Bio: Landon, William C. (1872 - 19??)

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Surnames: Landon, Barker, Stewart, McInnis, Crawford

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Landon, William C. (11 August 1872 - 19??)

Willam C. Landon, a prominent resident of Wausau, Wis., has been identified with the lumber industry all his active business life and is recognized as one of the progressive and thoroughly informed men along this and related lines. He was born at Algonac, Mich., August 11, 1872, and is a son of George W. and Sarah Landon.

William C. Landon spent his boyhood on his father's farm and attended the public schools during the winter seasons. In 1894 he came to Wausau and entered the employ of the firm of Barker & Stewart, lumbermen, and for two years worked in the yards, his main duty being piling lumber. In the meanwhile he had succeeded in taking a course in a business college at Wausau and thus was able to give satisfaction in the company's office, where, in three years' time he was advanced to the position of office manager. In 1904, when the Barker & Stewart Lumber Company was incorporated, Mr. Landon was elected its vice president, and following the death of Mr. Barker, January 1, 1908, he was made president, a responsible office which he ably fills. As the head of his company he continues the conservative timber policy that has been the company's custom since he first became identified with it. The mill owns a seven years' supply of timber and its future operation, in regard to supply, may easily be considered a matter of at least a quarter of a century. While his main interest is the management of the affairs of the Barker & Stewart Lumber Company, he has other enterprises in hand and is secretary of the Wausau Sulphate Fiber Company an immense paper plant at Mosinee for the manufacture of craft paper, hemlock being the principal wood used in this industry. He is held in high esteem by all lumber bodies in the northwest and served as president of the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers Association in 1910-11, of which he is a director.

At Wausau, Wis., Mr. Landon was married to Miss Annie McInnis, of this city, and they have one son, George Crawford. Mr. Landon is one of the directors of the Great Northern Insurance Company and of the Employers' Mutual Insurance Company. Socially he is identified with the Wausau Club, of which he was president in 1911-1912. Fraternally he belongs to the Masons and the Knights of Pythias.