Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company Forest Survey Records, 1896-1943 1919-1943.

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Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company Forest Survey Records, 1896-1943 1919-1943.

Forest survey records, 1896-1943, describes land owned by the company on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Along with the survey notes are copies of notes prepared by Henry S. Graves in 1896 as part of his working plan for the management of the company's forest lands, and a copy of a report on forest management of the area in the 1930s, written by J. W. Toumey. The land described in these records extends from the edge of the Ottawa National Forest to Sault Ste. Marie.

2.0 cubic feet; 2 paige boxes.

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Graves, Henry Solon, 1871-1951

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Henry Solon Graves was born on May 3, 1871 in Marietta, Ohio. He was a forester and organized the School of Forestry at Yale University. Graves died in Brattleboro, Vermont on March 7, 1951. Graves attended Yale University (B.A. 1892, M.A. 1900), Harvard University, and the University of Munich, Germany. From 1900-1910, he was director of the Yale Forestry School. Graves was chief forester of the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1910-1920. In 1923 he returned to Yale University, where he was ...

Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company

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The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company was formed in 1891 with the merger of the Cleveland Iron Mining Co. and the Iron Cliffs Co. The Michigan office of the new company was established in Ishpeming. By the turn of the century, the company comprised a combination of constituent, allied and associated companies. Some were mining concerns, but others were established or aquired to provide transportation, to deal in land and lumber, or to manufacture products from iron or lumber. The Land and Lumbering ...

Toumey, J. W

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