History of northern Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources; an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories; biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers; views of county seats, etc., Part 196

Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1052

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The Hotels .- The leading hotel of Appleton is the Wa- verly House, corner of Appleton and Lawrence streets. It is a large, imposing three-story brick building, with Man- sard roof, and under the management of W. H. Cottrill is carried on in splendid style. The Briggs House, on Ed- wards street, which has been so much enlarged and im- proved within the past year, is deservedly popular. Its land- lord, L. S. Townsend, is a veteran in the business. The Northwestern Hotel, on Appleton street, A. Hettinger, pro- prietor, is the most patronized by the German element. The Broadway, Appleton, Forest City, Levake houses and the Crescent Hotel also stand well and are doing a good business.

MANUFACTURING.

Appleton Paper and Pulp Company is a joint stock company, incorporated in 1873 by H. J. Rogers, A. M. Hastings, Gustave Ames, William M. Van Nortwick and A. B. Brown, with a capital stock of $200,000, of which only one-half has been called in. The manufactory and offices of the company are on the north side of the river, just be- low the upper dam, and their water-power is computed at 1,000-horse power, of which they utilize about one-half. The paper and pulp mills are under one roof, the main building being 30x90 feet, three stories in height, with one wing 40x50, and another 24x60 feet, and a third 50x140 feet. The machinery consists of seven 600 pounds, and one Jordan engine, three Otis wood grinders, two Fourdri- nier machines, one sixty-eight inch and one ninety-inch, with a capacity of six and one-half tons of print paper daily, this article of paper being the exclusive manufacture of the mills. The works give constant employment to a force of seventy hands, and the market is principally at Chicago, St. Louis and Milwaukee. The tracks of all rail- roads at this point are laid to the doors of the manufactory, and facilities for receipts and shipments of freight are most complete.

H. J. ROGERS, the only resident member of the company, and its secretary and treasurer, is a native of New York, from which State he removed to Colorado. in 1859, residing there and in Wyoming until his coming to this city, in 1873. He is vice-president of the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company ; one of the directors of the Gaslight Com- pany ; a stockholder in other individual concerns, and the present Alder- man of the Third Ward.

Atlas Paper Company .- This joint stock company was organized October 1, 1878; has a paid up capital of $250,000, and its present officers are: J. T. Averil, presi- dent; J. A. Kimberly, vice-president; W. H. Stowell, sec- retary and treasurer ; C. B. Clark, general manager. This company is engaged in the manufacture of wood-pulp and paper, a part of the pulp product being used in their paper mill. The pulp mill is a two-story frame, 150x75 feet, situ- ated on the north side of the river, supplied with 1,000- horse power from the upper level, runs twelve stones and has a daily product of five tons of pulp. The paper mill consists of the main room, 75x150, one story and basement and an engine room, Sox120, two stories and basement, supplied with fourteen 600 pounds and one Jordan engine, one 68-inch double, one 68-inch three cylinders, and one 78-inch Fourdrinier machines, and has a daily capacity of

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ten tons of manila and news paper with a motor of 500- horse power. The wood-pulp is manufactured from pop- lar, spruce and pine, prepared blocks of which are ground by mechanical pressure upon immense grindstones. The operations of this company give employment to a force of 135 hands and two teams.

Kimberly & Clark Company was incorporated as a joint stock company January 1, 1881, by J. A. Kimberly, C. B. Clark, H. A. Babcock, F. C. Shattuck, and is the outgrowth of a co-partnership formed by the same parties in 1872. The capital stock of the company is $400,000, paid up, the principal office is at Neenah, and the present officers are : J. A. Kimberly, president ; H. A. Babcock, vice-president ; C. B. Clark, secretary ; F. C. Shattuck, treasurer. The business of this company at this point consists in the manu- facture of paper and flour, the principal shipment of pro- duct being in the home market, although they supply some foreign demand. Their flouring mill, a substantial brick, 75×75, was re-built from an old frame mill in 1879, at which time the company purchased that property. It is a mer- chant roller, with a capacity of 500 barrels daily, its average product being about four-fifths that amount, and gives em- ployment to a force of fifteen hands. Their Vulcan Paper mill, a solid brick and stone structure, 150x85, three stories and basement, was built in 1881, and operations com- menced July 20 of that year. It is provided with eight 600-pound and one Jordan engine, and one 86-inch Four- drinier machine. It has a daily capacity of five tons of No. 1 print and super-calendared or book paper. It manu- factures from stock, not pulp, gives employment to a force of fifty hands, twenty per cent of whom are skilled labor- ers, and markets its product principally in Chicago, Mil- waukee and Minneapolis. These mills are located on the south side of the river, and draw their water directly from the upper level, utilizing in their operations about 800- horse power. Facilities for shipments are unsurpassed, all railroads centering at this point receiving and discharging freight at their doors.

