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KNAPP, STOUT & COMPANY. One of the largest lumber companies in Dubuque. A successor in 1854 to the KNAPP-TAINTER LUMBER COMPANY, the firm experienced a rapid expansion between 1866 and 1869 with three mills opened in Wisconsin. The 1867 though 1884-1885 Dubuque City Directory gave the address of this business as the northeast corner of 8th and Washington.
The mill at Menomonie eventually became the company's largest warehouse. Employing seven hundred workers in 1866, the Menomonie mill became the company headquarters in 1886 and employed two thousand workers by 1898. In Dubuque, lumberyards belonging to the company stretched over twenty acres and employed an estimated one hundred fifty men.
In 1869 the company made its first expansion into shipping by purchasing the steamboat" Anna Girdon" to transport cut timber. This allowed the company to make considerable savings and survive tough competition in the LUMBER INDUSTRY. Between 1871 and 1881 the company's shipping fleet expanded to eight ships. The 1880 Dubuque City Directory stated that this business was to be found at the northeast corner of 7th and Washington.
By 1881 the company had branch offices north and south of Dubuque along the MISSISSIPPI RIVER. In 1882 a merger with the Red Cedar Improvement and Log Driving Company increased the capital stock of the company.
A disastrous fire in June 1894, led to the loss of approximately fourteen million feet of lumber. The liquidation of the company timberlands in Wisconsin led to the November 1900, announcement that the Dubuque branch would be closed. In 1901, however, the company (using the same name) was incorporated by C. W. Chapman and Frank D. STOUT with a capitalization of $100,000. In 1908 the company was sold to SPAHN AND ROSE LUMBER COMPANY.
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DCHS: The Knapp, Stout and Co. Company. Online www.discover-net.net/~dchs/history/exkscc.html
Holand, H. R. "The Knapp-Stout & Co. Lumber Company." The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 3, No. 4, Jun., 1920. Online: www.jstor.org/stable/4630265
Knapp-Stout Company Founders. Online: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~widunn/knapp-stout-founders.htm
Knapp-Stout & Co. Company Photo Archive. Online: www.uwstout.edu/lib/archives/photoarch.cfm
KNAPP STOUT & CO MENOMONIE WI - $5 | CoinWorld. Online: beta.coinworld.com/dealers/denlys/knapp-stout-co-menomonie-wi-5/