"George C. Swallow ( -1917) resided in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1890, was a partner, with George Esterly and G. W. Esterly, in and the vice president of the Esterly Harvester Machine Company in 1884, was successfully sued for damages for injuries suffered when a logging railroad platform for loading logs on Basswood Lake, Minnesota, for rail transport to Fall Lake, Minnesota, malfunctioned in 1906," . . . .