Xoveuiber 25, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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'WKos'^ho in'Woodworkkg 



A. Conrey 



{Riff /it) 



President Conrey-Diivis Mfg. Co., 



and 



D. L. Conrey Furniture Co., 



Shelhyville, Ind. 



The National Council of Furniture Associations con- 

 siders J. A. Conrey one of its most indispensable parts. 

 In fact, the association endeavors of the members of 

 his industry would be greatly impoverished did Mr. 

 Conrey not contribute his time and good sense so 

 freely to the common welfare. Mr. Conrey is a born 

 furniture man. He was brought up in the business by 

 his father, D. L. Conrey. For a number of years he 

 was a furniture salesman on the road and in 1885 

 organized what is now known as the Davis-Bively 

 Table Company. In 1891 he organized the Blanchard 

 Furniture Company for the manufacture of hall furni- 

 ture. This concern is now known as the Campbell 

 Furniture Company. He organized the Conrev-Davis 

 Manufacturing Company in 1901. 



Mr. Conrey has great faith in the value of co- 

 operation to the members of an industry and for that 

 reason has been active in promoting association work. 

 {Continued on page 22) 



Ash ton p. Derby 



[Left) 



President and Treasurer 



P. Derby & Co., Ine.. 



Gardner, Mass. 



That Ashton P. Derby is one of the biggest men in the 

 furniture industry goes without saying, because it is so 

 strikingly attested by the fact that he is chairman of the 

 National Council of Furniture Associations. But he 

 would stand out as a large calibered man in any assem- 

 blage of big business men. He is quiet and unassuming, 

 but he has brains and energy of a quality that inevitably 

 lifted him to leadership in his industry. Mr. Derby 

 entered the employ of the great chair manufacturing 

 organization which he now heads in 1897. He became 

 treasurer of that company in 1908 and on the death of 

 his father in 1910, became president and treasurer. 



In 191 5 Mr. Derby was elected to the presidency of 

 the National Association of Chair Manufacturers. This 

 was the second year of the existence of that association 

 and he is still its president. Mr. Derby became presi- 

 dent of the National Council of Furniture Associations 

 in 1920, the beginning of the third year of this organ- 

 ization. 



