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LEO GORDON OPSAHL
Leo
Gordon Opsahl, manufacturer of lumber and wood
products, is the son of Jens J. and Clara (Swanson) Opsahl.
He was born in Felton, Minnesota, on August 16, 1900, and received his
preparatory education at the University of Minnesota.
Mr. Opsahl
married Cecile Feusier on August 25, 1933, and has
three children: Sandra Lee, Karin Lynn and John Gordon.
From 1922 to 1927, Mr. Opsahl was plant manufacturer of lumber products; then in
general sales of lumber products from 1927 to 1930; administrative director of
sales production and advertising of lumber products, 1930 to 1943; appointed a
member of the advisory committee on softwood plywood, War Production Board, in
April of 1942; appointed a member of the advisory committee on Western pine
lumber prices, Office of Price Administration, in January of 1943. He was
general sales manager of The Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, California,
from 1935 to 1945; and has been a manufacturer and wholesaler of lumber and
wood products since 1945, Westwood, California.
Member of Wood for
Venetians Association (blind slats); Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity; and
Masonic bodies.
Address: Monadnock Building,
681 Market Street, San Francisco, California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 546, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies