EDWARD SALES (deceased) was one of the most respected and influential pioneers of the copper region; he was born in Utica, N. Y., of English parentage about the year 1824. In 1844, he went to Freeport, Ill., and in 1846 came to Lake Superior; he, in company with several other mining men, took a contract at the Cliff Mine. In 1848, he moved to Ontonagon, and at once became prominently identified with its local interests. He formed a partnership with Augustus Coburn in the purchase and sale of mineral lands, and soon became a large owner of mineral lands. He was at one time agent of the Forest Mine, and afterward of the Toltec Mine. He also had charge of the What Cheer, Pennsylvania, Coulter, Algomah, Farm Ridge, Evergreen, Tremont, Devon, Hartford, Oneida, Colling, Malden and Stevena. He was a practical explorer, and was possessed of as much practical information as any other man in this region. He was a man of remarkably clear judgment. In his ideas of business, he was liberal, even to his own disadvantage; as a neighbor, he was always obliging and kind. While in Detroit on business he was taken sick and died at the house of his old friend, F. L. Lasier. He was buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, near Ontonagon, by the side of his wife. They left no children.

JOSEPH SELLER. merchant, was born in Cornwall, England, June 4, 1817; was brought up at mining, and emigrated to America in August, 1849. He located in Pennsylvania, where he kept hotel about three years, and in 1852 came to Lake Superior; landed at Eagle Harbor, and engaged as a miner at the Northwest Mine; worked there two years, then moved to Copper Harbor, and worked in the Keweenaw Mine one year. In 1855, he came to Ontonagon County, and spent the following year in the employ of the Ridge Mining Company. He then located at Maple Grove, where he kept hotel until 1868. He then bought a farm of eighty-four acres in Ontonagon Township. He conducted it four years. During that four years, he was Highway Commissioner three years. He was also magistrate at Maple Grove one year. In 1872, he moved to Ontonagon Town, and engaged in his present business, that of a dealer in general merchandise. Mr. Seller has a well-stocked store in his line, and is doing a very satisfactory business.

CHARLES SKELTON, mail contractor and proprietor of stage line between Ontonagon and L'Anse and Ontonagon and Houghton, with a connecting branch between Greenland and Rockland. A daily stage is run each way between Ontonagon and Houghton in the summer, or during navigation, and, while navigation is closed, it is run between Ontonagon and L'Anse, connecting with the Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon Railroad at the latter place. Mr. Skelton was born in Canada October 16, 1833. He came to Lake Superior in 1850, with his parents, and located in the woods eight miles above Ontonagon on the river. His father kept a wayside tavern and cultivated some land. In 1861, they moved to the halfway house between Ontonagon and Rockland. Mr. Skelton moved to Rockland in 1869; in 1877, he began running a stage line, and has held the contract for carrying the mail on this route since 1880.

LINUS STANNARD, merchant, established his present business in 1862; he keeps a full stock of general merchandise of an average value of $30,000. He is also interested in the firm of L. Collins & Co., general merchants, Greenland. The subject of this sketch was born in Old Saybrook, Conn., in 1840; spent some years at Norwich, and, in 1861, came to Rockland, Lake Superior, and established his present business the following year. He has held various local offices; served a while as Township Clerk; three terms as Supervisor, and, in 1878, was elected Chairman of the County Board.

ELIAS SWEET, merchant, dealer in general merchandise, was born in Cornwall, England, in 1823. He learned the machinist's trade, and emigrated to America in 1848. He located at the Bruce Mine, in Canada, where he was employed until 1851. He then came to Ontonagon, and engaged with the Ohio & Trap Rock Company. He was with that company until February, 1854. He next went to the Ridge Mine, where he was employed in putting up the stamps and engine. He continued with that company until the work was suspended by the company. He spent one year longer at this mine with the tributers, and in the fall of 1859 he engaged with the Minesota company as machinist, and remained an employee of the company five years. He spent eight months at the Evergreen Bluff Mine in erecting machinery. In the spring of 1861, he returned to the Minesota Mine as foreman of machinery, and continued in that company's service until they began to let the work out to tributers. He then took the burrows to work on tribute, using the stamp-mill. He carried on this work about three years, during which time he secured a large amount of copper. In June, 1876, he came to Ontonagon.