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The kidnapping of nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser[a] occurred in 1935 in Tacoma, Washington, United States. The son of prominent lumberman J. P. Weyerhaeuser, George was successfully released for ransom and eventually succeeded his father as the chairman of the Weyerhaeuser company. The four participants in the kidnapping were apprehended and ...
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.
www.weyerhaeuser.com. The Weyerhaeuser Company (/ ˈwɛərhaʊzər / 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]
Friedrich Weyerhäuser. 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.
Willamette Industries. Willamette Industries, Inc. was a Fortune 500 forest products company based in Portland, Oregon, United States. [3] In 2002, the lumber and paper company was purchased by competitor Weyerhaeuser of Federal Way, Washington in a hostile buyout and merged into Weyerhaeuser's existing operations.
One of the 17 original founding mills of International Paper c. 1908, built in 1888 as the Otis Falls Pulp & Paper Company in Chisholm, Maine. The company was incorporated January 31, 1898, upon the merger of 17 pulp and paper mills in the northeastern United States. Its founders and first two presidents were William Augustus Russell, who died ...
Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Weyerhaeuser Corporate Headquarters. Weyerhaeuser Glacier. Weyerhaeuser House. George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping. Weyerhaeuser Office Building. Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company. Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company.
Early life. Eastwood was unusually large at birth, weighing 11 lb 6 oz (5.16 kg), and was nicknamed "Samson" by the nurses at St. Francis Hospital. [2][3][4] He has English, Scottish, Dutch, Welsh, through Laufer (Runner) line, and Irish ancestry. [5] The elder of two siblings, he has a younger sister, Jeanne Bernhardt, born in 1934.