Upon founding the Georgia Hardwood Lumber Company (later Georgia-Pacific) in 1927, Owen R. Cheatham became an early pioneer in the southern timber industry. Under his command, Georgia-Pacific was one of the nation's fastest-growing businesses in the 1950s.
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