Columbia County OR Archives Biographies.....McCormick, H. F. 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 75-76
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     The name of McCormick bears a very close relation to the town of St. 
Helens, Oregon, for it was the advent of the McCormick lumber and milling 
interests into this locality which gave impetus to the growth of the town and 
has remained its most important industrial concern. H. F. McCormick, who for 
twenty years has managed the great McCormick mill here, is a member of the 
Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company, and, besides his business interests, has 
proven a valuable citizen of the community, lending his aid and influence in 
every possible way to the promotion of the public welfare.

     Mr. McCormick was born in Saginaw, Michigan, and is a son of A. W. and 
Harriet McCormick, both of whom are deceased. His father was a pioneer 
lumberman of Saginaw and also owned and operated a large sawmill there. To him 
and his wife were born two sons, Charles R., of San Francisco, California, 
president of the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company, and H. F.

     H. F. McCormick was educated in the public schools of his native city and 
in the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. After leaving college he was 
associated with his father in the lumber business, gaining valuable 
experience, and in 1901 he went to San Francisco, California, where he engaged 
in the lumber and shipping business until 1908, having become associated with 
his brother in the firm of Charles R. McCormick & Company. In 1908, when the 
company built its sawmill at St. Helens, he came here as active manager and 
has held that position continuously since. The main mill has a capacity of 
four hundred thousand feet of lumber every sixteen hours, the mill being 
operated on two shifts of eight hours each, and the company also has another 
mill across the slough at St. Helens, which has a productive capacity of one 
hundred and twenty-five thousand board feet each eight-hour shift. A large 
planing mill is also operated in connection with the mills and about six 
hundred men are employed in the mills, besides about two hundred stevedores 
who are employed in loading ships. The company operates a fleet of twenty-six 
steamships, which carry McCormick lumber to all parts of the world, also owns 
a large creosoting plant at St. Helens, is heavily interested in paper and 
pulp mills at this place and owns thirteen and a half miles of water front on 
the Columbia river. H. F. McCormick has given close attention to the operation 
of these interests and has shown marked ability in their management. He is 
president of the St. Helens Wood Product Company and is president of the 
Columbia County Bank of St. Helens.

     At Drain, Oregon, in 1914, Mr. McCormick was united in marriage to Miss 
Nellie B. Perkins, who was born and reared at that place, and is a daughter of 
Leonard and Mary J. Perkins, the former now deceased. Mr. Perkins, who was a 
pioneer of that locality, was long engaged in the lumber business. Mr. 
McCormick is a member of the Masonic fraternity at Menominee, Michigan. He is 
a man of strong character and marked individuality, possesses clear headed 
judgment in practical matters and his record as a business man has gained for 
him an enviable standing in the community in which he lives, while his fine 
personal qualities have won him a host of warm and loyal friends who esteem 
him for his genuine worth as a man and citizen.

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