The Crown Zellerbach Corporation was formed in 1928 by the merger of the Zellerbach Paper Company and Crown Willamette Paper Company, both of which had been formed by the mergers of several other companies and their predecessors. In addition, various companies and their subsidiaries were purchased or formed after the 1928 merger, culminating with the acquisition of Crown Zellerbach Corporation by the James River Corporation in 1985.
From the description of Crown Zellerbach Corporation records, circa 1876-1992. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 227522756
The Lebanon, Oregon, Crown Zellerbach paper mill was built in 1889. It initially made paper from wheat straw and converted to wood pulp in 1903. The mill started as Lebanon Paper Company and went through several mergers including Crown Willamette, finally merging with Zellerbach in the 1920s. The mill manufactured shell paper for wrapping such things as shotgun shells and dynamite, corrugated material and core paper. In the early 1950s, Crown Zellerbach chemists developed a line of chemicals from the by-products of the mill. The Orzan line of chemicals was sold to other manufacturers to use in materials such as linoleum paste, insecticides and other agricultural sprays. The mill was closed August 1, 1980 and at the time was one of the oldest paper mills in the Pacific Northwest.
From the description of Crown Zellerbach Corporation photographic collection, ca. 1899-1980. (Eugene Public Library). WorldCat record id: 54757483
Corporate Chronology
Dates: see Overview of Collection Series
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Key to abbreviations (p. xvi)
- C Crown Paper Company
- CR Columbia River Paper Company
- CC Crown Columbia Pulp and Paper Company
- CWP Crown Willamette Paper Company of Maine
- CZ Crown Zellerbach Corporation of Nevada
- CZI Crown Zellerbach International
- CZCL Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd.
- F Floristan
- GOSLP General Oriental Securities Ltd. Partnership
- W Willamette Pulp and Paper Company of California
- Z Zellerbach Paper Company
- ZPC Zellerbach Paper Company (a division of Crown Zellerbach)
1867
Clackamas Manufacturing Company formed (CR)
1868
A. Zellerbach formed (Z)
1877
California Paper Company formed (W)
1883
Columbia River Paper Company formed (CR)
1885
A. Zellerbach name changed to A. Zellerbach & Sons (Z)
1888
Willamette Pulp & Paper Company of California formed (W)
1889
Crown Paper Company formed (C)
1899
Western Paper & Bag Company of California formed (F)
1899
Floriston Commercial Company formed (F)
1901
Wahkiakum Development Company formed (C)
1902
Western Transportation & Towage Company (C)
1902
Great Southern Lumber Company incorporated
1905
Crown Paper Company consolidateswith Columbia River Paper Company to form Crown Columbia Pulp and Paper Company (CC)
1905
Floriston Pulp and Paper Company formed (F)
1906
Floriston Pulp and Paper Company name changed to Floriston Paper Company (F)
1906
Lebanon Paper Company formed (W)
1907
A. Zellerbach & Sons name changed to Zellerbach Paper Company (Z)
1907
Philip Hirschfeld & Company purchased (Z)
1907
Union Pulp & Paper Company purchased (Z)
1908
A. S. Hopkins acquired (Z)
1908
Tulare Mining Company formed (W )
1908
Western Paper & Bag Company acquired (F)
1909
Santiam Power Company formed (W)
1910
Crown Graphite of Mexico formed (C)
1910
Pacific Paper Company purchased (Z)
1910
Coast Lumber Yards incorporated (CZ)
1911
H. N. Richmond Paper Company purchased (Z)
1912
Sierra Flume Company formed (F)
1912
Crown Columbia absorbs Floriston Paper Company (CC)
1912
Willamette Supply Company formed (W)
1912
Willamette Navigation Company formed (W)
1912
Western Paper & Bag Company acquired (CWP)
1913
J. C. Bulis Company incorporated (CZ)
1914
