, employe [sic – employee] of Seibert’s drug of Grace Hospital, Detroit, and Mr. and Mrs. store – now Cudlip’s – in this city. He Bert Fisher and sons, Don James and established his own store in 1916 in the John, of Iron River. First National bank building, and for the last several years had operated the store in the EDWIN J. SIMS Braumart building. He was married in February, 1919, to Miss Elizabeth Rowell, of Iron Mountain. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, He was active in the Masonic order, and Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume was a member of the chapter, Blue lodge, ___, Number ___ [Monday, March 2, and council of Iron Mountain, the 1941], page ___, column ___ commandry of Crystal Falls, and the

Francis M. Moore Consistory and Shrine of Edwin Sims Marquette. Dies Suddenly He is survived by his widow, a sister, At His Store Mrs. Fred Knight, and his father-in-law, Thomas Rowell, all of Iron Mountain. Edwin J. Sims, 61, 301 East C Street, Funeral services will be held druggist, and prominent in the civic and Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Erickson and fraternal life of this city for many years, was Son mortuary. The service will be found dead on the floor of his drug store in conducted by the Rev. H.A. Manahan, the Braumart building at about 9:45 a.m., pastor of the Central Methodists Episcopal Sunday. Death was attributed to a cerebral church[,] and the Iron Mountain Blue lodge hemorrhage. will take part. Burial will be in Cemetery Louis Izzo, proprietor of the pool room park. next door, called at the drug store Sunday morning to get some change, and found Mr. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Sims’ body lying on the floor behind the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume counter of the drug store. Izzo summoned ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, March police. The fire department inhalator squad 5, 1941], page ___, column ___

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EDWIN J. SIMS father, the late Jesse Spalding, as a Funeral services for Edwin J. Sims, 61, director of the Commercial Bank of this city who died suddenly on Sunday were held and held the position until a year ago when yesterday afternoon at the Erickson and he retired in favor of John Marsch. At the Son mortuary. The Rev. H.A. Manahan time of his death eh was a director of the conducted the service, and Masonic rites Commercial National and Hibernian Banks were held at the mortuary. During the of Chicago, and president of the Spalding service Mrs. William C. Andrews sang, company. “Face to Face” and “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,” accompanied by Mrs. R.C. JAMES R. SPENCER Hanna. Burial was in Cemetery park. Pallbearers were Roy Laing, Ernest The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Horngren, E.H. Morrison, Archie Adams, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 18, Morris Larson and Morgan E. Leonard. Number 71 [Tuesday, July 5, 1938], Attending the funeral from out of town were page 2, columns 3-4 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rowell, Wakefield; Milton Rowell, Norway; Robert Knight, Ely, JAMES SPENCER, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Trestrail, Gaastra; Mr. and Mrs. William Trestrail, FORMER JUSTICE, Crystal Falls, and William Pascoe, George TAKEN BY DEATH Keast and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jacobson, _____ Norway. Well-Known Resident Of CHARLES F. SPALDING City Succumbs To Heart Troubles Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, _____ Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 14, Number 23 [Thursday, October 28, James R. Spencer, aged 76, resident of 1909], page 1, column 4 Iron Mountain for 59 years, justice of the

peace for 25 years and the city’s first Well-Known Here. municipal judge, died at 9:45 o’clock last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. The announcement of the death of Herman G. Berg, 713 Cass avenue, Charles F. Spalding, at his home in following a lingering illness with heart Chicago on Sunday last, was a great troubles. He had been confined to his bed surprise to his many friends in Iron since Memorial day, May 30. Mountain. His death followed an illness of A native of England, the former judge three weeks and was caused by kidney was born May 21, 1862, in the city of Hull, complications. Mr. Spalding, in his college Yorkshire, a son of John Spencer. His days, spent considerable time in this city grandfather, James Spencer, was born in and vicinity. He was a great lover of base the parish of Riston, Yorkshire, England, of ball [sic – baseball] and was one of the best substantial English ancestry and spent his amateur pitchers in the country. During the 90 years of life in his native country. vacation season, he affiliated with one of John Spencer, father of James R., range teams. Mr. Spalding succeeded his emigrated to America in 1879 and located 223 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] first at Norway, Mich. He remained there engineering department and later in the only a few months and then moved to Iron shipping department. Mountain, where he worked for several He afterward clerked for a short time in years at the old Ludington mine, later at the a department store in Chicago, Chapin Mine, and was subsequently subsequently becoming buyer for the Gould engaged in farming in Menominee county. company. During his years in Chicago Mr. Worked As Sailor Spencer used his leisure time to study law, At the age of 16 having completed his spending one vacation at the Illinois studies in the public schools, James R. College of Law, and in May, 1899, was Spencer followed various occupations and graduated from the Chicago Law school. finally embarked as a sailor on a British Admitted to the Illinois bar, he practiced merchant vessel and spent about four years for a brief time in Chicago, coming then to on different ships. While sailing the sea he Iron Mountain. On March 23, 1903, he was visited different cities in France and made admitted to practice before the supreme one voyage to Australia. court of the state of Michigan. That voyage required exactly 11 months In 1905 Mr. Spencer was named justice and six days – a hazardous trip on a sailing of the peace in the city and served in that vessel around the southwest coast of capacity for 25 years, during most of this Africa. He often related many interesting time having his office in the former stories of that journey. Commercial bank building. On January 1, Mr. Spencer was subsequently 1930, he took office as judge of Iron employed for a time as a street car Mountain’s first municipal court, set up conductor in his native county, New Castle- under the new city charter. He served one on-Tyne, and in 1882 he emigrated to term of six years, and was succeeded by America, coming directly to Iron Mountain, William F. Bolognesi, incumbent. where, for number of years, he was Life Member of Masonic Lodge employed at the mines. He was also the first circuit court Going to Ypsilanti in 1889 Mr. Spencer commissioner in Dickinson county. He was took a course of study at Cleary’s Business a life member of the Masonic lodge of Iron college, and after his return to this city was, Mountain and was likewise affiliated with for a time, in company with his brother, the Eastern Star, the Knights of Pythias and engaged in lumbering and stone quarrying. the Sons of St. George. He served as He erected a building here known as the secretary of the Masonic lodge for 12 years, Spencer block and was the first in this after which he was made a life member in vicinity to use native stone for building recognition of his long and active purposes. membership. Other Occupations Mr. Spencer attended the Central M.E. Going to Crystal Falls in 1891, Mr. church and for several years was secretary Spencer was employed at the mines for a of the Bible class. He represented the year and a half, after which he was located United States Fire Insurance company in at Coal City, Ill., for a similar period of time. Iron Mountain for 27 years, and at the end After spending some time with the Fox of his 25th year of association with that Solid Pressed Steel company at Joliet, Ill., company received a silver engraved Mr. Spencer located in Chicago, where for certificate marking a quarter-century of about two years he was in the employ of service. the Deering Harvester company, first in the 224 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

He was wedded in England to Kate Mr. Spencer was prominently Isabel Wardle, who was born in associated with a number of early-day Sunderland, County Durham, England, a mining enterprises in this and other daughter of Adam and Isabelle Wardle. sections of the peninsula. Besides his widow one son, Benjamin Educated in England W. Spencer, of Quinnesec, and the Mr. Spencer was educated in Roslyn daughter, Mrs. Berg, survive. There are Villa Boys’ academy, Salt-Bern, By the Sea, three grandchildren, James Wardle England. Arriving here, he spent many Spencer and Stanley W. Spencer, sons of years as a practical miner, shift boss and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Spencer, and James underground superintendent and then Spencer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Berg. started business on his own, prospecting ore, and developing and operating iron ore JOHN THOMAS SPENCER deposits on the Menominee range. During the 50 years he was active in the mining business, he discovered and placed in The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, operation many successful iron mine Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume properties. ___, Number ___ [Tuesday, July 6,

1943], page ___, column ___ The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain,

Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Prominent ___, Number ___ [Wednesday, July 7, Mining Man 1943], page ___, column ___ Died Today JOHN T. SPENCER John Thomas Spencer, 78, widely Funeral services for John T. Spencer, known in mining circles of the Upper 78, well known mining man, who died Peninsula, died at 11:30 this morning at his yesterday morning at his home, 411 East C home, 411 East C street. street, will be held at 1:30 Friday afternoon Mr. Spencer underwent an operation in at the Erickson and Son mortuary. The Chicago last October, and never fully Rev. P.L. Lomas will officiate. Burial will be recovered. in Cemetery park. He was born Dec. 4, 1864, in Beverly, England, and came to the United States on ERNEST G. STRUEBING Sept. 20, 1880, settling in Iron Mountain, where he had since lived. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, He was wedded July 24, 1891, to Mary Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 5, Colling, who survives him. He also leaves Number 214 [Monday, December 21, the following six children, all of Iron 1925], page 8, column 1 Mountain: Mrs. Florence Contarini, John T. Spencer, Jr., Mrs. James Browning, LARGEST MAN IN Emerson Spencer, Miss Grace Spencer PENINSULA DIES and Winston Spencer, and eight grandchildren. AT FOSTER CITY His only brother, the late James R. _____ Spencer, died five years ago July 4.

