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FILE 1 – MENOMINEE IRON RANGE HISTORY

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BIOGRAPHIES

History of the Upper Peninsula – 1883 Anderson, Charles L. – Norway Andrew, William S. – Iron Mountain Armstrong, Capt. George N. -

Florence Barclay, Robert – Quinnesec Beardsley, James W. – Quinnesec Bice, William – Iron Mountain Brady, L. – Florence Bray, William P. – Iron Mountain Breckenridge, James – Florence Broughton, Charles A. – Iron

Mountain Browning, Richard – Norway Bush, Michael – Commonwealth Carr, Charles F. – Quinnesec Carr, Wellington F. –

Commonwealth Chellew, Vivian – Iron Mountain Cudlip, Samuel – Iron Mountain Dickie, William – Norway Dunseth, John P. – Norway Evans, Oliver – Iron Mountain Fisk, Henry G. – Quinnesec Flint, Angelo A. – Quinnesec Fort, Thomas S. – Quinnesec Foster, Judge George C. – Florence Frederick, John – Iron Mountain Gee, James H. – Norway Graham, D.A. – Florence Grant, Dr. D.C. – Florence Godshall, A.K. – Florence Hammond, A.A. – Iron Mountain Hastings, Henry – Florence Hay, Thomas – Norway Hess, Frank M., M.D. – Norway Husson, A. – Quinnesec Ingram, Edward J. – Iron Mountain Johnson, Robert – Norway Juneau, Elisha – Florence Kamrath, H. – Iron Mountain Kilgallen, M.K. – Vulcan Kimball, Levi J., M.D. – Norway Knight, James B. – Norway Laing, W.S. – Iron Mountain Levy, A. – Norway Loughrey, Charles – Florence

McClintock, William E. – Quinnesec McDonell, Donald E. – Quinnesec McIntosh, C.E. – Florence McKenna, Patrick – Quinnesec McLaughlin, Hugh – Quinnesec McNair, Alexander – Florence McNeil, L.A. – Florence Malloy, James H. – Quinnesec Manning, J.C. – Iron Mountain Marchand, Benjamin – Quinnesec Marcott, Mrs. Harriet – Florence Mihills, Norris D. – Florence Moore, Arthur D. – Iron Mountain Morcom, Elisha – Quinnesec Nicholson, James – Norway Northam, Norman Wilson –

Florence Noyes, William W. – Florence Odell, Dr. Robert – Commonwealth O’Keefe, Edward – Iron Mountain Olin, C.C. – Florence Parent, Charles E. – Iron Mountain Parry, Joseph – Quinnesec Penberthy, J.S. – Florence Perkins, Burleigh – Marinette Phelps, Ambrose – Norway Philbrook, Ruel O. – Iron Mountain Polderman, A. – Florence Rogers, Charles M. – Iron Mountain Rosenheimer, David – Norway Rundle, J. – Iron Mountain Rundle, Thomas – Iron Mountain Rundle, Thomas B. – Iron Mountain Sampson, John D. – Norway Sawyer, Carter J. – Iron Mountain Schaller, Joseph – Quinnesec Scott, Miss Elzia – Norway Scott, Henry – Florence Seibert, George F. – Iron Mountain Selden, Richard L. – Iron Mountain Shepard, Amos S. – Quinnesec Sortor, Ames E. – Norway Spencer, Dr. William J. – Iron

Mountain Sullivan, Jerry – Iron Mountain Toutloff, Frank – Norway Travis, George – Florence Tuttle, Horace A. – Florence


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Tuttle, George R. – Florence Walter, George A. – Commonwealth Washburne, William H., M.D. –

Commonwealth Whittlesey, W.A. – Florence Williams, Thomas H. – Iron

Mountain Wright, Anson F. – Quinnesec

Memorial Record of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan – 1895 Bourion, Rev. Honoratus – Iron

Mountain Boyington, Andrew Jackson – Iron

Mountain, Iron River Brown, Elwin Fayette – Iron

Mountain, Vulcan Brown, W.J. – Iron River Browning, Richard C. – Norway Burbank, James W. – Iron Mountain Bushnell, Harry L. - Quinnesec Campbell, Esquire Young – Iron

River Cleary, Rev. D. – Iron River Cole, John J. – Iron Mountain Corcoran, J.F. – Crystal Falls Crocker, Frank Eugene – Dickinson

County Curnow, John U. – Iron Mountain,

Vulcan Curry, Hon. Solomon S. – Norway,

Felch Daprato, John – Iron Mountain Dunn, Patrick E. – Crystal Falls Engblom, John – Norway, Iron

Mountain Esbrook, William G. – Norway Fisher, John – Crystal Falls Flannigan, Richard C. – Norway Flood, Robert – Crystal Falls Geers, Father A.W. – Norway Hancock, Robert J. – Iron Mountain Heimerdinger, Charles – Vulcan High, William B. – Norway Hollister, S.D. – Crystal Falls Hunting, Alfred H. – Vulcan, Iron

Mountain Hurley, William – Iron Mountain Jenson, Frank A. – Norway

Jones, Dr. Joel D. – Iron Mountain Jones, John Tyler – Iron Mountain Kehoe, Father M. – Norway Knight, Capt. William H. – Vulcan Laing, Hon. William S. – Iron

Mountain Lindahl, Carl A. – Florence, Iron

Mountain, Norway MacKinnon, Donald C. – Iron River McLaughlin, Hugh – Iron Mountain McLeod, Dr. J.A. – Menominee

Mining Company Miller, Rudolph T. – Iron Mountain Mitchell, Samuel – Norway Moriarity, M.H. – Iron Mountain,

Crystal Falls Northrup, Major A. – Iron Mountain O’Callaghan, James –

Waucedah,Norway Osborn, Chase S. – Florence Parent, Charles E. – Iron Mountain Patenaude, Alexis – Norway Pecard, Joseph – Quinnesec Rundle, Alfred J. – Iron Mountain Russell, John – Iron Mountain Sampson, Richard M., Jr. – Norway Schuldes, Carl – Iron Mountain Scott, Edward – Iron River Sterling, Lewis T. – Iron Mountain Stiles, John W. – Norway Sundstrom, William – Iron Mountain Sutherlund, D.E. – Norway,

Metropolitan Taylor, Capt. J.H. – Commonwealth,

Crystal Falls Trebilcock, Capt. William – Norway Treiber, Charles – Norway Tuten, Robert P. – Iron Mountain Voos, George E. – Crystal Falls Walker, Dr. Claude W. and Ruth

(Wilkie) – Iron Mountain Whitehead, Lewis – Vulcan Wright, Anson F. – Quinnesec, Iron

Mountain Wright, Dr. Charles D’A. – Norway

Miscellaneous Biographies and Obituaries


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Alquist, Mrs. August (Amanda Julie Carlson) – Quinnesec

Anderson, Charles E. – Iron Mountain

Anderson, Dr. E.B. – Iron Mountain Anderson, Mrs. Julia Carolina – Iron

Mountain Asp, John – Iron Mountain Bacco, Medio J. – Iron Mountain Baker, R.G. – Iron Mountain Bangs, Mrs. James Ashley

(Elizabeth Hosking) – Iron Mountain Barclay, Robert – Iron Mountain Bassett, Samuel – Iron Mountain Beauparlant, John Robert “Jack” –

Iron Mountain Blomquist, Mrs. Olaf (Beatrice Mary

Lefebvre) – Iron Mountain Boyington, Andrew Jackson – Iron

Mountain, Iron River Boyington, Philip L. – Iron River Brauns, August E. – Iron Mountain Breitung, Edward – Marquette,

Negaunee Brown, Elwin Fayette – Iron

Mountain Browning, Mrs. Richard C. (Emma

Hosking) – Iron Mountain Bryan, William Jennings Bryngelson, Martin – Quinnesec Buchman, Mrs. A.G. (Gertrude

Mossler) Buell, John Lane – Quinnesec Cameron, Dr. John D. – Iron

Mountain Cameron, Mrs. John D. (Catherine

Mary MacRae) – Iron Mountain Carey, Mrs. John (Massie) –

Quinnesec Carpenter, Caroline (Vilas) – Iron

Mountain Carpenter, Gilbert V. – Iron

Mountain Carpenter, Dr. William T. – Iron

Mountain Cavicchi, Father Raphael - Iron

Mountain, Vulcan Chambers, Evelyn – Iron Mountain

Channing, J. Parke Chapin, Charles A. Chapin, Henry Austin Cole, Festus Clarke - Iron Mountain Cook, August C. – Norway, Iron

Mountain Copeland, Franklin – Norway Cotterill Sisters, Florence, Bess and

Alice – Iron Mountain Croll, Amos Max – Norway and Iron

Mountain Croll, Mrs. Amos M. (Vera F.

