International Paper Company is an American pulp and paper company

Pulp and paper industry

The global pulp and paper industry is dominated by North American , northern European and East Asian countries...

, the largest such company in the world. It has approximately 59,500 employees, and it is headquartered in Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

, Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

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International Paper was incorporated January 31, 1898 upon the merger of 18 pulp and paper mills in the northeastern United States. Its first president was Hugh J. Chisholm

Hugh J. Chisholm

Hugh Joseph Chisholm was a Canadian industrialist who later became a citizen of the United States. He was born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, to parents of Scottish ancestry. His early years as an entrepreneur in the news distribution business provided a foundation for his later accomplishments...

. The first paper (newsprint) mill in the United States, at Corinth, New York

Corinth, New York

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 where the Sacandaga

Sacandaga

Sacandaga may refer to:In New York:*Sacandaga River, a tributary of the Hudson River*Great Sacandaga Lake, formerly the Sacandaga Reservoir, in the Adirondack State ParkShips:, also known as the Sacandaga...

 river joins the Hudson river

Hudson River

The Hudson is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York...

, and built by International Paper's founder Albrecht Pagenstecher, in 1869, {see History of Papermaking in New York

History of Papermaking in New York

This article recounts key aspects in the history of papermaking in New York state.The first invention to revolutionize paper making was the fourdrinier machine invented back in 1799, in France, by Nicholas Louis Robert and perfected by Henry and Sealey Fourdrinier. The second invention was the...

} is to be demolished in 2011.