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Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. pp. 65-66.

WILSON F. JEWETT

	WILSON F. JEWETT is the vice president and general manager of the Gardiner
Mill Company, employing two hundred people. This is the leading industrial
concern of Oardiner, and in addition to his interests therein Mr. Jewett is a
stockholder in the Kerchoff, Cuzner Mill & Lumber Company, of Los Angeles,
California. His business interests are of an important character, and their
careful management and control show Mr. Jewett to be possessed of keen sagacity
and powers of discernment. He was born in Maine, June 14, 1852, and is a son of
Walter G. and Flavilla (Wilson) Jewett, both of whom were members of old New
England families that came of English ancestry and were numbered among the early
colonial settlers. Walter G. Jewett and his family resided in Solon, Maine,
where he was identified with lumber and timber interests throughout his active
business life. He died at the age of sixty-three years, while his wife survived,
reaching the advanced age of eighty-eight years. She was spending the last years
of her life with her son, Wilson F. Jewett, when her death occurred in February,
1911.
	Wilson F. Jewett acquired his early education at the Eaton boarding school
at Norwichwalk, Maine, and later entered the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire,
Connecticut, one of the old schools of New England, established about 1770. He
afterward became a student in the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie. New
York, from which he was graduated in 1872. The following spring he came to Coos
Bay, Oregon, and was employed as a clerk in the" store of E. B. Dean & Company,
at Marshfield. He remained with that firm for five years and in the meantime was
advanced to the position of manager of their mercantile interests. In 1878 he
became associated with the lumber firm of G. S. Hinsdale & Company, at Gardiner,
and purchased an interest in the business, after which he was placed in charge
of their San Francisco offices. There he remained for three years and in 1881
came to Gardiner, where he has since made his home. He became one of tho
dominant factors in the organization of the Gardiner Mill Company which absorbed
the properties of G. S. Hinsdale & Company and subsequently purchased the mills
of A. M. Simpson. In March, 1885, the Gardiner Mill Company took out papers of
incorporation and Mr. Jewett was made superintendent of the mills and
practically had charge of all the business here. In 1907 he was elected to the
vice presidency of the company, in which capacity he has since served. The
Gardiner Mill Company is identified with the Kerchoff, Cuzner Mill & Lumber
Company of Los Angeles, California, through whom all the product of the Gardiner
Mills is placed upon the market. The business is one of large and growing
proportions and constitutes the chief Industry of the town. In addition to his
other activities Mr. Jewett has extensive banking and real-estate interests in
Los Angeles.
	In 1886 occurred the marriage of Mr. Jewett and Miss Mary Hughes of San
Francisco, California, and unto them were born four children, of whom two are
living: Wilson H., who is clerk in the company store of the Gardiner Mill
Company; and Narcissa, at home. In politics Mr. Jewett is a republican but has
never been an office seeker, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his
business affairs which have been of constantly growing volume and importance,
lie is today one of tlic leading lumbermen of the coast country, the fiardiner
Mill having an output of eighty-five thousand feet daily. This business has been
built up largely through Mr. Jewett's enterprise, his well formulated plans and
his resolute will. He has studied the conditions of the trade and its
possibilities and has utilized every means at hand in such effective measure as
to produce a harmonious working whole, bringing substantial results.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in October 2009 by Jenny Tenlen. Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.