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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
Mr. Pendill was the first
mayor of the city of Negaunee, and for several years the mayor of Marquette,
and once represented his county in the State Legislature. He was an honest
man, the noblest work of God. I crave a memorial page for him in your
annals for the current year.
But to revert to the railroad; after the death of Mr. H. B. Ely, his
brother, Mr. Samuel P. Ely, formerly of Rochester, New York, removed to
Marquette to finish his brother's uncompleted work. The death of Mr. H.
B. Ely seemed like a heavy blow to all the material interests of the iron
region, but it brought to the State the brother above named, who for sixteen
years was more largely identified with railroads and leading mining enter-
prises than any other person residing in the upper peninsula.
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