Seattle Times Obituary: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/george-weyerhaeuser-sr-great- Geni requires JavaScript! On Wednesday, May 6, 1936, employees of two San Francisco banks reported that a man had exchanged altered bills and they had recorded his license plate number. 1. Mahan jumped in Titcomb's car, drove it to a shack he had rented on the edge of Seattle, hid the $200,000 there and ditched Titcomb's car on a side street. Magnanimously, the Weyerhaeusers gave Waley a job at one of the Weyerhaeuser plants in Oregon. All Public Member Trees results for Weyerhauser Edit Search New Search Filters ( 1 ) To get better results, add more information such as First Name, Birth Info, Death Info and Location even a guess will help. I guess I thought he had paid his debt. No, I don't want to say that," he said in exasperation, meaning that he did not want to use a stereotyped phrase. The long, typewritten ransom note contained 21 points and gave the family five days to raise the money. By Bess Lovejoy October 1, 2014 Published in the October 2014 issue of Seattle Met. Emmett Watson, "Little Boy Lost," Once Upon A Time in Seattle (Seattle: Lesser Seattle Press, 1992); "J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Timber Leader, Dies" The New York Times, May 17, 1935, p. 21; "Big Timber Empire Owned by Family," Ibid., May 26, 1935, p. 2; "Hunt for Kidnapers Centers in Seattle; Death Threatened," The Seattle Times, May 25, 1935, p. 1; "First 'Want Ad' Obeys Ransom Note: Second Begs News for Mother," Ibid., May 26, 1935, p. 1; "Climax Tonight if Cash Ransom Is Raised," Ibid., May 27, 1935, p. 1; "Nervous Men Buy Suit of Clothes for 'Kid About 7,' " Ibid., May 28, 1935, p. 1; "Family May Have Contacted Gang," Ibid., May 29, 1935, p. 1; "Gangland Report Promptly Denied by Tacoma Feds," Ibid., May 30, 1935, p. 1; "Fugitive Gangster Named 'Brains' of Tacoma Kidnapping," Ibid., May 31, 1935, p. 1; John H. Dreher, "Forced into Car, Told Not to Yell, Youth Declares," Ibid., June 1, 1935, p. 1; "Kidnapers Face Death Penalty," Ibid., June 1, 1935, p. 7; "Dreher's Hunch Sent Him to Boy," Ibid., June 2, 1935, p. 1; "Ransom Money Report Sends 'G-Men' Flocking into Salt Lake City," Ibid., June 8, 1935, p. 1; "Mrs. Waley's Grandfather Suspected Wayward Couple," Ibid., June 10, 1935, p. 1; "Kidnaper Hunt Is 7-Day Wonder," Ibid., June 10, 1935, p. A; "Man, Wife Break in Utah Arrest," Ibid., June 10, 1935, p. B; "Waley, Minister Talked at Hideout; Kidnapped Boy Was Locked in Closet," Ibid., June 11, 1935, p. 1; "Mahan Still Believed in Butte," Ibid., June 11, 1935, p. 10; "Life Sentence Declared Hope of Accused Pair," Ibid., June 12, 1935, p. 1; "Court Appoints Dore to Handle Woman's Defense," Ibid., June 22, 1935, p. 1; "Defense May Ask Court to Quash All Indictments," Ibid., June 23, 1935, p. 1; "Mrs. Waley in Plot at Start, Jury Is Told as U. S. Trial Opens," Ibid., July 9, 1935, p. 1; "U. S. Details Kidnapping Charges Against Mrs. Margaret Waley," Ibid., July 9, 1935, p. 4; "U. S. to Bring Its Testimony Against Woman to Speedy End," Ibid., July 10, 1935, p. 1; "Here's Review of First Testimony," Ibid., July 10, 1935, p. B; "The Second Confession," Ibid., July 10, 1935, p. 8; "George Weyerhaeuser's Complete Testimony," Ibid., July 11, 1935, p. 1; "Woman's Story Assailed by U.S. after Dramatic Finish by Dore," Ibid., July 12, 1935, p. 1; "Fear of Hanging Reason for Plea," Ibid., July 12, 1935, p. B; "Judge Quizzed on Interstate Commerce Point in Waley Case," Ibid., July 13, 1935, p. 1; "Wife Convicted on Both Counts in Weyerhaeuser Kidnapping Case," Ibid., July 14, 1935, p. 1; "Prison Sentence Satisfactory to Kidnapper; Dore Abandons Appeal," Ibid., July 17, 1935, p. 1; "Waley Minimum Penalty Doubled," Ibid., July 18, 1935, p. 1; "A Poor Farmer, A Rich Man; But Both Are Happier Now," Ibid., August 11, 1935, p. 1; "Kidnaper of Boy has $7,000 of Ransom," Ibid., May 7, 1936, p. 1; "Kidnaper Is Grilled by 'G-Men' at Tacoma," Ibid., May 8, 1936, p. 1; "Kidnaper of Tacoma Boy Taken to McNeil