Keywords: Jay Paper Company
Item 82063
Contributed by: Maine's Paper & Heritage Museum Date: circa 1885 Location: Jay Media: Photographic print
Item 82029
Otis Mill Machine Shop, Jay, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Maine's Paper & Heritage Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Jay Media: Photographic print
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Jay & Livermore Falls, Pioneers in Paper Making
Alvin Record and Hugh J. Chisholm were instrumental in building paper mills in Jay, Livermore, and Livermore Falls. The two industrialists helped make the towns prosperous.
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Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru
"… Two (now known as Milton Plantation), Rumford, Jay, Hartford, and Sumner. It is a tradition here that Merrill Knight and Daniel Lunt, both of…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Canadian immigrant founds worlds largest paper company in 1898
by Hugh J. Chisholm
Hugh J. Chisholm founded International Paper, which was the world's largest paper company in 1898.
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I worked for International Paper for 40 years
by Peter Crosson
I was never bored working in instrumentation at International Paper
