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Hugh Joseph Chisholm I ( / ˈtʃɪzəm /; May 2, 1847 – July 1, 1912) was a Canadian industrialist who later became a citizen of the United States. He was born in Chippawa, Canada West, to parents of Scottish ancestry.
Nov 16, 1972 · Hugh J..Chisholm Jr., a poet and translator, was killed lin an automobile accident Monday night in Angouleme, France, while driving to his home in Biarritz. He was 59 years old.
Era: pre-1900. Chisholm was widely considered to be the most powerful man of his time in the American pulp and paper industry. He was the primary founder of International Paper Company that brought together 30 pulp and paper mills in various parts of the US and Canada.
Hugh J. Chisholm was originally a large distributor of printed news materials sold on railroads and steamships throughout the northeast. In 1876 he started a lithographic printing company with his brothers that produced many pictorial tourist guides.
Under Hugh Chisholm’s leadership, International Paper controlled 60 percent of the American newsprint market. He also created the company’s first forest management program. Hugh J. Chisholm’s formal education was cut short at age 13 when his father died and he was forced to work.
Hugh Jeremy Chisholm & William Townsend Ylvisaker at Palm Beach Polo & Country Club circa 1980. Born in Los Angeles, on December 27, 1940, he was the son of the late Hugh Joseph Chisholm, Jr. and Bridget Bate Tichenor.
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Hugh J. Chisholm (1847-1912) was a Canadian immigrant who founded the world’s largest paper company, International Paper, in 1898. Born in Toronto, Canada, Chisholm was the fifth of ten children of immigrants from Scotland.
