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...will give a sketch of Mr. Agassiz's life from the time he entered Harvard to the present day, telling some of his experiences in College and in the Scientific School. Beginning with his connection with the Calumet and Hecla mining property, Major Higginson will trace how he developed it from an insolvent condition to the best copper mine in the world, and will describe the difficulties he faced and overcame in the process...
Presently, his brother-in-law, Mr. Shaw, acquired an interest in a copper property at Lake Superior and interested Mr. Agassiz in this property. Difficulties in the management arose, and Mr. Agassiz went to Calumet, in the upper peninsula of Michigan, with his wife and oldest child, George, and lived there for two years, organizing the work and developing the mine, putting in new machinery and generally getting everything into good order...
...last month of '69 the Calumet Mine began to pay dividends, and thereafter Mr. Agassiz was easy, so far as money was concerned. He had been enabled to get some stock of this mine through the help of friends, and presently was able to pay off his indebtedness. When he came back, he worked in the Museum with his father until the death of the latter, which occurred in 1873, at which time also Mr. Alexander Agassiz lost his wife. At his father's death he was put in charge of the Museum, and carried on the work according...
...life was very simple and easy, and he saw a good many guests at his own house and at other places, and was a great favorite in society, -- indeed, his presence was enough to make any dinner party a success. All this while he worked over the Calumet Mine, going there twice a year and often more, passing a week or ten days, following each development, ordering new machinery when necessary and, in short, guiding the work. This was all done with the advice and assistance of his brother-in-law, Mr. Shaw, and, indeed, these two gentlemen developed...
...Agassiz, who was then managing a coal mine in Pennsylvania, was called by his brother-in-law, Mr. Quincy A. Shaw, to go to Michigan to represent his interests in the supervision of the operations in the Calumet, Hecla and Huron Copper properties, the controlling interest in which Mr. Shaw had acquired. With his arrival there Agassiz began his career in copper mining, in which he continued uninterruptedly for forty-four years. He long survived the term of all his early contemporaries in the direction of that industry in Michigan. During his career he not only developed the largest...