Goodman Lumber Company Collection

Collection — sc_box: MS 3, Folder: 22

Identifier: MS-684

Staff Only

Collection Scope and Content Summary

Collection, compilation by James Pollock, chief geologist at Calumet and Hecla, Inc. of articles, pamphlets and maps on the Goodman Lumber Company, bought in 1955 by Calumet and Hecla, Inc. and known as the Goodman Lumber Division of Calumet and Hecla, Inc.

Dates

undated

Access

Available for use in the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections.

Biography

"The Goodman Lumber Company was founded in 1907, originally formed to salvage several million feet of white pine timber that had been killed or damaged by fire. Immediately after its organization, the company began negotiations for the purchase of additional timberland in northwestern Marinette County, Wisconsin and adjacent counties. The Goodman Lumber Company consisted of C.A. Goodman, president; W.O. Goodman, vice-president; R.F. Goodman, treasurer; K. Sawyer Goodman, assistant treasurer; and R.B. Goodman, secretary and resident manager. The major figures in the actual operations of the company were Charles A. Goodman and Robert B. Goodman" (Randall E. Rohe, “Goodman: The Company Town That Outlived the Company,” Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin’s Historical Review 19 (Summer-Fall 2002): 33-37).