Edwin J. Collins Collection, 1897-1965.

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Edwin J. Collins Collection, 1897-1965.

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Collection, 1897-1956, of Edwin J. Collins, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, a 1903 graduate of the Michigan College of Mines (now Michigan Technological University) and eventual member of the board of directors for the Calumet & Arizona Mining Company. Includes diaries, photographs, textbooks, instruments and mine maps of properties he worked on as well as several souvenir spoons and service medals from the Spanish-American War.

4.0 cubic feet; 8 boxes.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 8098100

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

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Collins, Edwin J. (Edwin James) 1875-1956

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Collins was born in 1875 in Greenland, Michigan near Ontonagon. His father, who owned a dry goods store, died when he was seven years old. His mother moved Edwin and his brother to Calumet to live with her parents. Collins attended local schools and worked in mine offices before enlisting to fight in the 1898 Spanish American War. When he returned, he attended the college and graduated in 1903 as a mining engineer. The grandfather whom Collins went to live with was Captain Thomas Hoatson, a well...

Michigan. National Guard. Infantry, 5th

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Calumet & Arizona Mining Company

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Michigan college of mines

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In 1901 Michigan Mining School (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan received funding for two additional buildings. The Civil and Mining Engineering Building, was built at a cost of $28,880, was a two-story hip-roofed structure with a five-story tower centered on the front. The brick building had a high sandstone basement and a number of round-arched windows, adding to the Italian Renaissance Revival feel. In 1925, an addition was added to the building. The building was r...