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Lumbering--Wisconsin

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur Macleod Local History Essays and Speeches, circa 1980-1997

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 310
Summary

Local history essays about Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and Washburn, Wisconsin, written by amateur local historian Arthur MacLeod, a professional salesman with a deep interest in Wisconsin history. He grew up in and retired to Washburn, and he delivered many speeches to the Washburn Historical Society.

Dates: circa 1980-1997

Daniel Shaw Lumber Company Records, 1861-1911

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CT - Eau Claire Micro 16
Summary Records, 1861-1911, of a lumber company headquartered at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, which owned thousands of acres of timber in Wisconsin's Chippewa River Valley and operated its own farms, flour mills, tow boats, and general stores in the area. The records consist of letterpress books, seventeen of which contain company correspondence and two of which contain General Manager Eugene Shaw's personal correspondence. Also included are miscellaneous loose records consisting of timber “scale” books...
Dates: 1861-1911

John S. Owen Lumber Company Records, 1875-1955

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss E
Summary Business records covering not only lumbering and logging operations in northwestern Wisconsin by the Owen Lumber Company, but also related enterprises in lumber, real estate, railroads, and cotton in the Pacific Northwest, South Dakota, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Subsidiary or related companies included the Owen-Oregon Lumber Company, California & Oregon Lumber Company, Del Norte Company, Three States Lumber Company, Gilbert Lumber Company, Owen Box and Crating Company, Pierre...
Dates: 1875-1955

Louis Hill Papers, 1914-1978

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Micro 12-Eau Claire Tape 2
Summary Papers of Hill, a Hawkins, Wisconsin educator and local historian, including essays by Hill on the history of Lawrence, Wisconsin (1887-1914), the Hawkins, Wisconsin schools (1889-1959), the Bethel Lutheran Church (1904-1978), the Hawkins American Legion (1922-1968), the Union Free High School (1912-1967), the Northern Sash and Door Company, and Hawkins fire protection (1914-1970); minutes and dues records of the Hawkins Businessmen's Club (1914-1948) which promoted area commerce; a tape...
Dates: 1914-1978

Nathaniel Caldwell Foster Papers, 1830-1936

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss O
Summary Fragmentary records of Foster, a native of New York state who came to Wisconsin in 1854 and became a prominent lumberman and logging railroad operator headquartered at Fairchild after 1876. The collection contains political correspondence with representative James A. Frear; miscellaneous business papers including land titles, maps, mortgages, and financial records pertaining to his land and timber investments in Eau Claire and Clark counties; a few records relating to the Fairchild and...
Dates: 1830-1936

North Western Lumber Company Records, 1870-1955

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss A
Summary Records of North Western Lumber Company, an Eau Claire, Wisconsin company, organized in 1873, which engaged in lumbering in northwestern Wisconsin until the depletion of timber supplies halted operations in about 1920. Correspondence relates primarily to the management and gradual liquidation of the company's assets after 1920. Most of the letters were written by George W. Hipke of Stanley, an officer of the company. Among these are many which pertain to his campaigns for the state...
Dates: 1870-1955

Orrin H. Ingram Papers, 1857-1904

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss R
Summary Business papers of Ingram, a leading Wisconsin lumberman, relating to operations in the Chippewa Valley, with headquarters at Eau Claire, and the sale of manufactured lumber through subsidiary wholesale companies located along the Mississippi River. Correspondence emphasizes the selling end of the business, consisting of letters of report from branch managers, agents, and salesmen, and between members of the company and pertains to business plans, policies, and practices. A group of letters,...
Dates: 1857-1904