Title: La Crosse Industrial Association
Inclusive Dates: 1910-1982

Creator:

• La Crosse Industrial Association (Wis.)

Call Number: La Crosse Mss BJ

Quantity: 1.0 cubic foot (3 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the Special Collections & Area Research Center, Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-La Crosse Murphy Library / La Crosse Area Research Ctr. (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the La Crosse Industrial Association, a community group founded about 1910 to encourage and assist the development of manufacturing and business in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Included are general records of the association, such as by-laws, correspondence, financial records of the Association, a 1982 history by Mary H. Hebberd, minutes, and stock records; and incomplete files of correspondence and financial records concerning local businesses to which the Association loaned money or made investments during the 1950s through the 1970s.

Language: English

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The La Crosse Industrial Association was founded in 1910 by La Crosse businessmen to encourage, assist, and develop manufacturing in La Crosse. Following a meeting of interested citizens in the fall of 1909, the Association filed articles of incorporation on January 10, 1910. Organized as a corporation authorized to issue 1,250 shares of stock worth 125,000 dollars, the Association used its funds to bring new business ventures to La Crosse and help existing companies improve or expand by borrowing and lending money to them. The first meeting of the Association was held January 18, 1910, and one of its first investments was in the National Gauge and Register Company, later the La Crosse branch of the Auto-Lite Company. To maintain sufficient funds for investment, stockholders were expected to pay periodic assessments to the Association. Over the years, the Association brought to La Crosse or invested in numerous companies, including the La Crosse Breweries, La Crosse Refrigerator Company, La Crosse Garment Company, Machine Products Company (later part of G. Heileman Brewery), Segelke-Kohlhaus, and The Trane Company. In 1945, the corporation dissolved and the Association became non-profit.

The records have been arranged into two series which provide a fairly comprehensive overview of the Association's history and activities: General Records and Records of Loans to Businesses.

Within the GENERAL RECORDS are by-laws; an incomplete file of general correspondence, mainly pertaining to loans and finances; and the Association's financial records, including cash expenditures and receipt records, reports and audits, statements of condition, and tax returns and records. There is also a history of the Association, compiled from the minutes by Mary H. Hebberd; minutes of stockholders' and directors' meetings, 1910-1974, with a corporation record including initial stock subscriptions, a copy of the charter, and by-laws; and stock records, consisting of subscription records and stock certificate books.

RECORDS OF LOANS TO BUSINESSES mainly date from the 1950s through the 1970s, and consist of small files of correspondence regarding loans made by the Association and repayment schedules, together with scattered financial records of the businesses which received loans.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Mary H. Hebberd, La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1986. Accession Number: M86-121

Processing Information

Processed by Menzi Behrnd-Klodt, June 1986.

La Crosse Mss BJ	Series: General Records
Box   1 Folder   1	By-laws
Box   1 Folder   2	General correspondence, 1940-1945, 1951-1980
Box   1 Folder   3	Correspondence with La Crosse County Industrial Development Council, 1957-1969
	Financial records
Box   1 Folder   4	Cash account book, 1910 March-1952 January
Box   1 Folder   5	Cash ledger, 1971-1978
Box   1 Folder   6-7	Reports, 1941, 1944, 1951-1954, 1956-1978
Box   1 Folder   8	Statement of condition, 1980-1981
Box   1 Folder   9	Tax returns and records, 1939, 1941-1962, 1967-1976
Box   1 Folder   10	A History of the La Crosse Industrial Association, 1909-1982 by Mary H. Hebberd, 1982 August
	Minutes
Box   2 Folder   1	Corporation record, with subscriptions for stock, charter (copy); by-laws; minutes, 1910-1946
Box   2 Folder   2	Minutes of stockholders' and directors' meetings, 1946-1974
	Stock records
Box   2 Folder   3	Subscription and stock ledger, 1918-1946
Box   2 Folder   4	Stockholders' lists, 1953-1965
	Stock certificate books
Box   2 Folder   5	Volume 1: No. 1-125, 1922
Box   3 Folder   1	Volume 2: No. 126-250, 1922-1930
Box   3 Folder   2	Volume 3: No. 251-360, 1934-1972
	Series: Records of Loans to Businesses	⇧
	Erickson Hardwoods Inc., Onalaska
Box   3 Folder   3	Correspondence, 1969-1977
	Gateway Plastics Corporation, La Crosse
Box   3 Folder   4	Financial report, 1963
	La Cro Products Inc., La Crosse
Box   3 Folder   5	Correspondence and financial reports, 1963
	La Crosse Garment Manufacturing Co., La Crosse
Box   3 Folder   6	Correspondence, 1953-1959 and financial report, , 1953
	La Crosse Sand and Gravel Company Inc., La Crosse
Box   3 Folder   7	Correspondence and financial records, 1956-1960
	La Crosse Tennis Ltd., River City Racquet Club, La Crosse
Box   3 Folder   8	Correspondence and Financial Records, 1975-1976
	Machine Products Company, La Crosse
Box   3 Folder   9	Correspondence, 1952-1954
	Mt. La Crosse Inc., La Crosse
Box   3 Folder   10	Correspondence, 1963-1976
	Neon Supply Company, La Crosse
Box   3 Folder   11	Correspondence and financial records, 1952-1960
	Pabst Boats, La Crosse
Box   3 Folder   12	Correspondence and financial records, 1953
	Safeticycles Inc.
Box   3 Folder   13	Correspondence, 1950-1955
	Three Rivers Development Ltd. and John Torrance and Son Inc., La Crosse
Box   3 Folder   14	Application for Small Business Administration loan, 1972
Box   3 Folder   15	Correspondence and financial records, 1967-1978
	The Trane Company, La Crosse
Box   3 Folder   16	Correspondence and loan agreement, 1956-1958
	Voight Packard Company, La Crosse
Box   3 Folder   17	Correspondence, 1952-1953