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Ernest Struebing Suc- XX, Number XX [Thursday, March 9, cumbs; Weight Was 1918], page X, column X 570 Pounds Andrew Henry Surprise died at the _____ home of his daughter, Mrs. James McKenna, last Saturday morning, aged Ernest G. Struebing, aged 56 years, eighty-two years. Mr. Surprise was born in weighing 570 pounds and declared to have Montreal, Province Quebec, Canada, April been the biggest man in the upper 28th, 1836, and came to this country in peninsula of Michigan if not in the state, has 1852, settling at Superior, Wis. In 1876 he passed away at his home in Foster City, removed to Quinnesec, where he built the following an illness of about a year. second building erected in the village (a Complications resulting from his excessive boarding house), hewing out the shingles weight are said to have caused his death. which covered it. He explored the Vulcan Death occurred at Streubing’s farm and Traders mines, besides doing other home. The casket which will bear him to exploratory work on the Menominee range. his grave tomorrow is seven feet in length, His wife preceded him twenty-five years 38 inches wide and 34 inches high and will ago. Two daughters, Mrs. Della McKenna, be borne by eight pallbearers. of Quinnesec, and Mrs. Jessie Woods, of Streubing was born in Germany, Nappa, California, seven grand-children [sic October 22, 1869. He came to America 35 – grandchildren] and one great grandchild years ago and has lived in Foster City for [sic – great-grandchild] survive him. The 30 years. For the past several years he funeral services were held at the James conducted a farm in that community and McKenna home on Tuesday morning, Rev. recently installed an oil station in front of his James Corcoran officiating, with burial at home. He was also employed by the von Quinnesec cemetery. The pall bearers Platen Fox Lumber company some time were Levi Collette, A.J. Trevarthan, John ago as a camp foreman, and worked for a Cox, Mike Sullivan, Joseph Kenny and time for the Morgan Lumber and Cedar Isador Massie. Many beautiful floral company. offerings were received, and a number of The deceased is survived by his widow out-of-town friends attended the obsequies. and 10 children. They are Fred, Ernest and William, of Iron Mountain; Ruth, Lester, DR. ELISHA POPE SWIFT Clarence and Robert, of Foster City; Mrs. H. Knutson, of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., and Mrs. Arthur Plant, of Iron Mountain. Norway, Michigan, Diamond Jubilee 1891- The funeral will be held tomorrow 1966 Historical Album, unpaged afternoon at 1 o’clock from the farm home the Rev. John Eckstrom officiating. 1900: Dr. E.P. Swift in July of this year had a new rubber tire buggy.

ANDREW HENRY SURPRISE Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 5, Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Number 29 [Thursday, December 13, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 1900], page 3, column 2

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BRIEF CITY NEWSITES. _____ Remains of Dr. E.P. Swift of This City, Buried Monday, February 25th, at The Commonwealth Iron company has Pittsburg. purchased from Dr. E.P. Swift the Columbia _____ Hotel property at Norway. In this connection we learn that the rumor to the The remains of Dr. Elisha P. Swift, late effect that the company intends using the of this city, who died suddenly at building for hotel purposes has no Clearwater, Florida, on Friday, February foundation in fact. 22nd, were laid to rest in the family plot, in Allegheny cemetery, Pittsburg, on Monday Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, morning, February 25th, after services at Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 22, the residence of Judge J.J. Miller, of that Number 41 [Thursday, February 28, city, the funeral sermon being preached by 1918], page 3, column 1 the Rev. Dr. Cowan, pastor of the Presbyterian church and a life long [sic – NORWAY NEWS NUGGETS lifelong] friend of the Swift family. The body was accompanied from Florida by the The community was greatly shocked widow, Mary Clark Swift[,] and a niece, last Friday to receive telegraphic Francis [sic – Frances] Swift. At Pittsburg, announcement of the death of Dr. E.P. the funeral party was joined by George D. Swift, which occurred that morning at Swift, a brother, and Eliot E. Swift, son of Clearwater, Florida, where the doctor had the deceased. gone (with his wife) for the benefit of his Elisha Pope Swift, [sic] was born in health. While it was known that the doctor’s Allegheny, now the north side of the city of health was not the best for several months’ Pittsburg, on January 15th, 1865, and was [sic – months] past, it was not known to the son of Eliot E. Swift and Francis [sic – many that it was in a precarious condition. Frances] D. Swift. A sister, Mary S. Doctor Swift had been [a] practicing Greenwood, died in Chicago on March 3rd, physician here for twenty years, holding the 1917, and a brother[,] George D. Swift[,] is position of physician and surgeon for the treasurer of the Oliver Iron Mining Company Aragon mine as well. His friends were and lives in Duluth, Minn. Dr. Swift’s legion, all of whom join The Press in grandfather, Elisha Pope Swift, and his extending sympathy to the surviving widow, father, Eliot E. Swift, were pastors of the Mrs. Mary Clark Swift, and son, Elliott E. First Presbyterian church of Pittsburg, [sic] Swift. The burial was in the family lot at for over fifty years and were lineal Pittsburg, Pa., last Tuesday. descendants of John Eliot, the great missionary to the Indians and of colonial The Current, Norway, Dickinson County, fame. His mother was for many years Michigan, Volume ___, Number ___ editor of the Freedman’s Journal and was [Saturday, March 9, 1918], page ___, also a life long [sic – lifelong] contributor to column ___ various publications devoted to the cause of temperance. She died in Colorado Springs IN MEMORIAM. in January 1916. _____ Dr. Swift, after his High [sic] school days, attended Lafayettre college and was 227 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] a graduate of the class of 1886. He later missed in the community and the entire entered the Medical Department of the sympathy thereof goes out to his wife and University of Pennsylvania, from which he son in the hour of their great bereavement. graduated in 1889. While a student at both institutions he was a member of the Pennsy Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, baseball team, and while at Pennsylvania Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 22, was the catcher for John Tenor, who Number 43 [Thursday, March 14, 1918], afterwards became Governor of page 3, columns 2- 3 Pennsylvania. This battery was a famous one in Pennsy annals and was much NORWAY NEWS NUGGETS sought after by several of the major league teams of that time. Dr. Swift, however, Mrs. E.P. Swift returned last Tuesday preferred to practice his profession and from Pittsburgh, Penn., where she went located at Commonwealth, Wis., where he with the body of her husband, the late Dr. was employed as an assistant to Dr. Odell, Swift[,] for burial. who was at the time mine physician for the Commonwealth Iron Company. He soon GEORGE SYMONS purchased this practice and continued to reside in Florence county until the purchase The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, of the Aragon mine of this city, by that Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume company, some twenty-one years ago, ___, Number ___ [Monday, December when he removed to Norway, and where he 30, 1946], page ___, column ___ had continuously resided and continued as mine physician at the Aragon after it was taken over by the Oliver Iron Mining Geo. Symons Company. Died Sunday Dr. Swift was married to Mary B. Clark, In Hospital daughter of the late Justice S.M. Clark of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, at George Symons, 63, 305 West Indiana, Pennsylvania, on June 20th, 1900. Fleshiem, died at 4 yesterday morning in There were two children born from this General hospital after an illness of the last marriage, Eliot E. Swift, who is now a two months. Mr. Symons, who for 26 years student at Culver, [sic] Military Institute, was treasurer of Trinity Methodist, was born Culver, Indiana[,] and Steele Clark Swift[,] July 30, 1883, in Goldsithney, Cornwall, who died in infancy. England. Dr. Swift was for many years a valued He came to the United States when he member of the local Board of Education was 19 and settled in Iron Mountain. He and was a Director of the First National worked first in the Chapin mine and then at Bank of this city at the time of his death and the Ford plant, where he remained 24 also president of the County Agricultural years. Association. He was a generous He leaves his widow, Mary; three sons, contributor to local charities and his giving Richard James Symons and John Gundry was of an unostentatious character. He Symons, Iron Mountain, and George Henry took an especial interest in Swift University, Symons, Houghton, and two grandchildren, a sectarian institution in Tennessee, named James William Symon [sic – Symons] and in honor of his father. He will be greatly Linda Kay Symons. 228 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Services will be conducted at 1:20 tomorrow at Trinity Methodists by the Rev. Suffocated in a Mine. Ernest Brown, pastor of First Methodist. Burial will be in Cemetery Park. It was briefly stated in these columns Attending the funeral will be the Sons of last week that the announcement of the St. George, of which Mr. Symons was a death of Albert Thomas had been received member. by his parents in this city. The telegram The body will be at the Erickson and bearing this sad intelligence gave no Son Mortuary until noon tomorrow, when it particulars, but it has since been learned will be taken to the church, where it may be that the unfortunate young man came to his viewed until 1:30. The family asks that death by being suffocated in the Wolverine flowers be omitted. copper mine, in Keweenaw county, where he was working, by gas, he having entered The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, a drift too soon after blasting. Albert, at the Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume time of his death, was 23 years and 16 ___, Number ___ [Thursday, January 2, days old, was living an upright, christian [sic 1947], page ___, column ___ – Christian] life, and had many friends who deeply regret his sad fate. He lived two George Symons hours after being brought to the surface but Services for George Symons, 63, who did not regain consciousness. He went to died at 4 Sunday morning in General Red Jacket on the 28th of September in hospital, were held at 1:30 Tuesday perfect health, and with the prospect of afternoon at Trinity Methodist. The Rev. many years of usefulness, and his sudden Ernest Brown officiated. cutting down in the flower of his manhood is The church choir, accompanied at the a cruel blow to his relatives and friends, organ by Mrs. B. Pender, sang “I Know My who loved him for his many lovable Savior Cares,” “Some Blessed Day” and characteristics. “My God and I.” Burial was in Cemetery Every effort was made by Dr. A. park. MacRae, of Red Jacket, to save the young Pallbearers, members of the Sons of St. man’s life, but to no avail. The remains George, were Harry Wright, Ernest Gall, were carefully embalmed by James Tachell Thomas Grenfell, Fred Luxmore, William and brought to this city and funeral services Williams and William Ellis. attended by a large concourse of sorrowing Out-of-town relatives at the funeral were friends, were held in the First M.E. church Mr. and Mrs. James Richards and son, last Sunday afternoon. L’Anse; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Varda and osn, Vulcan, and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lindberg, [NOTE: The 1892-1894 Iron Mountain City Twin Falls. Directory lists a number of Thomas families, including: Birdie V. Thomas, compositor ALBERT THOMAS The Iron Range, residence 307 East A Street; Charles Thomas, blacksmith at the The Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson Chapin Mine, residence 307 East A Street; County, Michigan, Volume XIII, Number Ella M. Thomas, dressmaker, residence 40 [Thursday, December 24, 1891], 307 East A Street; Nicholas Thomas, page 4, column 4 laborer, boards at 307 East A Street;

