Papers, 1833-1835, 1860-1899.

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Fowler, Eldridge M. (Eldridge Merick), 1833-1904. Papers, 1833-1835, 1860-1899.

Papers, 1833-1835, 1860-1899.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145785823

Papers documenting the lumber and land-related business activities of Eldridge Fowler, brother of Nettie Fowler McCormick. Fowler was a highly successful timber baron in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin. His companies included Fowler and Chapman of Bay City, Michigan. He was also president of the St. Anthony Lumber Co. in Minnesota, and vice-president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Other business interests included investments in office buildings and docks in Chicago and Duluth; the H. W. Fowler Car Wheel Co.; and the Tin Mountain (mining) Co. in South Dakota.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project