Freeman) – Norway and Iron Mountain

Crowell, Jeannette – Iron Mountain Crowell, Dr. Joseph Addision – Iron

Mountain Cudlip, James D. – Iron Mountain Cudlip, Mrs. James D. (Mary Jane

Berryman) – Iron Mountain Cudlip, Samuel – Iron Mountain Cudlip, William S. – Iron Mountain Davidson, Otto C. –

Commonwealth, Iron Mountain Day, Jefferson D. – Ishpeming,

Felch Mountain District, Ironwood DeRoshay, Oliver J. – Iron Mountain Dickey, James – Quinnesec, Iron

Mountain Dickey, William – Quinnesec, Iron

Mountain Dickinson, Capt. William Edmund –

Commonwealth and Florence, Wisconsin

Eisele, Mrs. George J. (Harriet Riendeau) – Iron Mountain

Erickson, August – Iron Mountain Eskil, Jorgen Johansen – Iron

Mountain Eslick, John C. “Jack” – Iron

Mountain Eslick, Mrs. John C. (Margaret Jane

Brooks) – Iron Mountain Eslick, Joseph B. Eslick – Iron

Mountain Faithorn, John Nicholson – Faithorn,

Menominee County


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Fisher, Hiram D. – Florence, Florence County, Wisconsin

Flaherty, Nancy (Ford) – Minnie Kingsford’s mother; Henry Ford’s aunt

Flaherty, Robert Joseph – Iron Mountain

Flanagan, Patrick – Norway, Sagola Flannigan, Richard C. – Norway Ford, Henry – Trips to Dickinson

County and Upper Peninsula Forell, Altlon – Iron Mountain Fortier, Arthur Ralph – Iron

Mountain Foster, E.P. – Waucedah, Iron

Mountain Fox, Myrton James - Iron Mountain Fox, Mrs.Myrton James (Chloe Edith

MacCartney) – Iron Mountain Garvey, John M. – Iron Mountain Gall, Mrs. Ernest – Iron Mountain Goldsworthy, Capt. Martin – Iron

Mountain Gompers, Hon. Samuel – New York Grenfell, Mrs. T.H. (Sarah Ann

Lloyd) – Iron Mountain Gronlund, Abe – Iron Mountain Grossbusch, Christopher – Iron

Mountain Hambley, Joseph – Iron Mountain Hargrove, Thomas H., Jr. – Iron

Mountain and Petoskey, Michigan Hardgrove, Thomas H., Sr. –

Kingsford Hardgrove, Mrs. Thomas H. (Clara

M. Cudlip), Sr. – Kingsford Harvey, Edward, Sr. – Quinnesec,

Iron Mountain Harvey, Mrs. Martin (Elizabeth

Thomas) – Iron Mountain Hassell, Gust A. – Iron Mountain Hitchens, John H. – Iron Mountain Holland, John Henry – Iron

Mountain Hosking, Mrs. William P. (Mary A.

Rule) – Iron Mountain Hoyle, Mrs. George (Johanna Mack)

– Iron Mountain

Hulst, Dr. Nelson Powell – Vulcan Hulst, Mrs. Nelson Powell (Florence

Terry) – Vulcan Ingram, Edward J. – Quinnesec,

Iron Mountain James, Mrs. John (Amelia) – Iron

Mountain James, Mrs. Richard H. (Elizabeth

King) – Iron Mountain Jones, John Tyler – Iron Mountain Jones, Mrs. John Tyler (Rachel

Milligan) – Iron Mountain Khoury, Abraham – Iron Mountain King, Thomas – Chicagoan Lake,

Randville (Native American) Kingsford, Edward George – Iron

Mountain Kingsford, Mrs. Edward George

(Mary Frances “Minnie” Flaherty) – Iron Mountain

Krebassa, Peter L’Anse (traded with John Jacob Astor; agent of the American Fur Company)

Kruse, John C. – Iron Mountain Lundgren, Mrs. Charles (Emma

Larson) – Iron Mountain Luxmore, Mrs. T.L. (Julia Rowe-

Hicks) – Iron Mountain Marchand, Joseph – Quinnesec Marsch, John – Iron Mountain Martin, Mrs. William (Emily) – Iron

Mountain McGregor, Mrs. Silas J. (Jennie B.

Clark) – Iron Mountain McKenna, Mrs. Patrick – Quinnesec Meilleir, Cleophas M. – Iron

Mountain Meyer, C.J.L. – Hermansville Milliman, Claude H. – Iron Mountain Mitchell, William H. – Iron Mountain Mongrain, Joseph – Iron Mountain Negaunee, John – Badwater (Native

American) Newton, Lizzie (Lark) – Norway Nicholas, Stephen “Steve Nick”

(Native American) Nord, Gust Olaf – Iron Mountain


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O’Callaghan, John – Norway, Sagola, Iron Mountain

Oliver, Capt. John – Norway Oliver, William – Iron Mountain Olson, Carl A. – Norway, Iron

Mountain Osterberg, John G. – Vulcan,

Crystal Falls, Iron Mountain, Aurora Ottersen, Henry – Florence, Iron

Mountain Parent, Charles – Iron Mountain Parent, William – Iron Mountain Parks, John H. – Crystal Falls Parmelee, Claude – Iron Mountain Parmelee, Fredrick E. – Iron

Mountain Parmenter, Edward L., Sr. –

Menominee Parmenter, Edward L., Jr. –

Sturgeon Mill, Iron Mountain Pederson, Gust – Iron Mountain Penglase, Thomas – Iron Mountain Perine, Cpl. Irving R. – Iron

Mountain Person, Paul Emer – Norway, Iron

Mountain Rezin, William Henry – Iron

Mountain and Crystal Falls Rice, Patrick – Norway Township Rice, Thomas – Norway Township Rowell, Thomas – Norway,

Quinnesec, Iron Mountain Rundle, Thomas – Iron Mountain –

Rundle’s Hardware and Rundle’s Opera House

Runkel, George – Crystal Falls Russell, John “Sandy” – Iron

Mountain Sackim, Abe – Iron Mountain Sandercock, Joseph H. – Iron

Mountain St. Denis, Wilhelmina – Quinnesec Sampson, R.M. – Houghton Schwartz, Jerome B. – Crystal Falls Scott, Solomon Stanley – Iron

Mountain Scott, Stanley – Iron Mountain;

Seattle, Washington

Scott, Zachariah – Iron Mountain Seibert, George Frederick – Iron

Mountain Seibert, Mrs. George Frederick

(Margaret Anna) – Iron Mountain Sims, Edwin J. – Iron Mountain Spalding, Charles F. – Iron

Mountain Spencer, James R. – Iron Mountain Spencer, John Thomas – Iron

Mountain Struebing, Ernest G. – Foster City

(largest man in the Upper Peninsula) Surprise, Andrew Henry –

Quinnesec Swift, Dr. Elisha Pope – Norway Symons, George – Iron Mountain Thomas, Albert – killed in mining

accident in the Wolverine Mine in Red Jacket in 1891 at the age of 23; parents lived in Iron Mountain and buried in Iron Mountain

Toutloff, Frank – Big Wausaukee, Wisconsin

Treiber, Dr. Edward – Norway Trestrail, Mrs. W.C. (Caroline Sims)

– Iron Mountain Trownsell, Theodore Richard “Ted”

– Iron Mountain Tuten, Mrs. Robert P. (Sarah

Amanda Mason) – Iron Mountain Van Dyke, John Henry – Milwaukee

Iron Company Warner, Wilks – Iron Mountain Wicks, Capt. John – Iron Mountain Whitehead, Lewis Young – Vulcan Whitehead, Mrs. Lewis (Jennie Mary

Rice) – Vulcan Wood, John R. – Appleton,

Wisconsin Wright, Anson Francis – Quinnesec,

Iron Mountain Wright, Jason K. – Quinnesec

EARLY EXPLORATIONS

John Lane Buell’s Trip Up the Menominee River – 1876


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Reminiscences Found in Newspapers “Reminiscences of the Development

of the Lake Superior District” by John M. Longyear – Lake Superior Mining Institute, 1917

“Reminiscences of the Peninsula” by F.W. Hyde, 1917

Trouting on the Brule River by John Lyle King – Excerpts – 1879

EARLY NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS

Building the Menominee Range

Railroad and Early Development

(From the Columns of The Escanaba

Tribune, The Iron Port and The Mining

Journal) (February 22, 1873 –

December 6, 1879)

Early Accounts of Dickinson County

from The Escanaba Tribune (August

16, 1873 – November 3, 1877)

Early Settlement Descriptions from

the History of the Upper Peninsula of

Michigan, 1883

Commonwealth, Wisconsin

Crystal Falls, Michigan

Florence, Wisconsin

Hermansville, Michigan

Iron Mountain, Michigan

Iron River, Michigan

Metropolitan, Michigan

Norway, Michigan

Quinnesec, Michigan

Stambaugh, Michigan

Theodore, Michigan

Waucedah, Michigan

Early Accounts of Dickinson County

Mines and Settlements from The Iron

Port, Escanaba, Delta County, Michigan

(September 28, 1878- January 7,

1882)

Letters from the Menominee Range

Mines from The Mining Journal,

Marquette, Marquette County, Michigan

(January-November, 1877)

Early Discovery and Development of

the Menominee Iron Range

[compilation of various newspaper

sources]

Construction of the Menominee

Range Railroad and initial

development of the Breen,

Breitung and Quinnesec Mines as

reported in The Mining Journal,

Marquette, Marquette County,

Michigan (January 27, 1877 – June

2, 1877)

Letters from the Menominee

Range Mines documented in The

Mining Journal, Marquette,

Marquette County, Michigan (June

9, 1877 – December 22, 1877)

