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History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Western Historical Company, Chicago - 1883
A. T. Andreas, Proprietor

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	   HARRY S. BEESLEY, surveyor, civil engineer and explorer, a
	 pioneer of Lake Superior of 1846, was born in Oxford, England,
	 May 2, 1823. He was educated in England, and went to sea when
	 about the age of sixteen years, at first in the coasting trade, 
	 then in the packets from Liverpool to New York. After leaving the sea,
	 he located in Ohio, and remained there until the fall of 1845, and
	 passed the following winter in Chicago. In May of 1846, he came
	 to Lake Superior as a mineral explorer; in July of that year, he
	 located a nine mile permit on the Ontonagon River joining the Norwich.
	 In 1849, he assisted COL. C. C. WHITTLESEY, in his geological sur-
	 veys on the south shore of Lake Superior. He has held the office
	 of County Surveyor a number of years, and laid out the principal
         roads and several of the villages in this section of the country .
         
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