User:Chief tin cloud/William H. Murphy

william Murphy was an uncle of coachbuilder

Walter Montgomery Murphy (1881-1961)

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was born to an old Detroit, Michigan family who had made their fortunes in the second half of the 19th century in Michigan’s lumber industry. His uncle,

William H. Murphy was the son of Simon J. Murphy (1905), one of Detroit’s first millionaires and the founder of the Simon J. Murphy Co., one of the country’s largest lumber producers. Murphy made his first fortune harvesting lumber along the coast of Maine and moved his operation to Michigan in the second half of the 19th Century. In addition to his extensive lumber holdings he also financed a number of Western US railroads before purchasing his jewel-in-the-crown, the Pacific Lumber Co. in 1904. Although it’s no longer controlled by the Murphy family, Pacific Lumber Co. is best known today for their extensive sequoia and old-growth redwood holdings in Northern California.

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