Local History

In August 1918, Prof. Albert J. Houle wrote a report to the Committee on Education and Special Training in Washington detailing the truing that Michigan College of Mines (as it was called then) was providing to men in “mine running” (tunneling) and mine rescue.  In it he details their activities and included over a dozen ...

Prof. Steven Walton was interviewed about his discoveries in the National Archives. Read more: Digging Into Michigan Tech’s History Of WWI Involvement (Keweenaw Report) Marches, Mining and Messages from WWI (Michigan Tech Unscripted Research Blog)

The Michigan Tech Wall of Honor of the MUB has been transcribed in full here. Conflict First Name Last Name Suffix Class WWI Kenneth Ogilvie McEwen 1902 WWI Ira Gladstone Penberthy 1907 WWI Donald Francis Duncan 1909 WWI William David Stevens 1915 WWI Bernhardt Edward Heine 1917 WWII Leslie Taylor McNamara 1925 WWII Paul Williams McCallum 1928 WWII Robert Newton Adams 1930 WWII William Watt Lowry 1932 WWII John Marvin Turvey 1933 WWII Robert Elliott Fonger 1934 WWII Rupert W. Klemetti 1934 WWII William Andrew Richards 1936 WWII William Dwyer Higgins 1937 WWII Wilbur Jerome Mason 1937 WWII Charles H. Bowman 1938 WWII Edmond Ernest Jennings 1938 WWII James John Kraus 1938 WWII Everett John Forslund 1939 WWII John Sherman Hascall 1939 WWII Harry Starkey McIntyre 1939 WWII Vincent John Mick 1939 WWII Eugene M. Oswald 1939 WWII Edwin Vance Statia Jr. 1939 WWII Raymond Francis Besner 1940 WWII Willis Edgar Jacobs 1940 WWII John Elmer Kinsey 1940 WWII John G. Magoffin 1940 WWII William Edward McMitchell 1940 WWII Robert Walter Miller 1940 WWII Jack Loren Rogers 1940 WWII John William Ruhl Jr. 1940 WWII Philip Maurice Schuman 1940 WWII Charles Gofrey Upson 1940 WWII Frederick Henry Baird 1941 WWII Walter Craig 1941 WWII Reuben L. Gareau 1941 WWII Russell Samuel Gribble 1941 WWII Earl Walter HIll 1941 WWII Uno ...

Michigan Tech lost five of its won to the Great War.  Information is limited, but here is what is known of each man’s service. Kenneth Ogilvie McEwen (class of 1902) Canadian Army d. October 12, 1918 (cause of death: unknown). He was from Detroit and took a B.A. from Trinity College, Toronto in 1898, and entered MCM in ...

We hope to establish a definitive list of those from Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties who served (the “roll call”) and those who died (the “honor roll”) in WWI. To date we have an honor roll for K, H, and O Counties, but not yet B Co.  There is a published full roll call for Ontonagon ...

Now set prominently at the south end of the Portage lift bridge (i.e., in the ‘Yooper Loop’), the Houghton Co. War Memorial in Veterans Memorial Park has a statue of a Civil War soldier and a WWII-era field piece.  Parking is available in the lot immediately east of the memorial (last left-hand turn on westbound ...

The Calumet National Guard Readiness Center has a collection of artifacts from its units’ deployments over time displayed in a series of display cases in the hallway.  Please note, due to security restrictions, the building is locked at all times, so visitors are warned that unplanned visits may not be able to be accommodated.

Installed on the second floor of the Memorial Union Building on the Michigan Tech Campus, this wall honors the Tech graduates who have given their lives in the wars of the US.  The college was founded in 1885, and there are no known Tech grads who fought in the Spanish-American War, so the first names ...

  Although the American contingent heading to Europe was relatively small compared to European Countries, there was still a sentiment that those that did not enlist were somehow shirking their responsibilities.  Those left at home sometimes responded that they, too, were doing their part.  Such is the case as when Berton Braley published a poem in the Engineering ...