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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



Jan 



uary 



1922 



'WWs'Who iiiWoodworkiiig 



H. JJ'. Steinman 



[Right] 

 President 

 The Steinman i'-r Meyer Vurniture Co. 

 Cineinnati, U. 

 The subject of this sketch was the pioneer of the 

 present wide-spread policy of furniture manufactories 

 to specialize on one line of furniture. Along about 

 1875 when Mr. Steinman was regularly making selling 

 trips for his company the advantage of this policy 

 occurred to him and as a result his company began to 

 manufacture dining room furniture exclusively. For 

 several years they had little competition in this and it 

 brought them handsome returns. Then gradually the 

 plan was copied by furniture factories all over the 

 country. Formerly every factory had thought it neces- 

 sary to make something of every line of staple furniture 

 that was salable. 



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L. C. B //////? 



[Left] 

 President 

 i\eiiton er Tliompson Mfg. Co. 

 lirandon, I't. 

 The presidejit of the Newton &: Thompson Mfg. Co. 

 knows wood turning from A to Z, and he might be 

 said to be a born and reared wood turner. Mr. Bump 

 was born in Leicester, Vermont, in 1878, and his father, 

 Charles II. Bump, was then a foreman of the Newton 

 & Thompson Mfg. Co. The family moved to Brandon 

 when the boy was only a few months old. The elder 

 Bump continued in ihe emplov of Messrs. Newton 

 and Thompson initil 1S85 when their firm was incor- 

 porated under the name it now bears, ("pon the incor- 

 poration of the firm Mr. Bump became vice- 

 president and later was made general manager, which 

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