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A plaque honoring John Munro Longyear in Longyearbyen, Svalbard

John Munro Longyear, the Marquette businessman with an Arctic town named for him

John Munro Longyear made a fortune in Upper Peninsula land and timber, moved his Marquette mansion to Massachusetts and founded a coal…