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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 25. 1921 



'Whos'Wlio in'Woodworking 



F. J. Moss 



{Right) 



President 



American Sash and Door Company 



Kansas City, Mo. 



F. J. Moss was born at Moundville, Wis., on a farm, 

 in 1864, of English parentage, the youngest of seven 

 children, five boys and two girls. His father enlisted 

 in the i8th Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, Company I, in 

 the Civil War, contracted chronic diarrhea and died 

 in December, 1864. But despite the loss of his father 

 the youngest of this large family received a common 

 school education. He remained on the farm until he 

 was 19 years of age, and in 1883 went to work for 

 his oldest brother, who was engaged in the picture and 

 frame business at Hudson, Wis. He remained at this 

 job until 1886, at which time he accepted a road position 



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Charles F. Tomlinson 



(Left) 



Secretary and Treasurer 



Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Company 



High Point, N. C. 



The secretary and treasurer of the Tomlinson Chair 

 Manufacturing Company is one of those men to whom 

 other men seem naturally to turn for leadership. While 

 Mr. Tomlinson has been very successful as a manu- 

 facturer of chairs and furniture it is the part that 

 he has played and is playing in the association activi- 

 ties of his industry that makes him conspicuously a 

 man of affairs. Mr. Tomlinson has been chairman 

 of the Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association 

 since 1916. When the furniture manufacturers of the 

 United States met in Cincinnati on September 17, 1918, 

 in a "War Convention," they selected Mr. Tomlinson 



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