WI BIO - Lafayette Co - White Oak Springs Creamery
History of Lafayette County, WI. Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881, p 588

An established enterprise for the manufacture of a superior quality of butter 
was organized for business in June 1878 by J. and A. BLACKSTONE, George and 
Henry PROCTOR, and William WALTON, and is represented as engaged in a 
lucrative and gradually increasing business. [See also the Lafayette County, 
Wisconsin, combined BLACKSTONE biography (Augustus, John Wilford, Joseph & 
Theodore E.), and the Lafayette County biographies of George PROCTOR and 
William WALTON.] The premises consist of a creamery proper, of frame, 50x25, 
and two stories high, supplied with eleven pans, and the machinery usual to 
that line of business. The building cost $1,750. Attached to this is an ice 
house and residence, also of frame, and sufficiently complete in details for 
the wants of the service. Eight thousand pounds of milk are utilized daily, 
which is subjected to a temperature of 50 degrees, and from the cream thus 
arising, 350 pounds of butter is manufactured each twenty-four hours. 
The business of the creamery is chiefly with New York and Chicago factors, 
and so successful has been the undertaking that the enlargement of the 
creamery is contemplated during the ensuing season. Three hands are 
employed, at a weekly compensation of $15, and the property of the company 
represents a valuation of $2,500.

[From their Lafayette County, Wisconsin, biographies, Joseph BLACKSTONE had a 
one-fifth interest in the White Oak Springs Creamery; Theodore E. BLACKSTONE, 
a one-fifth interest; George PROCTOR, a one-fifth interest; and William 
WALTON, a one fifth interest. Also involved in this creamery business was W. 
H. LOOK, likely the husband of Joseph BLACKSTONE's daughter, Nettie. The 
Lafayette County, Wisconsin, biography of Henry PROCTOR gives no information 
about his interest in the creamery.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly