Frances Hoffman Collection, 1908-1910.

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Frances Hoffman Collection, 1908-1910.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758676422

Collection, 1908-1910, of Rufus R. Goodell, a prominent businessman in Houghton, Michigan. Includes business correspondence to and from Goodell in a letterpress book.

0.02 cubic feet; 1 microfilm roll.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 8145586

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

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Goodell, Rufus R. (Rufus Riley) 1842-1933

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Rufus R. Goodell was born in Monson, Maine in 1842. He was a member of a Union regiment which fought in Tennessee during the Civil War. He moved to the Lake Superior country and Houghton, Michigan immediately after the war, and engaged in exploring for minerals. Much of his Copper Country fame is via his association with the St. Mary's Canal Mineral Land Company as an agent for the firm. He took over the post in 1869, just nine years after the Portage Canal was opened to shipping traffic, granti...

St. Mary's Canal Mineral Land Company

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