Obituary:
PASSED TO THE MAJORITY
THOMAS NESTER, THE GREAT LUMBERMAN DIES SUDDENLY
While walking on his lumber dock at Baraga on Saturday last, Thomas Nester was stricken with apoplexy, and died at an early hour on Monday morning. His remains were taken to Detroit for burial.
Thomas Nester was born in the west of Ireland about fifty-five years ago and when a well grown boy came to this country with his family.
After some stay in Canada the Nesters finally settled in Sanilac county. From a logger Thomas Nester began to take small contracts for lumbering, increased the size of his operations and became a purchaser of pine lands. He became interested with A. W. Wright, Charles Wells and F. C. Stone in large tracts of lands in Gladwin and Roscommon counties.
In 1881 he became interested in the upper peninsula. In company with the gentlemen named above and with Thomas Merrill he had bought the Ward tract in Ontonagon county and a tract on Sturgeon river of R. K. Hawley.
When in 1881–82 Mr. Nester sold out of the Well-Stone combination he received $510,000 as his share, most of which he took in the upper peninsula lands owned by the concern. The big mill at Baraga was set going in 1882 and quite a town has grown up about it.
Other purchases of pine were from the Lake Superior Ship Canal company about Keweenaw Point and from the Michigan Land and Iron company on Sturgeon river. The business was a flourishing one and the Baraga plant became noted in the annals of pine lumber.
To Mr. Nester belongs the credit of building the first vessel of modern dimensions on Lake Superior, and his venture in that direction was a successful one....
Obituary:
PASSED TO THE MAJORITY
THOMAS NESTER, THE GREAT LUMBERMAN DIES SUDDENLY
While walking on his lumber dock at Baraga on Saturday last, Thomas Nester was stricken with apoplexy, and died at an early hour on Monday morning. His remains were taken to Detroit for burial.
Thomas Nester was born in the west of Ireland about fifty-five years ago and when a well grown boy came to this country with his family.
After some stay in Canada the Nesters finally settled in Sanilac county. From a logger Thomas Nester began to take small contracts for lumbering, increased the size of his operations and became a purchaser of pine lands. He became interested with A. W. Wright, Charles Wells and F. C. Stone in large tracts of lands in Gladwin and Roscommon counties.
In 1881 he became interested in the upper peninsula. In company with the gentlemen named above and with Thomas Merrill he had bought the Ward tract in Ontonagon county and a tract on Sturgeon river of R. K. Hawley.
When in 1881–82 Mr. Nester sold out of the Well-Stone combination he received $510,000 as his share, most of which he took in the upper peninsula lands owned by the concern. The big mill at Baraga was set going in 1882 and quite a town has grown up about it.
Other purchases of pine were from the Lake Superior Ship Canal company about Keweenaw Point and from the Michigan Land and Iron company on Sturgeon river. The business was a flourishing one and the Baraga plant became noted in the annals of pine lumber.
To Mr. Nester belongs the credit of building the first vessel of modern dimensions on Lake Superior, and his venture in that direction was a successful one....
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