Daniel Brockway Family Collection, 1852-1924.

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Daniel Brockway Family Collection, 1852-1924.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701556416

Collection, 1852-1924, of the Daniel Brockway family, an early merchant and community building family in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. Contains correspondence, financial records and legal records of Daniel Brockway's many land and business ventures throughout the Great Lakes region, particularly the activity of several stores Brockway operated with his son, Albert A. Brockway, under the partnership D.D. Brockway & Son. The collection also includes records of several mining enterprises with which Brockway was involved, as well as personal records of several other members of Brockwayâ‚‚s extended family.

8.0 cubic feet; 16 boxes.

Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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SNAC Resource ID: 8005447

Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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Michigan Mining Company

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New England Copper Mining Company

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Brockway, Albert A. 1847-1934

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Brockway & Perry

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Atlas Mining Company

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Brockway, Alonzo W. b. 1824

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Scott, Sarah L. b. 1844

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D. D. Brockway & Son

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Brockway, Daniel D. 1815-1899.

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Daniel D. Brockway was born in Morrisville, Vermont May 2, 1815, but many of the details of his early life are unclear. As a youth, be moved with his family to Franklin County, New York, and then Chicago, Illinois, before arriving in Washtenaw County in Lower Michigan in 1831. It seems likely that he moved to Kalamazoo County, Michigan, in the early 1830s as he was married to Lucena Harris in Kalamazoo County, Michigan on January 21, 1836. Lucena was the daughter of Dr. James Harris, a noted pio...

Childs, W. A. (William A.) 1844-1916

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William A. Childs was born in 1844 in Constable, New York. His mother died when he was quite young and in 1853, he came to Michigan to live with his uncle, Daniel D. Brockway in Copper Harbor. In 1862, Childs enlisted at Houghton as a private in Company B, 27th Infantry. In 1865 he was brevetted captain for valor at the storming and holding of Fort Mahone during the Third Battle of Petersburg, a decisive Union assault on the Confederate Army. Childs was mustered out in July, 1965. ...