Private company

Pope & Talbot, Inc.

Former US Lumber Company

Pope & Talbot, Inc. was a lumber company and shipping company founded by Andrew Jackson Pope and Frederic Talbot in 1849 in San Francisco, California.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Port Gamble lumber mill, looking south (CURTIS 893)
Photo: Asahel Curtis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Pope & Talbot, Inc. was a lumber company and shipping company founded by Andrew Jackson Pope and Frederic Talbot in 1849 in San Francisco, California.2

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