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 CHRISTOPHER J. WOOLWAY, M.D., C.M., physician and surgeon at the Copper Falls and Ashbed Mines was born in St. Mary's, Canada, October 28, 1857; was educated at the Collegiate Institute of St. Mary's, from which he graduated as prize man in 1869. He then began the study of medicine, and entered the medi- cal department of McGill University in the city of Montreal, in the session of 1869-70, and graduated with honors in the spring of 1875. He began the practice of his profession at Grand Rapids, Mich., in May, 1875, and came to Lake Superior in the spring of 1879, as phy- sician and surgeon to the Copper Falls and Delaware Mines. His practice extends to Eagle Harbor. Since 1880, he has been phy- sician of the Poor House of Keweenaw County, and one of the County Superintendents of the poor. ==========================================================================