electric utility executive, businessman, financier, b. Mahoning County, Ohio. He worked for several years as a traveling salesman, and in 1893 settled in Wausau where he developed a successful laundry business. In 1906 he was one of the organizers of the Wausau Street Railway Co., which in 1909 consolidated with the Wausau Light and Power Co. Ewing was general manager of this firm (later known as the Wisconsin Valley Electric Co.) until his death. Under his direction the company extended its operations to Merrill, Tomahawk, and Stevens Point, and, with the backing of the pulp and paper-making firms along the Wisconsin River, became one of the most powerful hydroelectric firms in the area. Ewing was a director of the Marathon County Bank, the Wausau Sulphate Fiber Co. at Mosinee, and part owner of the Luther Lindauer pulp mill at Merrill. After Ewing's death the Valley Company became less successful, was eventually Wausau Daily Record-Herald, Aug. 11, 1922; acquired by the H. M. Byllesby interests, and Stevens Point Daily Journal, Aug. 12, 1922; F. in 1932 was merged with the Wisconsin Public McDonald, Let There Be Light (Madison, Service Corporation 1957). M. M. Quaife, Wis. (4 vols.Learn More
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