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MARQUETTE COUNTY.6
He was then keeping a large store opposite the Van Auden House at Sault Ste. Marie, and was doing a good business. In the early spring of 1855 he sent the late J. W. Watson to this place with a stock of goods, to open a store, and later in the year he came himself, ac- companied by his wife, to settle and live in Marquette, he having closed his
business at the Sault.
. He expressed great faith in the future of Marquette, and of the whole iron region. His first place of business here was on the
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