"Lumber King of the United States," A Short Tribute to Frederick Weyerhaeuser
In 1914 the periodical "The St. Louis Lumberman" published a 10-page tribute to the famous lumber mogul Frederick Weyerhaeuser. It is this 10-page article that has been reprinted here for the convenience of the interested reader.
Weyerhaeuser (1834 – 1914), was a German-American timber mogul and founder of the Weyerhaeuser Company, which owns saw mills, paper factories, and other business enterprises, and large areas of forested land. He is the eighth-richest American of all time, with a net worth of $85 billion in 2016 dollars.
With his brother-in-law, Frederick Denkmann, he formed the Weyerhaeuser-Denkmann Lumber Company and began to acquire interests, including some majority interests, in many other timber companies. He became the central point in what was later called the "Weyerhauser Syndicate," a network of lumber interests, "reputed to have almost a hundred partners, none of whom knew the business of the others," with Weyerhaeuser as the common link. In 1872, he established the Mississippi River Boom and Logging Co., an alliance that handled all the logs that were processed on the Mississippi River. In 1900, Weyerhäuser bought 900,000 acres of timberland in the Pacific Northwest from James J. Hill and founded the Weyerhäuser Timber Company. One of the 30 factories in which he held an interest was Potlatch, later Potlatch Corporation. He also owned interests in the Boise Cascade Corporation. The Weyerhaeuser Company is still the world's largest seller of timber.
The "St. Louis Lumberman" writes of Weyerhaeuser:
"Weyerhaeuser as an American by adoption began life at a tender age and on the humblest, almost lowest possible scale of both importance and earnings. In the meantime he was getting his bearings; modestly cruising for openings; awaiting not only opportunity, but the development of a capacity for the efficient creation of a large field purely his own. With the advance of time and the attainment of these ends, this field, he steadily grew in mental caliber and the resourcefulness that meets emergencies, conquers obstacles and achieves success. But with equal steadiness and fertility of resource, equal infallibility throughout his protracted career there always was unwavering, and unswerving but unpretentious patience and devotion to principle and probity. Like some ponderous high pressure steam engine with huge balance wheels and tremendous motive power, the power and the motion in him were alike, silent, resistless, true. Nothing daunted him; nothing could tempt him into any betrayal of either ostentation, arrogance or other attribute of offensive self-assertion. Every instinct of the man's nature thus spontaneously despising sham and shunning the small devices that distinguish mediocrity and bare the self-distrust of flimsy principle, was marked by flawless methods and sterling, not spectacular ideals."
Contents
Biographical
Early Beginnings in the Lumber Business
The Weyerhaeuser and Denkman Partnership
The Expansion of Operations
The Man and His work
His Secrets of Success
Reprinted from:
The St. Louis Lumberman,
Vol. LIII, No. 8, p.71
April 15, 1914
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Weyerhaeuser (1834 – 1914), was a German-American timber mogul and founder of the Weyerhaeuser Company, which owns saw mills, paper factories, and other business enterprises, and large areas of forested land. He is the eighth-richest American of all time, with a net worth of $85 billion in 2016 dollars.
With his brother-in-law, Frederick Denkmann, he formed the Weyerhaeuser-Denkmann Lumber Company and began to acquire interests, including some majority interests, in many other timber companies. He became the central point in what was later called the "Weyerhauser Syndicate," a network of lumber interests, "reputed to have almost a hundred partners, none of whom knew the business of the others," with Weyerhaeuser as the common link. In 1872, he established the Mississippi River Boom and Logging Co., an alliance that handled all the logs that were processed on the Mississippi River. In 1900, Weyerhäuser bought 900,000 acres of timberland in the Pacific Northwest from James J. Hill and founded the Weyerhäuser Timber Company. One of the 30 factories in which he held an interest was Potlatch, later Potlatch Corporation. He also owned interests in the Boise Cascade Corporation. The Weyerhaeuser Company is still the world's largest seller of timber.
The "St. Louis Lumberman" writes of Weyerhaeuser:
"Weyerhaeuser as an American by adoption began life at a tender age and on the humblest, almost lowest possible scale of both importance and earnings. In the meantime he was getting his bearings; modestly cruising for openings; awaiting not only opportunity, but the development of a capacity for the efficient creation of a large field purely his own. With the advance of time and the attainment of these ends, this field, he steadily grew in mental caliber and the resourcefulness that meets emergencies, conquers obstacles and achieves success. But with equal steadiness and fertility of resource, equal infallibility throughout his protracted career there always was unwavering, and unswerving but unpretentious patience and devotion to principle and probity. Like some ponderous high pressure steam engine with huge balance wheels and tremendous motive power, the power and the motion in him were alike, silent, resistless, true. Nothing daunted him; nothing could tempt him into any betrayal of either ostentation, arrogance or other attribute of offensive self-assertion. Every instinct of the man's nature thus spontaneously despising sham and shunning the small devices that distinguish mediocrity and bare the self-distrust of flimsy principle, was marked by flawless methods and sterling, not spectacular ideals."