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Richard Thomas, engineer at the Chapin Co. Deceased was a good business man Mine, residence 307 East A Street; [sic – businessman], industrious and Nicholas Thomas, Jr., miner at the Chapin pleasant and wherever he resided had Mine, resides at 302 Second Street; many true friends. At the time of his death James Thomas, miner, residence 405 he was clerk of the township of Norway Street; John Thomas, clerk at Wausaukee, justice of the peace and a T.W. Grenfell’s store, residence 837 member of the school board. The schools, Stephenson Avenue; W. J. Thomas, on the day of his burial, were closed in storekeeper, Chapin Mining Company, honor of the dead. He leaves a wife and a residence 107 Fourth Street; William J. large family to mourn his death. The sons Thomas, works at the Chapin Mine, are Napoleon Toutloff, Norway; Joseph residence 107 Fourth Street; and William Toutloff, Templeton, Canada; John Toutloff, D. Thomas, of the firm of Rabey and Iron Mountain; and Frank and Freddie, Big Thomas, residence 304 East A Street. Wausaukee; the daughters, Mrs. M. St. Rabey & Thomas (John Rabey and William Peter, Iron River; Mrs. Frank Taylor, D. Thomas) sold staple and fancy Depere, Wis., and Annie, Victoria and groceries, fruits, canned goods, vegetables, Minnie at home. The funeral and burial was etc. at 213 Stephenson Avenue. John at Big Wausaukee and was largely Rabey resided at 428 East A Street. The attended. The family has many friends parents of Albert Thomas, the deceased here who sympathize with them in their miner, are probably among those listed.] loss.

FRANK TOUTLOFF DR. EDWARD TREIBER

The Current, Norway, Menominee County, Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Michigan, Volume VI, Number 12 Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 16, [Saturday, April 26, 1890], page 1, Number 4 [Thursday, June 15, 1911], column 5 page 1, column 3

Died. KILLED INSTANTLY _____ TOUTLOFF – At Big Wausaukeee, Wis., on Tuesday morning, April 23d, of a DR. TREIBER IS VICTIM OF A LIVE complication of diseases, Frank Toutloff, WIRE AT THE POOR FARM. aged 57 years. _____ Deceased was born at L’Orinagel, Quebec, and located with his family, at Norway in 1882, remaining here for two Voltage Estimated at 6,600 Passes years. In 1884 he removed to Depere, Through Body When a Charged Wis., where he remained until 1887, the Guy Wire is Touched. locating at Big Wausaukee, Wis., where he remained until his death. He had charge of Dr. Edward Treiber, the well-known the North Wisconsin Lumber Co’s store for young veterinary surgeon of Norway, was a time and retained that position after the instantly killed last Tuesday morning at the transfer of the property to the Laing Lumber Dickinson county poor farm, death being

