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Friedrich (Frederick) Weyerhäuser (November 21, 1834 – April 4, 1914 [1]), also spelled Weyerhaeuser, was a German-American timber mogul and founder of the Weyerhaeuser Company, which owns sawmills, paper factories, and other business enterprises as well as large areas of forested land in the northern United States.
Frederick Denkmann died in 1905 at the age of 82. The lumber mill in Rock Island ceased operating on November 18, 1905, six months after his death. [1] By this time Friedrich Weyerhäuser had re-located to the Pacific Northwest where he had recently established the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company.
The Weyerhaeuser Company (/ ˈ w ɛər h aʊ z ə r / WAIR-how-zər) is an American timberland company which owns nearly 12,400,000 acres (19,400 sq mi; 50,000 km 2) of timberlands in the U.S., and manages an additional 14,000,000 acres (22,000 sq mi; 57,000 km 2) of timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada. [5]
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As the company prospered Weyerhaeuser bought a house in 1865 and re-built it from 1882 to 1883. In 1900 Weyerhaeuser and fifteen partners bought 900,000 acres (3,600 km 2) of timberland in Washington state. [3] The local partnership ended in 1905 when Denkmann died; Frederick Weyerhaeuser and his wife had moved to Washington by this time.
[1] [6] Additionally, he was an early investor in Friedrich Weyerhäuser's timber investments, later known as the Weyerhaeuser corporation. [3] [5] Ingram played an active role in the development of Eau Claire. He served as the President of the Eau Claire Water Works Company. [1]
His paternal great-great-grandfather, also Orrin Henry Ingram, was a lumber baron in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and early invested in Friedrich Weyerhäuser's timber investments, later known as the Weyerhaeuser Corporation. [9] Ingram received a B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1982. [2] [7] [8]
George Hunt Walker Weyerhaeuser was born on July 8, 1926 in Seattle. [4] As the great-grandson of co-founder Frederick Weyerhaeuser, he was part of the fourth generation to manage the company. [4] In 1935, at the age of eight, George was kidnapped while returning home from school in Tacoma, Washington.