My great grandfather Harvey was employed at the Isle Royale
Mine and one winter walked across
the ice and landed at Copper Harbor. My future great grandmother lost three
fingers on her hand from frost bite. I can't imagine doing that in the dead
of winter. It's a long enough trip on a boat! He was from
Cornwall and went to Canada, Isle Royale and then across the ice.
He became a well known baseball player and Cornish wrestler in the Keweenaw.
He and my great-grandma had 11 children. Two are buried at the Eagle Harbor
cemetary as they died when they were young children of a plague in the area.
One of the children was named Castella after a boat that was docked at the
harbor. They came around the harbor giving small pox vaccinations and my grandfather George hid under the barn at the house. He was always proud of that story. Our old house
at the harbor used to be a boarding house and my Great G made moonshine in
the basement. My mother wouldn't ever talk to me about such a thing but
I've done a lot of research.
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