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Texas lumberman born
On this day in 1836, Henry Lutcher, a leading Texas lumberman, was born
in Pennsylvania. By 1865 he had become a partner with G. Bedell Moore in
the Lutcher and Moore Company. When the rapid depletion of Pennsylvania
timber threatened his lumber business, he and Moore made a grueling
inspection tour of Texas in 1877 seeking a new location for their
operations. Lutcher moved to Orange the following year, and he and Moore
invested heavily in the timberlands of southeastern Texas and
southwestern Louisiana. Their plants at Orange and at Lutcher,
Louisiana, were among the nation's largest, and helped set off a
lumbering bonanza in the region. Lutcher diversified his industrial
investments and helped finance the construction of both the Orange and
Northwestern and the Gulf, Sabine and Red River railroads. He also lent
powerful support to the deepwater movements in Jefferson and Orange
counties that culminated in the construction of the Sabine-Neches
Waterway. He died in 1912.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- LUTCHER, HENRY JACOB
- LUMBER INDUSTRY
- MOORE, G. BEDELL
- SABINE-NECHES WATERWAY AND SABINE PASS SHIP CHANNEL
- ORANGE, TX
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