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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,
Marquette, Marquette County, Michigan
(March 29, 1879 – August 14, 1880)
The Menominee Ranger (Unabridged
Version) from The Mining Journal,
Marquette, Marquette County, Michigan
(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