Henry J. Lutcher

Henry J. Lutcher

Henry Jacob Lutcher (1836-1912) was a sawmiller and business partner of the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company. His business ventures would help establish Orange, Texas as the timber-processing capital of the South in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
Henry J. Lutcher was born on November 4, 1836, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the son of Lewis and Barbara Lutcher, who were German immigrants. In 1858, he married his hometown sweetheart, Frances Ann Robinson. According to Lutcher, her secure business judgment was the key to his many economic successes. [ [http://www.wtblock.com/wtblockjr/henryj.htm Henry J. Lutcher: Sawmiller and architect of Orange, Texas ] ] The Lutcher-Robinson marriage produced two daughters, Miriam, who became Mrs. William Henry Stark, and Carrie Launa, who married Dr. Edgar William Brown.

In his hometown in 1862, he began his career in the lumber industry with a joint venture with John Waltman. Two years later, Lutcher purchased Waltman’s interest in the business, and the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company was established. Realizing the profit potential of lumber sales and cattle-buying, the two partners moved to Texas in 1877 and expanded their business onto the bank of the Sabine River. The city of Orange was chosen by the partners, primarily due to the proximity to the nearby tracts of land with enormous pine trees, and the ability to use the river to transport the lumber to the markets. Lutcher purchased more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km²) of land in the southwest Louisiana parishes of Calcasieu and Beauregard. To transport the timber, he built approximately 100 miles (160 km) of tram road known as the Gulf, Sabine and Red River Railroad. [ [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/LL/flu13.html Handbook of Texas Online - LUTCHER, HENRY JACOB ] ] By 1900, this operation employed more than 500 men as loggers in the nearby forests.

During the 1880s, Lutcher purchased a fifty square-mile (130 km²) tract of virgin cypress swamp near the Mississippi River, and in 1889, he built a sawmill in St. James Parish at a town that was named after him. Lutcher, Louisiana is still a prosperous community on the east bank of the river between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

Lutcher died in Ohio in 1912. His economic contributions, including that of his two sons-in-law W.H. Stark and E.W. Brown, helped establish Orange, Texas as an industrial center on the Gulf of Mexico.

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