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Summary Information
Hixon and Company Records
1856-1928
- Hixon and Company (La Crosse, Wis.)
La Crosse Mss B
54.0 cubic feet (101 archives boxes including 157 volumes, and 87 separate volumes)
UW-La Crosse Murphy Library / La Crosse Area Research Ctr. (Map)
Records of the lumber business and other investments of Gideon C. Hixon and his son Frank P. Hixon of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Correspondence, letter books, journals, ledgers, and other financial and legal papers document the extensive business enterprises of the Hixon family in Wisconsin and other states in the Midwest (Kansas, Minnesota, and Missouri), West, and South as well as Ontario and British Columbia. Various lumber company records contain information on many facets of the industry, especially in northwestern Wisconsin, including transportation and freight rates, lumber grading and pricing, the use of water and water rights, and taxation. Also included is pre-1900 correspondence containing information and hand-sketched illustrations of the logmarks used in that region. Lumber industry labor relations, union activity, and the influence of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is documented in letters written from 1917 to 1920. Other industrial and commercial concerns documented in the collection include flour and woolen mills, cattle ranches, tanneries, banks, railroads, pulp and paper manufacturing, electric power, and street railways. Included are business records, 1878-1919, of the T.B. Scott Lumber Company, a major affiliate of Hixon and Company as well as company records from the Crosby Hardwood Company; the Crosby Cattle Company; the Rousseau and Shepard Lumber Company; the Oneida Lumber Company; the McCloud River Lumber Company; the National Cooperage Company; Davis, Medary & Platz; and others.
English
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