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Charles S. Boyd, Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Charles S. Boyd, president and treasurer of the Appleton Coated Paper Company, at Appleton, Wisconsin, of which he was the organizer, was born at Appleton, November 27, 1871, and is a son of Samuel and Cornelia S. (Bowen) Boyd. Samuel Boyd was born in England, and was a son of Major Thomas Boyd, an officer in the British army, who came to America with his family and took up 1,000 acres of land on the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago, Calumet county, Wisconsin. This entire tract he put under cultivation. He had five sons and two daughters, all of whom accompanied him to America in the early '40s, and three of his sons were educated at Lawrence University, Samuel Boyd being a graduate of that institution. Charles S. Boyd graduated from Lawrence University in 1893, after which he attended the University of Chicago for one year, and then went into the line of business with which he has been identified ever since. His first work in this direction was with the Moser Paper Company, of Chicago, Illinois, and when he left that concern in 1900 he became traveling salesman for the Plover Paper Company of Stevens Point, and continued until October, 1905, when he organized the Charles S. Boyd Paper Company. He is still operating this plant. In 1907 he organized the Appleton Coated Paper Company. The officers of the former company are: Charles S. Boyd, president; Robert E. Boyd, vice-president, and John Lowe, secretary. This company was started in Kaukauna, but its machinery was moved to Appleton in 1910. It refinishes and markets various lines and grades of cover paper as its principal output. The Appleton Coated Paper Company was organized and incorporated May 7, 1907, with these officers: Charles S. Boyd, president and treasurer;

Robert E. Boyd, vice-president, and Curtis Bynum, secretary. On account of failing health, Mr. Bynum sold his interest in 1909 and sought a milder climate, at which time John Lowe became secretary. This company first leased and then bought a factory formerly operated by a canning company, but later made improvements and additions that now give them 30,000 square feet of floor space. It manufactures coated papers and card boards, securing its raw stock from the local mills, and also uses an imported clay which is mined in England and is known as English coating clay. It is the only plant of its kind in Wisconsin and has a capacity of 12,000 pounds per day. The product is used for high grade catalogue and magazine work. The process of manufacture is very interesting. The paper when taken as raw stock is coated with a preparation of clay and casein, the latter a milk product, about 700 pounds of which is used daily. It is calculated that 100 pounds of milk will make three pounds of casein and it requires about 1,000 cows to supply the casein needed by this company. It is purchased from creameries. The company gives employment to sixty-five people. Shipments are made to the leading jobbing points in the Middle West.

Source: History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin : including a history of the cities, towns and villages throughout the county, from the earliest settlement to the present time by Thomas H. Ryan; Chicago Illinois : Goodspeed Historical Association, 1911. FHL Film 928279

 

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