Early Accounts of Dickinson

County Mines and Settlements

documented in the Escanaba

Tribune, Escanaba, Delta County,

Michigan (August 16, 1873 –

November 3, 1877)

Early Accounts of Dickinson

County Mines and Settlements

documented in The Iron Port,

Escanaba, Delta County, Michigan

(September 28, 1878 – May 28,

1880)

Early Accounts of the Menominee

Iron Range in The Menominee

Ranger in The Marquette Mining

Journal, Marquette, Marquette

County, Michigan (March 29, 1879 –

August 14, 1880)

Early Accounts of Iron County

Mines and Settlements

documented in The Florence

Mining News, Florence, Florence

County, Wisconsin, including the


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extension of the railroad from

Florence to Iron County (January 1,

1881 – March 26, 1892 – not

inclusive)

The Menominee Ranger (Abridged

Version) from The Mining Journal,


(March 29, 1879 – August 14, 1880)

The Menominee Ranger (Unabridged

Version) from The Mining Journal,


(March 29, 1879 – August 14, 1880)

FIRES Dickinson County, Michigan

Alfred Channing

September 28, 1925 – Business District

Felch August 17, 1910 – Felch

Township Hall May 10, 1911 – Metropolitan

School House (lightning strike) Felch Mountain Floodwood Foster City Hardwood

May 2, 1925 – Bergdahl & Johnson Landing

Iron Mountain January 21, 1883 – Business

District (200 block of South Stephenson Avenue – William Andrews’ clothing store; Laing Brothers’ meat market; Oliver & Penglase’s saloon; William Parent’s saloon; the “Old Dutchman’s” confectionery store)

July 5, 1888 – Metropolitan Hotel (formerly Jenkins Hotel, recently moved in sections to the northwest corner of East Hughitt Street and Iron Mountain Street)

December 18, 1888 – Business District (101-125 South Stephenson Avenue – Peter Baptiste’s saloon and buildings; Phil Bender’s barber shop; David Bergeron’s justice office; Tom Buzzo’s saloon & boarding; house; D. Contarini’s saloon; Michael Coragliotti’s double saloon building; Edwin Freeman’s saloon & livery barn; John Friederich’s store building; M. Goldman & Company, notions; Grenfell, candies; Christopher Grossbusch’s general store; E.J. Ingram, goods; H.N. LaDuke’s boarding house; Locomotive Bakery; Mrs. Manning’s boarding house; V. Nomilini’s saloon; Gus Pederson’s shoe shop; Peterson, household goods; Silverman, Davis & Levy, dry goods; Fred Smith, building; William Sundstrom’s building and general merchandise;)

September 7, 1889 – Rusky Bros.’ Store

September 18, 1889 – Bankes’ house, occupied by Capt. Davis, on Fleshiem Street

September 27, 1889 – William Scandling, meat market

October 26, 1889 – Patrick O’Connell, residence

November 15, 1889 – A. Cruse & Co., meat market, attached to rear of G. Kloeckner & Co.’s store

November 24, 1889 – log house between Chapin Mine and Hamilton Shaft

December 6, 1891 – St. Joseph’s Catholic Church (northwest corner of West A Street and Prospect Avenue)

November 2, 1893 – Italian Catholic Church (Holy Rosary


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Church – corner of Blaine Street and Millie Street)

October 3, 1896 – Flanagan Block (northeast corner of South Stephenson Avenue and East A Street – Patrick Flanagan, Norway, owner; Frank Danielson, groceries; John Flanagan, saloon; Wade Leek, restaurant; George Monroe, plumbing shop)

January 11, 1898 – Montgomery Blocks and Allen Building (300 block of South Stephenson Avenue – W.B. Allen, owner, frame building; C.W. Montgomery, owner, brick block, frame block and undertaking goods; C. Corneilson, baker; D.H. Lieberthal, clothier; E. Mattson, confectioner; A.E. Smith, saloonkeeper; A.J. Sundstrom, hardware)

April 25, 1898 – Chapin Location, outhouse

May 13, 1898 – Holfeltz & Strebel ice house at Lake Antoine, C.T. McElroy, owner

May 16,1898 – M. Levy & Co.’s warehouse (East E Street and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad tracks)

May 26, 1898 – Three Children of Albert Richter – Katie, Arthur, Hattie (820 West B Street)

November 17, 1898 – M. Levy Company Store (415-419 South Stephenson Avenue)

November 18, 1898 – Eskil Block (215 East Hughitt Street, Jorgen J. Eskil’s photography studio; John Eslick, soda pop factory in basement)

November 25, 1898 – Abe Sackim’s residence (corner of East B Street and Iron Mountain Street)

June 18, 1901 – St. Paul Depot, 100 block of East B Street

February 25, 1904 – Flanagan Block (northeast corner of South Stephenson Avenue and East A Street – Patrick Flanagan, Sagola, owner; Kurz Brothers, carriage, cutter and harness shop; L.N. Richard, barber shop; A.I. Khoury, confectionery shop)

November 28, 1904 – Hydraulic Plant of the Oliver Iron Mining Company, Quinnesec Falls

March 31, 1907 – Eskil Block (215 East Hughitt Street – Jorgen J. Eskil, owner of building; Ali Numa Chatelain, photographic studio, second floor; K.J. Holmberg, general merchandise store, first floor)

September 12, 1915 – Rundle’s Opera House (100 block of West Ludington Street)

December 2, 1915 – Business District (Taylor Block, Cook & Pelham Block, small office building, 400 block of South Stephenson Avenue – Charles Parent, clothing store; Samuel Khoury, confectionery store; John Carbis; employment agency and real estate)

May 21, 1920 – Milliman Hotel (100 block of West B Street)

February 25, 1922 – Iron Mountain Daily News building (101 East Ludington Street)

September 21, 1922 – East Side Restaurant (West Hughitt Street – Mrs. J.J. Kemppainen, proprietor; J.J. Eskil, owner of building)

September 11, 1923 – DeLima Restaurant – Tony Fliris, proprietor; Riley’s News Depot – William Riley; Protegere Bros. Candyland (509, 507 and 505 South Stephenson Avenue –


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John Flanagan, owner of all three buildings)

January 24, 1925 – Chapin School roof (corner of Vulcan Street and Sixth Street, North Side)

January 25, 1925 – St. Joseph’s Catholic Church roof (northwest corner of West A Street and Prospect Avenue)

September 14, 1925 – Sam Anderson, buildings; Iron Mountain Overland Motor Company; Erickson & Johnson’s grocery store; Keener Produce Company (River Avenue)

April 12, 1927 – L.J. Will Jewelry Store, Beatrice Johnson Photography Studio, the Vogue Hat Shop (Mrs. Anna Webb) (313 South Stephenson Avenue)

April 16, 1930 – St. Joseph’s Catholic Church (northwest corner of West A Street and Prospect Avenue)

May 14, 1931 – DeGayner Flats (McKinney Block, southwest corner of Carpenter Avenue and West B Street – Iron Mountain Gas Company; Em’s Pasty Shop; Stomberg’s Self-Serve Grocery; Allyn’s Dress Shop; O’Connor Bake Shop)

January 15, 1935 – Iron Mountain Mercantile Company Building (Spencer Block – 100 block of West B Street – Iron Mountain Mercantile Company, meat and grocery departments; Walter Flatt and Harmon McCarthy, jewelry shop; Allyn’s Dress Shop; R.F. Dundon’s Actual Business College)

November 11, 1938 – St. Mary’s Catholic Church (northeast

corner of Kimberly Avenue and West B Street)

October 18, 1939 – Robbins Block (217-219 East Hughitt – Waldron’s Pool & Billiard Parlor, Sanitary Laundry and Knights of Pythias Lodge)

October 31, 1939 – Bowling Alley– Ray Durham, Peter Tomassoni and Joe Crispigna, owners, and Anderson Tavern (100-110 West Ludington )

March 7, 1940 – Williams’ Building (218 East Hughitt) and Kurz Livery Stable (220 East Hughitt)

May 4, 1940 – The Nightingale, Badwater (Breitung Township)

May 24, 1941 – Eskil Block (215 East Hughitt Street – Jorgen J. Eskil, owner of building; Archie Studio, David Archie, proprietor, second floor; Nelson’s Food Mart, first floor)

January 5, 1944 – Central Methodist Episcopal Church (100 block of West B Street)

January 18, 1950 – First Covenant Church (formerly the Swedish Mission Church, southeast corner of East Ludington Street and Iron Mountain Street)

December 21, 1950 – Trinity Episcopal Church (southeast corner of West B Street and Prospect Avenue)

July 18, 1960 – Lowell School, former Hulst School property on Madison Avenue – Fred Snowden, owner

December 2, 1963 – Flinn Hotel (formerly the Peter Patient Hotel, Harding Hotel, Hotel Diring, southwest corner of Carpenter Avenue and West Hughitt Street – Donald Cooper, owner)


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February 28, 1982 – Business District (central portion of the 500 block of South Stephenson Avenue; Ace Drug Store building, Rene Savoie; Western Auto Store, Don and Donna Christy; Isabel’s Ready-to-Wear, Isabel Pasten; Joey Jaff’s Avenue Bar, smoke damage)

January 5, 2003 – St. Mary and St. Joseph Catholic Church (414 Prospect)

October 22, 2013 – Francie’s Traditional Design (formerly First Presbyterian Church, 200 West Brown Street

Kingsford June 8, 1925 – Ford Motor

Company log yard Loretto Metropolitan

July 10, 1891 – Metropolitan Lumber Company’s mill, warehouse, boarding house and lumber; also Fred Skog’s and Andy Blomquist’s lumber camps

Norway September 24, 1879 – Boarding

House and Office of O’Callaghan’s Mill, near Norway

May 25, 1881 – O’Callaghan’s Sawmill – John O’Callaghan

December 3, 1881 – Norway Purchases a Fire Engine and Organizes a Fire Company

April 21, 1883 – Lightning Struck and Set Fire to Residence of Charles Hall

August 29, 1883 – Business District on Main Street (John O’Callaghan’s Opera House; William Dickie’s livery stable; Lieberthal’s clothing store; Nicholson drug store)

June 9, 1888 – Business District on Main Street (J.

