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Baileys. Production of this mill was approximately one million board feet of white pine lumber per day. There is a statue dedicated to the logging, lumbering, and mining industries on the shore of Silver Lake. Bailey's old residence still stands today at
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Thursday, April 2, 1914, at 2:00 p.m. CST. Dr. Yost, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Duluth presided the event. Honorary pallbearers were Charles d'Autremont, B.F. Smith, A.B. Wolvin, and John Williams. Active pallbearers were Robert Whitesides, Daniel Healy, Frank Smith, Richard
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Bailey's son R. R. Bailey owned 97% of the stock in Bailey's company until it was divided amongst W. T. Bailey & his wife, his other son, and his other daughter (R. R. Bailey's brother, sister, and mother). Bailey's lumber company would remain as a business until 1951 when it was reorganized as
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William T. Bailey company and Dan H. Moon's company (Moon & Kerr Lumber Co.), it caused the first major economic and population boom of white settlers, businessmen, and pioneers. Before Leonidas Merritt discovered iron deposits in Mt. Iron, the Iron Range main economic force was lumber.
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He started his lumber mill in 1897 on
Virginia Lake (also known as Bailey's Lake) in Virginia, MN. The lake adjacent to Bailey's Lake is Silver Lake, upon whose shore was the largest white pine mill in the world at its time. This mill was the Virginia and Rainy Lake Lumber Company and was a totally
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Richard Robert and other officials had fraudulently failed to inform her that the company was being reorganized. She stated the corporation failed; therefore the corporation should have been dissolved and the assets distributed.
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September 22, 1842 to James Joseph and Catherine C. Bailey of England (James) and Canada (Catherine). After gold was discovered in California, James Joseph set out in search of gold and was never heard from again. It is believed he met a violent end.
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The main sawmill closed in 1923. A small resaw mill operated on the same property until the early 1950s (still by the Bailey
Corporation) when others bought the retail store and the mill. This then became Pohaki Lumber, which still operates today.
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in which his skills as an organizer and businessmen enabled him to start up in a new enterprise, lumber. While corporate offices remained in Duluth, Bailey's company logged extensively in northeastern
Minnesota. His mill was found in
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