Word: niedersaulheim
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...first and greatest Weyerhaeuser arrived in the U. S. in the middle of the last century. Frederick Weyerhaeuser was a sturdy, tireless young German immigrant farmer from Niedersaulheim. For two years he worked in a brewery at Erie, Pa., giving it up "when I saw how often brewers became their own best customers." His next job was in a sawmill on the banks of the Mississippi at Rock Island, Ill. Then he was made manager of a lumberyard. Thrifty Frederick came out of the 1858 panic with his boss's lumberyard and $8,000 profit. Then he turned...
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