Ahlich & Son, _____; M. Anderson, store; Patrick Flanagan, two buildings; J.H. Gee, general store and post office; Thomas Hay, hotel building; S.T. High, jewelry store; J.M. Hosking & Co., hardware store in Masonic Hall building; A. Husson, _____; Robert Johnson, _____; F. LeRoy, _____; John Lindquist, general store; Masonic Hall building; C.T. McElroy, large general store building; Norway House; F. Nowack, _____; O’Callaghan, vacant store; A. Odill, _____; A. Patenaude, drug and jewelry store; A. Phelps, bakery; John Reiber, _____; L. Rosenheimer, dry goods store; J.D. Sampson, _____; A. Toutloff, _____; Mrs. Van Dyke, _____; Wallace & Ramsdell, hardware store; Dr. C.D.A. Wright, _____)

July 5, 1889 – J.E. Bergeron, house and barn

December 22, 1890 – Capt. Enoch Roberts (Merchant Schwartz, tenant), house on Summit Avenue (chimney fire)

January 11, 1892 – L.E. Grandlund, house burned to ground

December 5, 1912 – Ruwitch Department Store

April 9, 1925 – St. Barbara’s Catholic Church

May 3, 1925 – Soft drink parlor at Curry Crossing, Mrs. Julius Sebrechts

__________ – Rialto Theatre, Sophie and Vendenbergh

Quinnesec November 13, 1881 – machine

shop, C.D. Casad & Company February 23, 1885 – log house,

William Curno, owner; James Luke, tenant


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February 12, 1886 – Wright Brothers’ Store, chimney fire

May 11, 1886 – jail June 13, 1889 – house, Patrick

“Paddy” Wildman May 18, 1906 – Business

District (Chicago & Northwestern Railway Depot; St. Mary’s Catholic Church)

July 20, 1910 – prairie fire threatens Village of Quinnesec

May 30, 1921 – St. Mary’s Church (lightning strikes steeple, starting a fire)

May 23, 1924 – Pioneer School (abandoned)

August 20, 1925 – Buell’s Opera House

Ralph Randville Sagola

September 11, 1910 – Sagola Lumber Company Mill

May 18, 1906 – forest fire threatens Sagola and most of Dickinson County

July 4, 1932 – fire in horse barn, Sawyer-Goodman Lumber Company

August 4, 1932 – lumber yard fire, Sawyer-Goodman Lumber Company – arson

April 9, 1935 – shingle mill fire January 27, 1987 – Sagola

Clubhouse Vulcan

May 31, 1885 – John Maloney’s house and saloon

May 7, 1889 – forest fires surround East Vulcan Location, 25 families homeless

March 2, 1917 – Dickinson County Poor Farm – main building, hospital, ice house, root house

Waucedah August, 1890 – town hall and

jail

October 9, 1910 – barn, S.R. Nicholson

June 7, 1925 – grocery store and post office, Tim Donohue, owner; Joe Cordel, storekeeper

Iron County, Michigan Alpha Atkinson Beechwood Caspian Crystal Falls

May 17, 1883 – forest fires September 14, 1885 – Runkel,

Hollister & Co.’s building; Neuman & Austrian’s building and stock; Hugh McGlinchey’s saloon; J.K. Stack, building; Louis Lamprey, house

February 6, 1887 – Diamond Drill Office; Dr. J.L. Kimball’s barn and carriage house; Charles Henry’s store

Iron River July 1, 1883 – J.B. Weimer’s

farm; Morrison & Hudson’s old slaughterhouse

June 28, 1885 – Business District (Martin Lalley’s saloon; J.S. Penberthy’s drug store; MacKinnon Brothers, buildings; James Innes, building; John McDonald’s large general store; Innes’ Opera Hall; Knights of Labor; MacKinnon Brothers, business office; W.J. Brown’s insurance office; James Innes’ justice office; A. MacKinnon’s residence; Martin Bies’ saloon; A.J. Boyington’s hotel)

November 26, 1886 – warehouse, Menominee River Lumber Company

Mastodon Mine July 30, 1883 – Leopold &

Newman’s general store, Asa F. Leopold and Louis Newman


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September 19, 1891 – P.E. Roberts’ store, Samuel Speare’s residence

Palatka Stambaugh

July 7, 1883 – Hick’s house of ill repute

July 24, 1886 – Stambaugh House, Iron River Company, owner, which operated the Iron River Mine at Stambaugh; R.B. Barclay, lessee

Menominee County, Michigan Faithorn Hermansville Powers

October 23, 1920 – office of Powers-Spaulding Tribune and more

Florence County, Wisconsin Commonwealth Florence

December 20, 1880 – former store of McGraw & Co. and former office of H.D. Fisher, then a residence of H.R. Rawn

May 10, 1881 – Derosier’s saloon, J.V. Northam’s hotel, Gage & Malloy’s livery stable, Harris & Mihills’ flour, grain and grocery store, Reese Evan’s two-story building (Will Curry’s barbershop, F.W. Menke, merchant tailor and residence of Morgan Evans), Ferdinand McDevitt’s wholesale and retail liquor store, Alex McNair’s store (damage), Peter Sheridan’s store (damage)

January 15, 1882 – Red Front Store, Jake Hoar, proprietor

January 24, 1882 – Mrs. Tourtlott’s large boarding house

April 18, 1882 – Mary Ann Dix residence and A.K. Godshall & Company’s hardware store

April 27, 1882 – Business District (Travis & Webb, hardware and furniture store; William Scott, hotel; Daniel Hall, residence; O.J. Conklin, dwelling; Noyes, True & Company; S.A. McGraw & Company, building)

April 6, 1886 – main building, Florence Iron Works, branch plant of the Marinette Iron Works

September 14, 1888 – Business District (Jacob Gordon, dry goods; W.W. Harris & Company, groceries; A.K. Godshall & Company, hardware and furniture; Wm. H. Clark, building and post office fixtures; H.D. Fisher, Collins House and post office building; Capt. J. Tobin, building occupied by Mrs. Pontbriand; Mrs. Pontbriand, dressmaking and confectionery; McNair & Baird, grocers; R.B. Webb, hardware; Florence House, Adolph Peltier, proprietor; W.C. Main, livery stable; Avenue House, T.C. Tully, proprietor; Charles Loughrey, old livery barn; Winkler & Campbell, barn and logging outfit; Omer Huff, carpenter shop and barn; J.M. Saxton, family’s personal belongings; Charles Peterson, register of deeds and insurance agent; Joseph E. Parry, cigars and fixtures; Frank Miller, vacant dwelling house)

Spread Eagle September 18, 1892 – Emanuel

Chainey’s hotel, Fred John Island

Marinette County, Wisconsin Niagara

February 14, 1923 – J.T. Mason Company, general merchandise


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store; Perkins’ Pool Room; Gus Zimmerman’s Barber Shop; Niagara Bakery

IRON MINING & MINING

ACCIDENTS

Index to the Menominee Iron Range Mines

Catalog of Menominee Iron Range Mining Photographs

Early Mining & Mines (1873-1885) Benton Mine (Menominee Iron

Range) Breen Mine (Waucedah) Chapin Mine (Iron Mountain) Commonwealth Mine

(Commonwealth, Wisconsin) Cornell Mine (Antoine Mine – near

Iron Mountain) Curry Mine (Norway) Cyclops Mine (Norway) Emmett Mine (Waucedah) Felch Mountain Range Florence Mine (Florence,

Wisconsin) Hamilton & Merryman Mine

(Section 4 – Menominee Iron Range)

Harvey Mine (west of Florence, Wisconsin)

Keel Ridge Mine (McKenna Mine, east of Iron Mountain)

Ludington Mine (Iron Mountain) Norway Mine (Norway) Old Dan Mine (Menominee Iron

Range) Old Harry Mine (probably the

Ludington Mine, Iron Mountain) Quinnesec Mine (Quinnesec) Saginaw Mine (Perkins Mine –

Norway) Smith Mine (Menominee Iron

Range – probably near Crystal Falls)

Spur Mine (Menominee Iron Range)

Stephenson Mine (Norway)

Sturgeon Mine (Norway) Traders Mine (near Iron Mountain) Vermillion Mine (Menominee Iron

