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Wilbert Salmi Collection

 Collection — Box: 1-1B
Identifier: MS-601

Collection Scope and Content Summary

Collection, 1864-1953, of Wilbert Salmi, a resident of Toivola and Hancock, Michigan. Includes blueprints with an index, many from Quincy Mining Company, Houghton High School commencement programs, invitations and announcements of social events, bylaws of the Lake Superior Knights of Pythias, declaration of intention for James Mahan, and photographs of boats and places.

Dates

  • 1864-1953

Access

Available for use in the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections.

Biography

Wilbert Einar Salmi was born on September 17, 1922, in Iron River, Michigan, to Walter and Mayme (Johnson) Salmi. As a young child, his family relocated to the Copper Country. For a time, Walter sold insurance before the onset of the Great Depression prompted him to move to Stanton Township and take up farming. Wilbert attended a rural school through the tenth grade and completed high school while boarding with a family in Hancock. He graduated in 1940.

After high school, Wilbert worked in lumbering before being employed at a fishery and a sausage factory. Most of his career was spent in utilities, including twenty years as supervisor of operations at Michigan Power Company, from which he retired in 1986. He also maintained a long-term membership in the Houghton County Historical Society and served as its president.

Wilbert married Margaret Eskelinen in Houghton on January 20, 1950. Upon his November 19, 1996 death, he was survived by Margaret, one daughter, and two sons.

Extent

2.45 cubic feet (1 manuscript box, 2 Paige boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Collection, 1864-1953, of Wilbert Salmi, a resident of Toivola and Hancock, Michigan.

Related Materials

Additional materials collected by Wilbert Salmi are held by the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University in Detroit.

General Physical Description note

2.0 cubic feet1 oversize paige box

Processing History

Elizabeth Russell, 8/27/2010 Emily Schwiebert, 1/27/2022

Title
Wilbert Salmi Collection
Author
Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Russell Revised by Emily Schwiebert
Date
8/27/2010
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
Description is in English, Finnish

Repository Details

Part of the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections Repository

Contact:
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton 49931 U.S.A. US