Sulzer, Alaska is a

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on Prince of Wales Island in the

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. The community centered on a copper mine established by

William Sulzer William Sulzer (March 18, 1863 – November 6, 1941), nicknamed Plain Bill, was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 39th governor of New York serving for 10 months in 1913, and a long-serving U.S. representative from the same state. Su ...

on the shore of Hetta Inlet.William Sulzer Alaska mining papers, 1901-1941

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Operated by the Alaska Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company,Mines Register, Vol. 12
Walter Harvey Reed, 1916 the Jumbo Mine was active from 1907 to 1918 and was one of Alaska's largest copper producers.Guide to the William H. Case Alaska Photographs, circa 1908

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Charles August Sulzer Charles August Sulzer (February 24, 1879 – April 15, 1919) was a veteran of the Spanish-American War veteran who served as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Territory of Alaska from 1917 to 1919. Life and care ...

, brother of William and delegate to the

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from the

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, lived in Sulzer when he took ill in April 1919 and died while on board a boat en route to

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.SULZER, Charles August, (1879 - 1919)

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