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Autobiography, Orrin Henry Ingram : May, 1830--December, 1912
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- 1912
- Publisher
- Eau Claire, Wisconsin: [publisher not identified]
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- Date
- 1912
- Publisher
- Eau Claire, Wisconsin: [publisher not identified]
- Language
- English
- Description of Original
- 83 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
- [Frontispiece] O. H. Ingram
- [Title Page]
- Contents
- Mrs. Cornelia Pierce Ingram
- My boyhood
- Beginning in lumber
- Manager--law in Canada
- Mill-building superintendent
- Married and again at Bytown
- My own employer
- On a big salary
- With the Gilmore Company
- Enlarging operations
- Early-day railroads
- Lumber camps--incidents
- Wrecked aeronauts
- Acquaintance with Mr. Kennedy
- A long drive
- Western fever
- The Grand Trunk railroad
- A stage-coach experience
- Remained with the Gilmores
- A rejected opportunity
- An Eau Claire breeze
- In Eau Claire to remain
- Acquaintance with Mr. Thorp
- Local church activities
- Products and markets
- Mills--booms--Dells dam
- What "might have been"
- In "the pool" for self-protection
- Chippewa River navigation
- The Eddy mill
- The Dells dam
- Selling the city bonds
- Dells dam troubles
- Dangers from floods
- Dam of general benefit
- Value of water powers
- Possible development
- A second retrospective view
- Paper-mill experience
- Dells dam power
- Chippewa Valley Railway, Light and Power Company
- Other interests
- Late purchase by Railway, Light and Power Co.
- Assisted by your mother