230 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] caused by a live wire connected with [the] Dr. Treiber was a member of one of the hydro-electrical plant of the Penn Iron pioneer families of Norway and was held in Mining company at Sturgeon Falls. high esteem by many friends. He is Dr. Treiber had been summoned to the survived by one sister, Mrs. Otto Marinelli, farm by Keeper Tauscheck to attend to and several brothers. some sick cattle. He was enroute [sic – en route] home and was passing through a MRS. W.C. (CAROLINE SIMS) gate at the farm, accompanied by Mr. TRESTRAIL Tauscheck, when a dead calf was noticed at the roadside, near one of the poles carrying the transmission wires from the Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, power plant to the mines at Vulcan and Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ Norway. Year, Number _____ [Friday, November Dr. Treiber alighted from the carriage to 4, 1938], page ___, column ___ examine the animal for the purpose of learning the cause of death. Noting a burn Mrs. Caroline S. Trestrail at the animal’s neck, he lead [sic – leaned] Mrs. Caroline Sims Trestrail, age 74, over to make a closer examination. In lifelong resident of Iron Mountain, died at 11 doing so, Dr. Treiber grasped the guy wire o’clock this morning at her home, 301 West supporting the pole and was instantly Flesheim street, following a lingering illness shocked to death. This wire, which was from complications. uncovered, had in some manner became She was born January 22, 1864, in [sic – become] charged with the full power Cornwall, England, and came to this of the feeding motor. Mr. Tauscheck says country at the age of 13 years, locating in death was instantaneous, Dr. Treiber falling Ishpeming. Following a short residence to the ground as if struck by lightning. He there she moved to this city and had had grasp [sic – grasped] the wire with his resided here since. right hand, which was slightly burned. The She was married in Iron Mountain to voltage passing through his body is said to W.C. Trestrail, who died in 1929. have been over 6,600. The calf had Four sons and three daughters survive. evidently been killed by the same wire. They are W.J. Trestrail, of Golwaganda, The remains of the young man were Canada; Albert H. Trestrail, of Caspian, and taken to his home in Norway and Coroner Edwin J. and Fred J. Trestrail, of Iron Cudlip, of Iron Mountain, was summoned. Mountain, and Mrs. Ewart Sprague and A jury was empaneled [sic – empanelled] mrs. George Vellenett, both of this city, and and the facts brought and at the inquest are Mrs. Putnam Robbins, of East Lansing, about as noted above. The verdict Mich. rendered was that Dr. Treiber had come to One sister and one brother also survive. his death by coming in contact with a guy They are Mrs. Fred Knight and Ed J. wire at the Dickinson county poor farm, said Simms, both of this city. wire being charged with electricity from the Mrs. Trestrail was a member of the First Penn Iron Mining company’s power plant at M.E. church of Iron Mountain. Sturgeon Falls. The jury also Funeral services have not been recommended that the company take arranged, pending the arrival of the son immediate steps to have all the guy wires from Canada. on the transmission line insulated. 231 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, Kenneth Schultz, of Alpha; Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ Albert Trestrail, Jr., of East Tawas, Mich.; Year, Number _____ [Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. William Young, Richard Keast November 5, 1938], page ___, column and Richard Trestrail, of Detroit; James and ___ William Trestrail, Mrs. Luman Hughes and Mrs. Douglas Dawson, of Stambaugh, and Trestrail Services Fred Knight, of Ishpeming. Funeral services for Mrs. Caroline Sims Trestrail, age 74, life long [sic – lifelong] THEODORE RICHARD “TED” resident of Iron Mountain who died at 11 TROWNSELL o’clock Friday morning at her home, 301 West Flesheim street, will be held at 2 The Current, Norway, Dickinson County, o’clock tomorrow afternoon at the Michigan, Volume XX, Number XX residence. The Rev. H.A. Manahan, pastor [Saturday, September 17, 1921], page of the Central M.E. church, will conduct the XX, column XX service. Burial will be in Cemetery park. ONE DEAD, TWO INJURED WHEN Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, TRUCK OVERTURNS Dickinson County, Michigan, _____ Theodore Trownswell Dead, William Year, Number _____ [Monday, Dykes & W.H. Marquet Seriously Hurt November 7, 1938], page ___, column Four Persons on Truck ___ Accident Occurred Just West of Norway, Tuesday Night, Lights Failed Trestrail Services Funeral services for Mrs. Caroline Sims Theodore “Ted” Trownsell, 24, was Trestrail, age 74, who died at her home, almost instantly killed, W.H. Marquet 301 West Flesheim street, were held at 2 suffered a broken rib and spinal injuries and o’clock yesterday afternoon at the William Dykes suffered a broken rib and residence. multiple contusions when the Ford truck in During the services conducted by the which they were returning to Norway ran off Rev. H.A. Manahan, pastor of the Central the county road and turned turtle about 11 M.E. church, two selections, “Saved by last night. Grace” and “Abide With Me,” were sung by Trownsell was taken to Westerlin Mrs. Albert Trestrail. hospital, but was dead when he reached Burial was in Cemetery park. there. Marquet is a patient in the Penn Pallbearers were Ewart Sprague, George hospital. Trownsell, it is believed, suffered Vellenett and Putnam Robbins, all sons-in- the full impact of the car’s weight when the law of the deceased, and Albert Trestrail, top collapsed, breaking his neck and William Trestrail and Kenneth Schultz, bruising his face terribly. grandsons. According to the story Joe Smith, Among the out-of-town relatives brother-in-law of Dykes and the only attending the services were W.J. Trestrail, uninjured member of the party, the four of Gowganda, Canada; Mr. and Mrs. Albert men had been planning a trip to “Hunter’s Trestrail, of Caspian; Mr. and Mrs. Putnam Rest”, Marquet’s resort at Witch Lake. Robbins, of East Lansing; Mr. and Mrs. Trownsell had been overseas in five major 232 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] engagements, having enlisted while a Range-Tribune and started the Daily student. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Tribune. He is now located at Burlington Richard. Junction, Missouri, where he publishes the Dykes, also an overseas veteran, had Post. While a resident of Iron Mountain, just returned about a week ago from Mrs. Tuten was prominent in religious, Ashland, where he had gone for charity and social movements. She was a government hospitalization for injuries charter member of the Drawing Room Club received in service. and her demise will be mourned by many Marquet, 50, was formerly a cook at the friends here. Milliman Hotel and now keeps a hunting and fishing resort at Witch Lake. THOMAS GEORGE SHEA/ UREN Theodore Richard “Ted” Trownsell was born in 1897 and died September 16, 1921, in Norway, Dickinson County, Michigan. He is buried in Iron Mountain Cemetery Park. Ted’s funeral procession was led by a caisson pulled by horses. The lead horse was ridden by Hugo Tramontin and the second horse was ridden by Ernest Tramontin. Ted’s dog, a German shepherd captured on the battlefield in France, followed the caisson and had become quite a town pet during the 1920’s.

MRS. ROBERT P. (SARAH AMANDA MASON) TUTEN

Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9,

Number 32 [Thursday, December 29, 1904], page 1, column 1

Death of Mrs. Tuten.

Mrs. Sarah Amanda, wife of Robert P. Tuten, former residents of Iron Mountain, died on Friday, December 16th, at the home of her brother, E.T.S. Mason, in Galesburg, Ill., of pneumonia, after a short illness. Mrs. Tuten was fifty-four years of age. She was married to R.P. Tuten at Houghton and soon afterwards came to Iron Mountain to reside. Mr. Tuten was the publisher of the Menominee Range, the 233 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

make the world safe for democracy” – for you and I and for our children. Thomas George Uren – “Tommy,” as he was known by his many friends – was nineteen years of age last December. He enlisted as a defender of his country when hardly eighteen years of age – to be exact on April 12th – and has been in France for over a year, being a member of the first American contingent, headed by Gen. Pershing. Letters home tell of his having participated in the several battles. After enlisting, the boy went to a camp in Arizona, leaving there for France on June 10th, 1917. At the time of his death he was a private in the 18th Infantry, Co. K. The relatives will enlist the services of Congressman James in an endeavor to have the remains sent home as soon as Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, possible. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 23, “Tommy” Uren was a likeable lad with a Number 6 [Thursday, June 27, 1918], large circle of friends. page 1, column 6

VICTIM OF THE GERMANS. Tommy Uren Was Killed in Battle in France on May 21st.

