Title: Mitchell and McClure Lumber Company records Creator: Mitchell and McClure Lumber Company. Dates: 1866-1928 Extent: 11 linear feet, 10 microfilms Location: Portions located in offsite storage; prior notification required for access. Abstract:
Records of the Mitchell and McClure Lumber Company of Saginaw, Michigan and Duluth, Minnesota. Correspondence and financial papers concerning company land and lumbering enterprises, and later activities in home building, silo construction, and silage production; records of A.J. Stevens & Co. and McClure-Stevens Land Company of Gladwin, Michigan also business files and diaries of company co-founder, William C. McClure.
Call number: 85538 Bb.2 2 Language: The material is in English Repository: Bentley Historical Library
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Finding aid created by Michigan Historical Collections staff
Access and Use
Acquisition Information:
The record group was the gift of Mrs. Grace S. McClure (donor no. 629) and came to the library in 1954.
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Preferred Citation:
[item], folder, box, Mitchell and McClure Lumber Company records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
History
William C. McClure was born in Ohio in 1842. In 1865, following service in the Civil War, McClure worked for the Mitchell & Rowland Lumber Company of Toledo as a book-keeper. In 1867, he moved to Michigan becoming the company's general agent. In 1869, he began working for the John McGraw & Co. of Bay City. In 1879, in association with Jethro Mitchell of Cincinnati and John A. Hamilton of Toledo, and under the company name of Hamilton, McClure & Co., the three men purchased the mill of W.R. Burt & Co., one of the principal sawmills on the Saginaw River. With Hamilton's death in 1886, the business was reorganized under the name of Mitchell & McClure. About this time, as their lumber tracts in Michigan began to diminish, the firm began purchasing and grouping together large tracts of pine lands near Duluth, Minnesota. The company began construction of a mill here and worked to develop eastern, as well as mid-western markets for their lumber products.
Collection Scope and Content Note
The record group is divided into the following series: Mitchell and McClure Lumber Company; William C. McClure materials; Other Business Enterprises; and Financial records. In addition to the records of the company, the record group includes documentation of other enterprises, such as home building and silo construction and silage production. There are also some records of the A.J. Stevens Land Company of Gladwin, Michigan. The William C. McClure series is important for the run of personal diaries maintained by McClure in the period of 1872-1903.
Subject Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the finding aid database and catalog of The Bentley Historical Library/University of Michigan. Researchers desiring additional information about related topics should search the catalog using these headings.
Business records.
Construction industry.
Crime.
Gladwin (Mich.) -- Businesses.
Land use -- Michigan.
Logging -- Michigan.
Lumbering -- Michigan.
Minnesota.
Saginaw (Mich.) -- Businesses.
Silos.
Diaries.
Mitchell and McClure Lumber Company.
A.J. Stevens & Co.
McClure, William C., 1842-1904.
McClure-Stevens Land Company.
Contents List
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Container / Location
Title
Mitchell and McClure Lumber Company [series]
Business Papers
(includes deeds, work reports, contracts, patents, tax statements, and related materials)
Box 1
Undated
(folder 1-1)
Box 1
1886-1889
(folder 1-2)
Box 1
1890
(folder 1-3)
Box 1
1891-1894
(folder 1-4)
Box 1
1895
(folder 1-5)
Box 1
1896
(folder 1-6)
Box 1
1897
(folder 1-7)
Box 1
1898
(folder 1-8)
Box 1
1899-1900
(folder 1-9)
Box 1
1901-1902
(folder 1-10; 1-11)
Box 1
1903
(folder 1-12)
Box 1
1904
(folder 1-13)
Box 1
1905
(folder 1-14)
Box 1
1906
(folder 1-15)
Box 1
1907
(folder 1-16)
Box 1
1908
(folder 1-17)
Box 1
1909
(folder 1-18; 1-19)
Box 1
1910
(folder 1-20)
Box 1
1911
(folder 1-21)
Box 1
1912
(folder 1-22)
Box 1
1913
(folder 1-23)
Box 1
1914
(folder 1-24)
Box 1
1915-1925, 1928
(folder 1-25)
Correspondence (chronological)
Box 2
1871-1880, undated
(folder 2-1)
Box 2
1881-1883
(folder 2-2)
Box 2
1884
(folder 2-3)
Box 2
1885-1890
(folder 2-4)
Box 2
1891-1894
(folder 2-5)
Box 2
Regarding Pinkerton Agency investigation of land claims in Minnesota 1895-1896
(folder 2-6)
Box 2
1895-1897
(folder 2-7)
Box 2
1898-1899
(folder 2-8)
Box 2
1900-1901
(folder 2-9)
Box 2
1902
(folder 2-10)
Box 2
1903
(folder 2-11)
Box 2
1904-1905
(folder 2-12)
Box 2
1906
(folder 2-13)
Box 2
With Homer Guerry, Washington, D.C. attorney 1916-1918
(6 folders)
(folder 2-14---2-19)
Box 2
1907-1909
(folder 2-20)
Box 2
With the Chapman Lumber Co., San Francisco, Calif. 1910-1917
(folder 2-21)
Box 2
1910-1911
(folder 2-22)
Box 2
1912
(folder 2-23)
Box 2
1913
(folder 2-24)
Box 2
1914
(folder 2-25)
Box 2
1915-1917
(folder 2-26)
Box 2
1918-1919
(folder 2-27)
Box 2
1920-1927
(folder 2-28)
Correspondence (chronological/alphabetical)
Box 3
A-Z 1895-1902
(10 folders)
Box 3
A-L 1903
(27 folders)
Box 4
M-Z 1903
(19 folders)
Box 4
A-Hi 1904-1905
(13 folders)
Box 5
Ho-Z 1904-1905
(19 folders)
Box 5
A-C and M-R (lacking other letters) 1906-1909
(16 folders)
