• In 1904 Perry E. Canfield came to Waterloo and organized the Canfield Lumber Company.
• The company was incorporated with a capital stock of 30,000 dollars.
• It was located on Falls Avenue in Waterloo.
• Lee Canfield, of Cedar Rapids, was president; C.J. Schneck, of Waterloo, was vice president, and Perry E. Canfield was secretary and treasurer.
• In 1915, the plant was the largest of its kind in Waterloo covering 10 acres of land.

Source: John C. Hartman's History of Black Hawk County, Iowa, and its people, Volume II, 1915.

From: Explorations in Iowa History Project, University of Northern Iowa.