Bio: McDonald, Finlay (1881)
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Surnames: McDonald, Simple

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, pages 563-564

FINLAY MCDONALD, Wausau, of the firm of McDonald Bros., proprietors of a saw-mill, Wausau, was born in Providence, Nova Scotia, April 14, 1846. He moved to Fond du Lac during the Winter of 1863, and at first worked at any thing he could find to do. In the Spring of 1867, himself and his brother Daniel began a jobbing business of putting in logs, which they followed three years. Then they engaged in the sash and door business at Green Bay, which they continued until 1872. They then moved to Oshkosh and went into logging on the Wolf River, and followed it until 1875. In that Winter, he went with his brother and Mr. James Simple on the line of the W.C.R.R., and built a saw-mill at Medford, Taylor Co., where they remained seven months. They then sold their interest and came to Wausau. Their saw-mill was erected in the Spring and Summer of 1881. The capacity of their mill is 50,000 in eleven hours. They employ sixty men.