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{{Short description|US Lumber Company}}
{{Short description|Former US Lumber Company}}
{{Infobox company
{{Infobox company
| name = Pope & Talbot, Inc. <br> (Puget Mill Company)
| name = Pope & Talbot, Inc. <br> (Puget Mill Company)
| logo =
| logo =
| type =
| type =
| foundation = {{start date|1849}} in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], United States
| foundation = {{start date|1849}} in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], United States
| fate = Chapter 7 in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kitsapdailynews.com/news/pope-talbot-bankruptcy-leaves-an-expensive-mess/|title=Pope & Talbot bankruptcy leaves an expensive mess|date=May 28, 2008|website=Kitsap Daily News}}</ref>
|fate =
|defunct =
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| area_served =
| area_served =
| industry = Lumber, (past Shipping)
| industry = Lumber, paper, shipping
| products =
| products = Timber and paper (pulp)
| revenue =
| revenue =
| key_people =
| key_people = {{Plainlist|
*Andrew Jackson Pope
*Andrew Jackson Pope
*Frederic Talbot
*[[Frederic Talbot]]
}}
| operating_income =
| operating_income =
| parent =
| parent =
| subsid =
| subsid = {{Plainlist|
*Pope & Talbot Pulp Ltd.
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| homepage =
*Pope & Talbot Wis., Inc.
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| footnotes=
*Pope & Talbot Pulp Sales Europe, LLC
}}
}}
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| homepage =
Pope & Talbot, Inc. was a lumber company and shipping company founded by Andrew Jackson Pope and [[Frederic Talbot]] in 1849 in [[San Francisco]], [[California]].
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Pope and Talbot came to California in 1849 from [[East Machias, Maine]]. Pope & Talbot lumber company was very successful, with the high demand of the [[1849 Gold Rush]]. To ship product Pope & Talbot buy ships. In 1852 Pope & Talbot opened a lumberyard and at [[Port Gamble, Washington]] started construction of a lumber mill and start the frim '''Puget Mill Company'''. To feed the mill Pope & Talbot purchased timberland, by 1892 owning 186,000 acres. In 1925 the Puget Mill Company mill is sold to Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company, owners of the [[Moore McCormack Lines]]. In 1938 the Pope & Talbot families owned the mill again, after McCormick is unable to make payments. In 1940 the Puget Mill Company is renamed Pope & Talbot, Inc. Pope & Talbot, Inc. was active in supporting the [[World War II ]] effort with lumber and ship. The mill ran 24/7 for the war. In 1963 Pope & Talbot exited the shipping trade and sell off the remaining four ships in the Pope & Talbot fleet. In 1972 Pope & Talbot went public, selling stocks. In 1978 Pope & Talbot open a pulp plant in [[Halsey, Oregon]], kraft pulp mill. In 1992 Pope & Talbot purchased sawmill in [[Castlegar, British Columbia]]. Sawmill at Port Gamble is closed in 1995, after 142 years of use. In 1999: Pope & Talbot purchases Harmac Pacific in [[Nanaimo, British Columbia]]. In 2001 Pope & Talbot purchased [[Norske Skog Canada]]'s [[Mackenzie River]] pulp in British Columbia. Pope & Talbot as both a pulp / paper line and lumber - wood line. Lumber mills are in South Dakota and three in British Columbia. Andrew Jackson Pope was born on Jan. 6, 1820 in East Machias, Maine, USA Death and deid on Dec. 18, 1878 in San Francisco.
}}
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<ref>http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/pope-talbot-inc-history/ Pope & Talbot Histroy</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldforestry.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/POPE-ANDREW-JACKSON.pdf|title=Andrew Jackson Pope Bio}}</ref> Frederic Talbot was born on February 26, 1819 in East Machias, Maine and died on December 20, 1907 in San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web |title=Talbot-Whittier Family Papers |url=https://archives.library.umaine.edu/repositories/2/resources/2025 |website=Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections, University of Maine}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web |title=Andrew Jackson Pope |url=https://www.worldforestry.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/POPE-ANDREW-JACKSON.pdf |website=World Forestry}}</ref>
[[File:Port Gamble lumber mill, looking south (CURTIS 893).jpeg|thumb|Port Gamble lumber mill, 1904]]
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'''Pope & Talbot, Inc.''' was a lumber company and shipping company founded by Andrew Jackson Pope and [[Frederic Talbot]] in 1849 in [[San Francisco]], [[California]]. Pope and Talbot came to California in 1849 from [[East Machias, Maine]]. Pope & Talbot lumber company was very successful, with the high demand of the [[1849 Gold Rush]]. Andrew Jackson Pope was born on Jan. 6, 1820, in East Machias, Maine, and died on Dec. 18, 1878, in San Francisco.<ref>[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/pope-talbot-inc-history/ Pope & Talbot History]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldforestry.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/POPE-ANDREW-JACKSON.pdf|title=Andrew Jackson Pope Bio}}</ref> Frederic Talbot was born on February 26, 1819, in East Machias, Maine and died on December 20, 1907, in San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web |title=Talbot-Whittier Family Papers |url=https://archives.library.umaine.edu/repositories/2/resources/2025 |website=Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections, University of Maine}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Andrew Jackson Pope |url=https://www.worldforestry.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/POPE-ANDREW-JACKSON.pdf |website=World Forestry}}</ref>

