William “Bill” Marr died Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, on what would have been his wife’s 91st birthday. Bill was born Dec. 30, 1930, in Montpelier, Vt., to Irene and Robert
The Northwest Paper Co.’s beginnings date back to 1898 with the construction of a groundwood mill and a one-machine newsprint mill in Cloquet. That led to the construction of a two-grinder pulp mill in 1903 at the west end of the Mississippi River dam that was built in 1888 near Brainerd.