JAMES M. HARING, dealer in furs, was born in New York City in 1833. He removed to Detroit, Mich., with his parents in 18.36. He subsequently, moved to the Island of Mackinaw. His father, Samuel K. Haring, was Collector of the Port of Mackinaw, his district including at that time all of Lake Superior and that part of Lake Michigan north of the Manitou Islands and Lake Huron east of Thunder Bay. His death occurred September 19, 1849, James M. moved to the Sault Ste. Marie in 1852, where he was employed as book-keeper in the land office for Warner & Pratt. He soon after went to the head of the lake, and wintered at what is now Superior City. May 24, 1853, he came to Rockland, and engaged with the Forest Mining Company. He was in charge of the warehouse at the landing. In 1854, he took charge of the company's store at the mine, and remained with that company two and a half years. He then took charge of the store at the Minesota Mine, and two years later moved to the village of Rockland, and was manager of a store for a Mr. Parker one year. He next formed a partnership with Mr. William Condon in the mercantile business, and a year and a half later bought out Mr. Condon, and continued the business, which was that of a dealer in clothing and gents' furnishing goods. Five years later, he sold out and engaged in. the fur business, and has continued it to this date (1882).

SAMUEL B. HARRIS, agent of the Ridge Copper Company, also of the Adventure, Hilton and Lake Superior Mines, was born in Cornwall, Eng., December 18, 1834. His early life was passed in mining. He was married August 31, 1854, and started soon afterward for America. On arriving in this country, he proceeded to Wisconsin, and spent two years in the lead mines of Iowa County. In 1856, he came to Lake Superior and worked for several years in the Minnesota and other different mines in various parts of the copper region. In 1864, he was appointed mining captain of the Mesnard and Pontiac Mines in Houghton County, and, from that time to the present, he has been engaged as mining captain or agent of one or more of the following mines successively, viz.: The Phoenix Mine and the Eagle Harbor Mines in Keweenaw County; the famous Calumet Mine and the Franklin Mine in Houghton County. In 1871, he was appointed agent of the Ridge and other mines in Ontonagon County, which position he still retains, and during his long and varied experience in mining, has proven himself a faithful and competent officer.

CHARLES M. HOWELL, editor and manager of the Ontonagon Herald, was born in Fostoria, Seneca Co., Ohio, March 12, 1855, and is the son of Dr. R. R. Howell, a prominent surgeon and dentist of Northwestern Ohio. Too close application to study impaired his health, and, with the hope of regaining it, he left for the West. Starting out when not quite seventeen years of age, he soon after became a newspaper correspondent. Returning home after a year's absence much improved in health, he entered school again, but continued corresponding' and writing for the press, being connected in this way with the Tiffin (Ohio) Tribune for about three years. During this time he also acted as special correspondent for the leading dailies of Cleveland. and Cincinnati, and for the Chicago Tribune. In time he returned to Iowa and entered the State University, from which institution he graduated in August, 1878, having taken a regular course in the law department of the university. He was admitted to all the courts of the State, including the United States Circuit and District Courts for that State. He entered upon the practice-of his profession in Iowa, but still continued to write for the press. chiefly for the Burlington Hawkeye. In August, 1879, he returned to his native State, where he was employed for several months in reporting for different papers. In the spring of 1880, he went to Leadville to seek his fortune, and became a reporter on the staff of the Denver Daily Tribune, being on duty in that capacity during the famous strike of the miners of Leadville in the summer Of 1860, and while the city was under martial law. He was prospering finely until August, of that year, when he was prostrated by a severe attack of mountain typhoid fever, and lay at the point of death. Having rallied, he was removed to his home in Ohio. In December, 1880, he came to Michigan and entered the office of Corbin & Cobb, attorneys, at Eaton Rapids. In July, 1881, having passed a satisfactory examination before Judge Hooker, of Charlotte, he was regularly admitted to practice in the courts of this State. Being still in poor health, he traveled to the Upper Peninsula in the hopes of improvement. In the course of his travels, he struck Ontonagon, and was induced to undertake the editing and management of the Herald. The paper was established in April, 1880, the first issue appearing the 22d of that month, under the editorial management of M. L. Dunham, at that time Prosecuting Attorney of the county. Mr. Howell bought Mr. Dunham out and assumed the control of the paper, the first issue appearing under his management October 21, 1881. The paper is owned by a company, not stock, Mr. Howell retaining an interest and having entire control of it. The paper is well backed, financially, and is proving a success beyond the expectations of its friends. Mr. Howell expects to branch out in the law and real estate business as developments favor, without conflicting, with the editorial management of the paper.

JAMES E. HOYT, carpenter of the National Mine, is a pioneer of Rockland of 1849; he was born in New York City August 12, 1815. When two years of age, he moved with his parents to Stamford, Conn., where he remained until he was sixteen; he then returned to New York City, and served his time at the carpenter and joiner's trade; he remained in New York, working at his trade until 1849, when he came to Lake Superior, and located at what is now Rockland; he first lived at the plat made by the Minesota Mining Company until March, 1862, when he lost his home by fire; he then built his present tasty home just on the border of the plat to the east. Mr. Hoyt had purchased a tract of several acres, which was in a wild, rough and uninviting condition. This he improved and beautified at great labor and expense. A fine collection of fruit and ornamental trees embower the premises, while to the eastward he has a magnificent garden and fields of grain and vegetables. Mr. Hoyt has demonstrated that agriculture on Lake Superior can be made a success, at least in Ontonagon County. In addition to the ordinary crops, he grows successfully the earlier varieties of field corn. Small fruits of many kinds grow abundantly in his garden, while his apple trees are so loaded with fruit they have to be supported with props. Mr. Hoyt was in the employ of the Minesota Mine as carpenter from 1849 to 1864. He then engaged with the Rockland and Superior Mining Companies as agent, and continued with those companies eleven years, or until they suspended operations. He then took charge of the National for two years under the old organization, since which time he has been employed at the same mine on surface and carpenter work. Mr. Hoyt has held the office of Sheriff one term, Commissioner of the Poor for several years and other local offices. He is the possessor of two very valuable specimens of mechanical skill, the fruit of his labor. They are two very beautiful inlaid tables, one being a large centre, which is composed of nearly forty-two thousand pieces of wood. So elegant is the workmanship that Mr. Hoyt received a diploma on exhibiting it at the American Industrial Exposition at New York City.. The second table is smaller than the other, but scarcely inferior in workmanship. This table has 7,030 pieces.