C. B. CLARK, business manager of the company's operations here, is a native of New York, from which State he came to Wisconsin in 1855. Entered the service during the late Rebellion as a member of the 2Ist Wis. I., was mustered out as first-lieutenant, and returning to Nee- nah, was engaged in hardware trade until 1872, when he entered into a business partnership with the gentlemen now forming the Kimberly & Clark Company.

Western Wood Pulp Mills, J. Bradner Smith Company. -This company is a non-resident one. Their manufactory is upon the south side of the river on the wing of the upper dam, and is a two-story frame building, 66x159 feet. Their business is the manufacture of wood-pulp, of which they turn out from five to six tons of dry product every twenty- four hours, employing thirty hands and consuming from six to eight cords of poplar wood. The establishment is pro- vided with twelve grinding and one wet machine, utilizes about 700-horse power of their unlimited supply.

O. W. CLARK, superintendent of the works, is a native of New York ; has been a resident of this city thirty-one years, and followed his trade as a millwright until 1871, at which date he put the machinery into the pulp mill of which he is now superintendent, and then assumed charge for the proprietors. A staunch Republican, he was made Mayor of city in 1879, though at that time it had a decided Democratic majority.

Richmond Brothers, manufacturers of paper, mill on fourth lock, water drawn from Government Canal. Business established in 1860; manufactory proper consists of the main building, 40x60 feet, three stories, and two wings, one 30x48 feet, two stories, and one 40x90 feet. Busi- ness consists in the manufacture of paper, principally man- ila and wrapping, of which they produce about four tons daily, employing a force of thirty hands. The manufactory was completely overhauled and refitted in 1877, and put in first-class order, and new machinery added. The members of the firm are G. N., N. and C. P Richmond.

G. N. RICHMOND, is a native of New York, from which State he came to Wisconsin in 1851. He was engaged in merchandising at Port- age City until the breaking out of the war, when he entered the service with the 2nd Wis. V. C., and was mustered out as major in 1864. The fol lowing year he removed to this city and took active direction of the paper manufactory. He was for two years Mayor of the city, was three times elected to the State Legislature, and was State Senator, session of 1877-78.

C. P. RICHMOND is also a native of New York. He came West in 1849, and four years later removed to this city, and built a paper mill on the upper dam, which was burned down in 1859. The same year operations were begun for resuming business on the present site, and the following year the work was completed aud the new manufactory started. Mr. Richmond is a member of the City School Board.

N. RICHMOND is a native of New York, and coming West with his brother, C. P., has been associated in business with him.

Valley Pulp Paper Mills, of this city, was organized under the direction of Welcome Hyde, in 1880, with a cap- ital stock of $50,000, and officered as follows: Welcome Hyde, president ; W. A. Clark, secretary; D. M. Hyde, treasurer. Operations were commenced the same year, with the erection of a pulp mill 50x60 feet, two stories in height, at the bulkhead on the south channel, and manu- facturing continued one year, when the paper mill was ad- ded. This was in the form of two additions to the old building, one, 33x60, and one 83x85, boiler house 14x30 feet, and office 12x16 feet. The mills are supplied with two Allen & Jones wood grinders, three 800 pound beater en- gines, one rotary boiler, six and a half feet in diameter and twenty-four feet between heads, and one sixty-eight Four- drinier machine. Pulp product averages from one and a half to two tons daily, and is all utilized in the manufacture of "bogus manila paper," of which the average daily product is two and a half tons. Number of operators employed forty.

