1. Robber Barons or Captains of Industry??? Wausau Past

2. Robber Baron vs. Captain of Industry
Takes advantage of workers
Makes $ at the expense of someone else
Builds a business through corrupt or illegal practices.
Makes the rest of us green with envy.
Captain of Industry
Uses wealth to benefit the rest of us.
Creates “good” paying jobs for regular people.

3. Cyrus Yawkey Robber Baron?????
Owned a lumber business in Hazelhurst
Later lead the Wausau Group
Invested money in new industries, brokaw paper mill, and power companies.

4. Cyrus Yawkey Captain of Industry???
Donated Yawkey park to city of Wausau, Dells of the Eau Claire, and Marathon Park
Donated his home to the Wausau Historical Society

5. Leigh Yawkey Woodson The daughter of Cyrus Yawkey
Leaves her $2.1 million dollar house to be a free museum.

6. Alexander Stewart Robber Baron???
Owned the largest lumber mill on the Wisconsin River
Built three large homes on East Hill
Wealthiest man in Wausau
Wausau Paper Mill
President Marathon Cty. Bank.
Owned Lumber companies in 30 different states.

7. Stewart Inn, Downtown Wausau

8. Alexander Stewart Captain of Industry????
Donated the land that became Stewart park in 1912.
Hired a Chicago firm to build the music stage in Stewart Park.
Donated Oak Island Park
Donated the stained glass window above the choir loft at First Presbyterian Church

9. Embassy of Luxembourg, Washington, D.C.

10. David Clark Everest the Robber Baron
Member of the Wausau Group.
President of Marathon Paper Co.
Member of Wisconsin Business Hall of Fame.
At 16 Became Poor.

11. D.C. Everest Captain of Industry???
Used Horizontal Integration / Ink and Paper
Owns largest Printing Co. in the world.
President of Wisconsin State Historical Society
Donated Historical and important papers to Marathon Cty. Historical Society.

12. Everest
1206 Highland Ave.

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