Johnson lumber mill letters

Archive

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Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society

Name/Title

Johnson lumber mill letters

Entry/Object ID

2023.50.76

Scope and Content

Scans of two letters about the Johnson lumbering legacy. 1. 1882 Letter by O.R. Johnson, Saugatuck lumber baron: Otis. R. Johnson owned mills in Singapore and Saugatuck, the local store and other business enterprises in the area prior to 1875. He packed up the last mill at Singapore and left in 1875 to St. Ignace, then to the Menominee River and Ravine, Wisconsin. With lumber playing out in the north midwest, his son, Charles Russell Johnson, toured California and tried to interest his father in moving on to redwood lumbering. This is a letter Otis R. Johnson wrote a prospective California partner in 1882. 2. 1948 Letter by Oils R. Johnson, grandson of the O. R. Johnson In 1948 Charles Russell Johnson, grandson of the original redwood lumberman, received a letter from his father, Oils R. Johnson, grandson of the O. R. Johnson in Michigan, that enclosed a copy of the 1882 letter. This second Charles Russell (known as Russell) visited Saugatuck in the summer of 1999 as a guest on the Le Levant and afterward forwarded copies of both letters to the Society. He said he has never been able to locate the original of the 1882 letter. Russell retired about 1970 after the Union Lumber Company merged with Boise Cascade.

Collection

SDHS NL Inserts, 1835 Logging and Lumbering

Cataloged By

Winthers, Sally

Acquisition

Accession

2023.50

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Notes

SDHS Newsletter insert pages 153 and 156.

Location

* Untyped Location

Digital data in CatalogIt

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Johnson, O.R. 1815-1895

General Notes

Note

This information was OCR text scanned from SDHS newsletter supplements. Binders of original paper copies are in the SDHC reference library.

Create Date

November 24, 2023

Update Date

November 24, 2023