The paper and pulp cluster — the incorporations, and the first paper made here

1880 – documented to 1916

How it was missed:The courses are still not reached.

The incorporations: "Several paper and wood pulp companies were established, as follows," Howard writes, and lists them in order. March 4, 1880, the Mishawaka Wood Pulp Company: capital fifteen thousand dollars; incorporators Lucius Clark, John F. Clark and Robert R. Clark. April 21, 1881, the Mishawaka Paper Company: capital fifteen thousand dollars; incorporators George H. Taylor, Lucius Clark and Robert F. Fram. February 24, 1882, the A. Gaylor Pulp Company: capital twelve thousand dollars; incorporators Lucius Clark, Albert Gaylor and Edmund C. Westervelt. On this record the first pulp made here is the Wood Pulp Company's, of 1880, and the first paper company of the city is the Mishawaka Paper Company of 1881 — the firsts printed at the strength of Howard's incorporation roll, which is the earliest systematic record of the town's companies that this build holds. The Clark name runs through all three incorporations, and a Clark — Lucius Clark — stands in Howard's roll again among the water-power company's generation; whether the pulp Clarks are the Clark of Clark & Whitson, the bankers of this section's earlier entry, the record reached does not state, and the two are not merged.

The cluster standing, and after: by 1889 the manufacturers' directory shows the cluster at work on the race: the A. Gaylor Pulp Manufacturing Company, the Indiana Paper Company, the Mishawaka Pulp Company, and M. W. Johnson's directory of 1902–03 carries a Mishawaka Paper and Pulp Co. at 202 W. Water — one house under a combined name, a generation after the separate pulp and paper incorporations. Whether the combined name is a merger of the 1880 and 1881 companies, a successor to one of them, or a new venture is not established by anything reached in either pass, and the names are printed as each record gives them, unmerged. The Paper Trade Journal— the trade still alive in the town in 1916.Paper Trade Journal's mill directories and mill news and De Kever's city history; they are carried in the closing article.

Sources:

1. Timothy E. Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, Vol. 1 (1907), Mishawaka chapter, "Business Enterprises" — the paper and wood pulp incorporations of 1880, 1881 and 1882 with capitals and incorporators, as quoted. Read in the ldsgenealogy transcription; the transcription is machine-generated and misreads scattered words, but the incorporation dates, capitals and names read clean and are internally consistent.
2. Directory of Indiana Manufacturers and Buyers' Guide
3. Johnson's Business & Professional Directory (1902–03), the Mishawaka Business Directory — "Mishawaka Paper and Pulp Co, 202 W Wa[ter]."
4. Paper Trade Journal, Vol. LXII No. 6 (10 February 1916) — the papermaker notice, as carried in the businesses & banks file.