The Huns have claimed another Iron Mountain victim in the person of Thomas George Uren, son of Mrs. Maude Uren, of East B street. The boy’s death is announced in the following telegram received last Tuesday from Washington by his mother: “Deeply regret to inform you that

Private Thomas G. Uren, infantry, is Thomas George Shea, son of Thomas officially reported as killed in action May George and Maud (Bennett) Shea, Sr., was 21st.” born in Florence, Florence County, The telegram was signed: “McCain, Wisconsin, in 1898. Thomas George Shea Adjutant-General.” took his adopted surname Uren. The mourning relatives are assured of Thomas George Shea/Uren, Jr., died the sympathy of the entire community in the May 21, 1918, in Picardie, France. He is death of their hero, who died fighting “to

234 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] buried in the Moghkoma Section of Iron came to Iron Mountain when only five years Mountain Cemetery Park. of age and had resided here for 43 years. Thomas Uren was Dickinson County, Besides her husband, six sons survive. Michigan's first casualty of World War 1. They are Joseph, William, James, Richard, The American Legion Post in Iron Charles and George. Mountain, Michigan is named for him. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Thomas George Shea, Sr., was born Monday afternoon from the home, and at died July 2, 1899, at St. George’s Hospital, 2:30 o'clock at the Central Methodist Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Episcopal church with interment in of gangrenous appendicitis. Cemetery park. Members of the Women's He left his wife Maude (Bennett) Shea Auxiliary and of the Daughters of St. and son Thomas George Shea, Jr. His George, of which Mrs. Uren was a member, daughter, Maude Ruth Shea, was born on will attend the services. February 28, 1900, in Florence, Florence County, Wisconsin, after his death. He is JOHN HENRY VAN DYKE buried in Quinnesec Cemetery. In his newspaper obituary in Norway’s The Current it was noted he was an ardent Van Dyke, John Henry 1823 - 1909 admirer of all things pertaining to athletics. Maud Bennett was born October 11, Definition: lawyer, businessman, 1876, in Plymouth, Plymouth Unitary philanthropist, b. Mercersburg, Pa. He Authority, Devon, England. graduated from Marshall College (1841), After Thomas George Shea, Sr.’s death, studied law in Detroit, Mich., and was she married Joseph Uren. admitted to the bar in 1846. In 1846 he Maud had the following children with moved to Wisconsin, settling in Milwaukee, Joseph Uren: where he set up a law practice. He was an Maud died July 19, 1929, in Iron organizer and trustee (1862-1904) of the Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., is buried in the Moghkoma Section of Iron and was its president (1869-1874). Van Mountain Cemetery Park. (Newspaper Dyke was also a director and secretary of Obituary from The Iron Mountain News, the Milwaukee Iron Co., and served in July 20, 1929 edition.) executive capacities with several other

Milwaukee business enterprises, as well as MOTHER OF BOY FOR WHOM POST IS being active in the Milwaukee YMCA, the NAMED DIES: Mrs. Joseph Uren Milwaukee Law Library Association, the Succumbs Last Evening After Year's Milwaukee Orphan Asylum, Milwaukee Illness. College, and the Layton Art Gallery. His

son, WILLIAM DUNCAN VAN DYKE, b. Mrs. Joseph Uren, aged 53 years, gold Milwaukee, graduated from Princeton Univ. star mother of the young man after whom in 1878, was admitted to the bar in 1880, the Thomas Uren post of the American and joined his father's law firm in Legion was named died at 9:15 o'clock last Milwaukee. He was a trustee (1904-1909), evening at the family home, 729 East B vice-president (1909-1919), and president Street, after a year's illness from carcinoma. (1919-1932) of the Northwestern Mutual Mrs. Uren was born June 26, 1876 Life Insurance Co., was active in many (incorrect date) in Plymouth, England. She 235 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] other Milwaukee businesses, and, like his Pewabic company, which position he now father, was active in Milwaukee civic holds. groups. His brother, GEORGE DOUGLASS As president of the Menominee Mining VAN DYKE, b. Milwaukee, was also a company, a world of credit is due Mr. Van Princeton graduate (1873), was admitted to Dyke for the development of the mineral the bar in 1876, and became a member of resources of the range. This concern was his father's law firm. With his father and the pioneer exploring company of the range brother, he was a pioneer in the and the field work was under the guidance development of the Menominee, Mich., of Dr. N.P. Hulst, now vice-president of the iron-mining district; in Milwaukee he was Oliver Iron Mining company. also a director of the First Wisconsin Under Mr. Van Dyke’s direction mines National Bank, the First Wisconsin Trust were developed at Waucedah, Vulcan, Co., and the First Wisconsin Co. In 1895 he Norway, Iron Mountain and Florence, helped to organize the Milwaukee Hospital among them the Chapin, the Vulcans, the Auxiliary, and was its president (1923- Pewabic, the old Quinnesec and the 1945). J. G. Gregory, Hist. of Milwaukee (4 Florence. For a time the Menominee vols., Chicago, 1931); J. R. Berryman, ed., Mining company practically controlled the Bench and Bar of Wis. (2 vols., Chicago, mining industry of the range and in addition 1898); Wis. Reports, 256 (1951), pp. xliv-liv; to this conducted large mercantile Milwaukee Sentinel, Mar. 10, 1909; establishments at all the range towns. Milwaukee Journal, Apr. 28, 1949; WPA The Menominee Mining company was field notes. organized by Mr. Van Dyke in 1874 and the Pewabic company in 1885. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, In addition to contributing so materially Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, to the development of the mineral Number 22 [Thursday, October 20, resources of the range, Mr. Van Dyke, [sic] 1904], page 1, column 3 was also directly instrumental in the building of the railroad from Powers to the EIGHTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY. range towns, at this period mere mining _____ camps. Indeed, Mr. Van Dyke financed the original railroad company, which was first John H. Van Dyke Celebrates Day at known as the Menominee River Railroad His Milwaukee Home. company, but now forms an important link in the vast system of the Chicago & North- John H. Van Dyke, than whom no one Western railroad. individual contributed more to the Mr. Van Dyke located in Milwaukee fifty development of the Menominee range and years ago, when he opened a law office. the upper peninsula, celebrated his eighty- He is still actively engaged in the practice of first anniversary at his home in Milwaukee his profession and is in full command of the yesterday. wonderful mental faculties which won for Mr. Van Dyke is particularly well-known him a position at eh head of the Milwaukee to the people of Iron Mountain – first, as bar. president of the Menominee Mining He was born in Pennsylvania of good, company and later as president of the old Dutch stock. On April 27th, 1846, he removed from Detroit with Normal J.

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Emmons and opened a law office under the nearby gasoline station, and brought the firm name of Emmons & Van Dyke. bodies to the Stambaugh Funeral home in In 1860 Mr. Van Dyke was elected his ambulance. He notified two sisters of president of the Northwestern Mutual Life Mrs. Walker[,] who were with their father, Insurance company. He retained the John Fred Wilkie, reside in Detroit. position for seven years, when he returned Left Here Thursday to active practice of law. Dr. and Mrs. Walker left here Thursday The Press, in behalf of the people of the morning, to attend the meeting, and left Menominee range, extends congratulations Ironwood at about 11 yesterday morning, to Mr. Van Dyke. We hope that his days on for Iron Mountain. earth may be many and that he may enjoy The accident occurred on a straight the fruits of his industry to the utmost. stretch of new, paved highway, opened last year. There were no obstacles or DR. AND MRS. CLAUDE W. (RUTH obstructions of any kind, according to WILKIE) WALKER investigating officers. Albert Polly and his two sons, Roy and Wallace, of Beechwood, pulpwood jobbers, The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, were the first to hear the crash. Working Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume near the highway they first heard a loud ___, Number ___ [Saturday, July 19, report – apparently the blowout – and then 1941], page ___, column ___ a crash, as the car veered off the highway

