Isaac Staples

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| name = Isaac Staples

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1816|09|25}}

| birth_place = Topsham, Maine

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1898|06|27|1816|09|25}}

| death_place = Stillwater, Minnesota

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| occupation = Businessman

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• {{Marriage|Caroline B. Rogers|1839|1840|end=d.}}
• {{Marriage|Olivia J. Pettengill|1841}}

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| children = 8

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| signature = Signature of Isaac Staples (1816–1898).png

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Isaac Staples (September 25, 1816 – June 27, 1898) was a powerful lumber baron in the St. Croix River Valley during the logging boom of the late 19th century.

Aside from his massive holdings and operations in timber, sawmills and the St. Croix Boom Company, Staples was also the region's most successful farmer and an important banker.{{Cite book |url=http://www.nps.gov/sacn/hrs/hrs2i.htm |title=Time and the River: A History of the Saint Croix |first1=Eileen M. |last1=McMahon |first2=Theodore J. |last2=Karamanski |publisher=National Park Service |date=2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050422113123/http://www.nps.gov/sacn/hrs/hrs2i.htm |archive-date=2005-04-22 |url-status=dead |access-date=2023-01-22}}