History

Charles C. Patrick moves to Oregon from Iowa and lands a sales job with Tongue Point Lumber Co. in Astoria.

The Federal Trade Commission shuts down the Douglas Fir Sales Co. and Pacific Sales Agency selling co-ops on allegations of price fixing.

Andersen and Patrick part ways and Charles Patrick forms the Patrick Lumber Company, with William Brushoff as minority shareholder.

Patrick Lumber Co. helps Roseburg Lumber Company get off the ground by financing portions of Roseburg’s production during the early years of the Ford family timber empire.

Like five generations of Patrick men had done before him, Jack Patrick enlists in the Army. He fights in the Pacific at Attu Island during WWII and is awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action.

Bob McCracken joins Patrick Lumber as a lumber trader. Despite not having C.C. Patrick’s trust at first, McCracken played a significant role in greatly expanding the business into a $100 million lumber giant. He also played the lead role in a number of events which nearly caused the company’s total demise. McCracken was Patrick’s fifth president, from 1976 to 2002.

Ron Yeager joins the company. In 1974 Yeager and Bob McCracken became primary shareholders in Patrick Lumber Company as part of a corporate restructuring Jack Patrick engineered to separate the real estate assets from the trading company.

With sales in excess of $100 million Patrick Lumber Company makes its debut on the Oregon Business Magazine Top 100 Private Companies list, at number 34.

Bob McCracken passes away unexpectedly. Mark Auxier joins Patrick Lumber as CFO. It is discovered that illicit loans from retirement accounts had been made to the company to help cover costs related to the Libya scandal and wrongful termination incident.

Patrick Lumber Company celebrates 100 years in business with publication of a company history book: Business is Good: Stories of Patrick Lumber Company’s First Century.