Huss Ontonagon Mill Division Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-812

Staff Only

Collection Scope and Content Summary

Records, 1957-1974, of the Huss Ontonagon Mill Division of Hoerner Boxes, Inc., based in Ontonagon, Michigan. The company operated a pulp mill, power plant, and paper mill in addition to the paperboard mill that was originally operating when the company purchased National Container Corporation's paperboard mill. Includes correspondence, mill expansion bid information, business studies, and maps.

Dates

1957-1974

Access

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

Conditions Governing Use

Various copying restrictions apply. Guidelines are available from Michigan Technological University Archives & Copper Country Historical Collections.

Biography

Huss Ontonagon Pulp and Paper Company was formed by Alvin J. Huss when he expanded the Huss Lumber Company by purchasing National Container Corporation's paperboard mill in Ontonagon, Michigan in 1955. Under its new name the company built a pulp mill, power plant, and paper mill before starting production in 1956. The company expanded again in 1962 when Huss Ontonagon Pulp and Paper Company merged into Hoerner Boxes, Inc., which was based in Keokuk, Iowa with the Ontonagon operation becoming Huss Ontonagon Mill Division. Four years later, Hoerner Boxes, Inc., merged with Waldorf Corporation, a manufacturer of paper packaging products, to become Hoerner Waldorf Corporation. The company was bought by Champion International Corporation in 1977 (excerpted from http://www.foresthistory.org/research/Huss.html, accessed May 2011).