Appleton Manufacturing Company was incorporated February 9, 1875, by B. T. Rogers, G. D. Rowell and J. N. Morris. Capital stock $25,000. The present officers of the company are: J. B. Berge, president ; D. J. Woodard. secretary, and G. D. Rowell, treasurer. Office and sales- room at No. 423 College avenue. The manufactory of the company is on the north sideof the river, just below the At- las Company's paper mill, and their business consists in the manufacture of all kinds of agricultural implements, seeders, cultivators, plows, harrows, etc., under patents owned and controlled by themselves. Their buildings are, the manu- factory proper, 160x36 feet, two stories high, the upper story used for wood shop and paint room ; a foundry 42x48 feet ; two warehouses, one 24x30, and one 24x36, two stories ; a blacksmith shop and grinding room, 24x90 feet ; a pattern room, 18x18 feet, and office, 18x24 feet. The operations of

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the firm give employment to a force of from twenty-five to thirty-five men, and their last year's product footed, 650 seeders, 900 cultivators, 300 'harrows, 600 plows, 200 road scrapers, 200 feed cutters, besides repairs and small lots. Product is principally sold to the Wisconsin and North- western trade. The present members of the firm are, J. B. Berge, D. J. Woodard and G. D. Rowell. They are also en- gaged in a general machine shop and foundry business, their work in this line being principally shafting and other mill work.

J. B. BERGE is a native of New York, from which State he came westward in 1851, settling in Dodge County, where, for ten years, he was engaged in business as a builder, and then commenced the manufacture of agricultural implements, which he carried on until his removal to Ap- pleton in 1870, where he was two years engaged in livery business, be- fore resuming his old business, as manufacturer of agricultural imple- ments.

D. J. WOODARD is a native of New Hampshire; from which State he came to Wisconsin in 1857, and was principally engaged in mer- cantile business at Watertown. until his removal to this city in 1873; at which time, in company with J. B. Berge, he opened a livery stable, and commenced dealing in farming machinery, which business he conducted until 1875 ; since which time he has devoted his entire attention to the interests of the manufacturing company.

G. D. ROWELL is a native of New York. Came to Wisconsin with his father's family, in 1842 Was bred to his present business, in his father's shop, from a boy, and bas always followed it. He has been a resident of this city since 1872.

A. D. Flemming & Co., manufacturers of reaping twine, tow and flax. This manufactory, yet in its infancy, is one of the most important industrial movements in the Fox River Valley, opening, as it does, a new source of revenue to the agriculturists of Northern Wisconsin. It is located on Grand Chute Island, near the lower end of West's Canal, upon which their premises front 280 feet, running to the center of the river, in the rear, a distance of about 500 feet. Their water is drawn from West's Canal, and the estimated power is 270-horse power. Their buildings are: a twine factory, 50x100 feet, three stories, with a brick wing, 24x36 feet, for carding-room ; two warerooms, respectively, 50x100 feet, and 60x125 feet, with a wing, 40x60, for scutching and breaking flax ; all with solid stone and pile foundations. Their machinery is from one of the largest machine shops in Great Britain, where the production of flax machinery has long been made a specialty. Additions will be made, from time to time, as the industry develops, until the whole will be complete, with oil and twine mills fully equipped, when a force of from 300 to 500 hands will find constant employ- ment. The stripping of flax was begun August 24, 1881, at which time there were in store about 500 tons of raw material, but the machinery was not in place for manufactur- ing twine until the following October. The members of the firm are A. D. Flemming and John Flemming.

A. D. FLEMMING is a native of Belfast, Ireland, where his father was extensively engaged in the culture and manufacture of flax, with which industry Mr. A. D. Flemming was practically acquainted before his coming to this country, in 1869, since which time he has been engaged in dry goods trade, principally in Indiana. He has been a resident of this city since 1878, at which time he opened a large dry goods house on Col- lege avenue, but ceased operations in the Fall of 1881, to give his atten- tion entirely to his manufacturing interests.

JOIIN FLEMMING came to America in 1874, since which date he has been associated in business with his brother.

Briggs & Beveridge, sash, doors and blinds, manufactory and office on the north side of the river, just above Second

Ward bridge. This business was established in 1861, a lit- tle west of its present location, by Cross & Bartlet ; be- came Cross & Briggs in 1878, and was conducted by Briggs alone from 1869 to 1871, when the manufactory was de- stroyed by fire. In 1872, the present manufactory was built, and two years later the firm became Briggs & Wam- bold, by whom the business was conducted until 1877, when Mr. Wambold sold out his interest to B. Beveridge, Jr., and the firm became, as at present, Briggs & Beveridge. They have now upon their premises-the main building, erected in 1872, 40x84 feet, two stories, brick veneer; a wing 20x84 ; an office and glazing room 32x34, and their operations give constant employment to a force of twenty men and one dray. The members of the firm are A. B. Briggs and B. Beveridge, Jr. Shipping facilities are good; the premises having easy access to the tracks of the Chicago & North- western, the Wisconsin Central and the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western.

