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The road was not fully completed and equipped for busi-
ness until the year 1857.
Mr. II. B. Ely, to whose clear foresight and indefatigable energy the
origin and success of this railroad enterprise was almost wholly duo, and to
whom the general interest of the Lake Superior country, as well as the
State of Michigan at large, became in many ways greatly indebted, died
in Marquette, in October, 1856, half a year before the work he had so zeal-
ously labored upon was fully completed. Mr. Heman B. Ely was a man of
prophetic insight, who saw even at that early day the future growth and
greatness of the iron region.
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