Henry F Gasman
1862-1931
Born: Muscoda, Grant, Wisconsin, USA
Died: Escanaba, Delta, Michigan, USA
<p>excerpt taken from:</p><div><div>Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities</div><div>By Walter Romig</div><div>Contributor Larry B. Massie</div><div>Edition: illustrated</div><div>Published by Wayne State University Press, 1986</div><div>ISBN 081431838X, 9780814318386</div><div>673 pages</div><div>"PERRONVILLE, Menominee County, Michigan: the railroad came through here in 1873, first hauling ore and later, logs; in 1883, Manazipe Perron built a damn and a sawmill here and he became the first postmaster on September 11, 1897, of the settlement which followed; when the woods were cleared, many Poles came here to farm, with Henry Gasman as their guiding spirit [David S. Coon; PO Archives]"</div></div>