Knapp, Stout & Co.

Knapp, Stout & Co. was a lumber company based in Menomonie, Wisconsin in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

[2][4] In the 1880s, the company expanded to sites along the Mississippi River, opening offices in Dubuque, Iowa, Read's Landing, Minnesota, and St. Louis.

By the 1900s, the company had largely depleted its lumber supply; it closed many of its camps and dissolved early in the 20th century.

[6] In addition to logging, Knapp, Stout & Co. built many community institutions in Menomonie and northern Wisconsin.

But as the business grew, he moved to Menomonie, where four more children were born, John Holly III, Edgar, Herbert and Rolla.