==History==
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To ship product Pope & Talbot acquired ships. In 1852, Pope & Talbot opened a lumberyard and at [[Port Gamble, Washington]] started construction of a lumber mill and start the firm '''Puget Mill Company'''. To feed the mill Pope & Talbot purchased timberland, by 1892 owning 186,000 acres. In 1925, the Puget Mill Company mill was sold to [[Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company]]. In 1938, the Pope & Talbot families owned the mill again after McCormick was unable to make payments. In 1940, the Puget Mill Company was renamed Pope & Talbot, Inc. Pope & Talbot, Inc. was active in supporting the [[World War II]] effort with lumber and ship. The mill ran 24/7 for the war. In 1963, Pope & Talbot exited the shipping trade and sold off the remaining four ships in the Pope & Talbot fleet. In 1972 Pope & Talbot went public, selling stocks. In 1978 Pope & Talbot open a [[Pulp (paper)|pulp]] plant in [[Halsey, Oregon]], kraft pulp mill. In 1992, Pope & Talbot purchased a sawmill in [[Castlegar, British Columbia]]. Sawmill at Port Gamble is closed in 1995, after 142 years of use. In 1999, Pope & Talbot purchased Harmac Pacific in [[Nanaimo, British Columbia]]. In 2001, Pope & Talbot purchased [[Norske Skog Canada]]'s Mackenzie Pulp mill in northern British Columbia. Pope & Talbot as both a pulp / paper line and lumber - wood line. At the time the company receiver divested lumber mill operations their mills were one in South Dakota and three in British Columbia. Pope & Talbot went bankrupt in 2008 and the lumber mills were divested. A timberland investment and management company named Pope Resources was spun off. In 2020 Pope Resources was acquired by a larger East Coast based lumber company [[Rayonier]]. Rayonier was originally also founded on the Olympic Peninsula.

=== ''The Legend of White Gold'' (1988) ===
Joseph Rassulo directed a [[Western film|western]] [[television movie]] starring Richard Glover as Andrew Pope and [[Nick Young (actor)|Nick Young]] as [[Frederic Talbot|Fred Talbot]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Legend of White Gold (1988) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/the-legend-of-white-gold-1988 |access-date=2023-08-23 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |language=en}}</ref>


==World War II==
==World War II==
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==Ships==
==Ships==

