He founded Georgia-Pacific, a formerly publicly traded corporation on the New York Stock Exchange from 1949 to 2005, now a subsidiary of Koch Industries.
Owen Robertson Cheatham was born on July 9, 1902, in Concord, Campbell County, Virginia.
[7] Cheatham died of a heart attack on October 24, 1970 at a football game in Eugene, Oregon.
[1] The Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire is named in his honor.
The land, part of Georgia Pacific's larger timber holdings in the area, was donated to the state by Owen Cheatham in 1945.