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572: 51: 1274: 65: 90: 1285: 265:, in 1830. His family emigrated to the United States in 1835, where his father worked in and eventually owned coal and iron mines in Pennsylvania. John Stanton began his career as an engineer in his father's iron mines, but he moved to other iron and copper mines in Tennessee, Alabama, and Virginia. Stanton eventually came to the Keweenaw Peninsula, working first at the 97: 72: 277:
In 1899–1900, the Wolverine Copper Mining Company had this house built for Fred Smith and his family at a cost of nearly $ 12,000. Smith occupied the house until his retirement in 1913, after which Theodore Dengler, the new superintendent of the Wolverine and Mohawk Mines, moved in. Dengler had
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The house is significant as an unchanged example of a large house built for the elite mine agents and superintendents during the boom copper-mining years in the 1890s and early 1900s. The house is also an excellent example of residential architectural work of the firm of Charlton, Gilbert &
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before establishing the Mohawk. Stanton assigned Fred Smith to supervise the Mohawk in addition to his supervision of the Wolverine. By the early 1900s, the Wolverine Mine employed 350 men and the Mohawk 450 men.
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been an employee of Stanton's since 1893, working at the Atlantic Mine and the Baltic Mine first as an engineer and, starting in 1907, as superintendent of the Atlantic.
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The mines closed in 1932, after which Dengler bought the house, reportedly for $ 22.50. Dengler reportedly committed suicide in the carriage house in 1940.
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Biographical record: this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Houghton, Baraga, and Marquette Counties, Michigan
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five miles north of the Wolverine, and simultaneously gained control of the Wolverine Mine. Stanton was born in
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in 1882, but was "indifferently operated" until a reorganization in 1890 and Smith's subsequent stewardship.
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as superintendent. The Wolverine Mine had been established in Michigan's
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Peavey, Dany; Sliger, Stevan; Krystof, John & Dvorak, Travis (1992).
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Saint Henry's Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Smith–Dengler House is located in Michigan
Smith–Dengler House is located in the United States
Wolverine, Michigan
47°15′53″N 88°25′31″W / 47.26472°N 88.42528°W / 47.26472; -88.42528
Shingle Style
Tudor Revival
08000221
US 41
Calumet Charter Township, Michigan
National Register of Historic Places
Baden, Germany
Keweenaw Peninsula
Wolverine Copper Mining Company
Keweenaw Peninsula
Mohawk Mining Company
Bristol, England
Central Mine
Atlantic Mine
Queen Anne


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service



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