Fabulous, thank you for the addition! I wonder then if Lathrop Johnson, also on the ground at the time and previously in hospitality in Chicago, may have been a relation.

C: Theodore Chapin of Buffalo, NY, Erie Canal toll collector ana shipping merchant

John N. Barbour was a surprise! Massachusetts bolitionist and reported Underground Railroad operative. I wonder what brought him NW?

Dr. Rueben Miles Bigelow was an MD from Vermont who was involved in federal land claims and coal speculation shortly before his death near Seattle, WA in 1861. There, he had married Quio Litza, the daughter of Tupt Aleut, from the noble village of Sbabadid (at Renton)

Harry S. Beasley and Daniel Dunbar Brockway stuck around and are considered Keweenaw pioneers. William Austin Burt was a state surveyor of some renown, with mail such as this finding him near his labors.

He was likely THIS John Brown, formerly enslaved and self-liberated, who came to the area with Capt. Teague (see further down the list) only a few months prior. They arrived in Copper Harbor July 3, 1846 on the steamer "Independence"

Start on B: Known abolitionist and UGRR participant Capt. Isaac Brayton, associate of Garrison, Tappan, Everett, Mann, "that" John Brown, etc. But, the John Brown three lines beneath him?

Anable was working as a mining surveyor in between college and his first career. (Chi Psi catalog 1941, class of 1846)

Confirmed in A: Cortland W Anable. Later Rev. Anable, J.D. & D.D.

Likely identified in A: James Alexander, a sailor at the Soo in the household of Capt. John G. Parker in 1850, lived out most of his life in Ontonagon. Of a complex ethnoracial background,he was born in Virginia or Canada, and his age wavered a bit, too. www.findagrave.com/memorial/815...