Summary Information

Title: Eldridge M. Fowler Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1805-1931

Creator:

• Fowler, Eldridge M. (Eldridge Merrick), 1833-1904

Call Number: McCormick Mss N

Quantity: 11.9 c.f. (24 archives boxes, 9 flat boxes, and 3 oversize folders)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

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 & Chapman of Bay City, Michigan. He was also president of the St. Anthony Lumber Company in Minnesota, and vice-president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Other business interests included investments in office buildings and docks in Chicago and Duluth; the H.W. Fowler Car Wheel Company; and the Tin Mountain (mining) Company in South Dakota.

Note:

Forms part of the McCormick Collection.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mcc0000n

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