Summary Information
Dessert Family Business Records
1839-1964
Stevens Point Mss AO; Micro 1069; Stevens Point Micro 23; PH 3669 (3)
30.0 c.f. (2 record center cartons, 15 archives boxes, 92 volumes), 1 reel of microfilm [35mm], and 10 photographs
UW-Stevens Point Library / Stevens Point Area Research Ctr. (Map)Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records of the Joseph Dessert Lumber Co., Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Co., and other lumber companies owned by Joseph, Louis, Howard, and Abigail Dessert and their descendants, mainly dating from the 1880's to 1930. Among the records are general business correspondence, mainly concerning orders for lumber and routine financial matters; one letterpress book of personal and business letters of George McLaughlin, an officer of several Dessert enterprises; and some letters from the Westfield and Fail River Lumber Co, also owned by the Dessert family. A file of personal correspondence of Joseph Dessert concerns his guardianship of a minor, while personal correspondence of Howard Dessert contains letters and financial statements of the Dessert and Brown Lumber Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, and materials concerning the 1927 convention of the American Legion in Paris. Also included in the collection are contracts, legal agreements, land transaction records, minutes, numerous financial ledgers and journals, cash books, order books, payroll records, and logging and lumber sales records of the Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. and the Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Co. Minutes of the Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. are available only on microfilm. The photographs portray an unidentified sawmill or lumber mill.
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Biography/History
Joseph Dessert was born January 8, 1819, in Maskinonge, Quebec, Canada, one of twelve children of Pierre and Melonie (or Josephte) Beaulieu Dessert. He was educated in local schools and worked in lumbering in Canada until he was about twenty years old. When he was twenty-one, he was employed by the American Fur Company, La Pointe (now Ashland), Wisconsin, for which he worked until 1844. In the fall of 1844, following a visit to Canada, Dessert missed the last boat from Milwaukee to Lake Superior, and began to walk north. He eventually traveled as far as Little Bull Falls (now Mosinee), where he found work in a sawmill owned by John L. Moore. Dessert worked for Moore until 1849, when he, with William Pentecost (or Pencast), Henry Cate, and James Etheridge, rented Moore's mill under the name of Pentecost, Dessert and Company. Pentecost eventually left the business, and on March 22, 1854, the remaining partners bought out Moore in the name of Dessert, Cate and Company. The company was not profitable, but Dessert remained in the lumber business.
After the Civil War, the Wisconsin lumber industry experienced a boom. In 1867 Dessert purchased a rotary saw, which increased the capacity of his mill. The railroad came into the region in 1875 and Dessert's company constructed twelve miles of logging railroad to connect the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul line with 13,000 acres of timber near Mosinee. In 1880 Dessert's nephew, Louis Dessert, joined the partnership, then called Joseph Dessert and Company. During the next few years, the two men rebuilt the mill, introduced band saws, and increased their output of lumber.
The Joseph Dessert Lumber Company was incorporated by Joseph and Louis Dessert and Henry M. Thompson, Joseph's son-in-law, in 1890. The three founders and Stella Thompson, Joseph's daughter, were stockholders. Over the years the company became involved in land operations and management; logging; and the wholesale and retail selling of lumber, building supplies, and hardware. In 1904 the Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Company was formed and eventually took over many of the operations of the Dessert Lumber Co., although the companies coexisted for many years. The Dessert family, including Abbie, Howard, and Nelle Dessert, and Stella Thompson, controlled both companies. Although separately incorporated, both companies were operated as a single concern and the records of both were intermixed. The timber in the Mosinee area was exhausted by 1905, and at that time the Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. mill was closed. By that date, the company had logged 43,000 acres of pine, hemlock, and hardwood, and had made Joseph Dessert a multimillionaire.
The Dessert family controlled at least one other lumber company in Wisconsin, the Westfield and Fall River Lumber Company (formerly the Watertown Lumber Co.), founded in 1902 and dissolved in 1927. In addition to its lumber interests in Wisconsin, the family was involved in the Dessert and Brown Lumber Company in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
In 1862, Joseph Dessert married Mary Sanford, daughter of William E. and Lavina T. Sanford of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. The couple had two daughters, Stella and Marion, who died in infancy. Mary Dessert died on July 1, 1881. Dessert was fairly active in local civic affairs. It was he who suggested in 1856 that the newly-organized township be named Mosinee, after an Indian chief living nearby. He served for many years as chairman of the town board of supervisors, and was elected the first president of the village after incorporation in 1889. In 1906 Dessert gave Mosinee its public library. He retired to Milwaukee, where he lived the last five years of his life with Stella and Henry Thompson, and where he died December 31, 1910, at the age of ninety-two.