and rolled over four times on the gravel Dr. and Mrs. Claude W. Walker shoulder. Killed In Accident Yesterday The three men reached the scene a moment before Victor Lepisto and Arvey Dr. and Mrs. Claude W. Walker, 65 and Ahonen, of Wakefield[,] arrived. 48 years of age, residing at 703 East G The men found Dr. Walker lying about Street, this city, were almost instantly killed 12 feet from his over-turned car, and Mrs. at about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon Walker was pinned beneath it. Both were when the sedan driven by Dr. Walker, and breathing when the men reached them, but in which he and his wife were returning died a few moments later, they said. The from a meeting of the Upper Peninsula five men pulled Mrs. Walker from beneath Medical Society at Ironwood, skidded off the car. the pavement and turned over on highway Examined Victims US-2, about 14 miles west of Iron River. Shortly thereafter Dr. O.S. Hult, of A blow-out of the right rear tire, causing Gladstone, Delta county coroner, and Dr. a four-inch rip in the casing, was given as H.J. Defnet, of Escanaba, also returning the cause of the accident. They were from the Ironwood meeting, arrived at the driving alone. scene. They examined the victims, Both victims suffered fractured skulls; determined the injuries and reported to Dr. Walker’s right leg was fractured; Mrs. Edward Sandri, Iron county traffic officer, Walker’s chest was crushed and she had who arrived about 15 minutes after the deep cuts on the right side of the head, and accident. both were otherwise badly cut and bruised. Sandri learned of the accident when he Coroner M.L. Fanscher, of Stambaugh, dropped into the oil station of Jim Haydon, was notified of the accident in a call from a of Iron River. There he met a tourist who 237 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] told him of the crash, and said that Dr. H.D. McEachran, of Detroit, and shortly Walker had passed him, on the highway, at thereafter the offices were moved from the a point several miles west of the accident Cordy building to the present location. scene. He recognized the car and driver Active In Legion when he reached the scene of the accident Dr. Walker was the second commander a few moments later, he said. of the Thomas Uren post, American Legion, The marks on the highway and shoulder in the city; first commander of the Upper of the road, measured by Sandri, indicated Peninsula Association of Legion Posts, and that Dr. Walker’s car traveled about 225 was otherwise active in the organization feet, zig-zag along the pavement, after it here since its inception. first started to skid. The hood of the car Under his leadership as post was found 12 feet from the sedan itself. commander here, the unit achieved the The left door, on the driver’s side of the car, peak membership of its history – 378. A was torn away and the right door was year after he was named U.P. commander, hanging by a hinge. Dr. Walker brought the 1922 convention of The wrecked car was taken to the Iron the Upper Peninsula unit to Iron Mountain – River garage. the largest gathering of its kind ever held in It was the first fatal accident in Iron the district. county in the last 11 months, authorities He was a member of the Pine Grove said. Country club for many years, and an ardent Born in Pennsylvania golfer. Dr. Walker was born near Scranton, Pa., Dr. Walker was also a member of the and was graduated from the medical school Iron-Dickinson Medical Society, the Upper of the University of Pennsylvania. He took Peninsula Medical Association, the advanced work in eye, ear, nose and throat [Michigan] State Medical Association and a at the New York Post-Graduate college and Fellow [sic – fellow] of the American at John Hopkins University. Later he College of Surgeons. practiced medicine in Schenectady, N.Y., His nearest surviving relative is a half- and in Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wis. brother, Robery Fry, residing in New York Dr. Walker enlisted as a lieutenant in the City. U.S. Army Medical Corps on Aug. 9, 1917, Born In Manitowoc and was assigned to Fort Benjamin Mrs. Walker, the former Ruth Wilkie, Harrison, Indiana. He served over-seas [sic was born Aug. 21, 1893, in Manitowoc. – overseas] and was promoted to the rank She was graduated from the Manitowoc of major. Returning to the United States high school and also from the Woods after the Armistice he received his Business college, in Manitowoc. honorable discharge on Aug. 15, 1919. Thereafter she obtained a position at In 1920, Dr. Walker established an Hot Springs, Ark., and later returned to office in Iron Mountain, and was a staff Manitowoc, where she was employed physician at the former Scandinavian before coming to Iron Mountain, in 1922, to hospital. accept a position in the offices of the Ford His offices were located first in the U.S. Motor company, which established its plant National bank building, for several years; here in 1921. later in the Cordy building and recently in She was married Oct. 24, 1923, in the Commercial bank building. Last March Manitowoc, to Dr. Walker, and they Dr. Walker entered into partnership with Dr. returned here to make their home. 238 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Mrs. Walker was a member of the Pine – overturned] on highway US-2 about 14 Grove Country Club Auxiliary and was miles west of Iron River, were held at 9 otherwise socially prominent in the o’clock this morning at the Buchanan- community. Villemur-Tondin Funeral home in this city. Dr. Walker was married previously, The Rev. N.U. McConaughy, pastor of overseas in 1919, to Miss Mabel Fordham, the First Presbyterian church, conducted of Scranton, Pa. They had been friends in the brief services. Scranton, and met again in France when Following the services the bodies were Dr. Walker was serving with the Medical taken to Manitowoc, Wis., for burial in Corps and Miss Fordham was a nurse. Evergreen cemetery there. They returned here to reside. In 1922 Mrs. Officers and members of the Thomas Walker was stricken ill and died in a Uren and Bert Carpenter Legion posts, Iron hospital in Chicago. She was buried in Mountain and Kingsford, accompanied the Cemetery park here. cortege from the funeral home to the Sisters Here intersection of H street and Stephenson Arriving from Detroit this morning were avenue, en route to Manitowoc. Mrs. Walker’s two sisters, Mrs. Flossie C. Burial at Manitowoc Vollendorf and Mrs. J.C. Camp; the latter’s Burial services were to be held this husband; Mrs. Jack D. Burell and William afternoon in the chapel at the Manitowoc M. Vollendorf, daughter and son of Mrs. cemetery. Vollendorf, and Miss Jane Camp, daughter Pallbearers for Mrs. Walker here today of Mr. and Mrs. Camp. were Dr. Boyd L. Kelley, Claire Drake, Mrs. Walker’s father, an invalid, was William Doell, E.W. Stridde, John Flanagan unable to make the trip. and A.G. Buchman, and for Dr. Walker: Dr. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Walker were G.H.Boyce, Dr. R.E. White, Dr. William removed this morning from the Stambaugh Fiedling, Dr. James L. Browning, Dr. H.D. Funeral home to the Buchanan-villemur- McEachran and Dr. E.B. Andersen. Tondin Funeral home here, pending funeral Pallbearers who accompanied the arrangements. cortege to Manitowoc were Dr. H.D. McEachran, Dr. James L. Browning, Dr. The Iron Mountain News, Iron Mountain, G.H. Boyce, Claire Drake, A.G. Buchman Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume and E.W. Stridde. Pallbearers chosen form ___, Number ___ [Monday, July 21, the Manitowoc Legion post were to assist in 1941], page ___, column ___ services there. Among relatives and friends attending Last Rites the services from out of the city were Mr. For Accident and Mrs. J.C. Camp and daughter, Jane, Victims Today and Mrs. B.O. Vollendorf, daughter of Mrs. J.D.Burrell and son, William M. Vollendorf, all of Detroit; Dr. and Mrs. Kelley and Dr. Funeral services for Dr. and Mrs. Hamlin, of Norway; Dr. R.E. Hayes, Sagola; Claude W. Walker, of this city, who were Mrs. Phillip D. Bourland, Calumet; Dr. almost instantly killed at about 3 p.m., Charles Drury and daughter, Shirley, of Friday when the car in which they were Marquette; Mrs. Frank Marshall and Miss returning form a meeting of the Upper LaDuc, of L’Anse; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Zander, Peninsula Medical Society over-turned [sic daughter and son-in-law, and Mr. and Mrs. 239 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

Carl Iselman and daughter, of Manitowoc, and five children – three daughters and two and Dr. and Mrs. D.A. Levine and Dr. and sons. Mrs. W.J. Kofmehl, of Iron River. The Current, Norway, Dickinson County, WILKS WARNER Michigan, Volume 24, Number 29 [Saturday, August 15, 1908], page 8, column 1 Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain,

Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 15, Number 22 [Thursday, October 20, Vulcan Notes. 1910], page 4, column 6 Lewis Y. Whitehead, Vulcan’s pioneer Death of Pioneer. resident, died Sunday, aged 75 years, and the remains were buried at Quinnesec,

Tuesday afternoon with Masonic honors. Wilks Warner, one of the pioneer Mr. Whitehead was born in Herdtown, residents of Iron Mountain, died last Morris Co., New Jersey, April 6th, 1833. Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. He went to Marquette county, Mich., in the Kirkwood[,] at Duluth. He was eighty-three early 60s and in 1866 went to Lawton, years of age and is survived by four Mich., as one of the officers of the Michigan daughters, viz.: Mrs. Jennie E. Lepper, of Central Iron Co., then operating a charcoal [need to finish copying this article] iron furnace there. He was married there in

