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A Michigan Lumbering Family

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Ruth B. Bordin
Ruth B. Bordin
Affiliation:
Assistant Curator Michigan Historical Collections atUniversity of Michigan
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Abstract

The bonanza lure of lumbering proved irresistible to many established small businessmen, who were dazzled by the prospects of cheap raw materials and simple processing, on the one hand, and by growing markets on the other. Disillusionment was frequent, but amidst crushing difficulties created by inexperience and inadequate capital the small operator proved remarkably ingenious and persistent. His often ill-rewarded and seemingly unjustified ventures contributed much to the economic growth of the nation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , Spring 1960 , pp. 64 - 76
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1960

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2 Letter, June 28, 1854, G. O. Whittemore to James Whittemore, in the Whittemore Papers, Michigan Historical Collections, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, hereafter cited as the Whittemore Papers.

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22 Ibid.

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24 Letter, Oct. 11, 1859, A. B. Mathews to James Whittemore, Whittemore Papers.

25 Ibid.

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