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married Lucretia
Number of Children: 0
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Son of Henry and Charlotte (Livingston) Graveraet. Developed interests in iron mining in Marquette in 1847. On March 5, 1849, Mr. Harlow organized the Marquette Iron Company, with W. A. Fisher and Edward Clark, of Worcester, MA. He was widely known as the representative of Lake Superior and its iron region, died at 40 years and eight months. He was an Indian Agent at Mackinaw but turned his attention to exploring. With a few others, he discovered what became known as Bruce Mines in Canada on Georgian Bay. Disposing of his interest in that mine, he moved to Marquette in 1846. He did much toward developing the iron resources of the county and inaugurating the manufacture of iron from our native ore. His desire to represent the county in a more public capacity, and on a wider field of usefulness than a local agent of an iron company, caused him to loose the agency of the Collins Iron Works, on his being elected Senator from the U.P., in the State Legislature, in the fall of '56, which lead to his appointment as Receiver of the U.S. Land Office, by President Buchanan. He was also Superintendent of the Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad.
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Born in Michigan; exact date unknown; probably in October. Died in 1861