April 3, 1946

Herman Dierks, co-founder and two-time president of the Dierks Lumber and Coal Company, died. Dierks supervised the company’s lumberyard in De Queen (Sevier County) and other parts of eastern Oklahoma and northern Louisiana. With the help of his brothers, he helped create and control the Dierks timber empire. In 1969, twenty-three years after Dierks’s death, the company sold all its assets to Weyerhaeuser Company. Until that time, it had been the largest family-owned landholding in the history of the country.

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