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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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        WILLIAM TRESISE, keeper of the Copper Harbor Range Light Station,
     was born in England November 11, 1839; came to America when two years
     of age with his parents, and made his home in Pennsylvania, and soon
     after went to Wisconsin. In 1851, he came to Lake Superior; when old
     enough to work, he engaged in mining, and was employed at various
     mines on Keweenaw Point till August, 1862, when he enlisted in Company
     C, Twenty-seventh Regiment Michigan Volunteers; he was wounded in
     front of Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864, by a gunshot wound in the
     neck and shoulder, and was discharged for disability July 27, 1865; on
     recovering sufficiently, he went to Colorado, where he spent one year,
     and then went to New Mexico and Arizona in Government employ; thence
     to Southern California, and thence to San Francisco; he returned to
     Lake Superior in 1869, and the following year was appointed to his
     present position.

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