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Agogeebic Press is named
for lake Gogebic, known in the 19th century as lake Agogeebic. It is located on
Sunday Lake street in Wakefield, in an historic old brick building built in 1911
to house the Citizens Bank of Wakefield. The building appears on the
cover, and is the trademark of Agogeebic Press, Bruce K. Cox, proprietor.
The history of the Gogebic Iron Range, in the western Upper Peninsula of
Michigan and northern Wisconsin, is my field. I began my research into Gogebic
Range history in the early 1980s and published my first book in 1983.
Agogeebic Press was officially established in 2002 and moved into its present
headquarters the following year. I am a native of Wakefield and graduated
from Wakefield High School in 1974. In 1976 I graduated from Gogebic Community
College with an Associate Degree in business. In 2003 I graduated from
Northern Michigan University with a Bachelor of Science Degree, major in history
and minor in business administration. I have over twenty-five years
experience in carrying out research in local libraries, archives and
courthouses.
Agogeebic Press is dedicated to publishing books on local history, with
special attention to the mining days. To date I have written and published
sixteen books on Gogebic Range history, all described in this booklet.
Besides historical research, I can carry out genealogical research, and provide
advice on publishing to anybody who wishes to publish their own book. If
you are interested in having a book published, please contact me for more
details.
All of these books are currently for sale to anybody who is interested,
and special wholesale rates are available to dealers who provide their resale or
sales tax numbers.
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Print: $37.73 A history and genealogy of the pioneer settlers and families who settled in Wakefield, Gogebic county, Michigan from 1884 through 1900. About 1,100 surnames are listed. Each family is traced for three generations, with the names of the settler's parents included whenever possible.
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Print: $14.22 Welcome to Ironville.
Family tradition claims Granny Lupton was a dour and unexciteable woman, and this quality may be seen in her portrait taken in 1903. As if to make up for this lack of personal charisma she was endowed with a great passion for photography, and she photographed and interviewed almost everybody who lived in Ironville between 1886 and 1925—including the more unorthodox and peculiar characters of the town (many of whom were her relatives). This is why we proudly claim her as a pioneering photographic journalist.
All of the stories and captions in this book are comedic farces drawn entirely from my imagination, and are in no way intended to be considered as factual biographies or actual accounts of the person or persons who appear in the photographs. Ironville is an imaginary place and the people described herein are a literary invention inspired by old photographs.
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Print: $14.22 The present volume contains an interesting photographic history of education in Ironville. The erection of Ironville Polytechnic Institute was an historic event in the saga of education in our city, and the people and animals associated with its early history were well beloved.
Floyd Gibbon was one of Ironville’s favorite native-sons and a celebrated bank robber who rose on the social ladder by associating with nobility. His father, Earl Gibbon, was among Ironville’s greatest entrepreneurs, and the city’s citizens were greatly bereaved when Floyd Gibbon died in a tragic but well-intentioned explosion.
Slim MacDonald and Diamond Jim Handy were local legends, and many will be pleased to gaze upon their images and read of their achievements, as well of those of the other educators, politicians, businesspeople and personalities memorialized in this volume.
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