About Louis J. Simpson
Lived 1877 – 1949 (aged 71–72). Louis J. Simpson was a businessperson.
Louis Jerome Simpson (1 September 1877 – 17 January 1949) was an American shipping and timber magnate and the founder of North Bend, Oregon. He also ran unsuccessfully for governor of Oregon in 1918. Simpson dropped out of the University of California in 1897 to run his father Asa Meade Simpson's ship fleet and lumber mills on Coos Bay. The gardens of his clifftop estate are now part of Shore Acres State Park.
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Who was Louis J. Simpson?
American businessman
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Louis J. Simpson was born in 1877.
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Louis J. Simpson died on 17 January 1949.
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Louis J. Simpson was a businessperson.
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