Louis Jerome Simpson (1 September 1877 – 17 January 1949) was an American shipping and timber

magnate The magnate term, from the late Latin ''magnas'', a great man, itself from Latin ''magnus'', "great", means a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to the high office-holders, or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or ot ...

and the founder of North Bend, Oregon. He also ran unsuccessfully for governor of Oregon in 1918. Simpson dropped out of the University of California in 1897 to run his father's ship fleet and

lumber mills A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logging, logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes ...

on Coos Bay. The gardens of his clifftop estate are now part of

Shore Acres State Park Shore Acres State Park is a state park south of Coos Bay in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is one of three state parks along the Cape Arago Highway, which runs along the Pacific Ocean west of U.S. Route 101. Sunset Bay State Park is about nor ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpson, Louis J. People from North Bend, Oregon Businesspeople from Oregon 1877 births University of California, Berkeley alumni 1949 deaths American businesspeople in timber