Wilbert Salmi Collection
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.
General Physical Description note
2.0 cubic feet1 oversize paige box
Processing History
Elizabeth Russell, 8/27/2010 Emily Schwiebert, 1/27/2022
- Announcements
- Blueprints (Reprographic copies)
- Bylaws (Administrative records)
- Commencement ceremonies -- Michigan -- Houghton
- Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula
- Hancock (Mich.)
- Invitations
- Newspapers
- Photographs
- Printed ephemera
- Programs
- Quincy Mining Company
- Social participation -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula
- 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