Range) Vulcan Mine (Breitung Mine –

Vulcan) Walpole Mine (Iron Mountain) Miscellaneous Explorations Miscellaneous Mining News Gold Mining Felch Mountain Range

Development Iron Mines – Iron Mountain’s Chapin

Mine Iron Mines – History of the Upper

Peninsula of Michigan, 1883 Brier Hill Mine (Norway) Calumet Mine (Felch Mountain

Range) Chapin Mine (Iron Mountain) Chicagon Lake Mine (Chicagon

Lake, near Crystal Falls) Commonwealth Mine

(Commonwealth, Wisconsin) Cornell Mine (near Iron Mountain) Crystal Falls Mine (Crystal Falls) Curry Mine (Norway-Vulcan) Cyclops Mine (Norway) Fairbanks Mine (near Crystal

Falls) Florence Mine (Eagle Mine – near

Florence, Wisconsin) Garfield Mine Great Western Mine (near Crystal

Falls) Hecla Mine (Felch Mountain

Range) Hancock (Felch Mountain Range Illinois Mine (near Quinnesec) Indiana Mine (near Quinnesec) Iron Range Mining Company (near

East Vulcan Mine) Iron River Mine (near Iron River) Keel Ridge Mine (near Iron

Mountain) Lake Mary Mining Company (near

Florence, Wisconsin) Ludington Mine (Iron Mountain)


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Maryland Mine (Breen Mine – Waucedah)

Manhattan Mine (near Crystal Falls)

Mastodon Mine (near Crystal Falls)

Metropolitan Mine (Felch Mountain District)

Nanaimo Mine (near Iron River) Northwestern Mine (Felch

Mountain District) Norway Mine (Norway) Paint River Mine (near Crystal

Falls) Perkins Mine (Saginaw Mine,

Section 4 Mine – near Norway) Quinnesec Mine (Quinnesec) Stephenson Mine (Norway) Sturgeon River Mine (near Vulcan) Union Mine (near Crystal Falls) Vulcan Mine (Breitung Mine –

Vulcan) Youngstown Mine (near Crystal

Falls) Iron Mines – Later Newspaper

Articles General Mining News Antoine Ore Company (near Iron

Mountain) Appleton Mine (Loretto) Aragon Mine (Norway) Brier Hill Mine (Norway) Calumet Mine (Felch Mountain

Range) Chapin Mine (Iron Mountain) Cundy Mine (Quinnesec) Curry Mine (Norway) East Vulcan Mine (Vulcan) Exploration – East of Vulcan Exploration – Jackson Farm, Pine

Creek Exploration – McKenna Farm,

Quinnesec Exploration – West of Antoine Ore

Company Property Exploration – Spencer

Exploration, Norway Township Forest Mine (near Quinnesec)

Groveland Mine (Randville) Hamilton Mine (Iron Mountain) Hecla Mine (Felch Mountain

Range) Indiana Mine (near Quinnesec) Loretto Mine (Loretto) Ludington Mine (Iron Mountain) Millie Mine (Iron Mountain) Munro Mine (near Norway) Northwestern Mine (Felch

Mountain Range) Penn Mines (Vulcan) Pewabic Mine (Iron Mountain) Portland Mine (Marquette Iron

Range) Saginaw Mine (Norway) Traders Mine (near Iron Mountain) Vivian Mine (Quinnesec) Walpole Mine (Iron Mountain) West Chapin Mine (Iron Mountain) Caspian Mine (Caspian, Iron

County) Chatham Mine (Stambaugh, Iron

County) Hiawatha Mine (Iron River, Iron

County) Florence Mine (Florence, Florence

County, Wisconsin) Osana Mine (Mineral Hills, Iron

County) Riverton Mine (Stambaugh, Iron

County) Wauseca Mine (Iron River, Iron

County) Youngs Mine (Iron River, Iron

County) Portland Mine (Michigamme,

Marquette County) Iron Mines of the Menominee Iron

Range Dickinson County, Michigan

Waucedah Breen Mine Emmett Mine Ingalls Mine Maryland Mine Ward Mine

Loretto


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Appleton Mine Eleanor Mine Loretto Mine Sturgeon River Mine

Vulcan Breitung Mine Central Vulcan Mine East Vulcan Mine Garfield Mine Southeast Vulcan Mine Southwest Vulcan Mine Verona Mine Vulcan Mine West Vulcan Mine

Norway Aragon Mine Brier Mill Mine Curry Mine Cyclops Mine Few Mine Finlay Mine Lowell Mine Munro Mine Norway Mine Penn Mines Perkins Mine Saginaw Mine Section 6 Mine Stephenson Mine Sturgeon Mine Waverly Mine

Quinnesec Cuff Mine Cundy Mine Federal Mine Forest Mine Gladstone Mine Illinois Mine Indiana Mine J.R. Wood Mine Protection Mine Quinnesec Mine Rachel Mine Ruth Mine Scandia Mine Vivian Mine

Iron Mountain Anderson Mine

Antoine Mine Bradley Mine Chapin Mine Clifford Mine Cornell Mine Dessau Mine Globe-Cornell Mine Hamilton Mine Hewitt Mine Keel Ridge Mine Ludington Mine McKenna Mine Millie Mine Pewabic Mine Spencer Mine Traders Mine Walpole Mine West Chapin Mine West Ludington Mine

Randville Groveland Mine Randville Mine

Felch Mountain Range Calumet Mine Deerhunt Mine Hancock Mine Hecla Mine Metropolitan Mine Northern Mine Northwestern Mine

Florence County, Wisconsin Commonwealth

Badger Mine Buckeye Mine Commonwealth Mine Commonwealth Group

Mines Davidson Mine Ernst Mine

Larson Exploration Florence

Eagle Mine Florence Mine Lake Mary Mining Company

Iron County, Michigan Felch Properties Alpha

Alpha Mine


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Balkan Mine Balkan-Judson Mine Book Mine Delphic Mine Judson Mine Longyear Mine Manhattan Mine Mastodon Mine McGovern Mine South Mastodon Mine

Crystal Falls Angus Smith Mine Armenia Mine Blaney Mine Bristol Mine Bristol-Youngstown Mine Carpenter Mine Claire Mine Columbia Mine Crystal Falls Mine Dunn Mine Ethel Mine Fairbanks Mine Fortune Lake Mine Genesee Mine Great Western Mine Hagerman Mine Hilltop Mine Hilltop and Victoria Mine Hollister Mine Hope Mine Kimball Mine Lamont Mine Lawrence Mine Lee Peck Mine Lincoln Mine Mansfield Mine McDonald Mine Monitor Mine Monongahela Mine Neely Mine Odgers Mine Paint River Mine Prickett Mine Ravenna Mine Ravenna-Prickett Mine Richards Mine Shafer Mine

Shelden Mine Smith Mine Tobin Mine Union Mine Victoria Mine Wauneta Mine Wilkinson Mine Youngstown Mine

Iron River Aronson Mine Bates Mine Barnett Mine Beta Mine Blair Mine Buckholtz Mine Campbell-Sherwood Mine Cardiff Mine Chicagon Lake Mine Chicagon Mine Davidson Group Mines Davidson Mine No. 1 Davidson Mine No. 2 Davidson Mine No. 3 Davidson Mine No. 4 Delta Mine Erickson Mine Forbes Mine Grieg-Kelly-Jackson Mine Homer Mine Iron River Mine Konwinski Mine Michaels Mine Nanaimo Mine Newman Mine Paulsen Mine Riverton Mine Riverton Group Mines Rogers Mine Schiebler Mine Sheridan Mine Sherwood Mine Spies-Virgil Mine Swanson Mine Virgil Mine Wapama Mine Wauseca Mine Wauseca-Aronson Mine White Mine


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Wickwire Mine Youngs Mine

Stambaugh Anna Mine Baker Mine Bengal Mine Bengal-Tully Mine Berkshire Mine Cannon Mine Brule Mine Chatham Mine Corry “40” Mine Hiawatha No. 1 Mine Hiawatha No. 3 Mine Stegmiller Mine Tully Mine West Hiawatha Mine Wickwire Mine

Palatka (Caspian) Baltic Mine Berkshire Mine Buck Group Mines Buck Mine Caspian Mine Cottrell Mine Dober Mine Duff Mine Fogarty Mine Hiawatha No. 2 Mine Isabella Mine Smuggler Mine

Mineral Hills James Mine Osana Mine

Gaastra Borland Mine De Grasse Mine Zimmerman Mine

Amasa Amasa Porter Mine Bayshore Mine Gibson Mine Hemlock Mine Michigan Mine Porter Mine Warner Mine

Location Unknown Half and Half Mine

Hall Mine Hersel Mine McGillis Mine Perry Mine

The Menominee Iron Range – History of Its Mines – When and by Whom Discovered – Their Present Condition and Future Prospects by A.P. Swineford, The Mining Journal, Marquette, Michigan, June, 1880 [facsimile copy of original in the collection of the Menominee Range Historical Foundation] Overview of Early History and

Development of the Menominee Iron Range

The Emmet [sic – Emmett] Mine The Breen Mine Explorations The Vulcan Mine The Cyclops Mine The Norway Mine The Quinnesec Mine The Chapin Mine The Stephenson Mine Saginaw Section 4 Mine The Curry Mine The Ludington Mine Section 9 The Keel Ridge Mine The Cornell Mine Wisconsin Mines Commonwealth Mine The Florence Mine Villages

