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WILLIAM IRVINE

Before he lent his name to the city’s most popular park, William Irvine was a 15-year-old who moved from Illinois and got a job in a Chippewa Falls sawmill. He rose through the ranks and in the 1880s became manager of the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Co., the largest sawmill in the world under one roof.

Irvine, L.C. Stanley, and the lumber company donated 163 acres to the city, which became Irvine Park. Irvine also donated funds for roads and buildings in the park, and provided an endowment for it in his will.

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And, contrary to what you may typically hear, he pronounced his name ER-vin, not ER-vine.

2. EDWARD RUTLEDGE

Rutledge also worked for Frederick Weyerhaeuser’s Chippewa Lumber & Boom Co., where he was chief officer.

He and Weyerhaeuser were involved in some of the largest most successful pine deals in the country. After his wife died in 1910, Edward created the Hannah M. Rutledge Home For the Aged, which was to be