Collection on Hiram P. Graham, 1854-1932.

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Collection on Hiram P. Graham, 1854-1932.

Correspondence, clippings, and a cemetery plot certificate pertaining to Hiram P. Graham, president of Phoenix Manufacturing Company, first mayor of Eau Claire, and postmaster general from 1888-1889. Includes an 1885 letter from Eau Claire citizens recommending him as postmaster general.

0.1 linear feet (3 folders)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7108248

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University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire. McIntyre Library. Special Collections & Archives.

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The plant that ultimately became the Uniroyal plant was founded in 1916 by R.B. Gillette as the Gillette Rubber Company. In 1940, the United States Rubber Company, later Uniroyal, Inc., purchased Gillette. For a brief period during World War II the Eau Claire plant was called the Gillette Tire Plant. The plant closed in 1991, following the purchase of Uniroyal Goodrich by Michelin et Cie. For a more detailed history of the Uniroyal plant in Eau Claire, see the finding aid for Eau Claire Mss CB. ...

Graham, Hiram P., 1820-1902.

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