Obituaries

Rudolph M, \Teyerhaeuser

Rudolph M. Weyerhaeuser, the last survivor of four sons of Frederick Weyerhaeuser, pioneer lumberman, passed away at his home in Saint Paul, Minnesota, July 12, at the age of 78 years. He had been suffering from a serious heart ailment for the past several weeks.

Mr. Weyerhaeuser was born in Coal Valley, Illinois, on March 11, 1868. He attended public school in Rock ' Island, Illinois, and Phillips Exeter Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. He rvas graduated from Shefifreld Scientific School at Yale University with a B. S. degree in 1891. While at Yale he was a member of the Berzelius Society.

After he graudated from college, he became associated in the lumber business with his oldest brother, John P. Weyerhaeuser, at Rock Island, Illinois. Later he moved to Saint Paul and took over the management of a line of retail lumber yards in southern Minnesota and Iowa.

In March, 1896, Mr. Weyerhaeuser's father and other associates formed The Northern Lumber Company and acquired the properties of the C. N. Nelson Lumber Company at Cloquet, Minnesota. He was placed in charge of The Northern Lumber Company at that time and directed its operations until 1945, in which year the company was liguidated.'

He was also an officer of the Cloquet Lumber Company and the Johnson-Wentworth Company, which operated manufacturing plants at Cloquet. At the time of his death he was chairman of the board of The Northwest Paper Company, which continues as one of the principal industries of northern Minnesota. He was also president of the Wood Conversion Company.

In the fall of 1918 the city of Cloquet was destroyed by a disastrous forest fire. Mr. Weyerhaeuser was largely responsible for the decision to re-establish the burned-out industries and to rebuild the town of Cloquet. It was a source of great satisfaction to Mr. Weyerhaeuser that the city of Cloquet grerv to be one of the most stable towns in the United States in respect to its industrial and labor relations.

In addition to his Minnesota connections, Mr. Weyerhaeuser was also an officer and director of other lumberproducing and distributing corporations. He was president of the Edward Rutledge Timber Company until this corporation was later merged with other Idaho companies into what is known as the Potlatch Forests, Inc. In 1935 he became president of Potlatch Forests, Inc., and remained so until a few weeks before his death. He was one of the founders of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, the distributing organization for many of the lumber manufacturing etnerprises with which he was connected, and remained a director until the time of his'death. He was also a director of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company at Tacoma, Washington. He held various positions with other corporations not connected with the lumber industry. He was a director of both the First National Bank of Saint Paul and of the Northern Pacific Railway, and president of the First National Bank of Cloquet.

Mr. Weyerhaeuser was greatly interested in several educational and charitable organizations. At the time of his death he was a member of the board of directors of. Macalester College and also of the Charles T. Miller Hospital. He had long been a member of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church, of Saint Paul. He was also a member of the Somerset County Club and the Minnesota Club. He was associated with Masonic bodies in Rock Island and Cloquet and was a member of the Osman Temple, Saint Paul.

He is survived by his wife, Irouise Lindeke Weyerhaeuser, his daughter, Mrs. Walter B. Driscoll, and two grandsons. He is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Samuel Sharpe,Davis of Rock Island, Illinois.

The funeral services were held at the House of Hope Presbyterian Church in Saint Paul on Monday afternoon, July 15.

Mrs. Louise E. Kerckhoff

Mrs. Louise Eshman Kerckhoff, widow of the late William G. Kerckhoff, passed away at her home in Los Angeles on July 18 after a long illness. She was 87 years of age.

Mrs. Kerckhoff was widely known as a sponsor and supporter of many charitable, educational and civic projects and continued projects started by her husband before his death. Among the better known were the Kerckhoff biological laboratories at the California Ingtitute of Technology; the William G. Kerckhoff Hall, which is the Students Union at the Los Angeles campus of the University of California, and the Kerckhoff Institute for the study of heart disease at Bad Nauheim, Germany.

Mrs. Kerckhofi was born in Terre Haute, Ind', birthplace also of her husband. They were married there in 1883, five years after his first visit to California, and they came to Los Angeles. Mr. Kerckhoff was a pioneer Los Angeles lumberman, and was president of the KerckhofiCuzner Mill & Lumber Co., from 1884 until his death, February 24, 1929. He was the first developer of hydro' electric power in Southern Californi4.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Webster B. Holmes and Mrs. Gertrude K. Young; two sisters, Josephine and Cora Eshman, and a brother, Melville G. Eshman. Funeral services were held on July 20.