Norway Frederickton

Escanaba Advertisements Glossary of Useful Mining Terms

[added by compiler] Iron Mining – Ardis Furnace and

Galena Furnace, Iron Mountain C Ludington Shaft of Chapin Mine

Collapses – July 27, 1999 Iron Mining – Cornish Pumping

Engine, Iron Mountain


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Erection of Cornish Pumping Engine at “D” Shaft of the Chapin Mine

Dismanteling of the Cornish Pumping Engine at “D” Shaft of the Chapin Mine

Erection of the Cornish Pumping Engine at “C” Ludington Shaft of the Chapin Mine

Cornish Pump Saved from Scrap Metal Drive During World War II

Cornish Pump Preserved for Posterity

A Mining Trail on the Eastern Menominee Range, William J. Cummings & David Curtis, 1981, 21 pages [PDF Document Available] [See Dickinson County Festival of the Arts Booklets 1979-1993 in File 2 – Dickinson County History for Detailed Content] Introduction and

Acknowledgements Waucedah Vulcan

Menominee Mining Company Store/Penn Store

Central Vulcan Mine Buildings East Vulcan Mine Redtown Double Dwelling

Houses Silk Stocking Row

Residences The Penn Inn Miner’s Cottage

Norway Curry Mine Ruins Brier Hill Shaft Housing Strawberry Lake Aragon Mine Shaft Five Penn Mining Company

Buildings Captain John Perkins

Residence Quinnesec Iron Mountain

Chapin Pit and Outcroppings on Millie Hill

Cornish Pumping Engine at “C” Shaft of the Ludington Mine and the Ludington Dry

Chapin Mining Company Superintendent’s Residence

Hamilton Mine Buildings Pewabic Mining Company

Superintendent’s Residence, Pewabic Mine Engine House, Pewabic Mine Shop Ruins

Pewabic Mining Company Hospital

Miners’ Hall John T. Jones Residence and

the Galena Furnace Ardis Furnace Ruins

Mining Accidents [NOTE: Names in italics were miners who were injured. Non-italicized names were miners killed. Dates refer to the date of publication of the newspaper in which the accident was reported.] Dickinson County: Felch

Mountain Mining District March 3, 1881 – Metropolitan

Mining Company’s Mine – William Prideau

July 7, 1887 – Sturgeon River Mine – Sozeomo Race, Piettero Rizzs, Dalis Ricardo, Surani Casagranda, Baptisre Subroillo, Trurisani Sussippa, Georgani Maindena, Patalo Domenico (surnames and given names may be reversed and spellings inaccurate due to unfamiliarity with Italian names)

Dickinson County: Iron Mountain Antoine Ore Company

July 24, 1897 – William Williams, Lorenzo Sontani

Chapin Mine November 22, 1879 – Michael

Schendler (stabbed by Martin Clump)

September 1, 1885 – Christ Christianson

October, 1885 – a Swede


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January 2, 1886 – Frank Kieler (fell from scaffolding at sawmill)

September 14, 1886 – Leon Jette, Antonio Seenia, Mike Ramber, Pasquale Nongoli, George Allen, Swan Nelson

March 16, 1887 – an Italian August 4, 1887 – Peter

Angove March 6, 1888 – Noah Lowrey August 8, 1888 – a miner August 28, 1888 – P. Perrson,

Isaacson December 8, 1888 – Peter

Johnson May 10, 1889 – John Fleming May 17, 1889 – two men October 23, 1889 – Frank

Hicks, 7-year-old son of Samuel Hicks

January 9, 1891 – Jeremiah Bennetts, Thomas Edwards

July 11, 1891 – 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cleutier

June 19, 1893 – Gust Johnson, John Larson

July 14, 1893 – Capt. Fred Innes

November 26, 1895 – two Italian miners

June 5, 1896 – Carlo Bonanni June 9, 1896 – Charles Prollo,

Samuel Cowling August 26, 1896 – Alfred

Peterson August 14, 1897 – August

Greenburg January 25, 1901 – Adolph

Gauthier January 24, 1901 – Thomas

Powell June 4, 1901 – Antonio

Fornetti, John Aimone, Joseph Passeri, John Milano, Louis Tassi, John Bertelli, Rinaldo Ansuino, Albert

Kontras (John Holmquist and Charles Peterson escaped.)

August 21, 1909 – James Johnson

April 8, 1910 – Albert Hunt May 31, 1910 – Eugene J.

LaLonde November 11, 1915 – Joseph

Polkinghorne May 12,1916 – Andrew

Hassell (John Nelson, mining partner, not injured)

May 30, 1918 – Anton Zaccardi

August 5, 1922 – John Apriesnig (near old Millie Mine workings)

August 5, 1922 – Frank Kozel (Atilio Mochen, mining partner, not injured)

March 5, 1924 – Frank Cavaiani

January 20, 1925 – Henry Scheller

February 28, 1925 – Charles J. Dickson (William Trembath, mining partner, not injured)

March 19, 1925 – Olof Knutson (Julius Erickson, mining partner, not injured)

June 14, 1926 – Fred Knight, Sam Trethewey, Joseph Graffe, A. Killinger, John Cesare, William Trembath (all overcome by gas and smoke but revived)

Hamilton Mine September 17, 1887 –

George Berryman Hamilton Shaft, Chapin Mine

January 25, 1901 – Adolph Gauthier

August 26, 1896 – Alfred Peterson

April 8, 1910 – Albert Hunt June 2, 1910 – Eugene J.

LaLone [sic – LaLonde]


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November 18, 1915 – Joseph Polkinghorne

May 18, 1916 – Andrew Hassell (John Nelson, mining partner, not injured)

May 30, 1918 – Anton Zaccardi

August 5, 1922 – Frank Kozel (Atilio Mochen, mining partner, not injured)

February 28, 1925 – Charles J. Dickson (William Trembath, mining partner, not injured)

March 19, 1925 – Olof Knutson (Julius Erickson, mining partner, not injured)

June 14, 1926 – Fred Knight, Sam Trethewey, Joseph Graffe, A. Killinger, John Cesare, William Trembath (all overcome by gas and smoke but revived)

Keel Ridge Mine April 14, 1883 – William

Henderson, William Pollard, John Morrish, William Jeffery, Thomas James, Alexander Helman, Patrick Eagan, Richard Williams (Edward Wicks, escaped)

July 22, 1898 – Michel Driterski/Sriterski

Ludington Mine May 15 and May 22, 1880 –

Oliver Gardiner, Isaac Winn, John Tighe

June 18, 1881 – Frank Roach (injured on ore train)

June 20 and June 27, 1885 – Patrick “Buster” O’Brien

June 27, 1885 – John Maline, Andrew Johnson

September 5, 1885 – Peter Langeuish

May 22, 1886 – Bernard Samuelson

October 29, 1887 – Charles Anderson

January 19, 1889 – John Benson

January 19, 1889 – John Williams

January 26, 1889 – George Doane

May 25, 1889 – Joseph Powlaski

May 10, 1890 – S. Terrill, foreman; P. Fabits, S. Verbants, A. Merryfield, S. Merryfield, M. Mascottie, C. Ginalme, M. Monkari and L. Dalpero

Millie Mine September 26, 1896 – James

Harris October 10, 1896 – John

Anderson (John Norquist, mining partner, not injured)

June 1, 1898 – Taylor Fredrickson

August 2, 1900 – Thomas Barnes

October 21, 1909 – Donato Agrella

October 28, 1909 – Alfred Vercellino

July 27, 1911 – Massi Emiliano [sic – Emiliano Massi] (Emedio Lupini, mining helper, not injured)

Pewabic Mine October 27, 1894 – Peter

Gabardi/Frank Garavaglio (Thomas Penglase, William Oliver, Samuel Husband, George Wilcox, Stephen Allen, William Baird/Beard, George Parent/Marcue, John Thomas, George Rickard, Peter Hellberg, John Forell/Terrill – all entombed but rescued after 39 hours) [conflicting names between accounts in Iron Mountain’s The Range-Tribune and Norway’s The Current]


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June 11, 1896 – Dionesio Grassi

June 10, 1897 – Sabastini Aluni

June 21, 1898 – Joseph Trottier

July 5, 1900 – James Bennetts

December 27, 1900 – James Pascoe

June 20, 1901 – Antonio Gamboria

July 14, 1904 – Hector La Page

August 2, 1906 – Giuiseppe Altobello

September 20, 1906 – August Jeancola [sic – Giancola]

August 25, 1910 – Gust Johnson (stabbed by Giuseppe Spigarelli with a miner’s candlestick)

Traders Mine June 11, 1896 – Edward King December 7, 1899 – Frank

Victorson, Victor Hogglund October 31, 1906 – Joseph

Trepanier, Leonardo Galli, Charles Morreli [sic – Morelli – ?], John Pleckinger, Thomas Cowling (Orso Schenk, Tony Folenti, Alex Poirier, Fred Tonney, John Burt, Humberdo Manelli, Edward Merryfield, Charles Dessureau, Joseph Cafetione, all badly injured in train wreck)

September 15 and September 22, 1910 – Tito Coletto

Walpole Mine May 25, 1889 – Zanella

Marisilio Dickinson County: Loretto

Appleton Mine [Eleanor Mine] November 11, 1893 – three

Italians May 26, 1894 – Italian

February 3, 1898 – Giacomo Eselia

October 12, 1899 – William Satterly (killed by Charles Bonin)

Dickinson County: Norway Aragon Mine

October 12, 1895 – Theodore Freberg

February 1, 1896 – Jule Bjorkquist, Arron [sic – Aaron] Forgeluns

July 1, 1898 – Prosper Ducharme, Charles Kuskye

April 13, 1916 – Gustav Doras December 19, 1922 – Joseph

Farnzik January 29, 1924 – Joseph

Servia Brier Hill Mine

December 30, 1915 – Arthur Marcelle

June 24, 1920 – Charles Fredeen

October 26, 1921 – Oswaldo Vercillio, Joseph Vercillio

Curry Mine June 11, 1881 – Daniel H.

