Henry Jacob Lutcher was the son of Louis and Barbara Lutcher. His parents had immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1826.
On January 23, 1858, he married Frances Ann Robinson.
Henry entered business as a farmer and butcher. He subsequently entered the lumber trade and by 1865 had become a partner with G. Bedell Moore in the Lutcher and Moore Company.
He traded cattle,but, the rapid depletion of Pennsylvania timber threatened his lumber business. Seeking a new location, he and his partner made a grueling inspection tour of Texas in 1877.
He moved to Orange the following year, and he and Moore invested heavily in the timberlands of southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana. Their plants at Orange and at Lutcher, Louisiana, were among the nation's largest and helped set off a lumbering bonanza in the region. The Lutcher and Moore plant at Orange also set precedents in the area by paying its workers in cash on a weekly basis after 1900, and by instituting a ten-hour workday in 1901.
Henry diversified his industrial investments and helped finance the construction of both the Orange and Northwestern and the Gulf, Sabine and Red River railroads. He also lent powerful support to the deepwater movements in Jefferson and Orange counties that culminated in the construction of the Sabine-Neches Waterway.
He died at a Cincinnati sanitarium after a paralytic stroke and was buried in the family mausoleum in Evergreen Cemetery, Orange.
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His second daughter was Carrie Lutcher Brown. She married Dr Edgar Brown.
On January 23, 1858, he married Frances Ann Robinson.
Henry entered business as a farmer and butcher. He subsequently entered the lumber trade and by 1865 had become a partner with G. Bedell Moore in the Lutcher and Moore Company.
He traded cattle,but, the rapid depletion of Pennsylvania timber threatened his lumber business. Seeking a new location, he and his partner made a grueling inspection tour of Texas in 1877.
He moved to Orange the following year, and he and Moore invested heavily in the timberlands of southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana. Their plants at Orange and at Lutcher, Louisiana, were among the nation's largest and helped set off a lumbering bonanza in the region. The Lutcher and Moore plant at Orange also set precedents in the area by paying its workers in cash on a weekly basis after 1900, and by instituting a ten-hour workday in 1901.
Henry diversified his industrial investments and helped finance the construction of both the Orange and Northwestern and the Gulf, Sabine and Red River railroads. He also lent powerful support to the deepwater movements in Jefferson and Orange counties that culminated in the construction of the Sabine-Neches Waterway.
He died at a Cincinnati sanitarium after a paralytic stroke and was buried in the family mausoleum in Evergreen Cemetery, Orange.
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His second daughter was Carrie Lutcher Brown. She married Dr Edgar Brown.
Henry Jacob Lutcher was the son of Louis and Barbara Lutcher. His parents had immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1826.
On January 23, 1858, he married Frances Ann Robinson.
Henry entered business as a farmer and butcher. He subsequently entered the lumber trade and by 1865 had become a partner with G. Bedell Moore in the Lutcher and Moore Company.
He traded cattle,but, the rapid depletion of Pennsylvania timber threatened his lumber business. Seeking a new location, he and his partner made a grueling inspection tour of Texas in 1877.
He moved to Orange the following year, and he and Moore invested heavily in the timberlands of southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana. Their plants at Orange and at Lutcher, Louisiana, were among the nation's largest and helped set off a lumbering bonanza in the region. The Lutcher and Moore plant at Orange also set precedents in the area by paying its workers in cash on a weekly basis after 1900, and by instituting a ten-hour workday in 1901.
Henry diversified his industrial investments and helped finance the construction of both the Orange and Northwestern and the Gulf, Sabine and Red River railroads. He also lent powerful support to the deepwater movements in Jefferson and Orange counties that culminated in the construction of the Sabine-Neches Waterway.
He died at a Cincinnati sanitarium after a paralytic stroke and was buried in the family mausoleum in Evergreen Cemetery, Orange.
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His second daughter was Carrie Lutcher Brown. She married Dr Edgar Brown.
On January 23, 1858, he married Frances Ann Robinson.
Henry entered business as a farmer and butcher. He subsequently entered the lumber trade and by 1865 had become a partner with G. Bedell Moore in the Lutcher and Moore Company.
He traded cattle,but, the rapid depletion of Pennsylvania timber threatened his lumber business. Seeking a new location, he and his partner made a grueling inspection tour of Texas in 1877.
He moved to Orange the following year, and he and Moore invested heavily in the timberlands of southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana. Their plants at Orange and at Lutcher, Louisiana, were among the nation's largest and helped set off a lumbering bonanza in the region. The Lutcher and Moore plant at Orange also set precedents in the area by paying its workers in cash on a weekly basis after 1900, and by instituting a ten-hour workday in 1901.
Henry diversified his industrial investments and helped finance the construction of both the Orange and Northwestern and the Gulf, Sabine and Red River railroads. He also lent powerful support to the deepwater movements in Jefferson and Orange counties that culminated in the construction of the Sabine-Neches Waterway.
He died at a Cincinnati sanitarium after a paralytic stroke and was buried in the family mausoleum in Evergreen Cemetery, Orange.
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His second daughter was Carrie Lutcher Brown. She married Dr Edgar Brown.
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