Marji Gesick, the Ojibwe guide who led prospectors to iron
In 1845 Marji Gesick showed a prospecting party iron ore near present-day Negaunee. His family later fought for decades over his share of the mine.
Philo Everett and the Jackson Mining Company
Philo Everett led a party from Jackson, Michigan, to the Upper Peninsula in 1845 and helped start the first iron mine on the Lake Superior ranges.