Kieinheder, vice-president and general manager; A. W. Kreinheder, 

 treasurer; E. J. Kreinheder, secretary. 



G. Ellas & Brother 



This firm is composed of G. and A. J. Elias, and its wholesale 

 lumber business was established in 1881. For a time after 1883 

 botli hardwood and pine yards were maintained, but they were 

 finally consolidated at their present location, Elk, Maurice, Orlando, 

 Babcock and Prevatt streets. The yard is well equipped with tracks, 

 cranes, and other up-to-date apparatus for handling lumber, as well 

 as kilns, warehouses, sawmill, planing mill, and box factory. Lumber 

 and all classes of milled products are kept on hand for the whole- 

 sale and retail trade. After thirty-three years the company has 

 been incorporated, but its policy of the square deal wiU be main- 

 tained. 



Hugh McLean Lumber Company 



The officers of the Hugh McLean Lumber Company of Buffalo, 

 N. Y., are: Angus McLean, president; Hugh McLean, vice-president 

 and general manager; J. D. McCallum, treasurer; R. D. McLean, 

 secretary; E. E. Bond, assistant secretary. This firm started in a 

 small way as a partnership between Angus and Hugh McLean in 

 1892. It was afterwards incorporated as a stock company, Joel H. 



Gates, W. A. McLean, Angus McLean, K. D. McLean and Hugh 

 McLean being the original stockholders and directors. From dealers 

 this company gradually went into the manufacturing business until 

 at the present time it manufactures most of the lumber it handles, 

 having sawmills at Memphis and Chattanooga, Tenn., and Birming- 

 ham, Ala. ; lumber yards also at Cincinnati and Buffalo. 

 The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company 



The Wall brothers have been the owners of this company since it 

 started in business in 1889. The officers are: James B. Wall, presi- 

 dent; T. H. Wall, vice-president; M. M. Wall, secretary and treasurer. 

 The office and yard are located at 940 Seneca street, Buffalo. The 

 company handles nothing but domestic hardwoods, of which it 

 carries a good stock at all times. 



Yeager Lumber Company, Inc. 



This corporation is successor to Orson E. Yeager who entered the 

 hardwood lumber business January 1, 1891, as the junior partner of 

 the firm of Vetter & Yeager of Buffalo. This firm was merged 

 into the Empire Lumber Company in 1892 and Mr. Yeager was 

 elected secretary and treasurer, which office was held by him until 

 1900, when he disposed of his interest in the Empire Company and 

 resumed the . hardwood lumber business in his name at 932 Elk 



HUGH Mclean, vice-president and 



GENERAL MANAGER, HUGH AIcLEAN LUM- 

 BER COMPANY 



McLEAN, SECRETARY HUGH McLEAN 

 LUMBER COMPANY 



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