Early Memories of Saugatuck, Michigan : 1830-1930
Author: Heath, May Francis
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Grand Rapids, Mich: 1930

JOHN SHORE

In the early lumbering days when the H. D. Moore Lumber Mills at Saugatuck were at the height of business, Mr Moore sent to Manistee for a millwright and John Shore, then in the employee of the Stronnach Lumber Co. at Manistee, was sent.

Mr. Shore was born at Saint Catherines, Canada, and was married in Milwaukee in 1849 to Miss Katherine McMullen native of Halifax, ova Scotia, after which they located in Manistee, and in 1860 came to Saugatuck, making this their home the remainder of their lives.

Six children were born, two dying in infancy at Manistee and Margaret, Mrs. Dan Kenter of St. Ignace; Jeanette, Mrs. Dennis Cummings; Isabel, Mrs. J. F. Henry; Elizabeth, Mrs. W. Wilkins of Marinete, Wis., all of whom are deceased except Mrs. Henry who through the years has had a continuous home in Saugatuck.

Mr. Shore passed away in 1890 and Mrs. Shore in 1910, the latter dying at the home of Mrs. Kenter at St. Ignace.

As long as the lumbering days lasted, Mr. Shore was actively engaged in the mills, and later he bought the Stephen Nichols warehouse at the mouth of the river, bringing it up on scows and placing it on the dock north of the ferry where for years it was utilized as a boat-building shop and warehouse for storage, and the docks were usually lined with schooners waiting for a tow in those good old days of long ago.