Billy Max ALLUM

  General Notes:

Billy did not live to age 50. He had been a partner with brother John in Allum Brothers enterprises in Lane County, Oregon. Billy and wife Mary had five children.



1919 BIRTH of Billy Max Allum

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, Crocker Township, Ankeny ("Billy M.," age 9 months, with parents)

1930 CENSUS, Oregon, Lane County, Coburg ("Billy M.," age 11, with parents)

1937 DEATH of grandmother, Osa Jane (Allum) Allum

1941 MARRIAGE of Billy Max Allum and Mary Caroline Blood on April 27 in Eugene, Lane County, Oregon

1963 DEATH of father, Clayton Allum (in September)

1963 DEATH of mother, Henrietta Belle (Patterson) Allum (in November)

1966 DEATH, Billy Max Allum, at 47 years 6 months 8 days

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1978 MARRIAGE of Mary Caroline (Blood) Allum to Donald Derickson on May 27 in Eugene, Lane County, Oregon

2005 DEATH of former wife, Mary Caroline (Blood) (Allum) Derickson, at 84 years 0 months 26 days




Newspaper Article from the REGISTER-GUARD, Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, January, 1954:


BROTHERS DEVELOP PAIR OF BUSINESSES

No doubt this story could be written about a number of other Lane County lumbermen. And the general theme wouldn't be much altered.

Details would differ, but the Allum brothers' rise from a one-truck logging operation to status as mill owners and reasonable large-scale employers wouldn't stand as particularly unique in this area.

That's one good reason why the experience of Bill and John Allum add up to make a story. Their advance in the Emerald Empire's principal industry can't be regarded as phenomenal--just indicative of what has been possible in the expanding logging and lumbering field.

Bill, now 34 and John, 39, had picked up logging experience before World War II, but it was after the big hassle before they really got rolling. They started then as independent logging contractors with one truck and trailer outfit and one cat.

Now they own about 20 million board feet of timber, a $100,000 rock crusher, a heavy equipment hauling business, a sawmill with 55,000 board-foot daily capacity, three of the largest types of cats, one smaller cat, a road grader, four forest fire fighting rigs, a water truck, two pickups, 10 log trucks, crumies and company cars. This list doesn't include the six gravel trucks and shovel that work with the crusher operation, nor a boom truck and three heavy hauling truck outfits, nor their own truck repair shop, donkeys, loaders and other miscellaneous equipment.

The brothers acquired their rock crusher and road building equipment to provide for truck routes into their logging operations, now centering on the North Fork of the Siuslaw River and in the Disston sector east of Cottage Grove.

About a year ago now they were issued a state public utilities commission permit to operate their heavy equipment hauling business, and a little later they purchased the former Garfield lumber mill in Eugene.

Now, just eight years since they began to develop their organization, the Allum brothers, through Allum Bros. Lumber Co. and Allum Bros. Heavy Hauling are employing between 80 and 100 men according to the season.




OBITUARY (Mary) from REGISTER GUARD, Eugene, Oregon, July 10, 2005:


The funeral will be July 12 for Mary Allum-Derickson of Eugene, who died July 8 of complications of Alzheimer's disease. She was 84.

Allum-Derickson was born June 12, 1921, in Pleasant Hill to Horace and Emaline Moon Blood. She was a lifelong resident of Lane County.

She married Bill Allum in Eugene on April 27, 1941. He died Oct. 16, 1966. She later married Donald Derickson in Eugene on May 27, 1978.

She graduated from Eugene High School.

She enjoyed homemaking, spending time with family members, hiking, camping, crocheting, sewing, gardening and hunting. In her later years, she became an avid sports fan and also traveled extensively across the United States and overseas.

She was a former member of First Christian Church of Eugene and a charter member of Norkenzie Christian Church. She also was a member of the parent teacher association and McKenzie-Willamette Auxiliary.

Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday at Major Family Funeral Home in Springfield. Tuesday's funeral will be at 10 a.m. at Norkenzie Christian Church. A private burial will follow at Rest-Haven Memorial Park. The funeral home is in charge of arrangements.

Billy married Mary Caroline BLOOD, daughter of Horace Levet BLOOD and Emaline MOON, on April 27, 1941 in Eugene, Lane County, Oregon. (Mary Caroline BLOOD was born on June 12, 1921 in Pleasant Hill, Lane County, Oregon, died on July 8, 2005 in Eugene, Lane County, Oregon and was buried on July 12, 2005 in Rest Haven Memorial Park Cemetery, Eugene, Lane County, Oregon.)