Bloedel, Julius Harold

BLOEDEL, Julius Harold, pioneer lumberman (b Mar 1864, Fond du Lac, WI; d 20 Sept 1957, Seattle, WA). After graduating from the Univ of Michigan in the late 1880s he moved to Bellingham, WA, where he managed a sawmill, a mine and a bank. In 1898 he joined Peter Larson, a prominent railway contractor, and J.J. Donovan, an engineer, to form Lake Whatcom Logging Co, with Bloedel as manager. The partners later formed several other forest product companies. In 1911 Bloedel came to BC to buy...

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