Louis Dessert was born June 6, 1849, in Canada, to Antoine and Edvige (Rotonelle) Dessert. As a boy he began working in sawmills and lumber yards. Dessert came to Marathon County, Wisconsin, in 1869, where he continued in the lumber industry with his uncle.
Abigail (Abbie) Dessert, wife of Louis Dessert, was born December 3, 1854, in Lisbon, New Hampshire. Her father, Learned W. Richardson, moved the family to Wisconsin in 1858, where he was in lumbering. The family moved to Mosinee in 1878. Abigail and Louis Dessert were married November 25, 1882. She died in Wausau at the age of 83, survived by three children, Howard, Louise, and Blanche Dessert Stone, wife of Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone.
Scope and Content Note
The Dessert Family Business Records collection is comprised mainly of the records of Joseph Dessert's companies, the Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. (JDLCo.) and the Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Co. (MLLTCo.). Most of the records date from the 1880's to about 1930. Because both companies were operated as a single concern, their records and papers are intermixed. In many cases, it was impossible to separate the records, but where it was possible, the company name has been indicated. In addition, there are fragmentary records of Westfield and Fall River Lumber Co., also run by the Dessert family, and a few personal papers and land records of Joseph and Howard Dessert. The collection has been arranged by record type. Unbound manuscript materials and letterpress volumes form two groups: General Business Correspondence, and Land and Legal Records. The other volumes in the collection have been divided into series of Financial Records and Logging and Lumber Sales Records.
GENERAL BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE is comprised of somewhat routine materials, primarily orders for lumber and correspondence concerning shipments, delays, substitutions, billing, and payments, although there is some discussion of land management and transactions, business contracts and dealings, legal matters, and politics. The Letterpress Volumes contain copies of outgoing letters written for both Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. (in the first letterpress volume only) and Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Co., as well as one volume of personal letters of George McLaughlin, an officer of both JDLCo. and MLLTCo. (The McLaughlin family was a minority stockholder in the Dessert family businesses.) These volumes are arranged in chronological order and are very fragile. Some volumes have been water-damaged and are difficult to read. Incoming and Outgoing Letters are arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent, and are also routine in nature. Most date from 1904 through 1920. Included are several files of correspondence, 1899, 1903-1918, with Harry Garbutt, a Janesville agent for several lumber companies, among them at different times Daniel Shaw Lumber Co., Chippewa Lumber and Boom Co., Bovey DeLaittre Lumber Co., Hollister Amos Lumber Co., Rust Owen Lumber Co., Forster-Mueller Lumber Co., Hatten Lumber Co., and Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Co. There are a few files of letters from officials of the Westfield and Fall River Lumber Co., 1903, 1905-1909, to Frank McReynolds.
Personal Correspondence of Joseph Dessert , 1888-1893, concerns his guardianship of the minor James W. Kelly (possibly a nephew). There are letters to and from Kelly, mainly concerning his escapades in and out of school; financial records kept by Dessert in the course of the guardianship, including cancelled checks, bills and invoices, and other records; and letters from Mary Kelly, sister of James (but at that time, not a ward of Dessert).
Personal Correspondence of Howard Dessert , 1923-1928, mainly concerns his activities with the American Legion. Much of that correspondence consists of printed form letters and letters concerning applications and arrangements for the fall 1927 American Legion convention in Paris. Dessert was in charge of convention planning for the Wisconsin American Legion contingent. With Dessert's personal correspondence regarding land and lumber business dealings are filed balance sheets and sales figures for the Dessert and Brown Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Bay West Paper Company, Green Bay; Clare and Beaverton Lumber Company, Clare, Michigan; Lowell Lumber Company, Gulf City Lumber Company, Bayside Redwood Company; and a report to the board of the Wausau Sulphate Fibre Company.
LAND AND LEGAL RECORDS mainly pertain to Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. matters. They document both property ownership and land management activities, and are supplemented by Logging and Lumber Sales Records in volume form. Also present in this series are a few records of Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Co. and Westfield and Fall River Lumber Co. From the Dessert Lumber Co. are a few monthly time and payroll records from Camps One and Two, 1912-1913; files of contracts, legal agreements, and legal documents from land and other transactions; memoranda of land, lumber, and labor contracts and agreements, including a few sketchy labor blacklists; very early surveyor's reports; a description of Joseph Dessert's land; and a variety of land purchase and ownership records, dating from the mid-nineteenth century. Minutes of the Joseph Dessert Lumber Company, 1890-1957, are available only on microfilm, while the minutes of the Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Co., 1904-1964, and Westfield and Fall River Lumber Co., 1902-1927, are available in paper form.
