Cox, Albert Kennedy (sold)
Albert Kennedy Cox (July 11, 1874 - April 24, 1856) was a Canadian-American publisher, stationer, and bookseller active in Houghton, Michigan. Cox was born in Huron, Ontario. He was working in Ontario as Dry Good Clerk before emigrating to the United States in 1892. He moved to Houghton, Michigan, in 1906 to become the manager of the Houghton Office of the Western Express. Houghton was then the heart of the vibrant Keweenaw Peninsula Upper Peninsula mining industry. He established a music and bookshop on Isle Royale Street around 1909. In 1910, he relocated with a 3-year lease to larger premises on 162 Shelden, Houghton. Throughout he entire time in Houghton, Cox was deeply involved with music and booked regular theater and musical spectacles. When his lease at 162 Shelden expired in 1913, he sold the business to James McRae. Cox moved Minnesota, where he opened a music shop and, with financial backers, managed regional musical performances. He remained in the Minneapolis area through the 1930s. He relocated again, to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he died in 1956. He was married to Ella May Jamieson (1874 - 1955).
Copper Boom on the Keweenaw! Wellge's last work!
Panoramic View of the Keweenaw Peninsula, The Great Copper Country of Northern Michigan Population near 100,000, including the towns of Houghton, Hancock, Calumet, Lake Linden, Etc.
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One of only 3 surviving examples of the rare Henry Wellge 1913 bird's-eye view of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Upper Peninsula, Michigan, at the height of the early 20th century copper mining boom. The view looks northeast along the peninsula from a fictive highpoint above Houghton and Portage Lake. Towns are labeled and important buildings noted, including the industrial smelting operations along Torch Lake and Bay. This view was issued by Albert Kennedy Houghton, a bookshop owner in Houghton, shortly before he left town for Minneapolis. (more details)