Scope and ContentScans of two letters about the Johnson lumbering legacy. 1. 1882 Letter by O.R. Johnson, Saugatuck lumber baron: Otis. R. Johnson owned mills in Singapore and Saugatuck, the local store and other business enterprises in the area prior to 1875. He packed up the last mill at Singapore and left in 1875 to St. Ignace, then to the Menominee River and Ravine, Wisconsin. With lumber playing out in the north midwest, his son, Charles Russell Johnson, toured California and tried to interest his father in moving on to redwood lumbering. This is a letter Otis R. Johnson wrote a prospective California partner in 1882. 2. 1948 Letter by Oils R. Johnson, grandson of the O. R. Johnson In 1948 Charles Russell Johnson, grandson of the original redwood lumberman, received a letter from his father, Oils R. Johnson, grandson of the O. R. Johnson in Michigan, that enclosed a copy of the 1882 letter. This second Charles Russell (known as Russell) visited Saugatuck in the summer of 1999 as a guest on the Le Levant and afterward forwarded copies of both letters to the Society. He said he has never been able to locate the original of the 1882 letter. Russell retired about 1970 after the Union Lumber Company merged with Boise Cascade.