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Event

J. R. Childs revisits Beaver Island and recalls 1912 store work (1960)

Also 1960 J. R. Childs Beaver Island visit

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern eraLumbering era

Summary

The October 1960 Beaver Beacon reported that J. R. Childs spent a night at the Strang Hotel and had worked on Beaver Island during the 1912 hay-fever season at the Company Store of the Beaver Island Lumber Company.

Evidence and limits

The notice is a retrospective community account. It does not provide a full civil identity, employment record, hotel register, or independent family record for the Stephens named in the recollection.

Open questions

  • Which Company Store, hotel, or family records document Childs’s 1912 work and visit?

See also

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, October 1960, visitor and lumber-company recollection.
    Reports J. R. Childs spending a night at the Strang Hotel and recalls that he worked on Beaver Island during the 1912 hay-fever season at the Company Store of the Beaver Island Lumber Co. It names Bernard Stephens and his uncles as store operators but does not provide employment, hotel, or family records.