AB Hammond, a Timber Baron

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Charles R Morris, A Wooden Ladder to Wealth; AB Hammond, one of the greatest American timber barons, nearly destroyed the country’s virgin stands of redwood and Douglas firs. Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2014
online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-when-money-grew-on-trees-by-greg-gordon-1401836760
(book review on Greg Gordon, When Money Grew on Trees; AB Hammond and the age of the timber baron. Oklahoma University Press, 2014)

Note:
(a) The English (of Norman origin) surname Hammond : “from a personal name, Hamo(n), which is generally from a continental Germanic name Haimo, a short form of various compound names beginning with haim ‘home’”
(b) AB Hammond “was born in 1848 in rural New Brunswick, just on the Canadian side of the Maine border”

New Brunswick
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick
(section 1 Etymology)
(c) “The lumberjacks steered the logs with their long hooked peavies and danced across them to break up jams; more than a few ended up crushed, delimbed or drowned.”

peavey (n; etymology: Joseph Peavey †1873 American blacksmith; plural peaveys or peavies)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peavey
(illustration)
(d) “One of his [AB Hammond’s] fellow woodhawks was ‘Liver Eatin' ‘ Johnson, a renowned Indian killer who ate the livers of his victims and was later sanitized and re-imagined as Robert Redford's ‘Jeremiah Johnson.’”

Jeremiah Johnson (film)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Johnson_%28film%29
(1972)
(e) Hammond in 1881”won a massive contract to supply the Northern Pacific with the railroad ties, trestle beams and tunnel supports for one of the first lines to traverse the Montana Rockies.”

trestle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trestle.
(f) “Mr Gordon teaches history at Gonzaga University in eastern Washington state”

Gonzaga University
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzaga_University
(a private Roman Catholic university located in Spokane, Washington; named for the young Jesuit saint Aloysius Gonzaga [1568 – 1591; Italian]; established for local Native Americans)