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History of Mason County, Michigan
H. R. Page & Co., Chicago; 1882

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                            PIONEERS OF 1866
                          
        FREDERICK J. DOWLAND, Secretary and General Manager of the
     Pere Marquette Lumber Company, is one of the solid business men
     
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     of Ludington, who has had a hand in the development and pros-
     perity of this region.  Mr. DOWLAND was born in Newfoundland, in
     1837, and came to Wisconsin in 1848.  In August, 1862, he en-
     listed in the service as a private in Company G, Twenty-Sixth Wis-
     consin Volunteers.  Soon after enlisting he was disabled by sickness,
     and after remaining in hospital for some time was transferred to the
     Veteran Reserve Corps, and detailed at Washington, on clerical
     duty.  In 1865 he received his discharge and returned to Milwaukee.
     At that time JAMES LUDINGTON was doing an extensive lumber busi-
     ness, at what was then called Pere Marquette, and Mr. DOWLAND
     came here to take the position of assitant bookkeeper for Mr. LUD-
     INGTON.  He remained with Mr. LUDINGTON until 1878, when the
     Pere Marquette Lumber Company was organized, and succeeded 
     Mr. LUDINGTON in the business.  At the organization of this com-
     pany Mr. DOWLAND was elected secretary and general manager, and
     it is to his careful management and energy that the company is very
     largely indebted for its prosperity.  Mr. DOWLAND has always been
     identified with county and other public affairs.  He held the office
     of county treasurer from January, 1877, to January, 1881.  Was
     county superintendent of schools one year, and treasurer of the
     county agricultural society until, in 1881, he declined to serve
     any longer in that capacity.  He succeeded the late DELOS FILER
     as president of the Pere Marquette Boom Company, at the death of
     that gentleman, in 1879, and still continues to hold that office.
     Mr. DOWLAND is a liberal and public-spirited citizen, and has
     always maintained a reputation above reproach.
        Mr. DOWLAND was married to Miss E. C. MITCHELL, at Port
     Huron, Mich., October 22, 1867.  A view of their family resi-
     dence appears in this work, and also a portrait of Mr. DOWLAND.
     
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