Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West

Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West

Judith Koll Healey will speak about this book Tuesday, April12, 1:30 at Lakes Area Unlimited Learning. The Weyerhaeuser name looms large locally in Minnesota, and Wisconsin, attached to paper mills, cabinet factories, and vast tracts of land, both forested and cut over. A complex and private man, Weyerhaeuser emigrated from Germany in 1852 at the tender age of eighteen. In just a few years, he would be a prominent lumberman, organizing partnerships among competing companies, and then making the largest timberland purchase in the history of the United States.

Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West narrates the life of this extraordinary man through newly available resources: his extensive correspondence and journal entries as well as the letters and diaries of family members, friends, and business associates from around the country. She frames Weyerhaeuser’s many commercial opportunities and business decisions within his family’s internal dynamics and world events: war and unrest, economic upswings and downturns, and western expansion and eastern urbanization. Healey offers a thoughtful perspective on his achievements as well as the limitations of his vision for the expansion of the American West.

Judith Koll Healey has been a philanthropic professional for thirty years and has lectured internationally on the topic of art and the unconscious. She is the Author of Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West, with Char Miller co-author and has also written two historical novels. Lakes Area Unlimited Learning, 1:30 Heartwood Senior Living, 500 Heartwood Drive, Crosby Non-members are welcome $5.00

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