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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.
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]
Frederick Weyerhaeuser (1834–1914) was a native of Nieder-Saulheim, in the independent Grand Duchy of Hesse, in present-day Germany. [2] He immigrated to the United States in 1856. Weyerhaeuser and his brother-in-law, Frederick Denkmann , founded the Weyerhaeuser and Denkmann Lumber Company in Rock Island.
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.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser's son Charles A. Weyerhaeuser became the company's first President and held that role until his death in 1930, while Deary was named the company's General Manager. [6] Potlatch planned a lumber mill on the Palouse River in north central Idaho and began construction in 1905, completing it in 1906.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser opened a mill adjacent to the Long-Bell operation, encompassing Mount Coffin. Shortly after, in 1929, Mount Coffin was dynamited and quarried. After cutting 8,700,000,000 board feet (21,000,000 m 3) of lumber, Long's two great sawmills were dismantled in 1960. [9]
The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum is located in Little Falls, Minnesota, on the banks of the Mississippi River. Established in 1975, the museum is owned and operated by the Morrison County Historical Society.
In 1957, Fortune magazine developed a list of the seventy-six wealthiest Americans, which was published in many American newspapers. [6] Jean Paul Getty, when asked his reaction to being named wealthiest American and whether he was worth a billion dollars, said, "You know, if you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars" and then added, "But remember, a billion dollars isn't ...