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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Januar.v In, l'J21 



Peninsula ot Michigan and liis legion of friends scattered throughout the 

 lumbPi* industry. 



Mr. MacLean died after a brave and patient fight, as the result of an 

 infection in an abrasion on a toe of his right foot. Chicago surgeons 

 amputated the right leg on Dec. 3, with the hope of arresting the progress 

 of the infection, but this extreme measure proved 6f no avail. 



Funeral services v.ere conducted at the family residence in Wells on 

 Wednesday, December 29, the Rev. A. Ernest Boss, rector of St. Stephen's 

 Episcopal church of Escauaba, Mich., officiating. 



Surviving the deceased lumberman are his widow and five children : 

 Donald, aged 19 ; Ethel Mary, aged 12 : Jean, aged 7 ; Allan, aged 7, and 

 Hugh, aged 2, all of whom were at his bedside when the end came. 



Mr. MacLean was not only a highly successful lumberman, but a leader 

 in a wide variety of business, political and social activities. He was born 

 in the province of New Brunswick, Canada, 56 years ago, and was the 

 member of an old and honorable Scotch family, having members of promi- 

 nence both in the British Isles and on the American continent. One of 

 his nephews is at present a member of the British House of Commons and 

 another is an officer of high rank in the British army. 



Mr. Macl/ean was of the rugged pioneer type of lumberman, who builded 

 his success upon hard work and strict int jgrity. He entered into the 

 Upper Peninsula when a young man and secured a job working in the 

 woods for the huge concern whose secretary-treasurer and general manager 

 he became several years ago. He was also a member of this firm and on 

 the board of trustees. During the life time of U. S. Senator Isaac Stephen- 

 son he was one of his intimate and warm friends. 



For fifteen years Mr. MacLean served as a member of the board of 

 supervisors of the township of Wells and for ten years was the chairman 

 of this board, never being opposed for the chairmanship after his first elec- 

 tion. He was re-elected by the board for the last time in May, 1920, and 

 his term did not expire until April. 1921. His administration was marked 

 by many improvements. 



Mr. MacLean was prominent in republican politics in the Upper Penin- 

 sula and was .sent to the national convention in Chicago by the Cheboygan 

 district. lie was instructed for Johnson and voted for the Californian as 

 long as the latter had a chance for the nomination. He then switched with 

 the majority to Warren G. Harding. 



Owing to his prominence in war work, Mr. MacLean was one of those 

 placed on the committee to welcome Marshal Jolfre on the occasion of the 

 Marne hero's visit to the Middle West in 1917. 



Mr. MacLean was first vice-president of the Upper Penin.sula Develop- 

 ment Company, vice-president of the First National Bank of Escauaba, 

 vice-president of the Delta Hardware Company, secretary of the Delta 

 Chemical Company and a director or stockholder in a score of other Delta 

 county enterprises. He was organizer and first president of the Escauaba 

 Rotary Club, a member of the vestry of St. Stephen's church, a member of 

 the Elks and a thirty-third degree Mason. He wa.s also a member of the 

 Union League Club of Chicago, the Chicago Press Club, the Hamilton Club 

 of Chicago, the Minneapolis .\thletic Club and the Society of American 

 Magicians of New York. 



Vangsness Forms Lumber Company 



The New Year will mark the launching of a new wholesale hardwood 

 lumber corporation in Chicago, The Vangsness Lumber Company. The 

 company was organized by G. A. Vangsness, who is president of the new 

 concern. Mr. Vangsness is one of the best known hardwood lumber men 

 in the Chicago territory. Until his resignation, the first of the year, he 

 was manager ot the Chicago office of the Stevens & Jarvis Company. Mr. 



Vangsness was with that company for seven years and for fourteen years 

 prior to that connection was with the Minneapolis Lumber Company, in 

 charge of their mill and the buying and selling. The new firm, is incor- 

 porated under the laws of Illinois and offices liave been opened at 140 

 Sonth Dearborn street, 1441 Marquette building. 



F. W. Long, who formerly represented Stevens & Jarvis in the Milwaukee 

 territory, with headquarters in Milwaukee, succeeds Mr. Vangsness in 

 the Chicago office. 



New National Hardwood Lumber Association Executive 



In order to keep up with the rapidly increasing volume of work incident 

 to the growth of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, particularly 

 during the last few years, the board ot directors of that organization 

 decided recently to engage another assistant for the executive office. 

 G. S. Hill has been selected for that position and will take up his new 

 duties the first of the new year. Mr. Hill brings to the organization a 

 wide experience in the lumber business generally and in the hardwood' 

 branch of it especially. All told his connections with the lumber trade 

 cover a period of fifteen years. He was two years with the Vestal Luml)er 

 & Manufacturing Company of Knoxville, Tenn., as an inspector. Following 

 that was with the Three States Lumber Company at Cairo. Ill,, and the 

 W. JI. Ritter Lumber Company, Columbus, Ohio. Then four years with 

 the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company of Charleston. Miss., as traveling sales- 

 man, sales manager and general manager of their vehicle wood stock plant. 

 For two years was in the export lumber business at Charleston, W. Va., 

 with his father. Then with the J. C. Turner Lumber Co. of New York 

 City, having charge ot their yard and docks at Irvington, N. Y., and after- 

 wards served two years with the Korn-Conkling Company of Cincinnati as 

 sales manager. For one year prior to being engaged by the association 

 served as sales manager for Leland G. Banning ot Cincinnati, O. 



.\s shown by the foregoing Mr. Hill's contact with all the practical 

 phases of the industry certainly gives him unusual qualifications for the 

 important position he has now been called upon to assume, and the asso- 

 ciation is to be congratulated on having secured his services. 



Hardwood Department Added 



The Palmetto Lumber Company of Houston. Tex., has opened up a hard- 

 wood department with a mill at Oakhurst, Tex. The company has been 

 making yellow pine lumber at this place for the past twenty years, letting 

 the hardwood timber stand. Its hardwoods consist chiefly of ash. gum, 

 white and red oak. 



Hardwood News Notes 



CHICAGO 



The interesting announcement has been made by John H. Klrby, presi- 

 dent of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, that when he 

 appears before the ways and means committee of the House of Represen- 

 tatives in Washington, D. C, Jan. 15, he will advocate a tariff levy on 

 lumber for revenue. This recommendation will be made in his capacity as 

 president of the Southern Tariff Association, rather than as chief executive 

 of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. 



"W. E. Lettennan, who has been general office manager of the Chas. W. 

 Fish Lumber Company at Elcho, Wis., has resigned to start his own lumber 



Richard E. MacLean 



G. A. Vangsness 



G. S. Hill 



