Title: New York and De Pere Iron Company Records
Inclusive Dates: 1864-1867

Creator:

• New York and De Pere Iron Company

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 24

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 volumes)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Journal and ledger recording financial operations of a business promoted by Joseph G. Lawton, one of the first companies to experiment with iron production in Brown County, Wis.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0024

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The New York & De Pere Iron Company was among the industrial ventures promoted and/or founded at De Pere, Wisconsin by Joseph G. Lawton (1822-1896). By the 1860s, Lawton owned the major water power rights at the dam in De Pere and adjacent lands on both sides of the Fox River. In 1864 following his Civil War service, he went east to raise capital with which he attempted the establishment of iron manufacture and linen manufacture. In 1866, the New York & De Pere Iron Company made an effort to establish a blast furnace in West De Pere, but after many failures the company went bankrupt in 1867. In the spring of 1868, the firm of Blanchard and Arnold of Milwaukee acquired the property and established the successful Fox River Iron Company.

Note

Biographical data on Lawton and piecemeal references to his industrial promotions and mills and factories are found in published Brown County histories and biographical volumes, and in the Green Bay Advocate and Green Bay Gazette for the 1860s. De Pere newspapers of later periods contain references to his later career.

Acquisition Information

Transferred from the Wisconsin Historical Society's Archives' local government records holdings of Brown County records, 1964.

Processing Information

Processed by Jack T. Ericson, March 31, 1964.

Volume   1	Journal, 1864-1867
Volume   2	Ledger, 1864-1867