A. B. BRIGGS is a native of New York ; has been a resident of Wis- consin since 1846, and of this city for the past thirty-two years. Heis a practical mechanic, and was engaged in house building previous to en- gaging in his present business, in 1868.

B. BEVERIDGE, JR., is a native of New Brunswick, in which province he was engaged in general merchandising previous to his removal to this city, in 1877.

Marston & Beveridge, manufacturers of hubs, spokes and wagon stock, factory on Grand Chute Island. This business was established by Jerard & Mason, in 1862; be- came Mason & Marston in 1864, and Marston & Beveridge in 1872. Their premises front 175 on Wert's Canal, and run to the middle of the channel. Their buildings are- the hub and spoke factory, a story and a half building 50X112 feet, furnished with a double set of machinery ; paint-house, 30x70 feet ; office, 30x12 feet, besides dry houses and shed room, having a capacity of 4,000 sets. They eni- ploy a force of thirty-two hands and two teams, and turn out stock for 18,000 wagons annually. The members of the firm are J. H. Marston and C. A. Beveridge.

J. H. MARSTON is a native of New Hampshire, but his business life has been principally spent in this State to which he came in 1843, settling in Racine, and from there removing to Appleton, in 1851. In 1861, he enlisted forty men for Co. E, 6th Wis. I., and on July 12, of that year, was mustered into the United States service as second lieuten- ant. He was subsequently promoted captain of his company, and, as such, was mustered out in 1864, and returned home. He was Mayor of the city in 1878.

C. A. BEVERIDGE is a native of New Brunswick, and previous to coming to this city, in 1871, was engaged in mercantile business in that province.

Syme & Jones, manufacturers of flour barrel stock. The manufactory is located in the First Ward, just south of the track of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, on a tract of six acres of land, upon which are the following buildings : manufactory, 36x60 feet, with a wing 22x24 feet ; engine room 32x37 ; dry kiln, 20x50; a two-story wareroom, 22x32 feet, with a wing 22×40 feet and an office 12×16 feet. Stock is delivered by team and rail, about three-fourths of that used being found on the timber lands in this vicinity. The works employ a force of from twenty- five to sixty hands, according to seasons, and have a capa- city of 1,500 sets daily, the average yearly product being about two-thirds the capacity. The boiler has capacity for

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a 70-horse-power engine, though only a 40-horse-power engine is employed, the surplus steam being used in the dry-kiln. Shipments are general throughout the North- western market outside of Chicago.

DANIEL JONES, the resident member of the firm, is a native of Vermont, where he was brought up on a farm. He came to Wisconsin in 1849, settled at Menasha, and the following year, in partnership with Messrs. Beckwith & Rice, engaged in the manufacture of wooden-ware. This business he sold out in 1858, and engaged in the manufacture of hubs and spokes, under the firm name of Fisher & Jones, which business he continued until 1870. He then commenced the manufacture of staves, as a member of the firm of A. Syme & Co., which was followed until their manufactory was destroyed by fire, in 1879. Business was then closed up, and Appleton being considered a more desirable location for that business, a removal was made to this city, and operations commenced the following year.

Excelsior Manufactory, Thomas Patton, proprietor, was established late in the Summer of 1881 in a three-story building, 30x60 feet, on the bank of the Government Ca- nal, below Grand Chute Island. The business consists in the manufacture of upholstering material from soft wood- principally basswood. The machinery consists of six double machines, each with two sets of knives, and their capacity is about 7,000 pounds of manufactured product in a run of ten hours, calling for a force of eight hands. The machines are constructed solely by S. A. Forsaith & Co., of New Hampshire, under close patents, and the product is put upon the market in 250-pound bales.

THOMAS PATTON is a native of Massachusetts, and was engaged in the manufacture of furniture there previous to coming to this State in 1880.

T. W. Brown, manufacturer of pumps. Location, on the north side of the river, below middle dam. Premises front 250 feet on canal, and run to the center of the river. Man- ufactory is 30x50 feet. Turns out 1,000 pumps annually, and gives employment to three persons.

