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The Hummer Family Stories

IRON ORE MINING

History of the Iron Ore Trade 1910

This article appeared in the 1910 Annual Report of the Lake Carriers' Association when the Great Lakes Harbors were the busiest ports in the world. Contains interesting details about ore schooners and specs on the earliest "Laker" ships, when even the vessels were made of iron. All in the language of the time.

Story from National Public Radio, titled "Finland was a Poor Country". Describes the life of Finnish Immigrants on Minnesota's Iron Range, where Victor Ollila went to live in 1900 and near where Edward and his father worked in Upper Michigan.

The Iron Mining Museum of Michigan

The Mining Gallery describes miners and their equipment and Upper Peninsula communities where Edward went before he came to Ashtabula. The simple, clean pages include maps, names of mines and companies where he might have worked.

Ishpeming Cliffs Shaft Mine

The Cliffs Shaft Mine in Ishpeming is the best preserved example of an underground iron mining site in the entire Upper Peninsula. It was the largest and longest-operating underground, direct-shipping, hard ore mine in the Lake Superior Region and the United States. This paper is interesting for its focus on engineering and design.

 
 
FINNISH HISTORY

The Genealogy Society of Finland

Made in Finland. The most scholarly site on Finnish Family History out there. In English or Suomi. You can spend hours here. The searchable HisKi Books alone will make you stay up all night. Come up with your own system to keep from getting lost. The Finns assume you know the ropes and what HisKi even means, but once you have been around the block here, you might want to keep the "New Pages" on top. The site is frequently updated and they will often suprise and delight you.

June Pelo's Site

June Pelo seems to know everything about Finnish Genealogy and wants to share it with you. Special pages on Immigration, Ostrobothnia and lots of tips and links. A labor of love from an enthusiast.

More Finn links here

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

ASHTABULA HARBOR

The Port of Ashtabula

Harbor maps and images assembled by the Great Lakes Industrial History Center at Cleveland State. Designates which docks were operated by which companies. From this info, we can find out on which dock Edward worked in the Harbor.

How the Hulett Works

The Hulett Automatic Ore Unloaders Home Page from Cleveland State. Links to almost everything you want to know about the Huletts.

The Complete Hulett

Beware. This is one of those big, rascally .pdf files that takes a long time to load, but if you want a complete understanding of why the Hulett was such a big deal, want to see the original patent drawings, are curious about what Edward did as an Operator, this is it. Prepared by the American Society of Mechanical Engineering on the 100th Anniversary of the Hulett's Invention, this document presented the case for the preservation of the four Last remaining Huletts at Whiskey Island in Cleveland, whose fate is still uncertain.

THE GREAT LAKES

In Progress
 
 

ABOUT FINLAND
 
Virtual Finland
 

THE KALEVALA: FINLAND'S EPIC
 
The Kalevala Epic
 
 

THE KANTELE

About Timo Väänänen

Koistinen Kanteles:
 

BOOKS
 
World's Library Free from Google
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MAPS
 
Maps from David Rumsey, the World's Finest
 

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