James J. Hagerman home

James John Hagerman-Frank Copeland Double House, “Silk Stocking Row”, Vulcan, Menominee County (later Dickinson County), Michigan, ca. 1880-1885: Construction on James John Hagerman’s house in Vulcan was under way in May 1880, in Vulcan. Hagerman, president of the Menominee Mining Company, occupied the west wing when he and his family were on the Menominee Iron Range. The Franklin Copelands, seated here with their daughter Gertrude at the center of the porch, lived in the rest of the house. Captain Lewis Whitehead is seated at the far left and Dr. Nelson Powell Hulst is standing second from right. Others in the photograph are unidentified. The house was later the girlhood home of Charlotte Armstrong, an internationally recognized suspense novelist. Among her novels is The Trouble in Thor, the setting of which is based on Vulcan. This photograph appears on page 46 in Vulcan, Michigan, Centennial Book 1872-1972. [Menominee Range Historical Museum], Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
Abstract/Description: James John Hagerman-Frank Copeland Double House, “Silk Stocking Row”, Vulcan, Menominee County (later Dickinson County), Michigan, ca. 1880-1885: Construction on James John Hagerman’s house in Vulcan was under way in May 1880, in Vulcan. Hagerman, president of the Menominee Mining Company, occupied the west wing when he and his family were on the Menominee Iron Range. The Franklin Copelands, seated here with their daughter Gertrude at the center of the porch, lived in the rest of the house. Captain Lewis Whitehead is seated at the far left and Dr. Nelson Powell Hulst is standing second from right. Others in the photograph are unidentified. The house was later the girlhood home of Charlotte Armstrong, an internationally recognized suspense novelist. Among her novels is The Trouble in Thor, the setting of which is based on Vulcan. This photograph appears on page 46 in Vulcan, Michigan, Centennial Book 1872-1972. [Menominee Range Historical Museum]
Subject(s): Dwellings
Vulcan (Mich.)
Date Created: 1880 (approximate)