The Smith–Dengler House is a private home located at 58555 US 41 in Wolverine, Calumet Charter Township, Michigan, United States.
[1] Fred Smith was born in 1835 in Baden, Germany, and emigrated to the United States when he was twenty settling in the Keweenaw Peninsula.
The Wolverine Mine had been established in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in 1882, but was "indifferently operated" until a reorganization in 1890 and Smith's subsequent stewardship.
His family emigrated to the United States in 1835, where his father worked in and eventually owned coal and iron mines in Pennsylvania.
[5] Smith occupied the house until his retirement in 1913, after which Theodore Dengler, the new superintendent of the Wolverine and Mohawk Mines, moved in.