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A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and Its People (v. 2)
A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and Its People - v. 2 Author:Alvah Littlefield Sawyer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: position during the absence of the pastor, Rev. Father Francis X. Bechr, in Rome. After leaving Houghton, Father Poulin spent two years as pastor of St. Jean Bap... more »tiste church, at Garden, Michigan; twenty months at St. Bruno's church, of Nadeau, this state; two years at St. Louis' church, at Calumet; four years at St. Joseph's church, at Iron Mountain; sixteen months at St. Joseph's church, at Ishpeming, and from the last named pastorate, he was sent to his present charge in Menominee. His labors in each of these pastorates in the Upper Peninsula have been fruitful in goodly results and he is one of the honored and valued representatives of the Holy Catholic church in this section of the state. Thomas Connors.—Bright and ambitious from his earliest childhood, filled with the American spirit of restlessness and the true Irish love of adventure, Thomas Connors, the popular postmaster at Negau- nee, Marquette county, has a familiar acquaintance with much of our country, his wanderings in the days of his boyhood and youth having taken him into many parts of our Union, and even beyond its confines. A son of William Connors, he was born, February 14, 1868, in Sheboy- gan county, Wisconsin, of Irish ancestry. A native of county Cork, Ireland, William Connors came to this country by sailing vessel when eighteen years old, disembarking in New York city. He made his way to New Orleans, where he worked a brief time, from there going to Akron, Ohio. After his marriage he moved with his young wife to Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, bought wild land, and was there employed in tilling the soil for nine or ten years. Coming from there to northern Michigan, he located in Negaunee, where he spent his remaining days, dying in 1905. He was a faithful member of the Roman Catholic church, and in poli...« less