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Waldo Allard Avery Sr.

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Waldo Allard Avery Sr.

Birth
Bradley, Penobscot County, Maine, USA
Death
9 May 1914 (aged 63)
Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Plot
Section 3
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A lumberman based in Saginaw, MI, he became president of the Alabaster Co. of Detroit, Chicago & Alabaster, MI, which supplied the plaster for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. A Michigan mineral, gypsum is a form of alabaster; the Alabaster Co. was incorporated in 1902 as the U.S. Gypsum Co. Avery was also a major investor in the Majestic Building (Detroit, 1895), but it was demolished in 1962.
A lumberman based in Saginaw, MI, he became president of the Alabaster Co. of Detroit, Chicago & Alabaster, MI, which supplied the plaster for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. A Michigan mineral, gypsum is a form of alabaster; the Alabaster Co. was incorporated in 1902 as the U.S. Gypsum Co. Avery was also a major investor in the Majestic Building (Detroit, 1895), but it was demolished in 1962.

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