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From: PORTAGE LAKE MINING GAZETTE, HOUGHTON, MICHIGAN Mar 25, 1869 .......Ontonagon County, Greenland Township Constables: Sampson DOWER, Wm. HARRIS, Ferdinand PETERRAN, Geo. W. SMITH; From: New York passenger Lists 1851-1891. 1853. Line 16. Microfilm Roll 126. List #418. Sampson Dower. Age 18. Ship Name - "Robert Kelly". Port of departure - Liverpool. Arrival date - May 23, 1853. ------------------------------------------ CENSUS 1841 Cornwall Crowan William Dower age 45 copper miner Phillipa Dower age 40 Elizabeth Dower age 17 William Dower age 15 Joseph Dower age 12 Samuel Dower age 11 James Dower age 9 Mary Dower age 7 Sampson Dower age 5 Phillipa Dower age 3 John Dower age 1 CENSUS: 1851 Cornwall Crowan Jane Dowar age 50 Wendron, Cornwall, England Head James Dowar age 19 Crowan, Cornwall, England Son-in-law Copper miner Samson Dowar age 16 Crowan, Cornwall, England Son-in-law copper miner Phillipa Dowar age 14 Crowan, Cornwall, England dau -in-law mine labourer John Dowar age 12 Crowan, Cornwall, England Son-in-law farm labourer
James Dowar head age 46 copper miner Born Crowan Elisabeth Dower wife age 41 Born Wendron William Dower son age 21 copper miner Born Crowan Jane Dower dau age 26 Born Crowan James Dower son age 13 farm laborer Born Crowan Mary Dower dau age 11 Born Crowan Samuel Dower son age 5 Born Crowan Caroline Dower dau age 5 Born Crowan ------------------------------------- CENSUS 1860 Michigan Ontonagon county Rockland Sampson Dower age 26 miner Born England Mary A. age 22 Born England Ellen age 4 Born Michigan Matilda age 1 Born Michigan William age 2 months Born Michigan Richard Nancarrow age 31 miner Born England John Knsman age 30 miner Born England CENSUS 1870 - Duluth Ward 2, St Louis, Minnesota Dower, Sampson 36 Miner $50 value personal estate Born England Dower, Mary Ann 34 Born England Dower, Mary Ellen 13 attending school Born Michigan Dower, Matilda 11 attending school Born Michigan Dower, William 10 attending school Born Michigan Dower, Sampson 9 attending school Born Michigan Dower, Phillipa 7 attending school Born Michigan ------------------------------------------------ From: Duluth and St. Louis County, Minnesota: their Story and People. page 175 .... Luke Marvin, a Duluth pioneer and a neighbor of Louis French on the 1875 census (family #101 - six families away) wrote about conditions at that time Sampson Dower came to Duluth......"In the latter part of 1869 and in 1870 the people just came flocking in; in a few months thee were two or three thousand people added to the population. There was no place to put them. There was not a hotel in the place, and every family had taken in as many as it could accommodate, and yet there were thousands to be provided for. They lived in tents; they put up the rudest kinds of shacks for a temporary shelter, until they could erect houses. As fast as the sides and roof of a building were completed, and before doors or windows could be supplied, the place would be rented out for lodgings. The owner would take a piece of chalk and mark off on the floor space sufficient for a man to lie down, number the space and rent it out. Tenants had to provide their own bedding and blankets. They would buy a piece of ticking, sew it into a bag, and out and fill it with straw, shavings, sawdust, leaves, - anything that would answer the purpose of a bed, and then buy their blankets..... This rush of people comprised all classes. ....... Some came to work on the railroad; some came to engage in business; others ... in lumbering, or came to work in the woods, as lumbering was then beginning to be a very important business, the railroads alone being great consumers of all kinds of timber for construction purposes. There was a sawmill at Oneota at that time, and another was started on the lake shore of Duluth. The entire outputs of these mills were sold before it was out and when a vessel-load of lumber came down from Oneota for delivery to the settlers, there would be scores of applicants ready to pay two or three times what it had been sold for."...(The owner of the sawmills was R.S. Munger" ,a very close neighbor of Sampson Dower on the 1875 census) ... CENSUS 1875 Minnesota State Census - Duluth 3rd Ward FHL film 0565728 Sampson Dower age 40 Eng Mary Ann Dower age 38 Eng Mary Ellen Dower 18 Mich Matilda Dower 16 Mich William Dower 14 Mich Samson Dower 13 Mich Phillipa Dower 12 Mich John Dower 11 Mich Samuel Dower 10 Mich Isabella Dower 8 Mich Adelaide Dower 7 Mich Herbert Dower 5 Minn Carrie Dower 3 Minn CENSUS 1880 Minnesota Wadena county Thomastown Dower, Sampson 45 farmerEngland Dower, Mary Ann wife 45 England Dower, Phillipa dau 17 Michigan Dower, Johnson 16 Michigan Dower, Samuelson 14 Michigan Dower, Isabeldau1 2 Michigan Dower, Adelaid dau 10 Michigan Dower, Carrie dau 9 Minnesota Dower, Joseph son 7 Minnesota Dower, Lilly dau 6 Minnesota Dower, Edithdau 4 Minnesota Dower, Annie dau 2 Minnesota CENSUS 1900 Minnesota Wadena county Thomastown Dower, Sampson 65 1835 farmer England Dower, Mary Ann wife 1837 62 England Dower, Edith dau 1875 24 Minnesota Dower, Nettie M.dau 1877 22 Minnesota ------------------------------- CENSUS 1910 Minnesota Todd Staples Dower, Sampson 75 England Dower, Mary Ann 72 wife married England Tuttle, Nettie 33 dau divorced Minnesota Tuttle, Charles 7 grandson Minnesota ------------------------------------ Minnesotian-Herald June 27, 1874 " I.O.O.F - At a regular meeting of Duluth Lodge No. 28, I.O.O.F., Thursday evening the following elective officers were chosen for the ensuing term of six months: N.G. - John Lettau, V.G. - Sampson Dower, Secretary - C. H. Tousley, Treasurer - T. H. Pressnell, Trustee - C.D. Kreimer..... These, toegether with the appointed officers will be installed into office next Thursday evening by Dist. Deputy Grand Master C.D. Kreimer. All members of the Lodge and visiting members then in the area are urgenetly requested to be present. ---------------------------
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