This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mulcrone, Mulchrone, Eddy, O'Donnell, Chambers Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HGB.2ACI/443 Message Board Post: I am searching for more information on my family from Mackinac Is and St. Ignace. If anyone can add to the info I list below or guide me to more sources, books or news articles on them, I would greatly appreciate it!!! My ggggrand parents, Charles and Ann (Chambers) Mulcrone settled on Mackinac Is in 1853. One of their sons, John Mulcrone was a keeper for the Waugoshance lighthouse from 1877-1881. In St. Ignace, John and his brother Michael Mulcrone started a business called Mulcrone Brothers in July of 1888. It expanded to Mulcrone Block on State Street. Included in the block was the first brick building in Mackinac county and Mulcrone Hall, one of the first buildings in St. Ignace to have electrical lights (this may have been the brick building?). Their businesses also included a men's store on Mackinac Is and Mulcrone's Bazaar in St. Ignace. The brothers also owned and operated 2 ferry boats- The North Star and Columbia. John Mulcrone served on the school board as well as mayor of St. Ignace 1896 and 1897. Michael Mulcrone was postmaster St. Ignace and also served as mayor in 1885. There were other Mulcrone's involved in St. Ignace. They were close relatives of Michael and John. John and Michael's father, Charles Mulcrone and his nephew, Patrick Mulcrone of Chicago (Charles's brother, Michael Mulcrone) established a meat market in St. Ignace. I am not sure, but I also believe either Patrick (married to Ellen O'Donnell) or his son Charles (married to Clara Eddy) was also mayor of St. Ignace. Thanks, Anne