Wood January 14, 1892 – Joseph

Pollard February 16, 1895 – William

Balsom July 24, 1897 – John Johnson September 20, 1906 – John

Filini July 27, 1916 – Fred

Vercauteren, Richard Hooper, Thomas Jones (Joseph Bertie, survivor of cave-in)

October 26, 1921 – David Rosatti (accident on September 20, 1921)

June 13, 1922 – Emmanuel Carlsen

October 11, 1922 – John Nora (James Santoni, mining partner, not injured)


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Cyclops Mine March 21 and March 28, 1885

– Alfred Chipman April 25 and May 9, 1885, and

December 18, 1886 – Charles Anderson

April 17, 1886 – Leopold Deveer

May 25, 1889 – William H. Stanton

Norway Mine May 31, 1879 – John Murphy September 1, 1880 – William

Roberts June 18, 1881 – two miners

(suffocated by poisonous gas) February 21, 1885 – James

Barry March 7, 1885 – Eric Loff June 20, 1885 – miner September 12, 1885 – Julius

Barber Cobi September 26 and November

28, 1885, and January 2, 1886 – Thomas Oliver

October 3, 1885 – Antone Zuzy

January 23, 1886 – John Henry and two other miners

January 30, 1886 – John Quarnstrom

March 6, 1886 – Henry Hosking

March 27, 1886 – Capt. William T. Hosking

April 24, 1886 – John McCarthy

July 10, 1886 – Magnus Olson

July 10, 1886 – Ole Peterson July 10, 1886 – John Bawden July 31, 1886 – Thomas Lark September 4, 1886 – William

Eustace September 25, 1886 – Steve

Benane January 29, 1887 – C.W.

Swanson

March 5, 1887 – Bartolo Chaipini

April 30, 1887 – miner May 14 and May 21, 1887 –

William Hosking October 7, 1887 – Richard

Gray Perkins Mine

September 12, 1885 – John Mildren

July 10, 1886 – Joseph Demars

December 4, 1886 – Olof J. Erickson

December 17 and December 24, 1887 – John Contrallo

Saginaw Mine January 17, 1880 – miner

(killed by fall of rock) September 17, 1881 – John

Ennor Stephenson Mine

May 15, 1880 – Albourg (injured some time ago and leg amputated; gangrene; condition grave)

August 21 and August 28, 1880 – Rubaur, a Frenchman

Dickinson County: Quinnesec Unnamed Mine

September 17, 1881 – miner in the company of Capt. J.M. Gray

Cundy Mine March 6, 1897 – Albert Jewell,

Richard Luke, Benjamin Richards

June 24, 1898 – Baptiste Jedda

November 2, 1899 – Richard Knight, John Viotti (John Driscoll, seriously injured)

August 1, 1901 – Henry Carlson

Indiana Mine January 9, 1886 – James

Hoyle Quinnesec Mine


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September 27, 1879 – Ole Peterson

March 27, 1886 – Richard Lourey

December 27, 1900 – William Jacobsen

Dickinson County: Vulcan Central Vulcan Mine

July 2, 1887 – James Vandersluye, John Kellow, William Pengilly, Paul Hosking

East Vulcan Mine May 23,1885 – Italian miner April 10, 1886 – William

Jeffrey May 22, 1886 – Charles

Bohman July 16, 1887 – Nelson

Solstrom May 26, 1888 – Theophile

Lord May 24, 1890 – Albert

Ruchinskey September 22, 1904 – Peter

Setlak September 29, 1904 –

Thomas Gironimi [sic – Geronimi], Mateo Gironimi [sic – Geronimi], Walenty Moocka, Mike Grodesky, Giocinta Casagranda, Basilio Recla, Ricardo Recla, Giovani Recla

December 7, 1916 – Louis Chesa [sic – Chiesa]

Vulcan Mine June 30, 1877 – Lego [sic –

Legault] February 26, 1881 – William

Pomeroy and an Italian November 19, 1881 – Faulkin

Mitchel, John McCormick March 14, 1885 – Benianino

Polla May 26, 1898 – John Cruzolla

West Vulcan Mine March 28, April 18, May 23,

1885 – Francisco Vernetti

September 26, 1885 – Albino Sieler

April 17, 1886 – Bazilio Zanoni (Carlo Rigotte, mining partner, injured)

May 8, 1886 – Joseph Frangoe

May 22, 1886 – Felice Brida July 10, 1886 – John

Romundi August 14, September 4,

September 11, 1886 – Tobias Zadra, Peter Zadra

April 30, 1887 – Italian miner May 14, 1887 – Amedio (died

as a result of an accident on May 11, 1887)

September 17, 1887 – Guisippi [sic – Giuseppe] Colovini

May 12, 1888 – Antoloni Tolamioni [NOTE: According to the Catholic Church records in Vulcan, Antonium Tamanini died 12 October 1888. Menominee Court House, Menominee, Menominee County, Michigan, Death Records state A. Tomasini died October 12, 1888.]

June 2,1888 – Guiseppi [sic – Giuseppe] Bello and Guiseppi [sic – Giuseppe] Piedra

October 20, 1888 – Italian miner

November 10, 1888 – John Anderson

December 15, 1888 – Thomas Henry Beard

November 11, 1893 – Richard Uren (Samuel Barrett, injured)

August 3, 1895 – Antonia [sic – Antonio] Dian

October 12, 1895 – Henry Engebus

January 8, 1898 – Dan Bjork, Vincinzo Zorzi


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July 14, 1898 – August Lorenzo

August 2, 1900 – Thomas Sheridan

November 8, 1900 – Jacob Bray

Dickinson County: Waucedah Breen Mine

April 24, 1880 – Michael Hartneff

Iron County: Crystal Falls Youngstown Mine

October 27,1883 – William Dwire

Iron County: Iron River Chicagon Mine

January 26, 1911 – Joseph Desmar

Nanaimo Mine September 1, 1883 – James

Luxmore (J. Pender, injured) Iron County: Mansfield

Mansfield Mine September 30, 1893 – W H.

Pierce, S. Johnson, M. Harrington, A. Fordsani, S. Peters, F. Johnson, Samuel Johnson, F. Recco, Shelting Zadra, Peter Fury, Nick Fortono, Charles Pope, John Regula, James Sragman, Ole Carlson, Joseph Kolla, John Holistrom, B. Fortinato, John Kirppu, John Randolo, John Warner, O. Lindquest [sic - Lindquist], Chris Arcengelo, A. Stepeno, August Cologun, A. Caustaul, V. Zadra, Celest Negril

December 27, 1900 – Fedele Chisci (stabbed by August Ponocari, who later tried to commit suicide)

Iron County: Mastodon Mastodon Mine

June 2, 1883 – John Linnblod, Richard Chigwadden

September 1, 1883 – Thomas Hooper

Florence County: Commonwealth Badger Mine

June 30, 1896 – Giles King Buckeye Mine

October 13, 1910 – Frank Johnson

Commonwealth Mine February 26, 1881 – Elias

Persson (overcoat covering body stolen while waiting for coffin and grave to be prepared)

September 10, 1881 – Andrew G. Bernquest

October 20, 1888 – Matt Sundien [sic – Sundin]

October 12, 1889 – John Grimord

October 12, 1889 – Martin Ek Florence County: Florence

Florence Mine June 25, 1881 – John O’Brien November 5, 1881 – Franz

Coeaur December 3, 1881 – Gus

Patolsky, John Wilson December 3, 1881 – Peter

Anderson December 9, 1882 – George

Jones April 21, 1883 – E. Swanson January 8, 1887 – Louis

Paul/Louis Powell April 23, 1887 – Frank Waring

(recovery doubtful) April 23, 1887 – John Smith

(recovery doubtful) April 23, 1887 – Erik Svensen

(recovery doubtful) April 23, 1887 – Scandinavian

(foot injured) April 23, 1887 – Johnson April 23, 1887 – Frank Warren

(injured some time ago but “very low”)


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February 11, 1888 – Fred Bergstone

October 13, 1888 – George Thomas

October 12, 1889 – Ole Osquist (severely injured)

January 27 and January 29, 1898 – Gideon Trevarthan

December 2, 1909 – Frank Stippa

April 13, 1911 – Albert Johnson (fractured skull)

March 6, 1913 – Walter Condrowski (recovery doubtful)

Humboldt Mine April 9, 1881 – Samuel Boden

TRADING POSTS AND FERRIES Dickie’s/Dickey’s Trading Post near

Quinnesec and Lake Antoine – James S. Dickie/Dickey and William Dickie/Dickey

Charles La Salle’s Trading Post at the Junction of the Popple River and the Pine River, Marinette County, Wisconsin

Miller’s Ferry at Badwater – Paul Miller Mullen’s Trading Post at New York

Farm on the Sturgeon River – Patrick Mullen

Phillips’ Half-Way House on the Popple River, Marinette County, Wisconsin

NATIVE AMERICAN LEGENDS

FOUND IN EARLY NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS

Chicagon Lake, Iron County, Michigan Spread Eagle, Florence County,

Wisconsin – A Spread Eagle Spook Legend of Lower Twin Falls, Dickinson

County, Michigan

NEWSPAPERS

Dickinson County Newspapers Iron Mountain

The Capitol Times (1920’s) The Daily Tribune (1895-1904) The Dickinson County Advertiser

(-----) Dickinson County Journal (early

1890’s) The Evening Dispatch (1898- ?) The Industrial Journal (late

1880’s) The Industrial World (mid-late

1880’s) The Iron Mountain Daily News,

The Iron Mountain News, The Daily News (1921-date)

The Iron Mountain Evening Gazette (1896- ?)

