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Michigan Crystal Falls
The company's boarding-house, stables, and blacksmith shop, besides the numerous shanties serving as dwellings, etc., were located here, all representing quite a busy town in themselves. The Union Mine, under Capt. McConnell, employed about one hundred men; the Crystal Falls Iron Company, under Capt. W. H. Morrison, employed about thirty men; the Fairbanks, in charge of Capt. Frank Raher, employed about seventy-five men; the Paint River, under Capt. Morrison, employed about fifty men; the Youngstown, under Capt. P. E. Dunn, employed about one hundred men. Besides these there were a large number of men working on the railroad. Business was quite brisk.
Under the efficient efforts of Mr. S. D. Hollister, Sr., the Eli Township was soon divided and the Crystal Falls Township formed, and the second day of May, the same year (1882), the first town meeting was held in as yet unfinished Doncett's Hall, where the first town officers were elected, consisting of P. E. Dunn, Supervisor; Wm. Carlin, Clerk; Asa F. Leopold, Treasurer; Ed Curran, Commissioner of Highways; 0. 0. Welch, D. T. Adams, D. Bannerman, and Thos. Cutler, Justices of the Peace.
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