Company Records. 1829-1934.

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Company Records. 1829-1934.

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Correspondence, maps, deeds, land patents, financial records, and miscellany of a lumber company organized in 1854 by Samuel F. Hersey and Isaac Staples of Maine, and several Massachusetts partners. The records provide data on land acquisition, logging, lumber manufacture and marketing, sawmill machinery, labor recruitment, and other aspects of the firm's business, as well as on a general merchandise store and flour mill operated by the firm in Stillwater.

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Minnesota Historical Society

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North Western Saw Mills.

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Smith, William D.

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St. Paul, Stillwater, and Taylor's Falls Railroad Company

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Hersey, Staples and Bean.

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Doe, Alpheus King, 1838-1907.

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Equator (Steamship).

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Bean, Charles, 1827-

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Hersey and Smith (Keithsburg, Ill.).

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Hersey, Staples and Co. (Stillwater, Minn.)

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Hersey, Staples and Co. was organized in 1854 in Stillwater, the leading lumber town in the Minnesota Territory at that time. It was headed by Samuel Freeman Hersey, a native of Maine who already had years of experience in the lumber industry when he started Hersey, Staples and Co. Hersey had two partners in the company; Isaac Staples, also from Maine, and Dudley C. Hall, from Medford, Massachusetts. In addition, dry goods importers John Brooks Fenno and James A. Whitney of Boston h...

Bean, Jacob, 1837-

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Hersey, Staples and Doe.

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Hersey, Samuel Freeman, 1812-1875.

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Hall, Dudley C.

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Hersey, Bronson, Doe and Folsom.

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Bradford, Charles

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Apple River Dam Company.

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Fenno, John Brooks.

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Hersey, Staples and Hall.

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Hersey, Bean and Brown.

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Hersey and Bean.

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Staples, Isaac.

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Eastern Trust.

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Dow, Neal, 1804-1897

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Dow was born in Portland, Maine on March 20, 1804, the son of Josiah Dow and his wife, Dorcas Allen Dow. Josiah Dow was a member of the Society of Friends (commonly known as Quakers) and a farmer originally from New Hampshire. Dorcas Allen was also a Quaker, and a member of a prosperous Maine family headed by her prominent grandfather, Hate-Evil Hall. They had three children, of whom Neal was the middle child and only son. After his marriage, Dow's father opened a tannery in Portland, which soon...