Starting out at age 17 as a horse trader, James Everett Henry spent a lifetime building a lumber empire, buying forests in his native New Hampshire, building lumber and paper mills and power stations to run them and railroads to ship their products. In his late 70s he retired around 1908 and handed his business empire to his three sons.They sold the business for millions in 1917, and one of them, John H. Henry, retired to Pasadena, Calif., with his wife, daughter and son, John B. [...]
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