Evolution of a Paper Co~Wany: the Carlisle-Ferguson Years at St. Regis
EVOLUTION OF A PAPER CO~WANY: THE CARLISLE-FERGUSON YEARS AT ST. REGIS Interviews with 'c, "• Homer A. Vilas and James E. Kussman;' conducted by " , /' ,., Elwood R. Maunder and John R. Ross and"appen~ded -inte-rview with '.~ ,Carl B. ,Martin James E. Kussmann and Samuel Shane Forest History Society - Santa Cruz, California 1977 -, ,'. - .. ·.--.P '. .... ~ This volume is second in a series of or~l histor£~s on St. Reg4s Paper Company. The·~irit volu,me,. THREE MEMOIRS ON ST. REGIS PAPER COMPANY RI~.T6RY (Eunice Remington 'Nardwell, Louise E .. ·. Richter, and' Harold S. Sutton), was published i.n 1976. '-. ,. "," Forest History Society, Inc. P. O. Box 1581 Santa Cruz, California 95061 Copyright ©1977 by Forest History Society, Inc. All rights reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . vii INTERVIEW I: H01ffiR A. VILAS, DECEMBER 8, 1975 NEW YORK, NEW YORK . 1 First encounter with Roy K. Ferguson in 1921;. F. L. Carlisle and Company; Ferguson, Carlisle, and the pre-Depression business world; St. Regis during the Depression; Sandy Calder and Union Bag and Paper Company; Remarks on the brokerage business; Charles E. Norris, H. Edmund Machold, and Al Smith; Ferguson's relationship with Carlisle; contemplated merger of St. Regis with Union Bag and Paper Company; F_e]guson' s leader-' ,.--'--~ --"-~ .:::~. ----.~-_.- -,,- - - ',- ,.. _,,- ',- . .-'/ - ';,- .. ,,-"'--- - .. - .. sh-ip a'tSt.· Regis';-· tile pe;rsonal)Vorld of, Roy K. Ferguson'---religioiis-'faith, familY-; -and p-astimes; reflections on Ferguson as a friend. INTERVIEW II: JAMES E. KUSSMANN, OCTOBER 17, 1975 ,fJEWYOBK; NEW YORK . 31 Session 1: Roy K. Ferguson takes charge of St. Regis in 1934; separation of papermaking and public utilities interests; the company during the wartime period--1939~1945; postwar expansion in printing papers and the move to the South; impacts of World War II; St.
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