Registered Log Mark Holders

      Of Muskegon County

        Taken from the Book, "Michigan Log Marks", The book is "compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Michigan" Edited by Clifford Allen Harold Titus, State Supervisor. It's put out by Michigan State College, Agricultural Experiment Station, East Lansing. Issued November 1941; First Reprinting, January 1942. Log marks were to Michigan what cattle brands are to the grazing states. A means of identifying ones logs. In 1842, Michigan Legislature enacted a law requiring log marks to be registered in the county where the logs were to be manufactured into lumber.

        The following is a list of registered log marks for Muskegon County. A number after the name indicates the number of log marks registered. Actual drawings of the log marks are in the book.

        MUSKEGON COUNTY


         
        A. B. Watson 
        J. H. Hackley & Co.
        Eldred & Farr 
        Wilcox & Pearson (2)
        L. G. Mason (2) 
        Alex Blake 
        Thomas McDonald 
        C. P. Lyman
        John Headley
        Everett Douglas
        James H. Rogers
        Augustus Paddock (2)
        J. H. & William Miles
        Fetter & Wood
        Foster, Day & Latimer
        Ryerson & Morris
        Sextus N. Wilcox (10)
        T. B. Wilcox (7)
        Pingree, Tift & Mason
        John F. Brown (2)
        Phillips & Brown 
        Hasbrook & Conro
        Geo. W. Crawford
        J. & F. Phelps
        Fitch Phelps (2)
        Geo. R. Roberts & Co. (2)
        O. P. Pillsbury & Co.
        Culbert & Lewis
        William McKillop
        Smith & Anderson
        Geo. F. Outhwaite
        Peter Swanson
        G. B. Peck & Co.
        S. M. Allen (2)
        Bullock & Hall 
        S. C. Hall (3)
        Nicholas Zuidema (2)
        Storrs & McDougall (2)
        William Anderson
        Enoch Weston
        Everett Douglas
        Carson & Weatherwax
        Jefferson Carson (3)
        J. H. Hardy 
        W. S. Gerrish (2)
        Gerrish, Murphy & Co.
        Gerrish & Wood 
        M. F. Rainier (2)
        Sanford, Nelson & Royce
        Terry Dowling, & Co. (4)
        Thomas Byrne & Co. (2)
        Alanson & Wood
        John H. Simons
        M.B. Atwater & Co. (2)
        George B. Warren (2)
        Gray & Woodruff (3)
        C. B. Seaman 
        Seaman, Jones & Barton
        Hedges & Green (2)
        William West
        Truesdell Bros. & Co.
        S. C. Dorr
        McKay & Hood (2)
        Esau Torrent
        Arba B. Kent (3)
        William Glue & Co. (2)
        D. C. Brown & Co.
        Andrew Olson (3)
        G. F. Goodrich & Co.
        John Eldred
        Mason Lumber Co.
        D. C. Mills & Co.
        Mears, Bates & Co. (3)
        O. L. Noble (2)
        W. J. Mead 
        W. D. Foster
        A. M. Steele
        Reddington & Hale (2)
        A. B. Blodgett 
        Stewart Ives
        Frank Gould
        G. W. Crawford
        Tioga Mfg. Co.
        Montague & Hamilton (2)
        Cornellsville Lbr. Co.
        Davis & Botsford
        James Kennedy
        Lewis & Page
        Cooley & Jewett 
        Bunker, Littlejohn & Chamberlain
        Fruitport Mfg. Co.
        Culbert & Lewis
        Chapin, Marsh & Foss
        William Sadner
        John Cameron'
        L. H. Green
        S. H. Boyce
        D. A. Blodgett
        Torrent & Ducy (2)
        James M. Darrah (2)
        J. P. Cook & Foss
        William Brockway
        Rueben Whiteman
        O. E. Dale & Co.
        George H. Hess
        Stephen H. Hall
        T. W. Palmer
        William Rutherford
        Gow, Green & Co.
        J. & H. Biedler
        John Conger 
        D. M. Benjamin 
        Kelly, Wood & Co.
        N. W. Goches
        Frank Bennett
        Bradley S. Williams

        Unusual Log Marks

        Davis & Whitney "Hanging Man"
        Hovey & McCracken "Eagle Beak"
        Glue & Smith "Crosscut Saw" 1875
        Muskegon Shingle & Lumber Co. "Pig Head" 1882
        Muskegon Shingle & Lumber "Lady Bug" 1883
        Torrent & Arms "Barred Triple Bend"
        S. N. Wilcox "Barrel" 1871
        S. N. Wilcox "COW" 1873
        Fitch Phelps "Box Phelps" 1869
        Hackley & McGordon "Crown" 1868
        D. C. Bowen "Two Face" 1871
        Storrs & McDougall "Bed Bug" 1872
        Stickney & Son "SIN" 1874
        Sylvester Wheelock "marks at both ends" 1870
        C.N. Storrs Lumber Co. "A One Boot" 1882
        Blodgett & Byrne "Z Z Z" 1871
        Farr & Dutcher & Co. "Snow Woman" 1874
        Farr Dutcher & Co. "Fork for a Barn" 1874
        S. H. Boyce "Ox Yoke" 1871
        Roskoff & Atherton "Pair of Legs"
        William Webber "HOG" 1873


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