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Owen Robertson Cheatham (1902–1970) was an American businessman. He founded Georgia-Pacific, a formerly publicly traded corporation on the New York Stock Exchange from 1949 to 2005, now a subsidiary of Koch Industries.
Owen R. Cheatham. Georgia-Pacific Corporation. 1927–1967. Industry: Wood, Paper & Forestry. Era: 1920. In 1927, Cheatham founded the Georgia Hardwood Company becoming an early pioneer in the Southern timber industry.
25 de oct. de 1970 · EUGENE, Ore., Oct. 24— Owen Robertson Cheatham, founder of the Georgia‐Pacific Corporation and for two years national chairman of the Heart Fund campaign, died today of a heart attack at a...
Owen Robertson Cheatham died in Eugene, Oregon on October 34, 1970, and is buried in the New Concord Presbyterian churchyard in Campbell County, Virginia.
Owen Robertson Cheatham was an American businessman that founded Georgia-Pacific. He died of a heart attack at a football game in Eugene, Oregon at the age of 67. [1]
- Male
- July 9, 1902
- Celeste (Wickliffe) Cheatham
- October 24, 1970
Georgia-Pacific was founded by Owen Robertson Cheatham on September 22, 1927 in Augusta, Georgia, as the Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co. Over the years it expanded, adding sawmills and plywood plants.
Upon founding the Georgia Hardwood Lumber Company (later Georgia-Pacific) in 1927, Owen R. Cheatham became an early pioneer in the southern timber industry. Under his command, Georgia-Pacific was one of the nation's fastest-growing businesses in the 1950s.
