Editing Wakefield, Michigan (section)

===Founding===
George Mix Wakefield,<ref>{{cite book | last = Cox | first = Bruce K. | title = Pioneers of Wakefield Michigan 1884–1900 | publisher=Agogeebic Press, LLC | year = 2010 | edition = Fifth | pages = 330–331}}</ref> born February 6, 1839, in [[Henderson, New York]], a son of James Patterson Wakefield and Hannah B. Hall, had the town site of Wakefield platted in May 1886; the general location was already being referred to as "Wakefield" as early as the fall of 1884. His parents moved their family to [[Waukesha County, Wisconsin]] in October 1844.  Mr. Wakefield became interested in logging and real estate and acquired vast tracts of land in the western [[Upper Peninsula of Michigan]] in the 1870s and 1880s.  Together with various other capitalists he built sawmills and logged the pine forests of the area, and later became involved in mineral exploration.  He was one of the parties who held interests in the mineral rights to the Sunday Lake mine, as well as a few nearby properties.