Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company records 1871-1920

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Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company records 1871-1920

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Corporate records of C.J.L. Meyer of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and Hermansville, Michigan, manufacturer of doors, lumber for sashes, hardwood flooring, and related products; records of the William Mueller Company of Escanaba and LaBranche, Michigan, a firm taken over by Wisconsin Land and Lumber in 1909. Financial journals, ledgers, inventories, payroll ledgers; letterbooks of C.J.L. Meyer, Edwin P. Radford, company superintendent, and of other company officials; office correspondence files; and photographs.

42 linear ft., 65 oversize volumes, and 71 microfilm reels.

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Bentley Historical Library

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The Wisconsin Land and Lumber Company of Hermansville, Michigan was originally founded as a subsidiary firm of Charles J. L. Meyer, a successful Chicago and Wisconsin businessman. Meyer, following the Chicago fire of 1871, made a fortune by expanding his door and sash manufacturing plant located in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. As one of the few such facilities in the upper Great Lakes region, Meyer profited handsomely from the rebuilding of Chicago. By the mid-1870s, lumber s...

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Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company

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William Mueller Company.

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Meyer, C. J. L.

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