Fabian Miron (1880 - 1952)

Born 10 Nov 1880 in St Marguerite, Terrebonne, Les Moulins, Quebec

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Isabelle Eugenie Groleau — married 28 May 1912 in St. Jacques, Delta, Michigan, United States

Descendants

Died 10 Dec 1952 at age 72 in Wells, Delta, Michigan

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Biography

Fabian Miron was born on November 10, 1880 in St Marguerite, Terrebonne, Les Moulins, Quebec, he was the son of Hormisdas Miron and Adelaide (Normand) Miron. According to the 1930 U.S. Census he immigrated to the United States from Canada in 1899, he was living in Nahma, Michigan as a boarder in the home of David and Mary Payne on the 1900 U.S. Census.

On May 28, 1912 Fabian Miron and Marie Isabelle Eugenie Groleau were joined in marriage at Saint Jacques in Upper Michigan's Delta county. The marriage produced four children before Mrs. Miron passed away in 1925.

On his 1942 World War II Draft registration his employer is listed as the Bay de Noc Lumber Company in Nahma, Michigan. He was 61 years old.

Town of Nahma

Nahma was established in 1881 by the Bay de Noquet Lumber Company of Oconto, Wisconsin.

The Bay de Noquet Lumber Company headquartered in Nahma, its base of operation in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The company had a 70-year life span in Nahma from 1881 until it cut and processed its last log on July 26, 1951. The Bay de Noquet Lumber Company processed over 2,500,000,000 board feet of lumber in Nahma.

The Bay de Noquet Lumber Company had its own railroad system called the Nahma and Northern. The railroad system had seven locomotives, many Russell Cars (designed to haul timber), one caboose and 75 miles of track that had spurs to the lumber camps where the large stand of timbers were.

Nahma is located near the mouth of the Sturgeon River on Big Bay de Noc. At the peak of the lumber industry, Nahma had a population of more than 800. The Bay de Noquet Lumber Company employed over 1,500 men at the mill and in the lumber camps.

In 1951, the entire town was sold to an Indiana playground manufacturer who had big plans to turn the town into a resort. Life Magazine did a feature on the sale, titled, “Sold-One Town.” The playground manufacturer lacked capital to initiate their grand plan and today Nahma sits as a quaint, quiet community inhabited by commuters, retirees and summer residents.

Nahma offers its visitors the opportunity to step back in time and get an idea of what a “Company town” was like in the early 1900s.

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Sources

• 1900 U.S. Census Record ; Fabian Meron : Family Search

• 1920 U.S. Census Record ; Fabien Miron : Family Search

• 1930 U.S. Census Record ; Fabien Miron : Family Search

• 1942 World War II Draft Registration : Family Search

• 1952 Death Record : Family Search