Cell," Ibid., May 9, 1936, p. 1; "Kidnaper at McNeil Isle, Starts Term of 60 Years," Ibid., May 10, 1936, p. 1; "Kidnapers Companion Exchanged Hot Money," Ibid., October 23, 1936, p. 1; "$5,000 Fine Assessed to Distributor of Ransom," Ibid., November 27, 1936, p. 1; "Harmon Waley, Weyerhaeuser Kidnaper, Gets McNeil Parole," Seattle Post Intelligencer, June 5, 1963, p. 13; "Obituaries: Harmon Metz Waley," Salem Statesman-Journal, February 8, 1984, p. 2-B; "Obituaries: William Dainard," Great Falls Tribune, September 21, 1992, p. 2-B; "Obituaries: Margaret Thulin Rea," Salt Lake City Tribune, November 11, 1989, p. 6-B; "FBI History; Famous Cases; The Weyerhaeuser Kidnapping," Federal Bureau of Investigation website accessed February 2006 (www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/weyer/weyer.htm); Gordon Dainard to HistoryLink.org, January 7, 2012, in possession of HistoryLink.org, Seattle, Washington. He thought it was terrible, Leilee Weyerhaeuser said. Two days later, in Tacoma, he pleaded guilty to kidnapping charges. A California parole board voted to release Sirhan from his life sentence two years ago, but Gov. "He can adjust himself to conditions in a way no adult could. Defense attorney Dore called only one witness, Margaret Waley, who claimed that she had no knowledge of the kidnapping until the day after it occurred. A scholarly work called Timber Concentration in the Pacific Northwest appraised the Weyerhaeuser work soberly and justly: "This family has been and is the most important in the American lumber industry, and as such the Weyerhaeusers' contribution to our culture should be discussed in general historical terms. It incidentally left the country green again, the streams clear and the wildlife multiplying. Skip Ancestry main menu Main Menu. Have you taken a DNA test? ", The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), advised of the kidnapping, determined that the Federal Kidnapping Act (also known as the Lindbergh Law) and a statute that made it a felony to send extortion threats through the postal service had been violated. George Hunt Walker Weyerhaeuser was born July 8, 1926, in Seattle, to Helen (Walker) Weyerhaeuser and John Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr., grandson of company co-founder Frederick Weyerhaeuser. Margaret stayed in Seattle. The first camp was cleared on the banks of the Toutle River, a great steelhead stream. Dainard hid in the foothills of Idaho and Washington for several weeks and then went to California. The Weyerhaeusers never made sensational news. The passenger exited the vehicle and approached George, asking for directions to Stadium Way. The kidnapping had made the national news, thanks to a reporter who maneuvered to interview George even before he returned to his family, and the result was a media frenzy, said Leilee Weyerhaeuser, He had told us that for him, the worst trauma came from being encircled by reporters with cameras and questions and microphones, she said. Later that morning, the vehicle Weyerhaeuser used to pay the ransom, a 1933 black Pontiac sedan, was found abandoned at 5th Avenue S and Weller Street in Seattles International District (Chinatown) and searched for evidence. 25 Feb/23. George Weyerhaeuser Sr., the fourth-generation timber family scion who ran one of America's largest forestry firms and was briefly one of America's most famous kidnapping victims, died. Donald asks the courts to let him tweet. The automobile sped away. In the early stages of a conversation with him one gets the impression of feints, fast footwork and lightning jabs, not unfriendly, merely exploratory taps to determine what sort of a sparring match it is going to be. They reached Seattle that night. All timber companies were damned as looters of the public domain, despoilers of the wilderness, polluters of the rivers, destroyers of wildlife and conscienceless exploiters who ravaged the country. With the Fliss sentencing, the government considered the Weyerhaeuser case closed. The family would like to thank numerous