Willamette Pulp & Paper Company merges with Crown Columbia Paper Company & Lebanon Paper Company to form Crown Willamette Paper Company (CWP)
1914
Pacific Mills formed (CWP)
1914
National Paper Products Company formed (Z)
1914
Wahkiakum Development Company dissolved (CC)
1914
Waxide Parchment Company incorporated; name changed to Waxide Paper Company ( CZ)
1915
ZPC's National Paper Company acquires Carthage Tissue Mills (Z )
1915
Northwestern Power & Manufacturing Company of Delaware formed (Z)
1916
Lambert Paper Company acquired (Z)
1916
Bogalusa Paper Company incorporated (CZ)
1916
Sanitary Products Corporation formed (Z)
1917
Washington Pulp & Paper Company formed (Z)
1919
Pacific Coast Supply Company formed (CWP)
1919
Lebanon Paper Company dissolved (CWP)
1919
Western Waxed Paper Company (OR) formed (CWP)
1919
Kumm & Unger acquired (Z)
1919
Western Transportation & Towage dissolved (CC)
1919
Willamette Navigation Company name changed to Western Transportation Company (CWP)
1920
Floriston Commercial Company dissolved (CWP)
1920
J. C. Bulis Company name changed to Robert Gaylord, Inc. (CZ)
1921
Tulare Mining Company dissolved (CWP)
1921
Graham Island Timber Company formed (Z)
1921
Olympic Paper & Power Company formed (Z)
1921
General Paper Company formed (Z)
1923
American Investment & Realty formed (Z)
1923
Western Waxed Paper Company (CA) acquired (CWP)
1924
Northwestern Power & Manufacturing Company name changed to Northwestern Edison Company, then to Northwestern Power & Light Company (Z)
1924
Zellerbach Paper Company name changed to Zellerbach Corporation (Z)
1924
Paper Specialties Company formed (CZ (CWP))
1924
St. Helens Pulp & Paper Company formed (CZ)
1925
Eastman Gibbens acquired (Z)
1925
Pioneer Printing & Fruit Wrapper formed (CZ (CWP))
1925
Western Waxed Paper Company incorporated (CWP)
1925
Zellerbach's National Paper Products acquired American Carton Company (Z )
1926
San Jose Paper Company acquired (Z)
1926
Crown Willamette Paper Company of Delaware formed; acquires Crown Willamette Paper Company of Maine (CWP)
1926
Collison & Mills Ltd. incorporated (CZ)
1927
Fibreboard Products, Inc. (joint venture) (Z)
(formed by merger of National Paper Company & Parraffine Paint Company -jointly owned by ZPC with Parraffine Paint Company (later Pabco Products))
Federal Container CompanyPrecision ElectrotypeMaryland Container CompanyIndependent Paper Stock CompanyContainer TransportGlass Containers, Inc.Nevada Silica Sands
1927
Canadian Crown Willamette Paper Company formed (CWP)
1927
Western Waxed Paper Company (OR)(CA) acquired (CWP)
1928
Crown Zellerbach Corporation formed by merger of Zellerbach Corporation and Crown Willamette Paper Company (CZ)
1928
Crown Willamette Paper Company becomes a division of Crown Zellerbach (CZ (CWP))
1928
Zellerbach Paper Company becomes a division of Crown Zellerbach (CZ (ZPC))
1928
Vancouver Pacific Paper Company Ltd. acquired (CZ)
1928
General Paper Company purchased (CWP)
1928
Collins Securities formed, then dissolved (Z)
1928
Valve Bag Company interest acquired (Z)
1929
National Paper Products Sales Company formed (CZ)
1929
West End Paper Company (Carthage) acquired (CZ)
1929
Pioneer Fruit Wrapper & Printing acquired (CZ (CWP))
1929
Paper Specialties acquired by Crown Willamette Paper Company (CZ (CWP))
1930
Crown Willamette Paper Company of Texas formed (CZ)
1931
Comfort Paper Company acquired (CZ)
1932
Collison & Mills Ltd. name changed to Collison's Ltd. (CZ)
1933
International Pulpwood Supply Company formed (CZ)
1933
Pioneer Fruit and Paper Specialties combined (CZ (CWP))
1933
Western Waxed Paper Company (OR) dissolved (CZ (Floriston, CWP))
1934
Dependable Paper Company of California formed (CZ)
1934
Sierra Flume name changed to Avalon Paper Company (CZ (Floriston, CWP))
1934
Clatsop Railroad Company formed (CZ (CWP))
1934