Most Dessert FINANCIAL RECORDS are present in the form of volumes. Here, too, it is difficult to separate records of Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. from those of Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Co., as the latter company appeared to take over and continue many of the financial volumes used by the former. In many cases, the volumes bear imprinted letters which have been recorded in the Contents List as “company identification.” These identifiers indicate that several volumes may be lacking.
There are extensive runs of Ledgers dating from 1874 to 1954, and Journals , 1905-1956. The ledgers record individual accounts of the company and are indexed. By the 1890's, it is possible to trace several series of ledgers within the complete corpus, indicating that the company kept different sets of books for major and minor transactions, and company business and private transactions. The journals record daily transactions of the business, mainly lumber sales. Additionally, there are three MLLTCo. Accounts Receivable Ledgers, two unidentified personal ledgers, and one MLLTCo. Personal Journal.
Other financial records include smaller subseries of Cash Books for both JDLCo. and MLLTCo. (some of which are unidentified); Order Books and Day Books , with some personal or employee orders and purchases; three Time and Payroll Books , 1903-1913; and Miscellaneous Financial Statements , with brief year-end summary statements, 1913-1920. An office expenses journal, 1930-1937, recording routine disbursements for telephone and telegraph, light and power, postage, stationery, and small purchases, was discarded.
The bound LOGGING AND LUMBER SALES RECORDS complement those which are unbound. They include a variety of records documenting timber production and sales of finished lumber, including records of residential construction, estimates, and house plans. The volumes are Lumber Invoice Books from JDLCo. and MLLTCo., 1905-1956; a volume of Logging Operations Records containing log scale, custom sawing, and sawing records; a Lumber Journal; a Miscellaneous Lumber Record Book, listing lumber sales, individual and company logging records, and sawing records; Retail Sales Journals, 1921-1952; and MLLTCo. Building Records, including estimates as well as two volumes of catalogs of sketches and house plans distributed to lumber companies selling builders supplies.
The ten PHOTOGRAPHS in PH 3669 (3) depict an unidentified sawmill or lumber mill.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Presented by the Joseph Dessert Lumber Co., Mosinee, Wisconsin, via Margaret Dessert, 1973. Accession Number: M73-l08
Processed by Menzi Behrnd-Klodt, Cary Moy, and Scott Breivold, 1986.
Contents List
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Stevens Point Mss AD
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Series: General Business Correspondence
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Subseries: Letterpress Volumes, Outgoing Copies
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1
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JDLCo. and MLLT Co., 1904 May-1909 December
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MLLT Co.
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, 1909 May-1913 February (damaged)
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1913 February-1915 February
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1915 February-1917 March
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1917 March-1919 July
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1919 July-1922 July
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1922 July-1926 July
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1926 July-1931 July
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1931 July-1935 August
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1935 August-1936 December
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George McLaughlin Personal Letters, 1981 November-1937 February
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Subseries: Incoming and Outgoing Letters
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Aa-Al, 1904-1916
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Am-An, 1904-1916
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Ap-Az, 1904-1916
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Ba-Baq, 1899-1920
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Bar-Bat, 1904-1912
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Bara-Barq, 1913-1920
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Barr-Barz, 1913-1920
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Bas-Beq, 1913-1920
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Bas-Beq, 1913-1920
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Ber-Bi, 1900-1920
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Bl-Bz, 1902-1916
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Bl-Bz, 1917-1920
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Ca-Cem, 1904-1918
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Cen-Che, 1904-1916
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Chi-Cly, 1904-1915
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Coa-Col, 1904-1920
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Com-Con, 1904-1920
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Coo-Cun, 1904-1920
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Cuo-Cy, 1904-1920
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Da-Dy, 1887-1915
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Da-Dy, 1916-1918
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Ea-Ez, 1900-1913
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Fa-Fy, 1902-1915
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Ga-Gy, 1899-1911
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Ga-Gy, 1912-1918
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Garbutt, Harry
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1899, 1903-1909
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1910-1915
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1916-1918
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Ha-Hy, 1900-1916
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I-J, 1902-1912
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Ka-Ky, 1891-1916
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La-Ly, 1912-1916
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Ma-My, 1903-1910
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Ma-Me, 1907-1916
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Mi-My, 1905-1912
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Na-Ow, 1900-1910
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Na-Ow, 1911-1916
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Pa-Q, 1904-1909
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Pa-Q, 1910-1912
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Ta-Y, 1907-1910
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Ta-Vo, 1913-1918
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Invoices with Wilson Mercantile Co., 1916-1918
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Westfield and Fall River Lumber Co.
