Benjamin Woodward Bawden

BAWDEN, WOODWARD, PHELPS

Posted By: Carol Bawden (email)
Date: 4/3/2007 at 13:11:33

BENJAMIN WOODWARD BAWDEN b 3 November 1872 in Davenport, the son of Stephen Douglas and Mary Ella Woodward Bawden.
He graduated from Davenport High School and began his business career with his uncle J. B. Phelps in the office of Lindsay-Phelps Lumber Company. He worked for the Cloquet Lumber Co. in Minnesota, the Pigeon River Lumber Company in South Carolina, and before poor health caused him to retire, he was manager of the northwest territory for Lacy and Co, one of the largest lumber factoring concerns in the country. Ben Bawden did not marry. He died at age 46, 6 August 1918 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California of a brain tumor. He willed his estate to his mother, sister, and nephew (above) Stephen Ely.