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WALTER S. ROSENBERRY
Is secretary and general manager of the Winton Lumber Company and of
the Rose Lake Lumber Company, was born at Fulton, Michigan, August 3,
1882, a son of Samuel C. and Mary (Hitchcock) Rosenberry, both of whom
are natives of Medina county, Ohio. The father, a carpenter and farmer,
removed to Michigan in 1868. At the time of the Civil war he joined
Company I of the One Hundred and Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving
under Sherman. He is a member of the Reformed church, became an active
supporter of the Grand Army of the Republic and has always taken a keen
interest in civic affairs. His political allegiance is given to the
republican party, which was the defense of the Union during the dark
days of the Civil war. On removing to Michigan he homesteaded in the
virgin forest near Fulton, there developing a farm in the midst of the
wilderness. Both he and his wife are now living in Fulton and he has
retired from active business.
Walter S. Rosenberry was educated in the public schools of Michigan,
completing a course in the Athens high school in 1899. He afterward
taught school in the village of Edgar, Wisconsin, for a year and at
Schofield, Wisconsin, for three years. He then became a common laborer
with the Thief River Falls Lumber Company of Thief River Falls,
Minnesota, working a year for one dollar and forty cents per day. He
subsequently became buyer for the Wallace Ballard Lumber Company of
Minneapolis, buying lumber in the Inland Empire.
After two years he resigned his position and returned to the Thief
River Falls Lumber Company as sales manager, occupying that position
for two years, after which he was made general sales manager of the
Thief River Falls Lumber Company and of the Bemidji Lumber Company,
with offices at Minneapolis. In 1911 he became connected with the Rose
Lake Lumber Company, Ltd., of Rose Lake, Idaho, in the capacity of
manager.
In February, 1918, he was one of the organizers of the Winton Lumber
Company of Gibbs, Idaho, and is now secretary and also manager of both
companies and is active in directing their policy. These companies are
engaged in the manufacture of Idaho white pine. Thus in the course of
his career he has worked his way upward from common laborer to the
position of secretary and general manager of two of the biggest lumber
companies operating in the Coeur d'Alene country. He is recognized as a
man of marked business discernment and initiative whose plans are most
carefully formed and promptly executed. In 1918 he removed to Coeur
d'Alene and he is a director of the American Trust Company of this city.
Mr. Rosenberry was married to Miss Sara Etta McInnis, of Spokane,
daughter of John and Jessie McInnis, the former a prominent lumberman
of Merrill, Wisconsin, who in 1900 removed to Spokane, where he is a
leading representative of the lumber interests of the northwest. Mr.
and Mrs. Rosenberry have four children: Walter S., Jr., born November
12, 1907; John M., October 23. 1909; Howard J., November 14, 1914; and
Ralph M., August 27, 1917.
During the war period Mr. Rosenberry served on the Kootenai County
Council of Defense. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, being a
member of the blue lodge, the consistory and the Mystic Shrine. He is
also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and his
religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, while politically
he is a republican. He assisted in promoting all four of the Liberty
Loan drives and all the allied drives which supported American
interests at the time of the war, and on all occasions and under every
circumstance he measures up to the one hundred per cent Americanism.
[Source: History of
Idaho: the gem of the mountains, Volume 4; Edited by James Henry
Hawley; Publ. 1920; Transcribed and submitted to Genealogy Trails by
Andrea Stawski Pack.]
WALTER B. RUSSELL
Important Industrial interests of northern Idaho find a well known and
prominent representative in Walter B. Russell of the Russell-Pugh
Lumber Company of Harrison. He has been continuously connected with the
lumber trade in one phase or another from the age of ten years and his
course has been one of steady progression, characterized by a masterful
grasp of every duty that has come to him and the utilization of every
opportunity that has been presented. He was born in the town of
Concord, Vermont, January 18, 1877, and is a representative of one of
the old New England families. His parents were C. W. and Ella
(Scribner) Russell. The father was born in the Green Mountain state
October 10, 1846, and passed away in Harrison, Idaho, October 16, 1902.
For a long period he was a lumber merchant of Minnesota. In 1879 he
went to Perham, Minnesota, where he became connected with the operation
of a sawmill, remaining a prominent resident of that place until 1886
when he came to the northwest, making his way to Spokane, which at that
time was but a small town. He took up the manufacture of lumber on
Deadman creek and had the first mill on the Spokane, Portland &
Seattle Railroad, in which enterprise he was associated with his
brother, O. F. Russell. He was also at one time the owner of a mill on
the site now occupied by the Washington Mill Company. He organized that
company but at length disposed of his interest in the business and
began lumbering at Wolfe Lodge on Coeur d'Alene Lake, there
establishing business in 1892.
He transferred his activities to Harrison in 1895 and operated under
the name of the C. W. Russell Lumber Company until his death. He was
thus for an extended period actively identified with the development of
the lumber business in the northwest. He was, moreover, a most
public-spirited citizen and one who did everything in his power to
further the temperance cause, standing indisputably in favor of the
"drys." In fact he supported all those agencies and interests which
make for better manhood and higher standards of citizenship.
Walter B. Russell was educated in the public schools of the northwest
and also in the Northwestern Business College at Spokane. From the age
of ten years, however, he has largely been dependent upon his own
resources, for at that time he began working in the lumber mills owned
by his father and throughout the intervening period has been closely
identified with lumber manufacturing. As his capability and powers
increased he was entrusted more and more largely with responsibility in
connection with the management of the business and he is now the
secretary and treasurer of the Russell-Pugh Lumber Company and is also
connected with the Harrison Box Company and the Harrison Light Company.
His business connections have thus constantly broadened in scope and
importance and again and again his ability to handle large and complex
interests has been demonstrated. He readily, discriminates between the
essential and the nonessential and has been most successful in
coordinating seemingly diverse interests into a unified and harmonious
whole.
Mr. Russell was married to Miss Lula Kelly, a daughter of H. Kelly, who
was born in Mississippi and who in young manhood traveled extensively
in South America. He was at different times engaged in business at
Greytown, Nicaragua, and in California and eventually made his way
northward to Spokane. He took up a homestead at Ross Station, Idaho,
and later removed to Harrison, where he engaged in mining and
prospecting. To Mr. and Mrs. Russell have been born four children,
Charles A., Bernice A., Lois and Howard. The religious faith of the
family is that of the Baptist church, to the teachings of which they
are loyal adherents, while to the support of the church they make
generous contribution. Mr. Russell has long been an advocate of
prohibition principles, and, while never a politician in the sense of
office seeking, he was a member of the first town council of Harrison.
All civic affairs are matters of deep interest to him, for he
recognizes the possibilities for advancement and improvement along the
lines of municipal welfare and he never fails to do his full duty where
the upbuilding and benefit of the city and state are involved. The name
of Russell has long been associated with the material and moral
progress of Idaho and for many years has been a synonym for
progressiveness in connection with the development of the lumber
industry in the northwest.
[Source: History of
Idaho: the gem of the mountains, Volume 4; Edited by James Henry
Hawley; Publ. 1920; Transcribed and submitted to Genealogy Trails by
Andrea Stawski Pack.]
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