Henry learned all about the lumber business working for his father John Whitney Weston on the Kennebec, River in Skowegan, Maine. He worked at every job involving lumber business. His fathers mill was a water power mill and was considered a small milling operation.
Henry and a brother, Levi, moved from Maine to Sheboygan, Wisconsin in the fall of 1844 looking for better business opportunities. He was also looking for a healther place to live. Several members of his family had died of tuberculosis. He initially got a job floating logs down the Eau Claire River, but later operated a sawmill on the same river. Because of his health, he decided to move south.
A brother Horatio Stephen Weston is known to be in Logtown with him. During the Civil War Horatio was in the Mississippi Cavlery. According to Baxter, he sailed from Maine in November 1855 at age of 22 years to go to work with his brother Henry Weston. Horatio worked for his brother at H. Weston Lumber Co. until his death in 1866. He quit during the Civil War to serve in the Mississippi Cavalry.
He migrated down to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1846, where he stayed about a month looking for work. While he was at the warf he noticed a boat hauling lumber from Gainsville, Mississippi to New Orleans. The captain hired him as a deck hand for his passage from New Orleans to Gainsville, Mississippi. He got a job working for Poitevent and Favre Lumber Company and soon became the sawyer, the most important and highest paid job in the mill. Two years later he was offered the job of managing Judge Wingate's sawmill in Logtown, Mississippi.
This move in 1848 was the start of a career of operating lumber companies that would ultimately make Henry Weston a multi-millionaire that would span 64 years in Logtown, Mississippi.
Henry and a brother, Levi, moved from Maine to Sheboygan, Wisconsin in the fall of 1844 looking for better business opportunities. He was also looking for a healther place to live. Several members of his family had died of tuberculosis. He initially got a job floating logs down the Eau Claire River, but later operated a sawmill on the same river. Because of his health, he decided to move south.
A brother Horatio Stephen Weston is known to be in Logtown with him. During the Civil War Horatio was in the Mississippi Cavlery. According to Baxter, he sailed from Maine in November 1855 at age of 22 years to go to work with his brother Henry Weston. Horatio worked for his brother at H. Weston Lumber Co. until his death in 1866. He quit during the Civil War to serve in the Mississippi Cavalry.
He migrated down to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1846, where he stayed about a month looking for work. While he was at the warf he noticed a boat hauling lumber from Gainsville, Mississippi to New Orleans. The captain hired him as a deck hand for his passage from New Orleans to Gainsville, Mississippi. He got a job working for Poitevent and Favre Lumber Company and soon became the sawyer, the most important and highest paid job in the mill. Two years later he was offered the job of managing Judge Wingate's sawmill in Logtown, Mississippi.
This move in 1848 was the start of a career of operating lumber companies that would ultimately make Henry Weston a multi-millionaire that would span 64 years in Logtown, Mississippi.
Henry learned all about the lumber business working for his father John Whitney Weston on the Kennebec, River in Skowegan, Maine. He worked at every job involving lumber business. His fathers mill was a water power mill and was considered a small milling operation.
Henry and a brother, Levi, moved from Maine to Sheboygan, Wisconsin in the fall of 1844 looking for better business opportunities. He was also looking for a healther place to live. Several members of his family had died of tuberculosis. He initially got a job floating logs down the Eau Claire River, but later operated a sawmill on the same river. Because of his health, he decided to move south.
A brother Horatio Stephen Weston is known to be in Logtown with him. During the Civil War Horatio was in the Mississippi Cavlery. According to Baxter, he sailed from Maine in November 1855 at age of 22 years to go to work with his brother Henry Weston. Horatio worked for his brother at H. Weston Lumber Co. until his death in 1866. He quit during the Civil War to serve in the Mississippi Cavalry.
He migrated down to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1846, where he stayed about a month looking for work. While he was at the warf he noticed a boat hauling lumber from Gainsville, Mississippi to New Orleans. The captain hired him as a deck hand for his passage from New Orleans to Gainsville, Mississippi. He got a job working for Poitevent and Favre Lumber Company and soon became the sawyer, the most important and highest paid job in the mill. Two years later he was offered the job of managing Judge Wingate's sawmill in Logtown, Mississippi.
This move in 1848 was the start of a career of operating lumber companies that would ultimately make Henry Weston a multi-millionaire that would span 64 years in Logtown, Mississippi.
Henry and a brother, Levi, moved from Maine to Sheboygan, Wisconsin in the fall of 1844 looking for better business opportunities. He was also looking for a healther place to live. Several members of his family had died of tuberculosis. He initially got a job floating logs down the Eau Claire River, but later operated a sawmill on the same river. Because of his health, he decided to move south.
A brother Horatio Stephen Weston is known to be in Logtown with him. During the Civil War Horatio was in the Mississippi Cavlery. According to Baxter, he sailed from Maine in November 1855 at age of 22 years to go to work with his brother Henry Weston. Horatio worked for his brother at H. Weston Lumber Co. until his death in 1866. He quit during the Civil War to serve in the Mississippi Cavalry.
He migrated down to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1846, where he stayed about a month looking for work. While he was at the warf he noticed a boat hauling lumber from Gainsville, Mississippi to New Orleans. The captain hired him as a deck hand for his passage from New Orleans to Gainsville, Mississippi. He got a job working for Poitevent and Favre Lumber Company and soon became the sawyer, the most important and highest paid job in the mill. Two years later he was offered the job of managing Judge Wingate's sawmill in Logtown, Mississippi.
This move in 1848 was the start of a career of operating lumber companies that would ultimately make Henry Weston a multi-millionaire that would span 64 years in Logtown, Mississippi.
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