*[[SS Absaroka]]
*[[SS Absaroka]]
*[[SS China Victory]], as SS P & T. Leader starting in 1951
*[[SS China Victory]], as SS P & T. Leader starting in 1951
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*[[SS Saginaw Victory]]
*[[SS Saginaw Victory]]
*[[SS Brainerd Victory]]
*[[SS Brainerd Victory]]
*[[Cyrus Walker]] Tug
*[[Cyrus Walker]] 1864 Tug
*[[Goliah (1849 tugboat)|Goliah]] Tug
*[[Goliah (1849 tugboat)|Goliah]] 1849 Tug
*[[SS Saginaw Victory]]
*[[SS Saginaw Victory]]
*[[USS Sitka (APA-113)]]
*[[USS Sitka (APA-113)]]
[[File:USS Antares (AK-258).jpg|thumb|[[Victory ship|A Victory ship of World War II]]]]

[[file:Liberty ship at sea.jpg|thumb|[[Liberty ship]] of World War II]]
**Liberty ships operated:
**Liberty ships operated:
* <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsD.html|title=LibShipsD|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}</ref>
* George A. Pope<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsG.html|title=LibShipsG|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}</ref>
* George B. Porter<ref name="auto1"/>

* Laura Bridgman<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsL.html|title=LibShipsL|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}</ref>

* Joe Fellows<ref name="auto3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsJo.html|title=LibShipsJo|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}</ref>
* John Roach<ref name="auto3"/>
* Ada Rehan<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibshipsA.html|title=LibshipsA|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}</ref>
* Allen C. Balch<ref name="auto"/>
* Charles A. McCue<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsC.html|title=LibShipsC|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}</ref>
* Charles Robinson<ref name="auto2"/>
* William Allen White<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsW.html|title=LibShipsW|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}</ref>
* West Portal, on Feb. 5, 1943 torpedoed by [[German submarine U-413]]<ref>[https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/2624.html U-net SS West Portal]</ref>
* Brander Matthews<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibshipsB.html|title=LibshipsB|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}</ref>
* Russell R. Jones<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsR.html|title=LibShipsR|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}</ref>
* James A. Wilder<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsJ-Ji.html|title=LibShipsJ|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}</ref>
* Henry Villard<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsH.html|title=LibShipsH|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}</ref>
**Victory ships operated:
**Victory ships operated:
*[[SS Seton Hall Victory]]
*[[SS Seton Hall Victory]]
*[[SS Twin Falls Victory]]
*[[SS Twin Falls Victory]]
*[[SS Provo Victory]]
*[[SS Provo Victory]]
* Brainerd Victory <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/vicshipsB.html|title=vicshipsB|website=www.mariners-l.co.uk}}</ref>

**Post war Liberty ships:





==See also==
==See also==
{{Commons category|Liberty ships}}
{{Commons category|Liberty ships}}
{{Commons category|Victory ships}}
*[[World War II United States Merchant Navy]]
*[[World War II United States Merchant Navy]]
*[[Swanee Paper]]
*[[Swanee Paper]]

==External links ==

* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHamSEjH9d0 The Legend of White Gold]'' on [[YouTube]]


==References ==
==References ==
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{{WWII US ships}}
{{WWII US ships}}
{{Liberty ships}}
{{Liberty ships}}
{{Victory ships}}


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[[Category:Defunct shipping companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Defunct shipping companies of the United States]]
[[Category:American companies established in 1849]
[[Category:American companies established in 1849]]

Latest revision as of 23:04, 26 November 2024

Pope & Talbot, Inc.
(Puget Mill Company)
IndustryLumber, paper, shipping
Founded1849 (1849) in San Francisco, California, United States
FateChapter 7 in 2008.[1]
Key people
ProductsTimber and paper (pulp)
Subsidiaries
  • Pope & Talbot Pulp Ltd.
  • Pope & Talbot Wis., Inc.
  • Pope & Talbot Pulp Sales Europe, LLC
Port Gamble lumber mill, 1904

Pope & Talbot, Inc. was a lumber company and shipping company founded by Andrew Jackson Pope and Frederic Talbot in 1849 in San Francisco, California. Pope and Talbot came to California in 1849 from East Machias, Maine. Pope & Talbot lumber company was very successful, with the high demand of the 1849 Gold Rush. Andrew Jackson Pope was born on Jan. 6, 1820, in East Machias, Maine, and died on Dec. 18, 1878, in San Francisco.[2][3] Frederic Talbot was born on February 26, 1819, in East Machias, Maine and died on December 20, 1907, in San Francisco.[4][5]