healthcare professionals for. Thus he returned to civilization. Then George was again handcuffed and entombed with two blankets and a kerosene lantern for warmth. They confessed to the crime and identified ex-convict William Dainard, 33, as the "brains" behind the kidnapping. But his daughter, Leilee Weyerhaeuser, said the experience deeply affected his outlook on life. Philip Weyerhaeuser got the bills together and placed the ad in the paper as he had been ordered to do but added another: "Due publicity beyond our control please indicate another method of reaching you. In the evening, just before dark, the men returned to the pit and everyone ate a picnic lunch of sandwiches, cookies and hard-boiled eggs. They disabled it and established surveillance. It was an informal beginning of an important historical development. Trusted by millions of genealogists since 2003. . Mahan was trapped in Butte, Mont., escaped, kept on the run for two years and was finally caught, tried and sentenced to 60 years. George was packed back into the cracker box and locked in the trunk of the car. When one of the kidnappers was released from prison, George Weyerhaeuser hired the man. William Dainard (1902-1992) was eligible for parole in 1955, but the Federal Parole Board didnt believe that a "three-time loser" like Dainard merited an early release. Big as the Weyerhaeuser lands are, they are getting bigger. The company also owns more than 600,000 acres of pine in scattered stands that run 200-odd miles south from tidewater Virginia to the Southern marshes that have never been much visited since Blackbeard the Pirate lived there. The trial was concluded on July 13, 1935. George is 22 degrees from Jennifer Aniston, 23 degrees from Drew Barrymore, 25 degrees from Candice Bergen, 26 degrees from Alexandre Dumas, 21 degrees from Carrie Fisher, 31 degrees from Whitney Houston, 21 degrees from Hayley Mills, 21 degrees from Liza Minnelli, 20 degrees from Lisa Presley, 22 degrees from Kiefer Sutherland, 21 degrees from Bill Veeck and 25 degrees from Brian Nash on our single family tree. Weyerhaeuser, whose father, grandfather and great-grandfather also led the timber company that carries the family name, served as CEO from 1966 to 1991 and board chair until 1999. If you and your ancestors have cut down more trees in more places than anyone in U.S. history, what do you think about conservation? Marshals took him immediately to the McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary to start serving his sentence. That balance will be more needed in the future when the economic impact may be greater than it is now. The Weyerhaeuser family had come up against a small-town Bonnie and Clyde partnership that had added a tough third partner. She told the press she was satisfied with the sentence, stating: "It will be easier waiting on the inside for Harmon than on the outside" (The Seattle Times). Now the company, Weyerhaeuser, owns 7 million acres across America, though the family is no longer directly involved. After walking to a farmhouse where a family was sitting down to breakfast, George was reunited with his family. There are additional tools below. Chief Murphy immediately notified the FBI and put out a dragnet for Dainard, but he had disappeared, leaving behind a suitcase with $15,155 in marked money and a list of the ransom notes published in the newspaper. Media coverage was intense. A far bigger innovation was the first tree farm. On May 24, 1935, George Weyerhaeuser the young son of Washington lumber magnate J.P. Weyerhaeuser Jr. was kidnapped in Tacoma while walking home from school. