Summary Information

Title: John S. Owen Lumber Company Records
Inclusive Dates: 1875-1955

Creator:

• John S. Owen Lumber Company

Call Number: Eau Claire Mss E

Quantity: 204.0 cubic feet (94 archives boxes and 565 volumes)

Repository:

Housed at the Area Research Center, William D. McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Eau Claire McIntyre Library / Eau Claire Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Business records covering not only lumbering and logging operations in northwestern Wisconsin by the Owen Lumber Company, but also related enterprises in lumber, real estate, railroads, and cotton in the Pacific Northwest, South Dakota, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Subsidiary or related companies included the Owen-Oregon Lumber Company, California & Oregon Lumber Company, Del Norte Company, Three States Lumber Company, Gilbert Lumber Company, Owen Box and Crating Company, Pierre Lumber Company, Owen Falls Mining Company, the Blytheville, Burdette and Mississippi River Railroad Company, and the Drummond and Southwestern Railway Company.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ec000e

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