Maurice E. Crumpacker
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Maurice Edgar Crumpacker was an American lawyer, World War I veteran, and politician who served two terms as a Republican U.S. congressman from Oregon from 1925 until his death in 1927.
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Crumpacker (middle row, second from left) was the starting right tackle for the 1908 Michigan Wolverines football team
The Maurice Crumpacker House in Portland's Dunthorpe neighborhood
Spruce Production Division
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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 State
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…Army's Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, and in 1917, was put in charge of Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, the company union for the Army's Spruce Production Division which supplied lumber for military aircraft and ships. He was eventually promoted to captain of the division and was honorably discharged in 1918. In…
Division soldiers posing on a spruce stump
Colonel Brice P. Disque
Spruce logs were often transported via railroad.
Lt. Col. Cuthbert P. Stearns, Chief of Staff of the Spruce Production Division, US Army.