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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 504

A. 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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