 Volume XIV Number 23 | |
| Categories | Trade magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Total circulation | 30,000 |
| First issue | January 1874 |
| Final issue | 1899 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Chicago |
| Language | English |
The Northwestern Lumberman was a nineteenth-century American monthly trade magazine devoted to the lumber industry. It was the first lumber trade paper in America. Over the years it grew in size and scope, with several name changes, and still exists today.
The magazine was first published in Bay City, Michigan, in 1872 as the first lumber trade paper in America, called the Lumbermen's Gazette. [1] It was first established by William B Judson. He moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1873 and changed the name to the Michigan Lumberman for volume 1. There was one issue of the journal printed in Grand Rapids. The publishing company then moved to Muskegon, Michigan and published the next eleven issues of the volume. [2] [3] [4]
The second volume began publication in January 1874 at Chicago. The name was then changed from the Michigan Lumberman to the Northwestern Lumberman. The publisher of the magazine was incorporated in 1877 as the Lumberman Publishing Company and worked under a charter until 1880. The charter was then disbanded and the publication was continued as a private enterprise. The magazine had several works associated with it, among which were the Lumberman's Hand Book, the Pocket Reference Book, and the Lumberman's Telegraphic Code. The magazine had a subscription list of about 25,000 and sold an additional 5,000 copies over the counter. [2] [5] [6]
The originally monthly magazine form published in 1873 through 1875 of eight to twelve pages was changed in 1876 to a sixteen-page weekly periodical. It since expanded further in the 1880s and 1890s to a size varying from 52 to 64 pages. The magazine was sold mostly through the United States while some subscriptions were sold throughout the world. [4] [5] [6]
The Northwestern Lumberman and The Timberman magazines merged on January 1, 1899, into one publication known as the American Lumberman. [7] The magazine then became Building Materials Merchandiser in 1961 and in 1972 became Home Center magazine, [8] which still exists. [9]
Francis Brown Stockbridge was a U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan.
Russell Alexander Alger was an American politician and businessman. He served as the 20th Governor of Michigan, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of War.
Artemus Lamb Gates was an American businessman, naval aviator, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air in charge of naval aviation efforts in World War II. He also was briefly Undersecretary of the Navy. He was, at various times, president of New York Trust Company, and a director of Union Pacific, Time, Boeing, Middle South Utilities, Safeway Inc., Abercrombie & Fitch Co., and Servo Corp.
American Seating Inc. is a company specializing in the production of chairs and other seating, including seats for rail transport and public transportation, schools and churches. Founded in 1886 as the Grand Rapids School Furniture Company, the company is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. The company gives its name to the American Seating rule, based on a lawsuit it participated in.
Phillip Lesher Auten was an American business executive in the lumber and mining industries, best remembered as controlling owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates professional baseball team of the National League (NL) from 1893 through 1900 with William Kerr.
The lumber district of Albany, New York was relatively small in the 1830s with around six wholesale lumber merchants, but by the 1870s Albany was the largest lumber district in the United States by value, though by that time it had recently been outstripped in feet sold by Chicago. For about a quarter century in the middle of the 19th century the Albany lumber district was considered the largest white pine wholesale market. There were 3,963 sawmills operating in the lumber district in 1865 but by 1900 there were only around 150. A fire ripped through the district in 1908 signalling the decline of the lumber industry for Albany.
Justus Smith Stearns was an American lumber baron and businessman. He was involved in many enterprises that involved commercial real estate development, sawmills, coal, farming, railroading, and electrical technology. He started his lumber pursuits as a teenager at his father's sawmills. From the business knowledge he learned from his father he became a lumber merchant in his twenties.
Tassinong is an unincorporated rural community in Porter County, Indiana, south of the city of Valparaiso. The community includes an historic marker claiming it to be a French mission and trading post in 1673, which would make it the oldest European settlement in Indiana as well as in neighboring Illinois.
Sara Hershey-Eddy was an American musician, pianist, contralto vocalist, vocal instructor, and musical educator. She founded the Hershey School of Musical Art in Chicago.
Musser Lumber Company was a US lumber company, and one of Iowa's pioneer lumber concerns. In its day, it was one of the most complete and modern lumber mills on the Mississippi River, employing about 400 men during the working season, and between 200 and 300 men in the logging end of the business.
Nelson Ludington was a nineteenth-century American businessman, lumber baron and banker. Born in Ludingtonville, New York, he made his fortune in the Midwest based on resource exploitation: lumber, iron ore and copper.
Glenwood is a small unincorporated community in West Volusia County, Florida. It developed as an orange growing agricultural and lumber industry community. It is now home to a trail and a group home residential community. It is popular for birding and borders Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge.
Roswell Britton was an American politician who served in the Michigan House of Representatives in its first session after adoption of the state's constitution.
In the 1853 Chicago mayoral election, Charles McNeill Gray defeated Josiah L. James in a landslide, winning by a 54 point margin.
The Pere Marquette Lumber Company was a lumber, salt, sawyering and merchandising company of the nineteenth century. Its initial purpose was as an asset management company. The holdings were that of James Ludington, a lumber baron. The business firm was the cradle for the development of the city of Ludington, Michigan. The company was an important component of the lumber boom and bust in the area, supplying lumber for hundreds of thousands of homes and other structures in the Midwest. It was one of the largest producers of salt in the state of Michigan. The company was active from 1869 to 1897 and later sold.
Edward Augustus Foster was a nineteenth century businessman and lumber tycoon known for helping to develop various lumber businesses.
Luther Hall Foster was a nineteenth century businessman and lumber tycoon known for helping to develop various lumber businesses.
John Mason Loomis was a nineteenth-century American businessman and lumber tycoon from Chicago who was known for developing the city of Ludington, Michigan. He was involved with the Pere Marquette Lumber Company, which also operated salt distilleries that in turn influenced the salt industry of northern Michigan. The village of Pere Marquette benefited from these local industries and developed into the city Ludington.
Delos L. Filer was a businessman famous for developing Manistee County and the towns of Manistee, Filer City and Ludington in the state of Michigan. He owned sawmills and related businesses and was a physician, a merchant, a lumber baron, a real estate developer, and a philanthropist.
George Woodward Hotchkiss was a nineteenth-century pioneer lumber dealer businessman and journalist who wrote on the lumber industry. He was the co-founder and editor of several newspapers, including the world's first lumber journal Lumberman's Gazette. He helped publish a lumber trade manual that sold 40,000 copies. Hotchkiss is considered the father of lumber periodicals.