MR. BROWN is a native of Maine, and was engaged in the manu- facture of wooden-ware there, previous to his removal to Appleton in 1854. Here he was engaged in the manufacture of sash, doors and blinds until 1868, when he commenced the manufacture of pumps on the upper water power, removing to his present location three years later. Of late years, he has given his attention principally to the improvement of his real estate within the city limits, upon which he is erecting dwell- ing houses. He built the first briek dwelling house erected in this city, in 1856, and the second brick building of any description. He was for six years a member of the City Board of Education. His present wife, whom he married in 1880, Miss Ophelia Forward, is one of the trustees of Laurence University, and for three years previous to her marriage was preceptress in that institution.

Billings & Morrison, manufacturers of spokes, Grand Chute Island, just below Second Ward bridge. Premises front fifty feet on dam, run 150 to the rear, have an available power of 140-horse power, and their capacity is 2.500 wagon spokes daily, to produce which they employ a force of fifteen hands. They commenced business in 1874, and market almost exclusively in Wisconsin and Illinois. The members of the firm are H. M. Billings and C. B. Morrison.

MR. BILLINGS is a native of Walworth Co., Wis., and previous to establishing business here. in 1874, was engaged in clerking in the central part of the State.

Appleton Furnace Company was organized in 1876, by A. L. Smith, H. D. Smith, and E. C. Foster. The fur- naces were built by the Appleton Iron Company, the first stack in 1870, the second in 1872. This company conducted operations until the property was turned over to the present

company in 1876, who now run both stacks of these. One is stone-cased, the other iron; they are each forty feet in height, and the diameter at their bases is respectively eight feet three inches and eight feet four inches, their capacity from forty to forty-five tons daily. Ore is drawn from the Mar- quette and Menominee ranges, and all shipments of ore and iron are by rail, principally over the tracks of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Coal is furnished by teams from the vicinity of the furnaces and from kilns along the lines of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad. The furnaces are located at the lower end of Grand Chute Island where the company have a tract of seven acres, and the buildings upon these premises are, a double casting house, 60x40 feet ; machinery house, 60x60 feet ; stock house, 60x60 feet ; besides the usual sheds, stables, wood and iron repair shops, offices, etc. Power is supplied by one hor- izontal blowing engine, 3x6; one upright, 47/2x512; one water wheel for blowing engine, 55 inches diameter, affording 81-horse power ; one wheel for crushing, 31 inches diameter, giving 22-horse power; and one, 171/2 inches diameter, for elevating, giving 6-horse power, a total of 385- horse power. The premises have a river front of over 1,000 feet and about 400 feet of available dock. The number of hands at the furnaces is about forty-five on an average. This is independent of the number employed at the kilns, wood cutters and teamsters, who swell the number of actual employes on the rolls of the company to 350.

H. D. SMITH, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the com- pany, is a native of Ohio, from which State he went to Ann Arbor, Mich. in 1859. He pursued his studies there until his junior course was finished at the university, then spent one year in the law department and was admitted to practice at the Bar there in June, 1864. He then removed to Marquette in the Northern Peninsula, for the practice of his profession, was elected District Attorney the same Fall, served twoterms. In 1871, upon the organization of the Citizen's Bank of Marquette, he became its cashier and retained that position until he sold out his interest there in 1873, and removed to Appleton, to assume charge of the furnaces of the Appleton Iron Company. Mr. Smith is also president of the National Furnace Company, having stacks at De Pere and Green Bay. Ile was the last President of the village of Marquette, holding that office at the time it was incorporated as a city.

Alfred Galpin's Sons, hardware, on College avenue, be- tween Morrison and Durkee streets. This business was established by Ira Cummings, in 1853, who was succeeded by Walter Russell, Alfred Galpin becoming a partner of the latter in 1864. Two years later, the business passed entire- ly into the hands of Mr. Galpin, who, having trained his sons to the trade, turned it over to them in 1877. The present members of the firm are A. S. Galpin and H. Gal- pin. The store building, owned by Alfred Galpin, is a two- story brick, fronts twenty-two and one-half feet on College avenue, the upper story used as a storeroom and workshop. Business gives employment to a force of ten hands, and includes a small wholesale trade with country merchants.

ALFRED GALPIN is a native of England, where he was engaged in dry goods trade prior to coming to Wisconsin, in 1848. Ile first set. tled in Waukesha County, and from there, in 1856, came to Appleton, engaging in hardware trade, as previously stated. Ilas served his ward as Alderman, and was for some years Justice of the Peace.

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Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company Number of Pages: 1052

Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1052