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1903, 1905
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1906-1909
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Subseries: Personal Correspondence of Joseph Dessert
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Correspondence with James W. Kelly, 1888-1893
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Correspondence and Papers re: James W. Kelly Guardianship, 1888-1893
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Correspondence with Mary Kelly, 1888-1891, undated
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Subseries: Personal Correspondence of Howard Dessert
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General, 1924-1927 July, including Personal Financial Statements
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American Legion Correspondence
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1923 April-1926 December
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1927 January-1928 December
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Series: Land and Legal Records
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Camps One and Two Monthly Time and Payroll, 1912-1913
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Miscellaneous Contracts, Legal Agreements, and Other Documents, 1887-1929
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Memoranda of Contracts and Agreements
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1890 January-1904 November
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1899 February 22-1919 October 31
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1905 April 10-1919 March 29
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1919 April 4-1951 December 7
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Standard Price Lists for Lumber, 1911-1921
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Insurance Policies and Records
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Surveyor's Reports, 1839-1886
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Description of Joseph Dessert's Land, 1880
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Record of Land Purchases, 1904-1928
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Land Transaction Documents, 1851-1946
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Record of Title Abstracts for Land Recorded, 1854-1877
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Jobbers' Supply Book, 1918 June-1920 March
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Miscellaneous
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Stevens Point Micro 23/Micro 1069
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Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. Minutes, 1890-1957
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Stevens Point Mss AO
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Mosinee Land, Log and Title Co. Records
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Abstracts of Title
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Minutes of Board of Directors and Stockholders Meetings, with By-Laws, 1904-1964
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Loose Minutes and Related Material, 1926-1935
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Westfield and Fall River Lumber Co. (formerly Watertown Lumber Co.)
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Minute Book, 1902-1927, with By-Laws and Dissolution Papers
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Series: Financial Records
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Subseries: Ledgers
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Joseph Dessert Lumber Co.
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Volume
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Labelled Vol. H: , 1874 September-1878 December (purchases by employees or contract laborers)
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Volume
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, 1877-1887 (personal ledger)
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Labelled Vol. J: , 1881 January-1884 April
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Volume
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Labelled Vol. K: , 1884 April-1886 July
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Volume
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Labelled Vol. L: , 1886 July-1888 January
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Labelled Vol. M: , 1888 January-1889 November
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Labelled Vol. N: , 1889 November- 1891 June
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Volume
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Labelled Vol. O: , 1891 June - 1892 July
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Volume
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Labelled Vol. P: , 1892 August-1893 December
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Volume
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Labelled Vol. Q: , 1893 December-1895 January
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Volume
10
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Labelled Vol. R: , 1895 January-1896 June
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Volume
11
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Labelled Vol. S: , 1896 June-1898 April (corresponds to vol. 13)
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Labelled Vol. T: 1897 August-1898 November (house, sawmill accounts)
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Labelled Vol. U: , 1898 March-October 1891 (corresponds to vol. 18)
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Labelled Vol. V: , 1898 October-1900 March (camp records)
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Labelled Vol. W: , 1899 December-1901 March (corresponds to vols. 14 and 17)
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1901 March-1917 June
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Labelled Vol. X: 1885-1916 October (personal accounts) (corresponds to vols. 8, 9, and 14)
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Labelled Vol. Y: , 1901 February-1902 September (corresponds to vols. 15 and 19)
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Labelled Vol. Z: , 1901 November-1913 April (corresponds to vol. 13)
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Labelled Vol. A: , 1902 September-1904 December (corresponds to vol. 17)
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Labelled Vol. B: , 1904 November-1932 July (corresponds to vol. 19)
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Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Co.
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Labelled Vol. E: , 1912 February-1913 March
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Labelled Vol. F: , 1913 February-1915 January
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Labelled Vol. G: , 1915 January-1916 August
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Labelled Vol. H: , 1916 August-1917 November
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Volume
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1904 October-1917 October
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Volume
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, 1905 September-1954 (land and timber)
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Accounts Receivable Ledgers
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Volume
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1906 January-1907 November
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1907 November-1909 December
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1909 December-1912 January
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Volume
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Personal Ledger, 1909 December-1911 January (supplies, food, purchased by employees)
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Volume
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Personal Ledger, 1911 December-1912 April
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Volume
90
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Elkhorn Lumber Co., Ledger, 1894 December, 1901 March-1905 January
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Subseries: Journals
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Joseph Dessert Lumber Co.
