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Kenneth W. Ford (August 4, 1908 – February 8, 1997) was an American businessman and lumber mill owner from Asotin, Washington, who founded Roseburg Forest Products in 1936. In 2017, his family was the 12th largest private landowners in the United States owning 783,000 acres in the Pacific Northwest, North Carolina and Virginia. [1]
Roseburg Forest Products is a privately owned wood–products company based in Springfield, Oregon. Founded in 1936, the company had approximately 3,000 employees and revenues of nearly US$1 billion in 2012. [1] [2] Roseburg Forest Products operates mills throughout Western Oregon, and continues to be held by the founding Ford family.
Roseburg is the most populous city in and the county seat of Douglas County, Oregon. [5] It is located in the Umpqua River Valley in southern Oregon.Founded in 1851, the population was 23,683 at the 2020 census, making it the principal city of the Roseburg, Oregon Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Interstate 5 provides access to the communities of Tri-City, Myrtle Creek, Canyonville, Green, Roseburg, Sutherlin, and Rice Hill. Oregon Route 138 runs northwest from Roseburg to Elkton, Oregon, and generally east from Roseburg to its terminus at a junction with U.S. Route 97, just east of Diamond Lake and Crater Lake.
Rose, besides being Roseburg's leading benefactor, also did much for charity. [ 6 ] Prior to 1860, Rose gave most of his time to farming, before the building up of Roseburg, having become interested in the various city enterprises, both as a shareholder and in encouraging such institutions as city water works, electric lights, and so forth, by ...
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The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Roseburg, Oregon. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.