George Nicholson, Last of Pioneer Industrialists, Dies Here Monday Night
Funeral Rites Held Thursday for Founder of White Marble Lime, Co.
George, Nicholson, Jr., founder of the old White Marble Lime Company, passed away Monday evening at the Shaw Hospital, where he had been removed that day from the home of a son, Leon Nicholson. He was 87 years old.
Although he had been ill for several months, Mr. Nicholson had rallied from numerous heart attacks, and had remained active almost to the time of his deaths.
For many years identified with the industrial development of Manistique, Mr. Nicholson became widely known in the Upper Peninsula as the foremost businessman of his day. His death ended a colorful career devoted largely to the lime company, which he headed, and his several prosperous lumbering enterprises.
Of Irish descent, he was born February 8, 1851 in Hartford, Wisconsin, and attended business school at Appleton. He was married to Elizabeth Gray of Harrison, Wisconsin on December 25, 1876. Mrs. Nicholson passed away June 19, 1927.
After engaging in the general merchandising business at Graysville, Wisconsin, for a few years, Mr. Nicholson moved to Chilton, where he operated a grain elevator and department store.
He first entered the lime business in the early 1880’s, building his first plant at Hayton, Wisconsin. In 1888, on snowshoes, he covered the entire Dorr peninsula in Wisconsin, exploring for the Dolomite formations which later led him to Garden Bay and Manistique. He constructed six kilns here, and within a short period of time, built the Marblehead Plant.
Analysis of peculiar rock formations at Blaney noticed by Mr. Nicholson at the turn of the century, revealed high calcium limestone. He purchased his first 160 acres and opened the Calspar quarry, which he operated for 25 years. The property was later purchased by the Inland Lime and Stone Co., which absorbed the White Marble Lime Company’s interests in 1928.
Widening his enterprises to include the lumber industry, Mr. Nicholson operated four shingle and tie mills at Manistique, Whitedale, and McDonald Lake. He established cedar lumber yards at Manistique, Masonville and Whitedale, and sold to the Soo Line all the cedar ties used for their western extensions. He also handled cedar and pulpwood for the Chicago Lumbering Company.
(The Manistique Pioneer-Tribune, Manistique, MI. July 14, 1938, p. 1)
Funeral Rites Held Thursday for Founder of White Marble Lime, Co.
George, Nicholson, Jr., founder of the old White Marble Lime Company, passed away Monday evening at the Shaw Hospital, where he had been removed that day from the home of a son, Leon Nicholson. He was 87 years old.
Although he had been ill for several months, Mr. Nicholson had rallied from numerous heart attacks, and had remained active almost to the time of his deaths.
For many years identified with the industrial development of Manistique, Mr. Nicholson became widely known in the Upper Peninsula as the foremost businessman of his day. His death ended a colorful career devoted largely to the lime company, which he headed, and his several prosperous lumbering enterprises.
Of Irish descent, he was born February 8, 1851 in Hartford, Wisconsin, and attended business school at Appleton. He was married to Elizabeth Gray of Harrison, Wisconsin on December 25, 1876. Mrs. Nicholson passed away June 19, 1927.
After engaging in the general merchandising business at Graysville, Wisconsin, for a few years, Mr. Nicholson moved to Chilton, where he operated a grain elevator and department store.
He first entered the lime business in the early 1880’s, building his first plant at Hayton, Wisconsin. In 1888, on snowshoes, he covered the entire Dorr peninsula in Wisconsin, exploring for the Dolomite formations which later led him to Garden Bay and Manistique. He constructed six kilns here, and within a short period of time, built the Marblehead Plant.
Analysis of peculiar rock formations at Blaney noticed by Mr. Nicholson at the turn of the century, revealed high calcium limestone. He purchased his first 160 acres and opened the Calspar quarry, which he operated for 25 years. The property was later purchased by the Inland Lime and Stone Co., which absorbed the White Marble Lime Company’s interests in 1928.
Widening his enterprises to include the lumber industry, Mr. Nicholson operated four shingle and tie mills at Manistique, Whitedale, and McDonald Lake. He established cedar lumber yards at Manistique, Masonville and Whitedale, and sold to the Soo Line all the cedar ties used for their western extensions. He also handled cedar and pulpwood for the Chicago Lumbering Company.
