SOURCE: History of the
upper peninsula of Michigan : containing a full account of its
early settlement, its growth, development, and resources, an extended
description of its iron and copper mines : also, accurate sketches of
its counties, cities, towns, and villages ... biographical sketches,
portraits of prominent men and early settlers.
Collection: Michigan County Histories Pages 504A. K.
GODSHALL, merchant, was born in Ohio April 13, 1850; remained with
his father on the farm and attended school until twenty-one years of
age. He then taught in a commercial college for one year, and came to
Michigan in 1880; went to Ishpeming and kept books six years for the
Deer Lake Iron & Lumber Company, and then moved to Florence, Wis. He
was married to Miss Marie E. Belman, in October, 1876. They have one
child living and one dead. Mr. Godshall is now the leading hardware
and furniture merchant here. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and
is a full fledged Knight. He associated himself with Mr. George
Bellman in his business March 1, 1882, where the firm now runs two
houses.
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