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I have recently acquired a manuscript written by a Chesbrough about WILWIN and Chesbrough family. Would be glad to post to list if anyone would be interested in reading.
Here is the first paragraph. If you want more let me know. Glad to swap and share info.
Alonzo Chesbrough (b.1817), living in New York State, moved to Toledo, Ohio around 1870 and set up his four boys in the lumber business in upper Michigan, on the Tahquamenon River. He acquired then, or later, about 35,000 acres of timberland along that river, stretching from the mouth of the Tahquamenon on Lake Superior west to Newberry and north halfway to Whitefish Point. He also acquired sections of land around Fiborn Quarry, Henrie Pitt (N.E. of Fiborn, across the DSS&A tracts,), Wilwin country and even patches south of Wilwin across M-48 in the vicinity of Rexton. Mr. Hulbert, in his reminiscences of that northern country has said: "The Chesbroughs were probably the first to buy pine in the Tahquamenon River region. Their first purchase, in the 1870s, was for 93 million feet and cost $93,000. In all, they cut about 300 million feet in this vicinity - the finest grade of cork pine that money could buy." Incidentally, in talking about the beautiful pine forests, Abe C!
hesbrough, your grandfather's twin brother, used to tell a story of paddling down the Tahquamenon with an Indian in his birch bark canoe, around 1880. "It was just like floating down the aisle of a cathedral. The dense pine trees grew down to the water's edge and were so tall and so thick that the river, about 150 feet wide, seemed like a ribbon of water cut thru a dense forest."
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Anita
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Anita (nee: Merlo) Gauld
Anita_Gauld(a)Hotmail.Com
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Have over 60,000 individuals in my database.
Willing to do quick look-ups.
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Tracing Surnames:
Bellisario, Berardo, Blake, Bonner
Carpenter, Chromie, Cucco, Cunningham
Dey, Eovaldi, Gauld, Gianella, Gilmore, Gnoli
Janeka, Loomis, Macuch, Marek, Markova, Marlow,
Merlo, Mitrovich, Monelli, Moravcik, Nemec, Newton
Ottolini, Pisoni, Puricelli, Travato
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Family Page: http://www.GeoCities.Com/Heartland/Bluffs/1314
Reunion Page: http://www.GeoCities.Com/Heartland/Village/1315
Family Tree Make Descendant Trees:
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/a/u/Anita-L-Gauld/index.html
PHOTOS Online:
Italian Family: http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292859621
Chromie Marek Family: http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292860037
Carpenter Rogers Family:
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292254761
VITAL RECORDS Fife Lake and surrounding areas (1906-1948):
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Village/1315/vitals.html
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E-Mail: Anita_Gauld(a)Hotmail.Com
agauld(a)mhc.net (Munson Medical Center)Work
agauld(a)gtii.com (please send attachments here)
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As long as we are Remembered we Never die
A life is not lost when it is known to future generations
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Sharing is contagious.
Unless you tell me otherwise,
sharing with me is assumed as permission to share with others
Much of the data I share is data others have shared with me
and unverified by me personally. *grin*