Title: North Wisconsin Lumber Company Records
Inclusive Dates: 1883-1901

Creator:

• North Wisconsin Lumber Company (Hayward, Wis.)

Call Number: Northland Micro 13; Micro 492; Northland SC 39

Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) and 0.1 c.f. (1 oversize folder)

Repository:

Housed at the Area Research Center, History Center and Archives, Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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

Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center / Ashland Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Incoming letters, 1883-1888 and 1897-1901, of the North Wisconsin Lumber Company, a supplier of logs and lumber, with information on their sales operations throughout the Midwest and on their relationship with the Laird, Norton Company, Winona, Minn., and with Frederick Weyerhaeuser. Not on microfilm is an undated map showing the general plat of Hayward, Wis. and indicating buildings and property owned by the company.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr0492

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The North Wisconsin Lumber Company was a supplier of logs and lumber with sawmills on the Namakagon River. Little information on the Company is available but a letterhead reveals that Frederick Weyerhaeuser was Company president at one time. The correspondence indicates that the Company was subject to direction by the Laird, Norton Company, Winona, Minnesota, which was in turn a member of Weyerhaeuser's Mississippi River Logging Company.

The documents in this collection along with additional records at the Minnesota Historical Society are all that remain of the records of the North Wisconsin Lumber Company after a 1965 flood destroyed others which were in warehouse storage in Winona. Consisting entirely of incoming letters, the remaining records primarily contain information on the Company's sales operations and on their relationship with Laird, Norton and Weyerhaeuser. The most significant letters in the general correspondence are those of the Company's sales agents working in Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and South Dakota in which they discuss prices, supply, and transportation arrangements. Other general correspondence mainly concerns sales and equipment purchases. There is no information on the Company's sources of lumber, employees, or actual mill operations. A small amount of correspondence was received segregated according to sender. This segregation was maintained and the container list below gives details on these files' subject matter. Not on the microfilm is an undated map of the general plat of Hayward indicating buildings and property owned by the company.

Acquisition Information

Loaned for copying by Keith Schwab, Winona, Minnesota, 1972. Accession Number: M72-235 , M90-349

Processing Information

Processed by Karen Baumann.

Northland SC 39 Oversize Folder   1	Map
Northland Micro 13/Micro 492 Reel   1 Segment   1	General correspondence, 1884-1887, 1897-1901, undated
Reel   1 Segment   2	Duck & Pressler, Wabash, Ind., 1899-1900; concerning a bill dispute
Reel   1 Segment   3	John Morris Company, Chicago, Ill., 1885; concerning a bill dispute
Reel   1 Segment   4	Laird, Norton Company, Winona, Minn., 1883-1884 Scope and Content Note: Letters giving advice and conveying Weyerhaeuser's directions--contains information on Company financial problems.
Reel   1 Segment   5	Lathrop, Stanley, 1899-1900 Scope and Content Note: Lathrop, secretary of North Wisconsin Academy, Ashland, writes to R. L. McCormick, president of the Academy's board of trustees and secretary-treasurer of North Wisconsin Lumber Company, about Academy events and problems.
Reel   1 Segment   6	Robinson & Cary, St. Paul, Minn., 1884-1886; Scope and Content Note: Concerns machinery sales to the Company.
Reel   1 Segment   7	Rock Island National Bank, Rock Island, Ill., 1885-1886 Scope and Content Note: Concerns Company loans.