Contents
Biographical
Early Beginnings in the Lumber Business
The Weyerhaeuser and Denkman Partnership
The Expansion of Operations
The Man and His work
His Secrets of Success
Reprinted from:
The St. Louis Lumberman,
Vol. LIII, No. 8, p.71
April 15, 1914
"Lumber King of the United States," A Short Tribute to Frederick Weyerhaeuser
In 1914 the periodical "The St. Louis Lumberman" published a 10-page tribute to the famous lumber mogul Frederick Weyerhaeuser. It is this 10-page article that has been reprinted here for the convenience of the interested reader.
Weyerhaeuser (1834 – 1914), was a German-American timber mogul and founder of the Weyerhaeuser Company, which owns saw mills, paper factories, and other business enterprises, and large areas of forested land. He is the eighth-richest American of all time, with a net worth of $85 billion in 2016 dollars.
With his brother-in-law, Frederick Denkmann, he formed the Weyerhaeuser-Denkmann Lumber Company and began to acquire interests, including some majority interests, in many other timber companies. He became the central point in what was later called the "Weyerhauser Syndicate," a network of lumber interests, "reputed to have almost a hundred partners, none of whom knew the business of the others," with Weyerhaeuser as the common link. In 1872, he established the Mississippi River Boom and Logging Co., an alliance that handled all the logs that were processed on the Mississippi River. In 1900, Weyerhäuser bought 900,000 acres of timberland in the Pacific Northwest from James J. Hill and founded the Weyerhäuser Timber Company. One of the 30 factories in which he held an interest was Potlatch, later Potlatch Corporation. He also owned interests in the Boise Cascade Corporation. The Weyerhaeuser Company is still the world's largest seller of timber.
The "St. Louis Lumberman" writes of Weyerhaeuser:
"Weyerhaeuser as an American by adoption began life at a tender age and on the humblest, almost lowest possible scale of both importance and earnings. In the meantime he was getting his bearings; modestly cruising for openings; awaiting not only opportunity, but the development of a capacity for the efficient creation of a large field purely his own. With the advance of time and the attainment of these ends, this field, he steadily grew in mental caliber and the resourcefulness that meets emergencies, conquers obstacles and achieves success. But with equal steadiness and fertility of resource, equal infallibility throughout his protracted career there always was unwavering, and unswerving but unpretentious patience and devotion to principle and probity. Like some ponderous high pressure steam engine with huge balance wheels and tremendous motive power, the power and the motion in him were alike, silent, resistless, true. Nothing daunted him; nothing could tempt him into any betrayal of either ostentation, arrogance or other attribute of offensive self-assertion. Every instinct of the man's nature thus spontaneously despising sham and shunning the small devices that distinguish mediocrity and bare the self-distrust of flimsy principle, was marked by flawless methods and sterling, not spectacular ideals."
Contents
Biographical
Early Beginnings in the Lumber Business
The Weyerhaeuser and Denkman Partnership
The Expansion of Operations
The Man and His work
His Secrets of Success
Reprinted from:
The St. Louis Lumberman,
Vol. LIII, No. 8, p.71
April 15, 1914
Weyerhaeuser (1834 – 1914), was a German-American timber mogul and founder of the Weyerhaeuser Company, which owns saw mills, paper factories, and other business enterprises, and large areas of forested land. He is the eighth-richest American of all time, with a net worth of $85 billion in 2016 dollars.
With his brother-in-law, Frederick Denkmann, he formed the Weyerhaeuser-Denkmann Lumber Company and began to acquire interests, including some majority interests, in many other timber companies. He became the central point in what was later called the "Weyerhauser Syndicate," a network of lumber interests, "reputed to have almost a hundred partners, none of whom knew the business of the others," with Weyerhaeuser as the common link. In 1872, he established the Mississippi River Boom and Logging Co., an alliance that handled all the logs that were processed on the Mississippi River. In 1900, Weyerhäuser bought 900,000 acres of timberland in the Pacific Northwest from James J. Hill and founded the Weyerhäuser Timber Company. One of the 30 factories in which he held an interest was Potlatch, later Potlatch Corporation. He also owned interests in the Boise Cascade Corporation. The Weyerhaeuser Company is still the world's largest seller of timber.
The "St. Louis Lumberman" writes of Weyerhaeuser:
"Weyerhaeuser as an American by adoption began life at a tender age and on the humblest, almost lowest possible scale of both importance and earnings. In the meantime he was getting his bearings; modestly cruising for openings; awaiting not only opportunity, but the development of a capacity for the efficient creation of a large field purely his own. With the advance of time and the attainment of these ends, this field, he steadily grew in mental caliber and the resourcefulness that meets emergencies, conquers obstacles and achieves success. But with equal steadiness and fertility of resource, equal infallibility throughout his protracted career there always was unwavering, and unswerving but unpretentious patience and devotion to principle and probity. Like some ponderous high pressure steam engine with huge balance wheels and tremendous motive power, the power and the motion in him were alike, silent, resistless, true. Nothing daunted him; nothing could tempt him into any betrayal of either ostentation, arrogance or other attribute of offensive self-assertion. Every instinct of the man's nature thus spontaneously despising sham and shunning the small devices that distinguish mediocrity and bare the self-distrust of flimsy principle, was marked by flawless methods and sterling, not spectacular ideals."
Contents
Biographical
Early Beginnings in the Lumber Business
The Weyerhaeuser and Denkman Partnership
The Expansion of Operations
The Man and His work
His Secrets of Success
Reprinted from:
The St. Louis Lumberman,
Vol. LIII, No. 8, p.71
April 15, 1914
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