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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



July 23, 1922 



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Chas. R. Sligh 



President 



Sligh Furniture Company 



Grand Rapids, Mich. 



|T IS A MATTER for speculation whether it was because, or in spite of, the fact that 

 he had to begin to make his own living at fifteen that Chas. R. Sligh is today presi- 

 dent of the Sligh Furniture Company of Grand Rapids, Mich., which has a paid in 

 capital of $2,000,000 and a large surplus, which employs over one thousand men, which 

 shipped in 1920 over $4,500,000 worth of furniture, and which produces annually medium 

 priced bedroom furniture of a greater aggregate value than does any other furniture fac- 

 tory in the world. 



During the third year of the Civil War, Mr. Sligh's father, who was in command of a 

 battalion of Michigan troops, was w^ounded and in November, 1863, he died of these 

 wounds. 



Thus the boy was fatherless and at fifteen he was compelled to go to work. He learned 

 a trade, earning $3.50, $4.00 and $4.50 a week for fifty-nine hours' work. After the first 

 year the boy had the "privilege " of working overtime two hours each evening, five days a 

 week, receiving piece work wages for this overtime toil. By this means he earned his living, 

 and made his income sufficient, in spite of its smallness, because he ^was Scotch. 



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