1866, to Miss Jennie Rice, of Battle Creek, who was then a teacher at Lawton. In 1868 LEWIS YOUNG WHITEHEAD they went to Negaunee, Marquette Co., where Mr. Whitehead entered the service of Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, the Iron Cliff Co. In the early 70s Mr. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 13, Whitehead came to the present Number 12 [Thursday, August 13, “Menominee Range” to do exploratory work 1908], page 8, columns 3-4 for iron ore and in 1875 settled at Vulcan and built the first hotel on the range. For Oldest Citizen Dead. some time he was captain of the West Vulcan mine. During late years he has Louis [sic – Lewis] Whitehead, probably devoted his time to his hotel and to his farm the oldest resident of the Menominee just south of Vulcan. He was a man of range, died at his home in Vulcan last pronounced traits of character, but had the Sunday morning of cancer of the stomach. faculty of making many friends and but few He was seventy-five years of age and had enemies, and many will regret his demise. resided in Vulcan for thirty-two years. He He left a widow, two sons, Louis G. of conducted the village hotel during this Duluth, Minn., and Roy of Amasa, Mich.; period. Mr. Whitehead was also a pioneer and two daughters, Mrs. H.K. Myers, of explorer and was in charge of the first work Vulcan and Mrs. George A. Goodrich, of in the Vulcan district, opening several Milwaukee. The funeral services were mines for the old Menominee Mining under the auspices of Quinnesec Lodge company. He also explored the Felch No. 362, of which he was a member; and Mountain range. He is survived by a wife Franklin Copeland of this village, conducted

240 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] the ceremony, as desired by Mr. Whitehead Mrs. H.K. Meyers, of Vulcan, Roy, of Alpha, before his death. and Mrs. G.A. Goodrich, of Iron Mountain. Mrs. Whitehead was of Dutch-English MRS. JENNIE MARY (RICE) descent, coming down from the Van Dykes WHITEHEAD of the settlement of that name in the State of New York. She had two brothers, Uriah

and Gurley Rice. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Deceased had been a long time Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 23, member of the Order [of] Eastern Star Number 2 [Thursday, May 30, 1918], having been affiliated with a Chapter at page 5, columns 3 Lawton, in 1868, and was a charter

member of Norway Chapter, No. 251, of RANGE PIONEER DEAD. this city, the members of which attended the funeral and assisted in the last rites. Mrs. Jennie Whitehead, of Vulcan, She was a woman possessed of the Died Last Thursday. qualities which endear one to family and friends and in the early days the Whitehead After an illness covering many months, Hotel, of which she was the moving spirit, Mrs. Jennie Mary Whitehead, relict [widow] was the mecca for many a weary pioneer of Lewis Whitehead, died at her home at cruiser and explorer. Vulcan last Thursday. Her life has been one of unremitting Mrs. Whitehead was the pioneer woman ministration to the happiness of those of the Menominee range, having come to around her. – Current. Vulcan in 1872, leaving it after a short time and returning in 1876, since which time she had been a continuous resident. She was CAPT. JOHN WICKS born, Rice, on July 31st, 1843[,] at Tecumseh, Mich., and during her young Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, womanhood she was a school teacher. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 13, She was married Sept. 26th, 1867, at Number 21 [Thursday, October 15, Lawton, Michigan, to Lewis Whitehead and 1908], page 1, columns 5-6 after two years residence there they moved to Iron Cliffs, Marquette county, moving PIONEER EXPLORER later to Negaunee in the same county. In _____ 1872 they moved to the then newly discovered iron district the Menominee VENERABLE CAPT. JOHN WICKS IS range, but after a short sojourn, became of CALLED TO HIS REWARD. a money panic, they returned to Negaunee. _____ In 1876 they came back to Vulcan, where[,] as before noted, the family has resided Was the Discoverer of the Famous continuously since. Chapin Mine; Resident of the Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Peninsula for 56 Years. Whitehead, of whom five – May, Cloa,

Gussie, Fae and Glen, are deceased. The The venerable Capt. John Wicks, a survivors are Lewis G., of Duluth, Minn., resident of Iron Mountain for twenty-nine

241 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] years and of the upper peninsula for fifty six time, they were over the line on the Walpole [sic – fifty-six] years, died at the family property. In all seven shafts were sunk. home corner of West C street and Capt. Wicks was also in charge of Carpenter avenue at 2:20 o’clock last operations for the Kimberly Iron company at Monday morning. the old Keel Ridge mine. Capt. Wicks had been ill since last In 1888, he entered the employ of the January and since about the first of May Hamilton Ore company, another Kimberly has been confined to his bed. Prior to this company, and was in charge of the work of sickness he knew little of the ills of sinking the first shaft to a depth of 800 feet. mankind. He was possessed of a The property was purchased by the wonderful constitution and his faculties Kimberly interests on his advice. He was were impaired [sic – unimpaired] to the end. also in charge of exploratory work at the Until recently he was able to read his paper Millie and also east of Lake Antoine. His without glasses and he devoted much time last mining work was at the Millie, some to the care of his flowers and little garden. twelve years ago. Capt. Wicks was born in Tywardreath, During his long residence here Capt. Cornwall, England, on the 29th day of Wicks was closely identified not only with November, 1820. He had often related to the mining interests, but general business the writer how he had commenced work in affairs, and in church and social circles. He the copper mines of his native land at the was highly estimated [sic – esteemed] – the tender age of eight years receiving a daily word love can be used in his case in all wage of five cents. At the age of ten years truth. He was a well-known figure, of a he worked underground with his father. modest, retired disposition. He was a When thirty two [sic – thirty-two] years of consistent member of the Central M.E. age he came to the upper peninsula, church and until has last illness was regular landing at Ontonagon on October 16th, in his attendance. We believe he was one 1852. He found employment at the old of the organizers of the church. Minnesota mine and held the position of He was also a devout Free Mason and mining captain for twelve years. Later he lived in accordance with the teachings of went to the old Ridge mine, where he was the order. He was a charter member of the employed in a similar capacity for two Blue Lodge and also of the Chapter and years. In the year 1866, he accepted the held offices in each for a long term of years. position of superintendent at the Ophir The regularity of is attendance was often Canon mine in Nevada, where he remained commented upon by the members by whom until the property was abandoned. During he was loved. his stay in Nevada his family resided at Capt. Wicks survived his wife by three Linden, Wis. years, and he is mourned by the following In the year 1879, Capt. Wicks came to children: Mrs. Elisha Morcom, of Tower, Iron Mountain to take charge of the Minn., Mrs. Lydia Jeffrey, of Calumet; Mrs exploratory work for the old Menominee Carrie Hicks[,] Linden, Wis.; John Wicks, of Mining company. This work resulted in the Bessemer; Alfred Wicks, of Butte City, discovery of the now famous Chapin mine. Montana; Mrs. Harriet Parry, this city; Mrs. The original discovery was made in Section Alex W. Snyder, Victor, Colorado. 31, and Capt. Morcom, who was associated The funeral of Capt. Wicks was held with Capt. Wicks in the work, thought, for a yesterday afternoon from the Central M.E.

