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Harold J. McCoy Papers, 1905-1956

Overview of the Collection

Creator
McCoy, Harold James, 1891-1956
Title
Harold J. McCoy Papers
Dates
1905-1956 (inclusive)
Quantity
2 cu. ft.
Collection Number
Ms 58
Summary
Correspondence, maps, and brochures, documenting McCoy's logging, land investment, and banking interests. Includes correspondence with Frederick Weyerhaeuser (1929-1939) and T.J. Humbird (1920-1931), relating to timber industry labor problems and I.W.W. organizing activities; memos (1918-1934) regarding I.W.W. and radical activities in logging camps; records (1918) of McCoy's involvement with Spruce Production Division, U.S. War Dept., during World War I; and miscellaneous files concerning logging and milling operations in the Pacific Northwest and the failure (1930) of First National Bank of Sandpoint, Idaho. Includes information relating to McCoy's various management positions with Bonners Ferry Lumber Company, Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and other timber firms, and his private engineering consulting business.
Repository
Eastern Washington State Historical Society (Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture)
2316 W. First Avenue
Spokane, WA 99201
archives@northwestmuseum.org
Access Restrictions

The collection is not restricted.

Additional Reference Guides

Described in: A Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Eastern Washington State Historical Society / Edward W. Nolan (1987), entry 187.

Languages
English.
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a Department of Education Teaching American History grant administered by Educational Service District 101 and Eastern Washington University
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Biographical Note

Harold J. McCoy, a native of Minnesota, began work for the Bonners Ferry Lumber Company, Bonners Ferry, ID in 1912. Within a short time he was promoted to management positions, serving as assistant general manager during a period of merger, labor unrest, and depression in the labor industry, and was in frequent communication with the Weyerhaeuser management concerning these problems. During World War I, McCoy served in the Spruce Production Division of the U.S. Army. In the 1930s he moved to western Washington and Oregon to serve as manager for timber interests and pursue a private engineering consulting business

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Content Description

The collection consists of correspondence, maps, and brochures from a wide range of logging, land investment, and banking interests. Included is correspondence with Frederick Weyerhaeuser, 1929-1939; correspondence with T.J. Humbird, 1920-1931, which mentions timber industry labor problems and I.W.W organizing activities; a file of memos regarding I.W.W. and radical activities in the logging camps, 1918-1934; the records of McCoy’s involvement with the Spruce Production Division, 1918; and miscellaneous files concerning logging and milling operations in the Pacific Northwest and the 1930 closing of the First National bank of Sandpoint.

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Other Descriptive Information

Files are arranged alphabetically by folder title, and either alphabetically or chronologically among folders beginnng with the same title.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Eastern Washington State Historical Society. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Museum Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Eastern Washington State Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher

Preferred Citation

Harold J. McCoy Papers (Ms 58), Eastern Washington State Historical Society/Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Gift of Janet McCoy Barrett, 1985, 1986, and 1987 (Accession numbers L85-141, L86-1486, and L87-200).

Related Materials

See also:

Wayland Root Papers (MsSC 128)

Hedlund Mills, Inc. Records (MsSC 89)

Adam H. Irving Papers (MsSC 141)

Owen Lumber Co. Records (MsSC 212)

PondeRay Logging, Inc. Records (MsSC 100)

Washington Pine Box Co. Records (MsSC 66)

