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Sammamish Wall of Honor
Henry Carl Isackson
Inglewood Grammar School; abt 1910
Sammamish, WA

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Henry Carl Isackson

Henry Carl Isackson went one year to Inglewood Grammar School which was located at the corner of NE 8th Street and 228th Street in existing Sammamish, WA.. Carl's next of kin was listed as his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles August Isackson, Happy Valley, WA.

Henry Carl Isackson

Year		Rank		Status

1910	x	Family	x	Family photo, Happy Valley, WA.
date	x	Grammar School	x	4th or 5th Grade at Inglewood Grammar School
date	x	Grammar School	x	One year at Elby (sp?) School nearSammamish, WA area.
May 8, 1917	x	US Army	x	Drafted into US Army; Seattle, WA (US Signal Corps)
1917-1919	x		x	*Spruce Patrol headquartered in Portland, OR. Served in various locations in Pacific Northwest; i.e., Vancouver, WA, Port Angeles, WA, Oregon cities, etc. Majority of his service time was spent on the Sprice Railroad Trail near Port Angeles, WA.
January 6, 1919	x	US Army	x	Discharged from US Army.
about 1920	x		x	Personal. Purchased his Excelsior Motorcycle.
June 30, 1922	x	Family	x	Married Anna B. Magnusson at Swedish All Saints Church, Seattle, WA.
October 24, 1925	x	Family	x	Daughter Lorraine born.
1936	x	Employment	x	**Founded Isackson's Mill.
July, 1939	x	Family	x	Son Lloyd Henry born.
October 3, 1941	x	Family	x	Son Duane C. born.
1917-1981	x	Family	x	Living at family homestead/milling operation.
January 12, 1981	x	Deceased	x	Interred at Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Bellevue,,WA, Find-A-Grave Memorial #6911196.

*US Army Spruce Patrol
The Spruce Production Division was a unit of the United States Army established in 1917 to produce high-quality Sitka spruce timber and other wood products needed to make aircraft for the United States' efforts in World War I. The division was part of the Army Signal Corps's Aviation Section. Its headquarters were in Portland, Oregon, and its main operations center was at Vancouver Barracks in Vancouver, Washington. Workers in the division were members of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, a union specifically established to support the army's wood production operations.

The division produced nearly 150 million board feet (350,000 m3) of spruce in just 15 months, halting work almost as soon as the war ended. Col. Brice Disque was then put on trial for accusations that he had wasted millions of tax dollars. He was found not guilty of malfeasance.

The division had a large impact on logging in the Pacific Northwest. Logging companies adopted working conditions similar to those the division had, and they took advantage of new logging roads and rail lines that the division had built to access more timber.

The Spruce Production Division established approximately 60 military logging camps throughout the Pacific Northwest, usually near existing sawmills. While privately owned, these mills were operated under the direction of the Army. On 20 December 1917, Disque reported that the division was only meeting 40 percent of the demand for spruce. He said that the production must be increased from 3 million board feet (7,100 m3) to 11 million board feet (26,000 m3) to meet the demand. In early 1918, the division opened a sawmill at Vancouver Barracks, the largest spruce sawmill in the world, "producing more than one million feet of spruce lumber each day." The mill complex covered 50 acres (20 ha) and was operated by 2,400 soldiers from the division. The army also built sawmills in Coquille and Toledo, Oregon, and in Port Angeles, Washington. A 3,000-worker community in Washington was designed as a company town by architect Carl F. Gould. The 0.5-square-mile (1.3 km2) townsite was laid out with bunkhouses, and with dining and recreation halls styled after Adirondack lodges. The division also built 13 railroads with over 130 miles (210 km) of track to link logging areas to sawmills. At the peak of construction, there were 10,000 soldiers building railroads in Oregon and Washington forests. All wire rope manufactured in the west, as well as anything shipped in, was controlled by the spruce division per Colonel Disque. As the Los Angeles Times reported in February 1918, "There was a serious shortage of wire rope when Col. Disque took charge of the spruce production campaign."

The division lasted only 15 months, during which it produced a total of 143,008,961 board feet (337,463.57 m3) of spruce. It produced nearly 54 million board feet (130,000 m3) for aircraft construction from Oregon forests alone. Before the Pacific Northwest began logging spruce for the war, much of the lumber came from the eastern United States, where production amounted to just 15 percent of demand. Logging techniques in the east were not as advanced or as efficient with wood.

The network of roads and railroads that the division had built allowed for future development of the forests, which facilitated the growth of the lumber industry in the Pacific Northwest for the remainder of the 20th century.

Unit Listings of the U.S. Army Spruce Squadrons in the First World War, 1918
Other photos

**Isackson Mill
Isackson’s Hill: Isackson’s Hill was the unofficial name for the hill above Isackson’s Mill, just south and west of 244th Avenue NE and Redmond-Fall City Road. Henry Isackson (1895-1981), the son of Charles Isackson (1865- 1954), started Isackson’s Mill in 1936, and it remains in use today (2023), operated by his son, Duane; it is only one of two remaining operating lumber mills (the other is in Issaquah) on or immediately adjacent to the Sammamish Plateau. While the mill is located just north of the Sammamish city limits, Henry Isackson’s property stretched up the hill into Sammamish as far south as today’s Broadmoore Estates, making the higher part of Isackson’s Hill in today’s Sammamish. 244th Avenue NE was informally known as Isackson Hill Road, and for decades was the only way onto the Plateau from the north in the area (Sahalee Way was not built until the 1970s.)



1917-18: Henry Carl Isackson; Spruce Patrol		1917-18: Henry in spats; probably Port Angeles, CA



Above: Henry on his Excelsior bike Below: June 10, 1922: Dodge Brothers (from 1919-1924; about $550.)		June 30, 1922: wedding; Henry Carl and Anna Bertha Magnusson Isackson; Seattle

1930 King County Parcel Holders: Isackson properties in green. (enlarged)



Above: 1913; Milling machine; fly wheel Below: 3-wheeled logging; 1916 Knox truck l-r: Henry Carl Isackson, Joe Mahoney		Above: 1917-1919: Spruce Patrol at Lake Crescent Below: 1910-1981: Isackson Homestead on 244th still located next to mill



Isackson Mill: May 9, 2022		Henry Carl Isackson at mill

Interred at Sunset Hills Memorial Park; Bellevue, WA. Findagrave Memorial #6911196

Henry Carl Isackson Rank Spruce Patrol US Signal Corps US Army

References

(1) Information was obtained from the Records on Military Personnel Who Died, were Missing in Action, or Prisoners of War as a result of the Vietnam War. This document can be found online at the National Archives and Records Administration at http://www.archives.gov/.

((2) The comprehensive list of names from this site have been assembled and categorized according to date of birth. One can then associate from the date of birth approximately the time frame in which the individual may have been in military service.

Died January 12, 1981. Interred at Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Bellevue, WA. Findagrave Memorial #6911196

Music: "Wind Beneath My Wings"