The Iron Mountain Free Press (1923- ?)

The Iron Mountain Journal (late 1880’s - early 1890’s)

The Iron Mountain Press (1896-1920)

The Kloverblat (Swedish) (-----) Labor’s Voice (1886-1887 –

became The Industrial World) The Leader/The Northern Tribune

(1889- ?) The Malmberget (Swedish)

(January-March, 1896) The Menominee Range/The Iron

Range (1879-1917) (continued as The Range-Tribune from 1892-1917)

The Monitor (Swedish) (ca. 1902-1905)

The Northern Tribune/The Leader (1889- ?)

The Range-Tribune (1892-1917) (continuation of The Iron Range)

The Veckoblad (Swedish) (1902-1910)

Norway The Current (1885-1933;

published again from ----- to -----) The Iron Chronicle/The Norway

Chronicle/The Norway Iron Chronicle (1880-1884)

Quinnesec


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The Dickinson County Herald (1897)

The Quinnesec Herald (1897) Quinnesec Reporter (January-

September, 1882) Iron County Newspapers

Crystal Falls Crystal Falls Clipper (1891 - ?) Crystal Falls Cycle (1891- ?) Crystal Falls Reporter (ca. 1886) The Diamond Drill (1887-date) The Iron Center (1887) Iron County Record (1890- ?)

Iron River The Mining Reporter/The

Reporter (1885 - ?) Florence County, Wisconsin,

Newspapers Florence

The Florence Mining News (1881- ?)

Upper Peninsula Newspapers Outside of the Menominee Iron Range Alger County

Munising Breeze (1889 - ) Delta County

Escanaba Calumet (1889 - ) The Iron Port (Escanaba) (1889 -

) Gladstone Express (1889 - )

Houghton County Calumet Conglomerate (1890 - ) Houghton Express (1889 - )

Luce County Newberry Independent (1889 -

Marquette County New Democratic newspaper

(1891 - ?) Ishpeming Daily Press (1891 - ?) Marquette Mining Journal Negaunee Advocate (1889 - ?) Negaunee Herald (1889 - ?)

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Early Menominee Range Photographers

Ali, Charles, Charles Ali Studio – Crystal Falls, 1920’s

Anderson, Herbert N. – Iron Mountain, possibly Crystal Falls later, 1922-1923

Andreoli, Aldo R., Aldo Lee’s Photo Studio – Iron Mountain, mid-1960’s-early 1970’s

Anunson, Edward – Norway, 1889-1890

Archie, Mrs. Beatrice J., The Portrait Art Shoppe – Iron Mountain, 1924-1925

Archie, David W., Archie Studio – Iron Mountain, 1923-1954

Archie, James, Archie Studio – Iron Mountain, 1922-1940

Atkinson, Mrs. – Florence, 1884 Bauder, George W., The Marinette

Art Gallery – Menominee, 1874-1877; Marinette, 1881-1897; also Florence

Bell, Charles L. – Crystal Falls, late Birely, Byron – Iron Mountain,

1880; Florence, 1881 Blackburn, J.H. – Iron River, 1883 Bordewich, Richard – Norway,

1888-1896 Braithwaite, John – Escanaba,

1877 Brown, ----- – Iron Mountain, ca.

1891 Burkhardt, Ernest Robert – Foster

City area, postcards, ca. 1908-1910 Campbell, Hugh – Iron Mountain,

1909 Central Photo Gallery/Iron

Mountain Photo Gallery – Iron Mountain, ca. 1895

Chatelain, Ali Numa – Iron Mountain, 1904-1908

Cherney, Charles – Iron Mountain, 1892-1895

Corin, W. John – Norway, 1888-1890

Dahl, O.T. – Norway, 1888-1889 DeForest, D.A. – Menominee


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DeMotts, Jerry, DeMotts Studio – Iron River, 1955

Elmgaard, Henry – Norway, 1896-1899

Eskil, Jorgen Johansen, Eskil’s Art Gallery – Iron Mountain, 1886-1905 (also Florence, 1883-1891; Norway, Crystal Falls, Iron River)

Etchler, J.L. – Iron Mountain, 1899 Ferris, John, Ferris Studio – Iron

River, 1945 Greenwood, Elie – Quinnesec,

1880 Hansen, Hans A. – Iron Mountain,

1887-1889; Florence, 1890 Hansen, Olaf J. – Iron River, 1889-

1931 Harmanmaa, John – Crystal Falls Hoar, August – Iron River, 1947 Holston, F. August – Norway, 1890 Hoover, ----- – Norway, ca. 1914 Johnson, Beatrice – Iron Mountain,

1930-1931 Judd, C.L. – Escanaba, 1880 Lee, Isaac C. – Iron Mountain, 1888-

1890 Lind, ----- – Norway, 1891-1896 Maki, S.R. – Crystal Falls, early Maurina (Wilson), Dora, Portraits

by Dora – Iron Mountain, 1954-mid-1960’s

McCourt, James H. – Crystal Falls, 1887- ; Florence, 1886-1887

McCourt & Anderson – Crystal Falls, early

Mortensen, M. – Iron Mountain, 1900-1903

Mortensen, Sophus H. – Iron Mountain, 1888-1911

Neal, F.J. – Crystal Falls, early Nelson, Nels M. – Iron Mountain,

1910-1922 Nerold, William – Iron Mountain,

1890-1894 Northway Photo Studios – Iron

Mountain, ca. 1947-1949 Norway Art Gallery – Norway,

1890-1902

Nummi, J.A. – Crystal Falls, ca. 1900

O.A.K. – Unidentified inscription “Photo by O.A.K.” appears on numerous early Channing postcards “Printed for R.E. Boll & Co.”

O’Donnell, J.J. – Menominee, early Olson, Anna R. – Norway, 1902 Payne, Bud W., Payne’s Studio –

Iron Mountain, 1941 Payne, Edna D., Payne’s Studio –

Iron Mountain, 1941 Peters, Oscar – Iron Mountain,

1890-1891 Peterson, Charles – Iron Mountain,

1896-1897 Peterson, Henry W. – Iron

Mountain, 1925 Pinkerton, J. - Florence, 1881 Quade, John Albert, Quade’s

Studio – Iron Mountain, 1904-1931 Roberts, W.H. – Norway, 1888 Rose, C.A./Rose Brothers –

Escanaba, 1879-1880 Soderback, Hanna – Crystal Falls,

early Solheim, Peter – Norway, 1899-

1931 Sortor, James E. – Norway, 1880-

1890; Iron Mountain, 1900-1903 Stromsten, John M. – Iron

Mountain, 1885; Florence, 1887 Stronach, Henry – Marinette,

Wisconsin, ca. 1880-1883; Florence, 1883

Thomas, ----- – Crystal Falls, late Trees, Charles S. – Iron Mountain,

1896-1899 Turini, J.A. – Vulcan area, ca. 1910 Vacationland Photo Service, The

Diamond Drill – Crystal Falls Van Buren, E.A. – Iron River, 1938-

1945 Van Sickle, Adolphus – Iron

Mountain, 1890-1891 Van Stone, George S. – Iron

Mountain, 1890-1895


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Vivian, Nicholas J. – Iron Mountain, 1884-1888

Wagner, Hermann – Iron Mountain, 1884-1885

Willel, A. – Crystal Falls, 1883 Early Articles on Amateur

Photography The Camera Craze, The Range-

Tribune, Iron Mountain, Michigan, March 12, 1898

Upper Peninsula Ford Motor Company Photography

Recent Menominee Range Photographers Gwen Daly Studio – Iron Mountain Erickson Studio, Bill and Mary

Erickson – Kingsford

Documents

FILE 1 MENOMINEE IRON RANGE HISTORY File 1/INDEXFile1.pdf · FILE 1 – MENOMINEE IRON RANGE HISTORY 1 BIOGRAPHIES History of the Upper Peninsula – 1883 Anderson, Charles L. –