funeral held for Charles Russell Johnson -- Fort Bragg Lumber Company

Held for Chas. Johnson Founder of Fort Bragg, Pioneer Lumberman, Succumbs to Pneumonia Funeral services were held today for Charles R. Johnson, 81, pioneer California lumberman and one of the founders of the town of Fort at his home, 1925 Bragg, Street, San Francisco, yesterday following a brief illness which developed into pneumonia. A Racine, Wis. Johnson came to California in the early '80's, settling in Kibesillah in the primitive country north of what is now Fort Bragg. In 1885, he founded the Fort Bragg Lumber company on the site of an abandoned Indian reservation. His associates were Calvin Stewart, General Russell A. Alger who subsequently became Secretary of War during the can conflict. and Senator Stockbridge of Michigan. COMPANIES MERGE Six years later, their /company was merged with the White and Plummer and Noyo Lumber companies to form Union Lumber Company which Johnson served as 1939. At that time he chairpresident for 48 years, retiring, in man of the board and his son, Otis, succeeded him. A leader in the redwood lumber industry, Johnson was chosen in 1933 to represent it in code authority meetings for the NRA. He was a member of the Pacific Union club and the Commonwealth club. SON SURVIVES His wife, who died in 1932, was the former Conness, daughter of former John ConMarys ness of California. Besides his son, he is survived by two sisters, Miss Jeanette Johnson of New York and Mrs. Howard Abbott of Minneapolis, Minn., and one brother, F. J. Johnson, New York. Services were held today at 4 p.m. at the Cypress Lawn Memorial Chapel. The Rev. W. W. Jennings St. Luk's Episcopal Church officiated. Memorial services will be held at Fort Bragg Sunday. a

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funeral held for Charles Russell Johnson -- Fort Bragg Lumber Company

funeral held for Charles Russell Johnson -- Fort Bragg Lumber Company

Oakland Tribune