La Dee Logging Company acquired (CZ (CWP))
1934
Pacific Mills, Ltd. forms Export Sales Company, Ltd. with Powell River Company Ltd. (CZ (CWP))
1935
Glass Sales Agency (Silklin Paper Company) acquired (ZPC)
1935
Lane Paper Company acquired (ZPC)
1935
Midland Paper Company acquired (ZPC)
1935
Robert Gaylord, Inc. forms Gaylord Paper & Bag Company (CZ)
1936
Washington Pulp & Paper Company of Virginia dissolved (CZ (ZPC))
1936
National Paper Products Company dissolved (CZ (ZPC))
1936
Western Waxed Paper Company (CA) dissolved (CZ (CWP))
1936
Western Waxed Paper Company (CA) incorporated (CZ)
1936
Olympic Paper & Power Company dissolved (CZ (ZPC))
1936
Northwestern Power & Light Company dissolved (CZ (ZPC))
1936
Coastwise Lines formed (CZ)
1936
Nelson Paper Company acquired (1936-37) (CZ)
1936
Nelson Paper Company sold (1937-45) (ZPC)
1936
Humboldt Paper Company acquired (ZPC)
1937
Glass Sales Agency name changed to Silklin Paper Company (ZPC)
1937
Avalon Paper Company dissolved (CZ (Floriston, CWP))
1937
Great Southern Lumber Company absorbed by Bogalusa Paper Company (CZ)
1937
Nata-Products Company (CZ)
1937
Crown Willamette Paper Company dissolved (CZ (CWP))
1937
Seattle Paper Company acquired (ZPC)
1937
Bogalusa Paper Company merges with Robert Gaylord Inc. to form Gaylord Container Corporation (CZ)
1937
Coast Lumber Yards incorporated (CZ (CWP, Pacific Mills))
1938
Clatsop Railroad Company dissolved (CZ (CWP))
1938
Pacific Mills, Ltd. (CWP) acquires Hudson Paper Company (CZ (CWP))
1938
Crown Willamette Paper Company of Delaware absorbed by Crown Zellerbach (CZ)
1939
American Investment & Realty dissolved (ZPC)
1940
Waterway Terminals Company formed (CZ)
1942
Coast Range Transport Company formed (CZ)
1945
Coast Range Transport Company dissolved (CZ)
1945
Pacific Mills, Ltd. (CWP) acquires Canadian Boxes, Ltd. (CZ)
1945
Nelson Paper Company name changed to R. W. Burrows (ZPC)
1945
Sanitary Paper Products Company name changed to Nata Products (CZ)
1945
Collision's Ltd. name changed to Collison Paper Company (CZ)
1946
Pacific Mills, Ltd. (CWP) acquires Northern Pulpwood Ltd. (formerly J. R. Morgan, Ltd.) and its subsidiary Badwater Towing Company (CZ (CWP))
1947
Coastwise Lines sold (CZ)
1947
International Pulpwood Supply Company dissolved (CZ)
1947
Elk River Timber Company Ltd. interest acquired (CZ)
1948
Buffalo, Brooklyn, Syracuse, Philadelphia, & Pittsburgh branches of Sanitary Products Company sold (ZPC)
1948
Sanitary Products Corporation (CA) formed (CZ)
1949
Dependable Paper Products dissolved (ZPC)
1949
Dependable Paper Products incorporated (CZ)
1949
Sanitary Products & Paper Co. and Sanitary Products & Paper Corporation dissolved (CZ)
1949
Western Gummed & Coated Products formed (CZ)
1949
Columbia Paper Distributing Corp. acquired (ZPC)
1949
Comfort Paper Company acquired from Crown Zellerbach (ZPC)
1950
Owikeno Lake Timber Company interest acquired (joint venture with Scott Paper Company) (CZ)
1950
Elk Falls Company, Ltd. formed (CZ (CWP))
(jointly owned by Canadian Western Lumber Company & Pacific Mills, Ltd.)
Baydun Holdings (acquired 1951)Coast Lumber Yards
(later Canadian Western Lumber Company)Security Lumber CompanyCanadian Tugboat CompanyComox Logging & Railway CompanyCrown Lumber Company (incorporated 1905 as Staples & Co.; changed 1909)Fraser Mills, Sash, Door & Shingle CompanyNorthern PulpwoodCoast Lumber Yards
1950
National Paper Products Company (OR) formed (CZ)
1951
Gaylord Container Corp. acquires Dresden Paper Mills Company (CZ)
1951
Gaylord Container Corp. acquires Fairfield Paper & Container Company (CZ)
1951
Graham Island Timber Company name changed to International Pulpwood Supply Company (ZPC)
1951
Comfort Paper Company dissolved (CZ)
1951
Comfort Paper Corporation (OR) formed (CZ)
1951
Silklin Paper Company of California dissolved (ZPC)