History

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To ship product Pope & Talbot acquired ships. In 1852, Pope & Talbot opened a lumberyard and at Port Gamble, Washington started construction of a lumber mill and start the firm Puget Mill Company. To feed the mill Pope & Talbot purchased timberland, by 1892 owning 186,000 acres. In 1925, the Puget Mill Company mill was sold to Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company. In 1938, the Pope & Talbot families owned the mill again after McCormick was unable to make payments. In 1940, the Puget Mill Company was renamed Pope & Talbot, Inc. Pope & Talbot, Inc. was active in supporting the World War II effort with lumber and ship. The mill ran 24/7 for the war. In 1963, Pope & Talbot exited the shipping trade and sold off the remaining four ships in the Pope & Talbot fleet. In 1972 Pope & Talbot went public, selling stocks. In 1978 Pope & Talbot open a pulp plant in Halsey, Oregon, kraft pulp mill. In 1992, Pope & Talbot purchased a sawmill in Castlegar, British Columbia. Sawmill at Port Gamble is closed in 1995, after 142 years of use. In 1999, Pope & Talbot purchased Harmac Pacific in Nanaimo, British Columbia. In 2001, Pope & Talbot purchased Norske Skog Canada's Mackenzie Pulp mill in northern British Columbia. Pope & Talbot as both a pulp / paper line and lumber - wood line. At the time the company receiver divested lumber mill operations their mills were one in South Dakota and three in British Columbia. Pope & Talbot went bankrupt in 2008 and the lumber mills were divested. A timberland investment and management company named Pope Resources was spun off. In 2020 Pope Resources was acquired by a larger East Coast based lumber company Rayonier. Rayonier was originally also founded on the Olympic Peninsula.

The Legend of White Gold (1988)

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Joseph Rassulo directed a western television movie starring Richard Glover as Andrew Pope and Nick Young as Fred Talbot.[6]

World War II

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Pope & Talbot fleet of ships that were used to help the World War II effort. During World War II Pope & Talbot operated Merchant navy ships for the United States Shipping Board. During World War II Pope & Talbot was active with charter shipping with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration. Pope & Talbot operated Liberty ships and Victory ships for the merchant navy. The ship was run by its Pope & Talbot crew and the US Navy supplied United States Navy Armed Guards to man the deck guns and radio.[7][8][9]

Ships

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A Victory ship of World War II
Liberty ship of World War II

See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Liberty ships.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Victory ships.
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References

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  1. ^ "Pope & Talbot bankruptcy leaves an expensive mess". Kitsap Daily News. May 28, 2008.
  2. ^ Pope & Talbot History
  3. ^ "Andrew Jackson Pope Bio" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Talbot-Whittier Family Papers". Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections, University of Maine.
  5. ^ "Andrew Jackson Pope" (PDF). World Forestry.
  6. ^ "The Legend of White Gold (1988)". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
  7. ^ "Sea Lane Vigilantes". www.armed-guard.com.
  8. ^ World War II U.S. Navy Armed Guard and World War II U.S. Merchant Marine, 2007-2014 Project Liberty Ship, Project Liberty Ship, P.O. Box 25846 Highlandtown Station, Baltimore, MD [1]
  9. ^ "Steamship Company Operators of American Flag Ships during World War II". www.usmm.org.
  10. ^ a b "LibShipsG". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  11. ^ "LibShipsL". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  12. ^ a b "LibShipsJo". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  13. ^ a b "LibshipsA". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  14. ^ a b "LibShipsC". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  15. ^ "LibShipsW". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  16. ^ U-net SS West Portal
  17. ^ "LibshipsB". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  18. ^ "LibShipsR". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  19. ^ "LibShipsJ". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  20. ^ "LibShipsH". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  21. ^ "vicshipsB". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
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