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Day Book, 1905 May 9-1908 October 24
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Volume
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1913 January 11-December 8
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1913 December 9-1914 August 31
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1914 August 31-1915 December 31
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Labelled Vol. 1: , 1916 January 1-1917 November 19
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Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Co.
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Labelled Vol. 3: , 1918 December 1-1920 February 29
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Volume
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Labelled Vol. 4: , 1920 March 2-1922 June 30
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Labelled Vol. 5: , 1922 July 1-1924 June 15
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Labelled Vol. 6: , 1924 June 16-1926 May 31
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Labelled Vol. 7: , 1926 June 1-1928 April 30
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Labelled Vol. 8: , 1928 May 1-1930 September 30
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1930 October 1-1934 December 31
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1934 December 31-1935 December 31
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1936 January 1-1937 January 16
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1937 January 16-December 31
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1938 January 1-1939 January 31
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1939 January 31-1940 January 26
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Volume
42
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1940 January 27-November 19
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Volume
43
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1940 November 20-1941 October 11
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Volume
44
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1941 October 11-1942 September 30
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Volume
45
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1942 October 1-1944 April 30
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Volume
46
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1944 May 1-1945 December 29
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Volume
47
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1945 December 29-1947 May 31
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Volume
48
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1947 May 31-1948 December 2
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Volume
49
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1948 December 3-1950 December 31
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Volume
99
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1950 December 31-1953 November 6
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Volume
51
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1953 November 6-1956 October 16
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Volume
89
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Personal Journal, 1948 March 20-1950 February 17
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Subseries: Cash Books
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Volume
59
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Joseph Dessert Lumber Co., 1905 August-1916 February
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Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Co.
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Volume
60
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1906 January-1907 March
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Volume
61
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1908 August-1910 June
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Volume
62
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1912 June-1913 June
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Volume
63
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1913 June-1914 May
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Volume
64
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1914 May-1915 March
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Subseries: Order Books and Day Books
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Volume
65
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Order Book, 1905 January 16-1907 September 21; and Day Book, , 1908 October 24-1916 February 29
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Volume
66
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Order Book, 1906 May-1912 June 6
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Mosinee Land, Lumber and Timber Co.
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Volume
67
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Day Book, 1907 December 4-1909 August 23 (orders for food, hardware, livestock, feed, wood)
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Volume
68
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Day Book, 1908 May 7-1910 March 18 (personal purchases, payments)
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Subseries: Time and Payroll Books
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Volume
71
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1903 January-1909 March
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Volume
72
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1909 August-1912 July
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Volume
73
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1912 November-1913 July
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Volume
74
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Subseries: Miscellaneous Financial Statements, 1913 December-1920 December
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Series: Logging and Lumber Sales Records
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Lumber Invoice Books
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Volume
75
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Joseph Dessert Lumber Co., 1905 August 12-1913 June 24
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Mosinee Land, Lumber and Timber Co.
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Volume
76
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1913 June 25-1920 June 30
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Volume
77
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1920 July 1-1956 August 31
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Volume
78
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Logging Operations Record, 1916 January-1918 April
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Volume
78
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Log Scale Record, 1916-1923
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Volume
78
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Custom Sawing Record, 1916 March-1917 May
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Volume
78
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Sawing Record, 1915 December-1920 June
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Volume
79
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Lumber Journal, 1931 December 8-1934 July 31
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Volume
80
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Miscellaneous Lumber Record Book
: Shows Lumber sales, 1919 April 28-October 14; Individual Logging Records; Company Logging Records; and Sawing Records, 1935 May-June.
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Retail Sales Journals
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Volume
81
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Labelled Vol. 3: , 1921 June 29-1922 December 30
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Volume
82
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Labelled Vol. 4: , 1923 January 1-1924 October 31
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Volume
83
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Labelled Vol. 8: , 1929 June 18-1930 November 29
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Volume
84
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Labelled Vol. 10: , 1938 September 21-1939 December 29
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Volume
85
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1944 July 26-1945 October 31
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Volume
86
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1951 March 31-1952 July 5
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Mosinee Land, Lumber and Timber Co. Building Records
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Estimates
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Volume
87
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1917 August-1921 March
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Volume
88
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1921 September-1927 April
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Volume
91
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“Better Built Homes,” Curtis Woodwork, ca. 1921 (book of plans and sketches of houses)
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Volume
92
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“Home Builders Catalog,” 1926 edition (Chicago: Home Builders Catalog Co., 1925)
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PH 3669 (3)
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Series: Photographs
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