Businessmen -- Wisconsin -- Eau Claire
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Collection on Hiram P. Graham, 1854-1932
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 320
Summary
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a cemetery plot certificate pertaining to Hiram P. Graham, president of Phoenix Manufacturing Company, first mayor of Eau Claire, and postmaster general from 1888-1889. Includes an 1885 letter from Eau Claire citizens recommending him as postmaster general.
Dates:
1854-1932
Phillips and Cohen Family Papers, 1936-2009
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 344
Summary
L.E. Phillips (1899-1978) and Melvin Cohen (1918-2008) were two prominent Eau Claire industrialists and philanthropists. The collection includes a variety of newspaper clippings related to their community involvement and reports on their company, National Presto Industries. Company booklets and photographs are mixed with photographs of philanthropist work, as well as materials on Phillips’ Boy Scouts involvement and speeches. Other photographs depict the Phillips’ and Cohen’s community...
Dates:
1936-2009
William D. McIntyre Family Papers, 1897-2005
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 276
Summary
Personal and family papers, business papers, and photographs of William D. McIntyre (1897-1973), Eau Claire businessman and member of the Board of Regents of State Normal Schools and State Colleges from 1945 to 1965. McIntyre was involved in local, state, and national politics, local and national organizations, and was known as "Mr. Higher Education in Wisconsin." The UW-Eau Claire campus library is named after McIntyre.
Dates:
1897-2005