Harold J. McCoy Papers 1905-1956

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Harold J. McCoy Papers 1905-1956

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Correspondence, maps, and brochures, documenting McCoy's logging, land investment, and banking interests. Includes correspondence with Frederick Weyerhaeuser (1929-1939) and T.J. Humbird (1920-1931), relating to timber industry labor problems and I.W.W. organizing activities; memos (1918-1934) regarding I.W.W. and radical activities in logging camps; records (1918) of McCoy's involvement with Spruce Production Division, U.S. War Dept., during World War I; and miscellaneous files concerning logging and milling operations in the Pacific Northwest and the failure (1930) of First National Bank of Sandpoint, Idaho. Includes information relating to McCoy's various management positions with Bonners Ferry Lumber Company, Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and other timber firms, and his private engineering consulting business.

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Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture/Eastern Washington State Historical Society Joel E. Ferris Research Library and Archives

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