In 1900 he was at school in Bay City, Michigan and could read, write and speak English. ®3274 He was unmarried and lived in Bayfield, Wisconsin at the time of his father’s death on 11 June 1908. ®3277He enlisted in the US Army and on 28 Aug 1917 he was at Camp Douglas, Wisconsin. From 21 Oct 1917 to 8 Jan 1918 he was with Motor Truck Company 4, Supply Transport 107, Camp MacArthur, Waco, Texas. On 9 Feb 1918 was with Company M, 1st Infantry, Camp Greene, Charlotte, North Carolina. On 2 April 1918 he is in Europe with Company 231, Battery 116 of the Allied Expeditionary Forces. On 3 March 1919 he is still in France with the Military Police Corps, Battery 116, Company 231 Third Army Division of the Allied Expeditionary Forces. The 1920 census shows Eli, Harry, William and Ernie living with Louise on Red Cliff Road in Bayfield. The brothers were all listed as being employed at Wachsmuth’s Bayfield lumber mill, Eli, 29, as a setter. On 1 April 1930 Eli, 39, lived in a house he rented for $10 a month on 4th Street in Bayfield, Wisconsin with his wife of 4 years, Julia LaPointe, 30, and sons Bernard Beauregard, 11, and Leonard LaPointe, 3 years and 2 months. Eli was a foreman in a lumber camp and had been married at age 35. ®3959He had a commercial fishing boat at Bayfield called “She Floats”. His other commercial fishing boat was the “Wallace”, a 30 foot wood hull boat built by John Peterson of LaPointe. It was powered with a Dodge engine. He owned it in the 1940’s but lost her when she sank at anchor near Red Cliff. The boat was never raised. He lived in a house on the east side of Highway 13 in Roy’s Pointe, about 200 yards south of his brother Philip’s house. He lived in Bayfield at the time of his mother’s death on 4 February 1951. ®3961 GPS coordinates of his house are Map datum NAD 27 Conus 15 T 0667967 5189436. He was admitted to Parkland Hospital in Superior, Wisconsin on 2 November 1973. ®162 GPS coordinates of his gravesite are Map datum NAD 27 Conus 15 T 0665406 5186809