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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 1511852, member: 13464&quot;]Yes, definitely! My Mom&#039;s father, John, came as a young man to Ironwood and mined BRIEFLY. He came from a family of miners and apparently hated being &quot;down&nbsp; the mines&quot;. He ended up at Ford in Detroit and later Saline, Michigan. (As a point of interest: He was the 2nd child in a family of 21 kiddos...and the only one to come to the US!) My mother&#039;s grandfather on her mother&#039;s side was an assayer and foreman in the mines in Cornwall. He originally came to Montana (where Gram was born in 1893); then went back to Cornwall - and re-immigrated to Ironwood. It was in Ironwood where my Gram met John, and they became part of the farming community in Saline.&nbsp; The Finn&#039;s also immigrated in numbers to the UP; but most of them came as logger&#039;s as my husband&#039;s family did. And as so often happened... the Finn&#039;s and the Cornish married...as in the case of my husband and I. Interesting history! Have you been to the &quot;da Yoop&quot;?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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