Records, 1892-1957.

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Records, 1892-1957.

Correspondence and business records including ledgers, expense records, lumber sales and invoices, Social Security records, inventories, daily transactions, records of payment, receipts, payrolls, sales registers, cash books, merchandise purchases, and voucher registers, relating to logging, lumber, railroad, and sawmill operations; together with blueprints; correspondence, notes, deeds, and title opinions related to purchases of timber; graphs; pamphlets written by Benjamin B. Foster giving a history of the company and material concerning John McCullough Foster; and newspaper clippings relating to the closing of the mill at Fostoria, Tex., in 1957.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8045281

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Foster Lumber Company

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Founded by John McCullough Foster; est. first retail lumberyard at Randolph, Kans., in 1879; began sawmill operations in Texas in 1906; closed in 1957. From the description of Records, 1892-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70925763 ...

Foster, John McCullough, 1832-1899

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Foster, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Butler), 1863-

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