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Historical Collections
Collections and Researches amde by the
Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society
Vol. XXII - 1894



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              PHILO M. EVERETT - The Marquette Mining Journal has the fol-
            lowing obituary notice of PHILO M. EVERETT, who will be well
            remembered by the older residents of the Central City:

              The oldest resident of Marquette, the pioneer of Marquette
            county and of the Lake Superior iron country, the man to whom
            the Indians showed the great "iron mountain" which became the
            Jackson mine, oldest of all the mines of the Lake Superior
            country, breathed his last on September 28, 1892, at the resi-
            dence of his son-in-law, HON. D. H. BALL.
              PHILO MARSHALL EVERETT was born at Winchester, Conn., October
            21, 1807. While a young man he settled in New York state, where
            he was married to MISS MEHITABLE E. JOHNSON, of Utica, in 1833.
            In 1840 he moved to Jackson and engaged in mercantile business,
            together with the forwarding and commission business.
              MR. EVERETT first came to Lake Superior in June, 1845, in
            charge of an exploring party sent out by a little body of men
            there organized into the Jackson Mining company, afterwards the
            Jackson Iron company. With this party he discovered and located
            the famous Jackson mine, and after the summer here he returned
            home. In 1857 he brought up for the Elys the first locomotive
            ever seen on the shore of Lake Superior. Afterward he engaged
            in the mercantile business here, and later in banking and in-
            surance, accumulating considerable property, which was swept
            away in the terrible depression throughout this region follow-
            ing the panic of 1871.
              MR. EVERETT took great interest in politics, having been an
            ardent republican from the first formation of the party "under
            the oaks."
              In the fall of 1883, shortly after the celebration of their
            golden wedding, MRS. EVERETT died, and since then, in feeble
            health, with sight and hearing greatly impaired, he has made
            his home with his daughter, MRS. D. H. HALL. His other children
            are MRS. B. P. ROBINS and C. M. EVERETT, of Jackson, EDWARD P.
            EVERETT, of Grand Rapids, and CATHERINE E. EVERETT, now living
            in Chicago.

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