This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg//2FB.2ACI/2471 Message Board Post: Ironwood Daily Globe (Ironwood, Michigan) > 1936 > February > 1 Cornish Miner Dies Calumet- Joseph Pollard 92 , widely known Laurium man and one of the oldest residents of the Copper Country , died Tuesday night at his home on Lake Linden ave. and South Kearsarge st. Death was due to a heart attack. Mr Pollard was born in England and had been a resident of the Copper Country for 71 years. He was a mining captain at the South Hecla branch of the Calumet and Hecla copper company before his retirement a number of years ago. He was probably the oldest Cornish miner in the district and was widely known throughout the community.