Quincy Mining Hancock Lake Superior Mich 1915 Stock Certificate Historic Mine

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Quincy Mining Hancock Lake Superior Mich 1915 Stock Certificate Historic Mine:
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Quincy Mining Company,..Quincy Mine Hancock, Michigan Stock Certificate datedFebruary 5, 1915 issued for 15 Shares at $25 a Share as Printed in a Brown underprint at center & in Bottom Border so $375.00...Vignette of Two Stags Flank a State Shield at top left with an Eagle on Top...Quincy Mine, Lake Superior...This mine was in the Upper Peninsula Remote Wilderness of Michigan & Issued to & Signed on The BackThomas I. Robie&a witness & is transferred to William A Hitchcock of Greenfield, New Hampshire..is8 stamps on the back with 4 of each some 2c State of Massachusets & 2c Documentry....Signed by William Rogers Todd as President at lower right & by W Paul at lower left as Secretary..engraved by the American Bank Note Company, New York...Very Historic Mine!.....Quincy Mine Hoist Powerhouse, Houghton, MichiganDate11 November 2006.

John Joseph TODD, at present 1913, mayor of Morristown, was born in Brooklyn, New York, April 16, 1874, and is the son of William Rogers TODD, the president of the Quincy Mining Company of New York, which owns and operates extensive copper mines in Michigan.

William R. TODD was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 16, 1837, and married, October 2, 1865, in Brooklyn, New York, Margaret L. OWENS, a native of New York. They have had four children, but one,

Mary Ellen, died in early childhood.

The three still living are:

John Joseph, with whom this biography is concerned;
William Parsons, of Morristown;
James Madison, of Cleveland, Ohio.

William Parsons Todd

William Rodgers Todd.. .and the Rodgers the ship that he sailed to the

Mediterranean to help wipe up the Algerian pirates, the Captain of the

ship was Rodgers and with all those names why my father was named i by

his father after the Captain of the ship which he started for the

Mediterranean with a squadron to wipe up the Algerian pirates. Isn\'t

that funny?

William Parsons Todd, President of the Quincy Mining Company..

William R. Todd lived in Morristown, NJ... The Quincy Mine is an extensive set of copper mines located near Hancock, Michigan. The mine was owned by the Quincy Mining Company and operated between 1846 and 1945, although some activities continued through the 1970s. The Quincy Mine was known as \"Old Reliable,\" as the Quincy Mine Company paid a dividend to investors every year from 1868 through 1920. The Quincy Mining Company Historic District is a U.S. National Historic Landmark District; other Quincy Mine properties nearby, including the Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mills; the Quincy Dredge Number Two, and the Quincy Smelter are also historically significant.

The Quincy Mine was founded in 1846 by the merger of the Northwest Mining Company and the Portage Mining Company. Due to poor communication between government offices, these two speculative mining companies had purchased the same tracts of land during the mining rush of the early 1840s. The directors met and decided to merge, with significant investment coming from Massachusetts (the town of Quincy, Massachusetts lent the mine its name). While many other copper mines were founded at the same time, the Quincy Mine became the most successful of the 1840s-era mines, and was the country\'s leading copper-producing mine from 1863 (when it exceeded the production of the Minesota Mine) through 1867 (after which it was exceeded by the Calumet and mining proved much more productive than fissure mining, and the size and richness of the Pewabic lode in particular allowed the Quincy to produce profits for 53 consecutive years. The Quincy company expanded laterally along the lode by buying out adjacent properties. The company bought the Pewabic mine in 1891, the Mesnard and the Pontiac in 1897, and the Franklin mine in 1908. This helped the mine survive longer than almost all other Keweenaw copper mining companies, except the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company and the Copper Range Company...................

To attract a better class of worker, the Quincy Mining Company built and maintained housing for the workers. Over the course of operations, the types of housing ranged from simple tents in the early days, to complete three story houses shortly before the mine\'s shutdown. The executives on the east coast wanted to build more elaborate and fancy homes with amenities such as electricity and running water. However, the on-site managers didn\'t think it was necessary for the miners to have such high-class dwellings. But the east coast executives realized that if they offered nicer homes to the workers, the miners were more likely to stay, raise families, and be less likely to leave the area or transfer to another mining company. This strategy proved effective and helped the Quincy Mining Company retain its status as one of the premier mining companies in the region....

The Quincy Mining Company closed operations (but did not dissolve) in 1931 due to low copper prices. During World War II, the mines re-opened due to increased copper demand. When the government stopped supporting copper prices after the war, the mines quickly closed for good...

The Quincy Mine is now a popular Keweenaw tourist attraction. The Quincy Mine Hoist Association maintains the buildings and grounds, and provides guided tours of the Number 2 Hoist House and the 7th level of the mine during the summer. Tourists are transported to the 7th level by the Quincy and Torch Lake Cog Railway. There are museum-style exhibits within many buildings. The mine and surrounding areas are part of Keweenaw National Historical Park......Quincy Mining Company Historic District No 2 Shaft Rock House......This page is a tribute to the great Quincy Mine of Hancock, Michigan, just across the Keweenaw Waterway from Michigan Tech. The photos were taken recently. Quincy Mine produced 726 million pounds of copper from 1856 to 1925. The underground mining extends over 2 square miles.

The Copper Country became a showplace for industrial mining. By 1900, after more than 50 years of copper production, the Keweenaw’s landscape was a testimony to the power, progress, and prestige of area mines. The Copper Country skyline included towering shafthouses covering mine openings, immense smokestacks and magnificent church steeples on land often donated by mining companies. Between these lofty structures, which dominated the Copper Country landscape, were the contrasting homes of mine managers and mineworkers. A simple understanding of the social pecking order of mine employees could be seen by comparing the large homes for managers, midsized houses for mining captains and shift bosses, and a variety of small, lower-quality dwellings for workers.