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

  • Description: Introduction and Inventory
    Container: Box/Folder 1/1
  • Description: Arson reports
    Dates: Aug. 16 - Sept. 14, 1930
    Container: Box/Folder 1/2
  • Description: Personal date books
    Container: Box/Folder 1/3
  • Description: Boise Payette Lumber Co. - reports on sustained yield cutting plan
    Dates: Aug. 15, 1944 - April 25, 1945
    Container: Box/Folder 1/4
  • Description: Bonners Ferry Lumber Co. - 4 square program merchandising
    Dates: Mar. 15, 1919 - Sept. 20, 1926
    Container: Box/Folder 1/5
  • Description: Bonners Ferry Lumber Co.
    Dates: 1924 - 1932
    Container: Box/Folder 1/6
  • Description: Bonners Ferry Lumber Co. - manufacturing expenses
    Dates: Sept. 28, 1926
    Container: Box/Folder 1/7
  • Description: Bonners Ferry Lumber Co. - report
    Dates: Aug. 1927
    Container: Box/Folder 1/8
  • Description: Bonners Ferry Lumber Co. - annual report
    Dates: Dec. 31, 1929
    Container: Box/Folder 1/9
  • Description: Bonners Ferry Lumber Co. - annual report
    Dates: 1930
    Container: Box/Folder 1/10
  • Description: Bonners Ferry Lumber Co. - annual report
    Dates: 1931
    Container: Box/Folder 1/11
  • Description: Diary
    Dates: Nov. 12, 1945 - Aug. 16, 1946
    Container: Box/Folder 1/12
  • Description: Dry kilns - operating
    Dates: July 12, 1929 - Oct. 10, 1940
    Container: Box/Folder 1/13
  • Description: Edward Hines Lumber Co. - floor project
    Dates: Sept. 12 - Oct. 22, 1941
    Container: Box/Folder 1/14
  • Description: Edward Hines Lumber Co. - 1934 investigation
    Dates: 1932 - June 2, 1934
    Container: Box/Folder 1/15
  • Description: Edward Hines Lumber Co. - miscellaneous projects
    Dates: Jan. 1, 1940 - Sept. 16, 1941
    Container: Box/Folder 1/16
  • Description: Edward Hines Lumber Co.
    Dates: June 21 - Oct. 31, 1941
    Container: Box/Folder 1/17
  • Description: Edward Hines Lumber Co. - planing mill project
    Dates: July 24 - Sept. 12, 1941
    Container: Box/Folder 1/18
  • Description: Edward Hines Lumber Co. - report on manufacturing operations
    Dates: 1941
    Container: Box/Folder 1/19
  • Description: Edward Hines Lumber Co. - log unloading dock project
    Dates: Aug. 16 - Sept. 21, 1941
    Container: Box/Folder 1/20
  • Description: Farragut
    Dates: Feb. 1943 - Apr. 26, 1945
    Container: Box/Folder 1/21
  • Description: First National Bank of Sandpoint - correspondence
    Dates: July 3, 1926 - Jan. 1, 1937
    Container: Box/Folder 1/22
  • Description: Harter Lumber Co. - dip tank plans
    Dates: Mar. 30 - Apr. 20, 1955
    Container: Box/Folder 1/23
  • Description: T.J. Humbird - correspondence
    Dates: Aug. 16, 1920 - Sept. 13, 1931
    Container: Box/Folder 1/24
  • Description: Humbrid Lumber Co. - monthly statement
    Dates: Oct. 31, 1931
    Container: Box/Folder 1/25
  • Description: Labor
    Dates: 1918 - 1939
    Container: Box/Folder 1/26
  • Description: Logging expense
    Dates: June 1927
    Container: Box/Folder 1/27
  • Description: Malahat Logging Co. - report on operations in San Juan timber
    Dates: July 1, 1941 - Jan. 23, 1942
    Container: Box/Folder 1/28
  • Description: Masonic material
    Dates: 1923 - 1937
    Container: Box/Folder 1/29
  • Description: Manufacturing operating expenses
    Container: Box/Folder 1/30
  • Description: Miscellaneous agreements
    Dates: Aug. 1922 - Sept. 1931
    Container: Box/Folder 1/31
  • Description: Miscellaneous correspondence
    Dates: 1927 - 1956
    Container: Box/Folder 1/32
  • Description: Miscellaneous
    Dates: 1905 - 1938
    Container: Box/Folder 1/33
  • Description: Navy Department - Office of Naval Officer Procurement
    Dates: Mar. 16, 1943 - Apr. 8, 1944
    Container: Box/Folder 1/34
  • Description: Navy Department
    Dates: Apr. 20, 1943 - Apr. 29, 1952
    Container: Box/Folder 1/35
  • Description: Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station - architectural drawings
    Dates: 1950 - 1953
    Container: Box/Folder 1/36
  • Description: Potlatch Forests, Inc. - architectural drawings
    Dates: 1953 - 1956
    Container: Box/Folder 2/1
  • Description: Potlatch Forests, Inc. - unstacker and other machinery drawings