242 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] church, with the Free Masons in charge, and was very largely attended. JOHN R. WOOD DEPARTS THIS LIFE AT HIS APPLETON HOME. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, _____ Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 13, Number 22 [Thursday, October 22, Was First President of First Na- 1908], page 1, column 2 tional Bank, Open the Cornell, Calumet, Cundy Mines. Late Capt. John Wicks. John R. Wood, whose death was briefly [photograph of Capt. John Wicks] noted in our last issue, was buried at Appleton last Friday. He died at midnight JOHN R. WOOD on the 11th at St. Elizabeth Hospital after an illness of about ten days. Mr. Wood had been removed to the hospital to undergo an operation for the removal of a leg, this extreme measure being resorted to in the hope of arresting the affliction that had seized him. The treatment was of no avail, however, the patient having been in a critical condition practically all the time up to the end. Mr. Wood was a prominent member of the Masonic order, a Knights Templar and a member of the knights of Pythias lodge. The funeral was held at two o’clock last Friday afternoon from the home, corner of John and Meade streets. The services at the home were conducted by the Rev. John Faville and the services at the grave were in charge of the Masonic lodge. John R. Wood was born June 4th, 1845, n [sic – in] Lancaster, Ontario, Canada. He passed his boyhood on his father’s farm and was educated in the common schools. In 1862, when but seventeen years of age, he lef [sic – left] home and came west, stopping for a few months at Bay City, Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Mich., where he secured employment in a Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 17, salt block. In the spring of 1864, he went to Number 40 [Thursday, February 20, the Lake Superior copper region, in the 1913], page 1, columns 3-4 employe [sic – employ] of the St. Mary’s Mineral Land company as a prospector and A PIONEER CITIZEN woodsman in search of copper. In _____ November of the same year he returned to 243 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] his home, intending to spend more time at He also opened the Calumet mine, in the school, but his father being well advanced Felch Mountain district. During his in years and unable to do all of the work residence, Mr. Wood and others, including upon the farm, the young man spent the Bill and John Oliver, explored the Hollyoke following year assisting with the work at his silver property, north of Ishpeming. home. Mr. Wood became a resident of Iron John R. Wood was married July 10th, Mountain in 1878. He opened the Cornell 1871, to Miss Bessie Houston, a native of property here, and he later went to the Chatham, Canada, whose parents like Gogebic range where he opened the those of Mr. Wood were natives of Montreal property, on the Montreal river, Scotland. Mrs. Wood preceded her near Hurley. He operated this property for husband in death a few years ago. some time and finally sold his interest for a In his immediate family he is survived by large sum. five daughters as follows: Misses Ella and Mr. Wood organized the First National Elizabeth Wood, Appleton; Miss Charlotte Bank here and for many years held the Wood, instructor at the Whitewater Normal position of president and was active in the school; Mrs. O.E. Lay, Kewaskum, and management. He erected the brownstone Miss Ethel Wood, member of the faculty at building now known as the city hall. This the Iron River high school. Two brothers, building served as a court-house [sic – James and Joseph Wood, of Ishpeming, court house] for a number of years and was also survive, a third, Alexander Wood, later converted into a hotel. Mr. Wood was having died recently at Los Angeles, Cal., also one of the organizers of the Sagola of the same affliction that caused the death Lumber company. He also developed the of John R. Wood. property now known as the Cundy mine at John R. Wood was one of the upper Quinnesec, selling the mine to the Illinois peninsula’s pioneer mining men. During Steel company. the early days of the Marquette range he In recent years Mr. Wood located the did as much as any other one man in the claims and promoted the properties of the county to develop its mineral resources. He San Antonio Mining company of Mexico. was active in his exploratory work at He spent five years directing operations at Ishpeming, and he was responsible for the the property and it was as a result of discovery of mines on both the Menominee hardships there, [sic] that his health was and Gogebic ranges, also. impaired. Mr. Wood, together with his brothers, This proposition is said to have been James and Joseph, the later now living in one of the best developed in Mexico [over] Ishpeming, and Captain Alex Wood, who the last decade or more, although [it] has died two weeks ago in Los Angeles, Cal., been idle for some time on account of the and whose funeral was held a week ago revolution in that country. last Monday in Duluth, came to Ishpeming When but eight years of age Mr. Wood in 1869 from Lancaster, Ont., where they “hired out” to the Grand Trunk railroad to were born. carry rivets used in building iron bridges, During the years that Mr. Wood lived in and that was the commencement of his life Marquette county he opened the St. of earnest labor. Lawrence mine in partnership with Manville For years few were better known and Jenks and other Ishpeming men and which none more loved in the iron mining regions some years later passed into other hands. than was Mr. Wood. “In my forty years of 244 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] experience with mining engineers and removed to Iron Mountain and Mr. Wright promoters, John R. Wood was absolutely continued in business until 1905, when the the finest man I’ve ever met,” is the stock was sold out. The store at Amberg expression made by Manville Jenks, of was continued for several years, until the Ishpeming, for more than thirty-five years dissolution of the firm. associated with in a business way or On September 15th, 1880, Mr. Wright employed by Mr. Wood. was married to Jane Hawes, of Fond du Lac, who survives him, and is now ANSON FRANCIS WRIGHT spending the winter with relatives in Appleton. To this union was born two Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, daughters and two sons. Surviving are Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume Mrs. Erna Young and Miss Doris H. Wright, XX, Number XX [Thursday, February, with whom Mr. Wright was residing at the 1920], page 1, column 6 time of his death, and Harry A. Wright, who is residing in the west. Jason A., the eldest child, lost his life while bathing in Bass Lake A PIONEER CITIZEN when twelve years of age. _____ In politics, Mr. Wright was a steadfast Democrat. He was very active in the Anson Francis Wright Died exciting fight attendant upon the Monday Night Last in Chicago, Ill. organization of Dickinson county and Gov. Winans appointed him county treasurer. Anson F. Wright, one of the real pioneer While a resident of Breitung township, citizens of Iron Mountain, died last Monday which then included the (now) City of Iron night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mountain, Mr. Wright held the office of Erna Young, in Chicago. W.W. Thompson treasurer and school director. In Iron was so informed by a wire from Mrs. Mountain he was for several years a Young. Death was due to influenza member of the board of education, was followed by pneumonia. When Mr. Wright elected city treasurer for two terms, and left here for Chicago, several weeks ago, to was also city assessor. spend the winter with his daughters, he was From a business viewpoint, Mr. Wright in very poor health and his demise was not was for many years one of the leading entirely unexpected. citizens or [sic – of] this district. In addition Anson Francis Wright was born at to operating several stores, Wright Bros. Athens, Penn., and was seventy-five years owned several small saw-mills [sic – of age last September. His father was a sawmills] and at one time were the largest farmer and lumberman. In 1867, Mr. Wright dealers in railroad ties and timber in the came west and located at Menekaunee, west. Mr. Wright was one of the organizers now a part of Marinette, and engaged in the of the Commercial Bank and had been an mercantile business. In 1877 he formed a active member of the board of directors co-partnership with his brother, Jason K. ever since its organization. He was also Wright, now dead, and the same year the agent of the insurance department. firm opened a general store at Quinnesec, For the past several years Mr. Wright at that time the metropolis of the has been in poor health and has lead a Menominee range. In 1887, the store was retired life. He possessed a most genial disposition. In his demise the community is 245 MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORY – BIOGRAPHIES – MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES AND OBITUARIES [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] bereaved of one of its sturdy pioneers and Mr. Wright was born in Athens, Pa., most interesting characters. He was a most November 4th, 1840. He grew to manhood devoted husband and father and the in his native state receiving his primary bereaved relatives are assured of the education in the public schools of Athens, sympathy of many friends. which was latter [sic – later] supplemented The remains of Mr. Wright arrived here by a course at a seminary in Elmira, N.Y. this morning from Chicago, accompanied While attending this institution he enlisted in by the members of the family. Brief Company F, Twenty-third New York services were held at the depot and the Volunteers, and participated in the battles remains were then taken to the city of Antietam, South Mountain, cemetery. Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Sulphur Springs, Gainsville, Fort Butler and Bull’s JASON K. WRIGHT Run. On Oct. 12th, 1870, Mr. Wright was married in Athens, Pa., to Miss Louisa D. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Hancock, a lineal descendant of John Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 16, Hancock, and recently deceased. He is Number 22 [Thursday, October 19, survived by three daughters, Clara Louise 1911], page 1, column 4 Wright, Mrs. H.H. Dutton, Maria Ely Wright

and two sons, J. Frank and Ely Cleveland DEATH OF J.K. WRIGHT. Wright. _____ The funeral will be held to-morrow [sic – tomorrow] afternoon at two o’clock from the Pioneer Business Man Succumbs family residence in Marinette, the Rev. to Long Illness at Marinette. W.H. Willard-Jones, of Saint Paul’s church[,] officiating. Jason K. Wright, of Marinette, brother to Anson F. Wright, of this city, died yesterday forenoon at the Menominee River Hospital, the end coming at eleven o’clock. Mr. Wright had been in failing health for a long time and for several weeks his condition had been critical, hence the announcement of his death, while occasioning regret, did not come as a surprise. Mr. Wright was a business man [sic – businessman] well-known throughout the peninsula, having engaged in the mercantile business here and at Quinnesec. He was the senior member of the Wright Brothers’ Cedar Co. He was postmaster at Marinette at one period and had been closely identified with the business interests of that city.

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