Benjamin F. Ferguson

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This article is about the American lumber merchant and philanthropist. For the American radio host, see Ben Ferguson.

Benjamin Franklin Ferguson (died 1905) was an American lumber merchant and co-founder of the Santee River Cypress Lumber Company. The firm specialized in the harvesting of old-growth timber from the blackwater river bottomlands of central South Carolina, in and around the Santee River watershed. The tracts of land logged by Ferguson, in partnership with fellow logging executive Francis Beidler, included substantial tracts of valuable bald cypress.[1]

With profits from the Santee River logging venture, Ferguson became a

Queen Anne house in 1883 that took up three city lots.[11][12]

The ghost town of Ferguson, South Carolina, named after Ferguson, contained the mills operated by the lumberman and his partner.[1]

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  9. ^ De LaFuente, Della and Rich Hein (September 30, 1997). "Museum's new bronze 'Spider' isn't exactly garden variety". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2009.
  10. ^ "The Art Institute's Ferguson Fund Must Always Be for Public Sculpture". The C.A.C.A. Review. Chicago Art Critics Association. April 2004. Retrieved July 17, 2008.
  11. ^ "Jackson Boulevard". Chicago Architecture Foundation. Archived from the original on July 10, 2009. Retrieved July 17, 2008.
  12. Chicago Magazine
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