PALMER, Lowell Melvile
Lowell Melville Palmer of New York, president of the Brooklyn Cooperage Co., came to this area in 1897 to buy timberland for the purpose of using the trees to manufacture staves and other wood products. According to research done by the late James Mottram of Poplar Bluff, the American Sugar Co., to ship sugar needed thousands of wooden barrels a years. Eastern timberlands were depleted and southeast Missouri presented great forests for the company to harvest.
Lowell Melville Palmer of New York, president of the Brooklyn Cooperage Co., came to this area in 1897 to buy timberland for the purpose of using the trees to manufacture staves and other wood products. According to research done by the late James Mottram of Poplar Bluff, the American Sugar Co., to ship sugar needed thousands of wooden barrels a years. Eastern timberlands were depleted and southeast Missouri presented great forests for the company to harvest.
PALMER, Lowell Melvile
Lowell Melville Palmer of New York, president of the Brooklyn Cooperage Co., came to this area in 1897 to buy timberland for the purpose of using the trees to manufacture staves and other wood products. According to research done by the late James Mottram of Poplar Bluff, the American Sugar Co., to ship sugar needed thousands of wooden barrels a years. Eastern timberlands were depleted and southeast Missouri presented great forests for the company to harvest.
Lowell Melville Palmer of New York, president of the Brooklyn Cooperage Co., came to this area in 1897 to buy timberland for the purpose of using the trees to manufacture staves and other wood products. According to research done by the late James Mottram of Poplar Bluff, the American Sugar Co., to ship sugar needed thousands of wooden barrels a years. Eastern timberlands were depleted and southeast Missouri presented great forests for the company to harvest.
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