William Heritage papers. 1879-1962.

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William Heritage papers. 1879-1962.

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Papers of a Minnesota logging engineer and forester who spent forty years with the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. Includes correspondence and subject files, land examination field books, work diaries, photograph albums, and maps and papers containing information about logging operations, lumber milling, and other aspects of BIA management of forests on Indian reservations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and several other states.

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United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs

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United States. Forest Service

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Heritage, William, 1888-.

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William Heritage was born August 27, 1888 at Campbell, Dakota Territory (later South Dakota) to John Wesley Dewees Heritage (1862-1946) and his wife Josephine (Minster) Heritage (d.1938). The family later lived on a rented farm near Perlee, Iowa and in 1902 settled on a claim near Ray, Minnesota, in Koochiching County. Heritage attended the Columbia School of Drafting in Washington, D.C., where he studied to become a topographic draftsman. He estimated timber (1908-1910)...

Heritage family.

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E.A. Engler Lumber Company (Baudette, Minn.).

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Kinney, Jay P., 1875-

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Educator; Copperstown, N.Y. Jay P Kinney (no period after the "P") was Jean Quinette's grandfather. b. 1875; d. 1975. Also wrote books on forestry. From the description of Jay P Kinney primers on drawing, 1890-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80061732 ...