1951
Silklin Paper Company (OR) incorporated (ZPC)
1952
National Paper Products Sales Company dissolved (CZ)
1952
Dependable Paper Company dissolved (ZPC)
1952
Western Paper & Bag Company dissolved (CZ (Floriston, CWP))
1952
Sanitary Products Company final dissolution (CZ)
1952
Nata-Products, Inc. dissolved (CZ)
1952
Paper Specialties Company dissolved (CZ (CWP))
1952
Western Gummed & Coated Products Co. dissolved (CZ)
1952
Western Waxed Paper Company becomes a division of Crown Zellerbach (CZ (CWP))
1952
Crown Zellerbach Overseas Corporation (CZ)
1952
Crown Zellerbach Foundation formed (CZ)
1953
General Paper Company dissolved (CZ (CWP))
1953
General Paper Company of California incorporated (ZPC)
1953
Crown Willamette Paper of Texas name changed to Crown Zellerbach Corporation of Texas (CZ)
1953
St. Helens Pulp & Paper Company, Lewis & Clark Boom Company, and Wah-Pac-Boom Company acquired (CZ)
1953
Canadian Western Lumber Company acquired by Elk Falls Company Ltd. (CZ)
1954
Pacific Coast Supply Company dissolved (CZ (CWP))
1954
Pacific Mills, Ltd. name changed to Crown Zellerbach Canada, Ltd. (CZ)
1955
Bartram Paper Products Ltd. acquired (CZCL)
1955
Gaylord Container Corp. absorbed in merger (CZ)
1955
Elk Falls Company Ltd. acquired (CZCL)
Bartram Paper ProductsBartram Properties Ltd.Bartram Industries
1955
Fibreboard Products sold to Pabco Products (formerly Parraffine Paint Company) (ZPC)
1956
Waxide Paper Company acquired (CZ)
1956
Canadian Western Lumber Company becomes sudsidiary of CZ Canada Ltd. (CZCL)
1956
Western Wax Paper & Waxide Paper Co. combined to form Western-Waxide Specialty Packaging (CZ)
1957
St. Francisville Paper Company (joint venture) (with Time, Inc.) formed (CZ)
1957
Western-Waxide Specialty Packaging name changed to Western Waxide division (CZ)
1957
Hudson Paper Company (CWP) becomes subsidiary of Bartram Paper Products Company (CZ)
1958
Bridge Lumber Company Ltd. acquired (CZCL)
1958
Clark Papers Ltd. acquired (CZCL)
1958
Coast Lumber Yards name changed to Canadian Western Lumber (Manitoba) Ltd. (CZCL)
1959
Disposal of portions of Export Sales Company, Ltd. (CZCL)
1959
Columbia Paper Company Ltd. acquired (CZCL)
1959
Plywood Supply Company Ltd. acquired (CZCL)
1960
Dresden Paper Mills Company dissolved (CZ)
1960
Fairfield Paper & Container Company dissolved (CZ)
1960
Columbia Paper Company Ltd. acquired (ZPC)
1960
Assets of Hudson Paper Co. (Bartram) sold to Clark Papers Ltd. (CZCL)
1960
Clark Papers Ltd. sold to Bartram Paper Products Co. Ltd. (CZ)
1960
Bartram Paper Products Company Ltd. merged with Columbia Paper Company Ltd. to form Crown Zellerbach Paper Company Ltd. (CZCL)
1960
Bridge Lumber Company acquires International Wood Briquetting (CZCL)
1960
Crown Zellerbach Panama formed (CZ)
1961
Crown Zellerbach A.G. of Zurich (holding company) formed (CZ Overseas)
1961
Crown -Van Gelder Papierfabriken N.V. (joint venture) (CZ Overseas)
1961
Canadian Western Timber Company Ltd. name changed to Canadian Western Lumber Company Ltd. (CZCL)
1961
Canadian Western Lumber Company (Manitoba) name changed to Crown Zellerbach Building Materials Ltd. (CZCL (Elk Falls))
1961
Collison Paper Company formed (formerly Collison & Mills Ltd. (1926); later Collison's Ltd. (1932); then Collison Paper Company Ltd. (1945) (CZCL)
1961
Collison Paper Company merged into Crown Zellerbach Paper Company Ltd. (CZCL)
1962
General Paper Company name changed to Building Materials Terminal, Inc. (CZ)
1962
International Pulpwood Supply (formerly Graham Island Timber Company) purchased by Crown Zellerbach Canada from Crown Zellerbach (CZCL)
1962
Elk River Timber Company Ltd. (joint venture with Scott Paper Company) acquired (CZCL)
1962
Beaty Laminated Ltd. acquired (CZCL)
1962
FTC ordered divestiture of St. Helens (CZ)
1962
Crown Zellerbach Overseas dissolved (CZ)
