October 25, 1918 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



A. P. Steele Succumbs to Wounds 



A. P. Steele, secretary-treasurer of the Carrier Lumber & Manufactur- 

 ing Company. Sardis, Miss., died at the Baptist Memorial hospital. Mem- 

 phis, October 17, from the effects of gun shot wounds inflicted accidentally 

 about a week ago by a fellow huntsman who mistook him for a deer. 



Mr. Steele was rushed to Memphis and everything possible was done 

 to save his life. Dr. J. A. Krisler performed the operation removing the 

 big game shot from his body and It was thought for a time that he would 

 recover. He had a sudden turn for the worse on October 17 however, and 

 succumbed that night. 



His remains were forwarded to his home at Sardis and funeral services 

 were held October IS. 



R. M. Carrier, president of the company witli which Mr. Steele was 

 identified, spent much of his time in Memphis while the latter was in the 

 hospital, as did members of the wounded man's own family. 



Although a comparatively young man. Mr. Steele had attained unusual 

 prominence in the hardwood lumber field and his demise has occasioned 

 unusual sadness among a large circle of friends. 



E. True Bennett Passes On 



Much regret has been occasioned in lumber and business circles gener- 

 ally over the almost sudden death of Everett True F.ennett, for a number 

 of years identified with the hardwood lumber industry of Memphis. Tenn., 

 as president of the Bennett Hardwood Lumber Company and the E. T. 

 Bennett Lumber Company and as vice-president of the Jorgensen-Bennettt 

 Manufacturing Company. He had disposed of his interest in the first 

 named companies, but he was still actively connected with the last 

 named. 



Mr. Bennett was one of the pioneers in the hardwood lumber industry 

 in this part of the country. He was one of the charter members of the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis and was the first president of that organi- 

 zation. He was a member of the Memphis Country Club and was both a 

 golfer and billiardist of more than local repute. 



He leaves a wife and three children, two sons and a daughter. Ralph, 

 the older son, is engaged in the lumber business at Little Rock, Ark. 



Mr. Bennett was sixty-two years of age. He died from formation of a 

 blood clot on the brain, causing paralysis. He was stricken at five o'clock 

 the evening of October 9 and died about three hours later without regain- 

 ing consciousness. 



Death of Orrin H. Ingram 



On October 16. 19ls. at his home in Faiu Claire. Wis., occurred the 

 death of Orrin H. Ingram in the eighty-ninth year of his age. He had 

 spent sixty-two years of his long and useful life in Eau Claire, and the 

 story of his life and the history of the growth and development of the 

 town are closely interwoven, and the same may be said of Chippewa 

 Valley of which Eau Claire is the metrtipolis. He came from Canada to 

 Wisconsin. 



He was born May 12, 1830. at Westfield, Mass. 

 His parents were David A. and Fanny 

 (Oranger) Ingram. While Orrin was still a 

 child they moved to Saratoga, N. Y. There the 

 father died in 1841, leaving very limited means 



for the support of the widmv ami children. Instead of attt'udiug school 

 Orrin was forced to l)ind himself out to work for his board and clotlies. 

 Ilis years were spent this way till he was seveneen, when he joined his 

 niotbor, who had married again, at Lake George, and while working on 

 the farm attended school during the winter months for three years. 



At the age of twenty he returned to Massachusetts, his native state, 

 and there made application for a position in the armory at Springfield. 

 However, immediately after making the application he had entered the 

 employ of The Harris & Bronsou Lumber Company, whose interests were 

 located in the vicinity of Lake Pharaoh. Warren Co., N. Y., and when he 

 was offered the armory position three yi'ars later he turned it down. 

 Had he accepted this government position, the lumber inrlustry of the 

 country would have lost one of its leading figures. 



From a monetary viewpoint his first few years in the lumber business 

 were not a gn-at success, for he received twelve dollars a month in winter 

 and thirteen dollars a month in the summer when he worked in the saw- 

 mills, but the experience gained was invaluable, judging from his sub- 

 sequent and rapid rise. That was his practical Introduction to the busi- 

 ness he so closely followed for more than half a century, and with which, 

 both in its pioneer and modern phases, there was probably no better 

 informed man in Wisconsin or the entire Northwest. 



Later he took charge of the company's mill, and assisted in building 

 another mill for the firm of Fox & Englin, on the Rideau canal in Canada. 

 About the same time he built mills on the Morra river, near Bellville. 

 Canada. Returning later to his former employers, Harris & Bronson, he 

 built and operated a mill for them at Ottawa, and gained a wide reputa- 

 tion as a lumberman of unusual foresight and ability. For this reason 

 he was the recipient of many fiatteiing offers from many large lumlier 

 firms, and he finally- accepted the offer of Gilmour & Co., of Ottawa, Can.. 

 the largest ]uml)er concern in the world at that time. During his years 

 of service with this company he remodeled several of its large mills and 

 contributed largely to the success of its enterprises. 



During his lumber experience Mr. Ingram invented many appliances 

 and devices which are still in use in the lumljer industry. The first, a 

 gang edger. w^as invented while employed by Gilmour & Co., and has been 

 of greater benefit to the lumber business than any other single invention. 

 However, it was characteristic of the man that he did not patent it, 

 njerely putting it in practical use in the various mills of which he was 

 superinten<l*Hit and also a number of Wisconsin mills. 



In 1S57 he went into business for himself and organized at Eau Claire 

 the Doyle. Ingram & Kennedy Lumber Company. This firm began lum- 

 bering in the Chippewa valley and soon afterwards opened up a large tract 

 of timber, rafted it down river, and established lumber yards at Wabasha, 

 Minn., and Dubuque, la., erecting a sawmill at the latter place. 



In 1880 Mr. Ingram organized the Charles Horton Lumber Company of 

 Winona, Minn. In 1881 Kennedy sold his interests in Ingram, Kennedy & 

 Company to Messrs. Dulaney and McVeigh, and the Empire Luml>er Com- 

 pany was then established with a capital of $800,000. The Dubuque busi- 

 ness was also incorporated about this time as the Standard Lumber Com- 

 pany, with $500,000 capital. Mr. Ingram became president of this com- 

 pany and also the Wabasha Lumber Company. In 1883 he organized the 

 Rice Lake Lumber Company, capital $6)»0,000. and became its president. 

 He was also president of the Chippewa Lumber 

 & Boom Company, a mammoth concern at that 

 time, capitalized at $1,000,000. Among other 

 important business conpections he was presi- 

 dent of the Kau Claire National bank, the 



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