Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan The Western Historical Company, Chicago - 1883 Page 343 CAPT. WILLIAM JACKA, first captain of the Copper Falls Mine, was born in Cornwall, Eng., January 30, 1832; was brought up at mining work. In 1852, he went to South America for a Lon- don mining company; spent two years in that country, and returned to England. In 1859, he came to the United States, and direct to Lake Superior, where he engaged with the Minnesota Mining Com- pany; he returned to England again in 1861, and, in the fall of the following year, came back to Lake Superior; he then engaged with the Amygdaloid Mining Company; he continued with the company until 1867; during three years of this time, he served as mining captain. From 1867 to 1870, he was assistant mining captain of the Calumet & Hecla Mine; in the spring of 1870, he went to Wis- consin, and from there to New York; he was engaged in min- ing in the latter State until 1875, when he returned to Lake Supe- rior and accepted the position of mining captain at the Minong Mine on Isle Royale, which position he helf five years and three months; he was next employed as mining captain at the Allouez Mine one year, and in August, 1881, accepted his present position. ==========================================================================