    Dates: 1955
    Container: Box/Folder 2/2
  • Description: Potlatch Lumber Co. - architectural drawings
    Dates: Dec. 19, 1951 - Oct. 29, 1955
    Container: Box/Folder 2/3
  • Description: Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc. (McNary, Ariz.) - drawings
    Dates: Sept. 1948
    Container: Box/Folder 2/4
  • Description: Southwest Lumber Mills - planing mill plans
    Dates: Sept. 28 - Nov. 20, 1918
    Container: Box/Folder 2/5
  • Description: Spruce Production Division - U.S. Army Signal Corps
    Dates: May 22, 1917 - Dec. 31, 1918
    Container: Box/Folder 2/6
  • Description: Spruce Production Division - U.S. Army Signal Corps
    Dates: Jan. 2 - Apr. 19, 1919
    Container: Box/Folder 2/7
  • Description: Bureau of Aircraft Production - register of commissioned officers
    Dates: Oct. 29, 1818
    Container: Box/Folder 2/8
  • Description: State Board of Engineering Examiners
    Dates: Oct. 22, 1920 - Dec. 31, 1948
    Container: Box/Folder 2/9
  • Description: Thomas Bay pulp timber unit, Tongass Keku unit
    Dates: 1922 - 1951
    Container: Box/Folder 2/10
  • Description: Twisp-Wagner Lumber Co. - report of operations
    Dates: Aug. 18, 1941
    Container: Box/Folder 2/11
  • Description: Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. - recapitulation of timber estimates
    Dates: May 31, 1927 - Dec. 19, 1929
    Container: Box/Folder 2/12
  • Description: Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. - Klamath Falls manufacturing plant data
    Dates: Oct. 28, 1933 - Aug. 3, 1934
    Container: Box/Folder 2/13
  • Description: Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. - selected logging analysis of Klamath Falls branch
    Dates: July 1935
    Container: Box/Folder 2/14
  • Description: Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. - selective logging analysis, Klamath Falls branch
    Dates: July 1, 1938
    Container: Box/Folder 2/15
  • Description: J.P. Weyerhaeuser - Alan Graham (correspondence)
    Dates: Sept. 5, 1929 - Feb. 20, 1933
    Container: Box/Folder 2/16
  • Description: Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser
    Dates: Sept. 4, 1929 - Mar. 1, 1939
    Container: Box/Folder 2/17
  • Description: Weyerhaeuser Sales Co. correspondence
    Dates: Dec. 13, 1930 - Jan. 31, 1931
    Container: Box/Folder 2/18
  • Description: Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. - Klamath Falls wage scale
    Dates: Nov. 10, 1930 - Feb. 1, 1934
    Container: Box/Folder 2/19
  • Description: Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. - Klamath Falls branch annual report
    Dates: Dec. 31, 1931
    Container: Box/Folder 2/20
  • Description: Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. - Klamath Falls, Ore. accident record
    Dates: 1932
    Container: Box/Folder 2/21
  • Description: Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. - Klamath, Ore. lumber inventory
    Dates: Dec. 1931
    Container: Box/Folder 2/22
  • Description: Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. - Klamath branch
    Dates: Aug. 19, 1933 - 1937
    Container: Box/Folder 2/23
  • Description: Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. - comparative mill and logging costs
    Dates: 1938 - 1940
    Container: Box/Folder 2/24
  • Description: Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. - weight experience
    Dates: Oct. 31, 1931 - Jan. 1, 1938
    Container: Box/Folder 2/25
  • Description: White River Lumber Co. - general manager's report
    Dates: Feb. 1939 - Feb. 1940
    Container: Box/Folder 2/26
  • Description: White River Lumber Co. - general timber service audit report
    Dates: Feb. 24, 1940
    Container: Box/Folder 2/27
  • Description: Whitehouse and Price - navel training station, Pend d'Oreille, ID
    Dates: May 1 - Nov. 13, 1942
    Container: Box/Folder 2/28
  • Description: Pitney Print Co. - hardwood veneered door lists
    Dates: June 1, 1947
    Container: Box/Folder 2/29
  • Description: [wood chip boiler plans?]
    Dates: 1955
    Container: Box/Folder 2/30

Finding aid prepared by Edward W. Nolan or John Fahey.
1987

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