THE MINING GAZETTE (under various names) of Houghton County, Michigan Copyright © 1999 by Dick and June Ross. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Jan 13,1876 Mr. and Mrs. D. D. BROCKWAY are reminding their numerous friends by a sent announcement, printed on a woolen fabric, that on the 21st last, they will have been married forty years............ PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Jan 20,1876 Mr Wm. CONDON is attending the Grand Lodge F. and A. M. at Grand Rapids, as delegate from the lodge in this place. Through M. GAUJOT, of Keweenaw Point, we learn that M. Francis A. ARTAULT died at Paris, Dec 15, 1875 at the residence of his sister, Mdme. ROUSSEAU. The early visitors to Lake Superior will recollect M. ARTAUT, who was in trade at Sault Ste. Marie some twenty-three years ago. From the Soo he moved to Ontonagon county, where he identified himself with the mineral developments of the lake, and assisted in calling the attention of France capitalists to this region......................... He was about 66 years old when he died. Married: On the 15th inst. by the Rev IH. BARNARD, Theodore LANGE, to Minnie DALLMEYER. Married: On the 17th last, by same, John ENGEMAN, to Matilda KOPP. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Jan 27,1876 Died: At Phoenix, Jan 15, infant daughter of M. A. and Nellie V. DELANO, age 7 days. Probate Order: Estate of Mathias MENZGHAR...petition verified of Anna MENZGHAR, relict............... Probate Order: Estate of henry F. d'ALIGNEY, deceased........petition verified, of Edward C. RIPLEY Probate Order: Estate of Mary H. HAHN, a minor.......petition verified, of Regina HAHN Probate Order: In the matter of the estate of Thomas SMITH, deceased. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Feb 3,1876 ............the new school building in Lake Linden At present there are in the neighborhood of 350 children attending school here. The following is the list of teachers: Wm. BATH, principal; Miss Belle WIDNER, preceptress and music teacher; Miss Anna B. STEWARD, preparatory grammar; Misses Julia JOHNS and Nettie DALLY and Mrs. GILBERT, primary. At the meeting of the stockholders, last Saturday, the Portage Lake Brewing Company was organized, and Messrs. T.W. EDWARDS, T. L. CHADBOUNNE, G. HARTMAN, Fred. WAGNER, and Joseph GREGORY chosen as directors........... At the skating carnival at Red Jacket, last Saturday evening, Miss Annie TORONGEAU, of that village, won the prize as the best lady skater in Houghton county, and Mr Geo. MENGIS, of Calumet as the fastest skater in Houghton and Keweenaw counties. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Feb 10, 1876 Probate Order: Estate of George BURKETTE, deceased......petition of John Q. MCKERNON Probate Order: Estate of George CHURCHES, deceased...........on petition of T. M. BRADY PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Feb. 17, 1876 The late Francis A. ARTAULT, so well known on Lake Superior, was the first to introduce daguerreotypes in this country. Mr. A., for a number of years, was associated with M. DAGUERRE, the inventor of the process for taking likenesses known as daguerreotypes. Died: Mon., Feb 14th, at the Clark mine, Copper Harbor, Marie Therese, the beloved daughter of Mary and Leon LAUVEAUX, aged 10 months. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Feb 21, 1876 Shadrach GILLETT, who came to Detroit upwards of sixty years ago, and who during nearly all of that time made this city his constant home, died at an early hour yesterday morning at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Jacob HOUGHTON, No.51 Elizabeth street, aged seventy-five years and twenty four days. Mr Gillett came from Connecticut toDetroit in 1815, at the age of fourteen years. His first employment...In 1840 he was elected to the lower house of the State Legislature on the Whig ticket, and in 1858 he gave up active participation in business. He then went to Portage lake, Lake Superior, where he remained about seven years. In 1867 he entered the City Controller's office..........and held his desk until a few days ago.......He leaves one son, Thomas S. GILLETT, of St. Joseph, Missouri, and four daughters, Mrs. Jacob HOUGHTON, Mrs. Henry W. LORD, Mrs. F.C. HOWARD and Mrs. Ambrose C. SMITH. - Detroit Free Press A wood-chopper named Feliz SPAR, employed on the Allouez mine, was caught under a falling tree, last week, and received a terrible face wound and a broken leg. Died: At the residence of her son-in-law, Mr Z.W. WRIGHT, on Thursday morning, Feb 17, 1876, erysipelas, Mrs. Hester Ann TOWNE, age 63 years. Died: On the morning of the 10th of February, of congestion of the lungs, at Harvard, Illinois, William Bowen, infant son of W. V. and Julia D. STEVENS, aged 7 mos. 18 dys. Died: On the morning of the 14th of February, of bronchial consumption, in this city, Mrs. P.H. STEVENS, ages 55 years. - Janesville, Wis., Gazette. (The two deaths immediately above relate to the son and mother of Mr. STEVENS, for a number of years a resident of this section, and employed as superintendent of the Mineral Range telegraph line. - Ed.) PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Mar 2, 1876 Mr Alexander AGASSIZ, president of the Calumet and Hecla mine, has been elected to his father's place to the Zoological Society in London, the Linnean Society of London, and the Imperial Society of Natural History of Moscow. The following aliens were admitted to citizenship at the last session of the circuit court: Florence LEARY, Michael KELLEY, Joseph MINTEAR, Mark LEARY, Cornelius MURPHY, Charles SCHNAUFFER, John J. KELLEY, Jeremiah KELLEY, and John HECKER. PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, Mar 9,1876 Capt. James HOATSON has been appointed underground superintendent of the Delaware. Mine Accidents: Last Monday a man named Timothy SHAUGHNESSY was engaged in the Quincy mine in tamping a hole, which exploded, killing the unfortunate man almost instantly. His partner at work, Patrick RUSSELL, escaped with but little injury. On Friday last a couple of miners, father and son, named MOFFAT, at work in the Calumet and Hecla mine, were considerably injured by a premature explosion. Young MOFFAT had his leg broken, and was otherwise maimed. Obituary: Last Sunday, Mr Michael FOLEY of this place, while attending a meeting of the St. Patrick's Society, Hancock, was taken down with a stroke of paralysis, which resulted in his death on Tuesday. This was the second attack..........Mr. FOLEY was an old resident of Lake Superior, and had lived in Houghton for the past seventeen years. At the time of his death he was 48 years old. He leaves a wife and large family of small children. The deceased is to be buried today - Thursday. The public schools are closed today as a mark of respect to the memory of Mr FOLEY, who has been one of the schoolboard for several years. On the outside of today's issue will be found a report of a sermon, delivered by the Rev. P.H. HOLLISTER, at the funeral services held over the body of the late Mrs. Geo. RULISON, of Hancock. (on 17 Feb 1876) Married: COOPER - CHIDSEY: At the residence of the bride's mother, Detroit, March 1, by the Rev. C. W. KICKERBOCKER, of Wayne, Mr. James R. COOPER, of Houghton, Michigan, to Miss Virginia J. CHIDSEY. File contributed for use in Houghton Co. USGenWeb Archives by Dick and June Ross. jross@eee.org plh