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History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Western Historical Company, Chicago - 1883

Page 342

   CAPT. OTMAR BAUR, surface captain of the Copper Falls
 Mine since 1868, and an employe of the company seventeen years,
 was born in Germany in 1847; came to America in 1851, with his
 parents, who located at Adrian, Mich., where he passed his boyhood
 and received his education.  In 1864, he went West; spent some time
 in Iowa; crossed the plains to Fort Laramie; he returned to Lake Su-
 perior the following year, and engaged with the Copper Falls Min-
 ing Company, and, in 1868, was made surface captain, and has
 retained that position to this date, 1882.

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