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. George was born in 1890. Connect to 39 Weyerhaeuser profiles on Geni, John Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr, Helen Hunt Weyerhaeuser (born Walker), Ann Weyerhauser, John Philip Weyerhaeuser Walker III, Frederick Weyerhaeuser, "Timber Heirs United in Bridal TACOMA. There he found a stake with a cloth tied to it. In the area that was later set aside as the St. Helens tree farm, for example, hunters shot 326 deer in 1937. The Weyerhaeuser family is planning a memorial service for later this summer. Home; Trees; . In the late 1950s, George Weyerhaeuser Sr. entered the executive ranks at company headquarters in downtown Tacoma, as an assistant to the executive vice president, but quickly moved up. On Sunday night, June 2, 1935, the first $20 ransom bill surfaced in Huntington, Oregon. By the 1990s, Weyerhaeuser operations in the Pacific Northwest were producing twice the timber volumes of their natural counterparts, according to a 1997 report by the World Resources Institute. In May it was announced that agreement in principle had been reached with Dierks Forests, Inc. to buy its properties. ABOUT WEYERHAEUSER Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world's largest private owners of timberlands, began. She testified about traveling on a road that passed through Blanchard and Spirit Lake, Idaho, and back to Spokane, as well as assisting Dainard in renting hideouts and acquiring the ransom money. 2023 Forbes Media LLC. Hunting and fishing were prohibited. He worked for 12 years, first as a mill foreman then branch manager, before becoming an executive in 1957. But the ordeal wasnt over. Mahan raced back to Seattle, to resume an outwardly ordinary life at the Fir Apartments and collect the ransom. family tradition. He died in 2022 at age 95. Mahan picked it up there and was on his way to Spokane while Titcomb was still walking back to town. The most important contribution to conservation in the history of the lumber industry, the Weyerhaeuser tree farms also brought about the greatest improvement in the appearance of the landscape. U.S. As a little boy, trying to face that kind of media presence was really difficult.. Waley, still wearing his hood, whiled away the time playing his ukulele. After walking about 100 yards, Weyerhaeuser heard noises and saw someone run from the underbrush, enter his car, which was a black 1933 Pontiac sedan, and drive away. But do note that it is not possible to be certain of a person's genealogy without a family's cooperation (and/or DNA testing). The first read: "Expect to be ready to come Monday. Zacks free daily newsletter Profit from the Pros provides #1 Rank "Strong Buy" stocks, etfs and more to research for your financial portfolio. When last seen as he went out of sight he was wearing a sweater, brown corduroy trousers and tennis shoes. The kidnapping of nine-year-old George Weyerhaeusera occurred in 1935 in Tacoma Washington United States. It was his obituary, which detailed the familys timber wealth, that reportedly inspired the kidnapping plot by William Dainard, 33, Harmon Metz Waley, 23, and Margaret Eldora Thulin, 19. FBI agents quickly moved in and made the arrest. Hints and clues to help you with today's Wordle. It was George Weyerhaeuser who unintentionally jolted them from obscurity. At the FBIs Salt Lake City Field Office, agents found another ransom bill in her purse. George Hunt Walker Weyerhaeuser was born on July 8, 1926. These reach from near Hot Springs, Ark. On February 15, 1936, a man with bushy red hair entered the Canadian National Bank of Commerce in Seattle, attempting to change $300 in ransom bills. In May 1935, when George Weyerhaeuser was 8, his grandfather John P. Weyerhaeuser Sr. died. Weyerhaeuser did as instructed, but nothing happened. Gilded age era timber baron Frederick Weyerhaeuser was one of the richest Americans to have ever lived. Founded in 1900 by Frederick Weyerhaeuser, we've grown to become one of the largest sustainable forest products companies in the world. Connect to 39 Weyerhaeuser profiles on Geni, John Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr, Helen Hunt Weyerhaeuser (born Walker), Ann Weyerhauser, John Philip Weyerhaeuser III, Frederick Weyerhaeuser, "the Associated Press TACOMA. Then he hustled George into his taxi and, taking back roads to avoid police cars and the press, headed toward Tacoma. 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