(The Manistique Pioneer-Tribune, Manistique, MI. July 14, 1938, p. 1)
George Nicholson, Last of Pioneer Industrialists, Dies Here Monday Night
Funeral Rites Held Thursday for Founder of White Marble Lime, Co.
George, Nicholson, Jr., founder of the old White Marble Lime Company, passed away Monday evening at the Shaw Hospital, where he had been removed that day from the home of a son, Leon Nicholson. He was 87 years old.
Although he had been ill for several months, Mr. Nicholson had rallied from numerous heart attacks, and had remained active almost to the time of his deaths.
For many years identified with the industrial development of Manistique, Mr. Nicholson became widely known in the Upper Peninsula as the foremost businessman of his day. His death ended a colorful career devoted largely to the lime company, which he headed, and his several prosperous lumbering enterprises.
Of Irish descent, he was born February 8, 1851 in Hartford, Wisconsin, and attended business school at Appleton. He was married to Elizabeth Gray of Harrison, Wisconsin on December 25, 1876. Mrs. Nicholson passed away June 19, 1927.
After engaging in the general merchandising business at Graysville, Wisconsin, for a few years, Mr. Nicholson moved to Chilton, where he operated a grain elevator and department store.
He first entered the lime business in the early 1880’s, building his first plant at Hayton, Wisconsin. In 1888, on snowshoes, he covered the entire Dorr peninsula in Wisconsin, exploring for the Dolomite formations which later led him to Garden Bay and Manistique. He constructed six kilns here, and within a short period of time, built the Marblehead Plant.
Analysis of peculiar rock formations at Blaney noticed by Mr. Nicholson at the turn of the century, revealed high calcium limestone. He purchased his first 160 acres and opened the Calspar quarry, which he operated for 25 years. The property was later purchased by the Inland Lime and Stone Co., which absorbed the White Marble Lime Company’s interests in 1928.
Widening his enterprises to include the lumber industry, Mr. Nicholson operated four shingle and tie mills at Manistique, Whitedale, and McDonald Lake. He established cedar lumber yards at Manistique, Masonville and Whitedale, and sold to the Soo Line all the cedar ties used for their western extensions. He also handled cedar and pulpwood for the Chicago Lumbering Company.
(The Manistique Pioneer-Tribune, Manistique, MI. July 14, 1938, p. 1)
Funeral Rites Held Thursday for Founder of White Marble Lime, Co.
George, Nicholson, Jr., founder of the old White Marble Lime Company, passed away Monday evening at the Shaw Hospital, where he had been removed that day from the home of a son, Leon Nicholson. He was 87 years old.
Although he had been ill for several months, Mr. Nicholson had rallied from numerous heart attacks, and had remained active almost to the time of his deaths.
For many years identified with the industrial development of Manistique, Mr. Nicholson became widely known in the Upper Peninsula as the foremost businessman of his day. His death ended a colorful career devoted largely to the lime company, which he headed, and his several prosperous lumbering enterprises.
Of Irish descent, he was born February 8, 1851 in Hartford, Wisconsin, and attended business school at Appleton. He was married to Elizabeth Gray of Harrison, Wisconsin on December 25, 1876. Mrs. Nicholson passed away June 19, 1927.
After engaging in the general merchandising business at Graysville, Wisconsin, for a few years, Mr. Nicholson moved to Chilton, where he operated a grain elevator and department store.
He first entered the lime business in the early 1880’s, building his first plant at Hayton, Wisconsin. In 1888, on snowshoes, he covered the entire Dorr peninsula in Wisconsin, exploring for the Dolomite formations which later led him to Garden Bay and Manistique. He constructed six kilns here, and within a short period of time, built the Marblehead Plant.
Analysis of peculiar rock formations at Blaney noticed by Mr. Nicholson at the turn of the century, revealed high calcium limestone. He purchased his first 160 acres and opened the Calspar quarry, which he operated for 25 years. The property was later purchased by the Inland Lime and Stone Co., which absorbed the White Marble Lime Company’s interests in 1928.
Widening his enterprises to include the lumber industry, Mr. Nicholson operated four shingle and tie mills at Manistique, Whitedale, and McDonald Lake. He established cedar lumber yards at Manistique, Masonville and Whitedale, and sold to the Soo Line all the cedar ties used for their western extensions. He also handled cedar and pulpwood for the Chicago Lumbering Company.
(The Manistique Pioneer-Tribune, Manistique, MI. July 14, 1938, p. 1)
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