Brockway Photograph Collection, Circa 1860-1970.

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Brockway Photograph Collection, Circa 1860-1970.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/745445918

Photograph collection, circa 1860-1970, of several generations of Brockway descendants, an early merchant and community building family in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. Includes many photographs of the descendants of Daniel D. and Lucena Brockway, including members of the extended Farwell, Gardner and Childs family lines.

10.0 cubic feet; 21 manuscript boxes.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 8119266

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

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Farwell family

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Gardner family

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Brockway, Lucena Harris 1816-1899.

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Daniel D. Brockway was born in Morrisville, Vermont on May 2, 1815, and moved with his brother to Washtenaw County in Lower Michigan in 1831. Lucena Brockway was born in May 1816, in Eden, New York, the daughter of Dr. James Harris. The two were married in Kalamazoo County, Michigan on January 21, 1836. In 1843, Daniel and Lucena moved to Lâ‚‚Anse, where he had been appointed government blacksmith and mechanic. It was their hope to assist the Indians in this remote region of Michigan. In May 1846,...

Childs family

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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...

Brockway family

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