1964
Crown Zellerbach International formed (CZ)
1964
Crown-Carlton Paper Mills (joint venure) formed (CZI)
1964
Laja-Crown S.A. (joint venture with Papeles Especiales) formed (CZI)
1965
S. M. Simpson Ltd. acquired (CZI (CZCL))
1966
Crown Simpson Corporation formed (CZ)
1966
Crown Simpson Pulp Company (joint venture-partnership with Simpson Timber Company) formed (CZ)
1968
Redman Manufacturing Company acquired (CZ)
1968
Crown-Van Gelder Papier S.A. formed (CZI)
1968
Crown-Van Gelder Plastic Film Industries N.V. (joint venture) formed (CZI)
1969
Park Lumber Company acquired (CZ)
1969
Glen E. Park Logging Operations acquired (CZ)
1969
Disposed of interest in Crown Carlton Paper Mills (CZI)
1969
Armstrong Sawmills Ltd. acquired (CZI (CZCL))
1969
Sigma S.A. (joint venture) formed (CZI)
1969
Nippon Zellerbach Packaging K.K. (joint venture) formed (CZI)
1969
Big Pasco Public Warehouse acquired (thru Waterway Terminals) (CZ)
1970
Ponderosa Pine Lumber Company acquired (CZI (CZCL))
1970
Seaforth Plastics Ltd. acquired (CZI (CZCL))
1970
Barhil Enterprises Ltd. acquired (CZI (CZCL))
1970
Crown Zellerbach Stores Ltd. formed (CZI (CZCL))
1970
14 subsidiaries consolidated under name Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd. (CZI (CZCL))
1971
Nippon Zellerbach Kakoshi K.K. (joint venture) formed (CZI)
1971
Mitsui Zellerbach K.K. (joint venture) formed (CZI)
1971
Bendickson Logging Ltd. acquired; named changed to Crown Zellerbach (Hardwicke Island) Ltd. (CZI (CZCL))
1972
Gulfport Creosoting Company acquired (CZ)
1972
Creosoting Oil Corporation (CZ)
1972
Northern Pulpwood dissolved (CZI (CZCL))
1972
Crown Zellerbach Building Materials Ltd. dissolved (CZI (CZCL))
1972
Comox Logging & Railway Company dissolved (CZI (CZCL))
1973
Rainier Manufacturing Company acquired (CZ)
1974
Biles-Coleman Lumber Company acquired (CZ)
1974
Tremont Lumber Company (joint venture) acquired (with S. T. Corporation) (CZ)
1974
S. T. Corporation acquired (CZ)
1975
Oliver J. Olson & Company acquired (CZ)
1975
Olson Ocean Towing Company acquired (CZ)
1976
Stationers Distributing Company (Fort Worth, Texas) acquired (CZ)
1977
Seaforth Plastics name changed to Crown Zellerbach Flex-Pak Ltd. (CZI (CZCL))
1978
Virginia Paper Company (Richmond, Virginia) acquired (CZ)
1978
Patrician Paper Company acquired (CZ)
1978
Pulp Recycling Northeast Corporation acquired (CZ)
1979
Weaver Paper Company (Montgomery, Alabama) acquired (CZ)
1980
Disposed of interest in Elk River Timber Company (CZ)
1980
Disposed of interest in Crown-Van Gelder (CZI)
1980
Fine Papers (Little Rock, Arkansas) acquired (CZ)
1982
Norsk Pacific Steamship Company sold (CZI)
1982
Interest in Laja-Crown S.A. sold (CZI)
1982
Interest in Crown Simpson Pulp Company sold (CZ)
1982
Pulp Recycling Northeast Corporation shut down (CZ)
1982
Crown Zellerbach Canada sold to Fletcher Challenge Ltd. (CZI)
1982
Crown Zellerbach Canada name changed to Crown Forests Industries (CZI)
1983
ECZEL Corporation formed (CZ)
1983
Southern Paper Company (Knoxville, Tennessee) acquired (CZ)
1984
Sale of Park Lumber Company (CZ)
1984
Waterway Terminals Company and Western Transportation Company consolidated (CZ)
1985
Stationers Distributing Company sold (CZ (ZPC))
1985
James M. Goldsmith, elected chairman (General Oriental Securities Ltd. Partnership) (CZ)
1985
CZC Acquisition Corp. (DE) formed (GOSLP)
1985
Gaylord Holdings Ltd. formed (GOSLP)
1985
Gaylord Container Inc. becomes subsidiary of Gaylord Holdings Ltd. (GOSLP)
1985
Cavenham Forest Industries formed (GOSLP)
1985
LANDEQ Ltd. (GOSLP)
1985
LANDEQ Corporation (GOSLP)
1985
COSYN Corporation (GOSLP)
1985
Crown Zellerbach Corporation becomes subsidiary of James River Corporation (GOSLP)
From the guide to the Crown Zellerbach Corporation Records, [ca. 1876-1986], (The Bancroft Library.)