Organization
- Eras
- Lumbering eraModern era
- Concepts
- economycommunityheritagelumbering
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
McDonough’s General Store is the Beaver Island retail business that the May 1973 Beaver Beacon traces from a Beaver Island Lumber Company store built after the company’s 1903 property purchase, through John Grill’s 1915 ownership, to Lloyd and Eva McDonough’s 1933 purchase. The store was still operating under the McDonough name in 1973.
Evidence and limits
The record is based on local retrospective reporting. It does not establish deeds, incorporation, ownership shares, or whether the current business is a legal continuation of the company store.
Open questions
- Which deeds and business records document the 1915 and 1933 transfers?
- What were the store’s operations and ownership between 1915 and 1933?
See also
- McDonough’s Store forty-year open house (1973)
- Beaver Island Lumber Company
- Lloyd McDonough (1903–1972)
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, May 1973, “McDonough's Market Marks 40th.”Says the Beaver Island Lumber Company purchased the property and built a company store in 1903, sold the store to John Grill in 1915, and that Lloyd and Eva McDonough purchased it in 1933; the article reports the May 6, 1973 forty-year open house but does not supply deeds or corporate records.
- Beaver Beacon, May 1972, “Lloyd McDonough Passes.”Reports Lloyd McDonough operated McDonough General Store for 39 years; it is corroborating local context, not a complete business ledger.