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Ace Tree Company

Also Ace Tree Co.

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TypeCompany
Coordinates41.5336° N, 85.2716° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
ErasModern era
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Summary

Ace Tree Company of South Milford, Indiana, was named as the employer during a 1959 Beaver Island right-of-way tree-cutting project in which Rodney Burnett was injured.

Evidence and limits

The notice does not supply a legal company record, contract, or project file and does not identify the right-of-way owner beyond the source’s reference to the REA.

The dated record

2 dated events · 1959–1960These years on the timeline →

Sources

  1. Names Ace Tree Company of South Milford, Indiana, as Rodney Burnett’s employer during tree cutting for a right of way at Beaver Island’s south end. It does not supply a legal company record, contract, or identify the REA project.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1960-01_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held four-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1960-01_Beaver-Beacon
  3. Reports a five-person Ace Tree Trimming Service crew remaining on Beaver Island to trim trees for the Rural Electric Co. It gives no crew names, contract, or end date.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1960-02_Beaver-Beacon
  4. The held seven-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1960-02_Beaver-Beacon
  5. Returned a city-level point at longitude -85.27162, latitude 41.5336176. The 1960 source identifies Ace Tree Company as being of South Milford but supplies no office address; this is a city locator, not a verified company site.

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 6 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Ace Tree Company”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/organizations/ace-tree-company-1960/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1960, hospital and injury notices. (and 4 further sources listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-06. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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