Thursday, August 18, 2005

Henry Franklin Bronson


H. F. Bronson was born in New York, moved to Canada in 1852, and was among the first of the timber barons to ship to the U.S. market. By 1871, his mills we producing 70,000,000 board feet of lumber. His stately residence and chaudiere mills were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1900.

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Blogger David Jeanes said...

This is Erskine Henry Bronson, the son of Henry Franklin Bronson.

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