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Houghton: September 24, 1992: Grace Methodist Church: 201 Isle Royale St Houghton: July 26, 2006: Hancock Town Hall and Fire Hall† 399 Quincy Street Hancock: April 15, 1977: Hoar Family Mausoleum: Forest Hill Cemetery near Michigan Tech campus Portage Township: June 15, 1995: Houghton County Courthouse† 401 East Houghton Street Houghton ...
The Mining Gazette was founded in Ontonagon, Michigan in July 1858 by George Emerson. In 1860, the paper was purchased by James R. Devereau and moved to Houghton, where it was published weekly as The Portage Lake Mining Gazette. The paper began daily publication on 14 September 1899. [3]
Pages in category "People from Houghton County, Michigan" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Ransom B. Shelden Jr. was born on June 10, 1852, the same year his father arrived in Houghton. [3] He was the first child born of a settler in Houghton County [3] Ransom Jr. attended both the Genesee and Mount Pleasant Military Academies in New York, then went to work for his father. [3] He also became a clerk for the Deputy United States ...
A cold case from 1959 involving a missing 7-year-old came to a conclusion last week through DNA identification, decades after charges against the boy's adoptive parents were dropped for lack of ...
Ransom B. Shelden, Jr. was born on June 10, 1852, the same year his father arrived in Houghton. He was the first child born of a settler in Houghton County. In 1893, Ransom B. Shelden, Jr. purchased several lots on College Avenue from his father's copper company. By 1896, he had built this Queen Anne house for his family. However, the Sheldens ...
The Shelden Avenue Historic District is a commercial historic district located along Shelden, Lake, & Montezuma Avenues in Houghton, Michigan.The district contains 43 contributing buildings (including the Douglass House and the Shelden-Dee Block, both separately listed) [2] in an area of 22 acres. [1]
Dorothy Comstock Riley, Michigan Supreme Court judge, first Hispanic woman elected to Supreme Court of any state (born in Detroit) Lenore Romney, former First Lady of Michigan, 1970 US senate candidate (born in Utah, lived in Bloomfield Hills, died in Royal Oak) Solomon Sibley, first mayor of Detroit (born in Sutton, Massachusetts, moved to ...