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in 1870, and i-emoved the Keeler 

 stock to Montague, Mich. The flre 

 that destroyed the business por- 

 tion of that town shortly afterward 

 burned up liis establishment. 



In the spring of 1873 he opened a 

 general store at Whitehall. Mich., 

 under the firm name of Phelps & 

 Parker. In connection with this 

 store he handled hemlock bark, 

 shingles, railroad ties and cord- 

 wood. From Whitehall he shipped 

 the first cai'go of cedar shingles 

 and ties that was sent to the Chi- 

 cago market, which were consigned 

 to Goodenow ct Hinds, in 1S74. 

 Mr. Phelps shipped the first hem- 

 lock bark ever handled by railroad 

 in western Michigan. This was 

 forwarded over the Pentwater di- 

 vision of what was then known as 

 the Chicago & Michigan Lake 

 Shore Railroad, now a part of the 

 Pere Marquette system. This bark 

 was transferred from cars to ves- 

 sel by team at Whitehall and for- 

 warded by lake to Chicago and 

 Milwaukee. He continued in this 

 business until 1882, when he sold 

 out his general store to Black- 

 marr & Banks and continued to 

 handle lumlaer and other forest 

 products at Whitehall. 



In 18SS Mr. Phelps moved to 

 Grand Rapids. Mich., and. in part- 

 nership with N. B. Clark, engaged 

 in the handling of all kinds of 

 lumber and forest products. In 

 1891 he was one of the organizer." 

 of the Michigan Bark & Lumber 

 Company, from which concern he 

 retired in 1894. The same year 

 the Grand Rapids Bark & Lumber 

 Company was organized, with W. 

 A. Phelps as president and C. A. 

 Phelps as secretary and treasurer. 

 In 1902 he was one of the or- 

 ganizers of the Wisconsin Lumber 

 & Bark Company, of which he was 

 president. In 1904 the Grand Rap- 

 ids Bark *i Lumber Company and 

 the Wisconsin Lumber & Bark 

 Company were merged into the 

 Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company. 



Mr. Phelps is also vice-president of the 

 Wisconsin Chemical Company, president of 

 the Shelby Improvement Company and vice- 

 president of the Wisconsin Tie & Pole Com- 

 pany. He was married in February, 1866, to 

 Miss Nancy T. Andrews of WhitehaU, Mich., 

 and has two children, Charles A. Phelps and 

 Maude Phelps Barstow. Mr. Phelps is a man 



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 QUARTERS HACKLEY-PHELPS-BONNELL 

 COMPANY. 



of higli character and ability, who has made 

 a marked success in every enterprise in which 

 he has been engaged. 



Charles A. Phelps, chairman of the board 

 and manager of the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell 

 Company, is a son of William A. Phelps, and 

 was born at Hartford, Mich., March 11. 1869. 

 With his parents he moved to Montague in 



1870 and to Whitehall in 1873. He 

 attended the village school at 

 Whitehall, and moved to Grand 

 Rapids in 1888. He took a four 

 years' commercial and literary 

 course at Albion Colleg?. graduat- 

 ing in 1890. At the age of twenty- 

 one he took charge of a lumber 

 interest at Stony Creek. Mich. He 

 was one of the organizers of the 

 Michigan Bark & Lumber Com- 

 pany in 1891, holding the office of 

 secretary and treasui-er. He sold 

 (tut his interest in this company in 

 1894 and became one of the or- 

 ganizers and secretary and treas- 

 urer of the Grand Rapids Bark & 

 Lumber Company. In 1902 he as- 

 sisted in organizing the Wisconsin 

 Lumber & Bark Company, in which 

 he was interested, and which in 1904 

 witli the Grand Rapids Bark cS: Lum- 

 lii-r Company was merged into the 

 J lackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company. 

 Charles A. Phelps has other and 

 important interests besides the 

 management of the Hackley- 

 Phelps-Bonnell Company. He is 

 treasurer of the Wisconsin Chemi- 

 cal Company of Hackley. Wis.; 

 president of the Century Fuel 

 Company. Grand Rapids. Mich.; 

 treasurer of the Greulich Company. 

 Grand Rapids, Mich.; secretary and 

 treasurer of the Toomey Lumber 

 & Coal Company of Tennessee: 

 secretary and treasurer of the 

 Hackley Cooperage Company. 

 Hackley. Wis.; president of the 

 Wisconsin Tie & Pole Company; a 

 director of the Grand Rapids Na- 

 tional Bank. Grand Rapids. Mich.; 

 a director in the G. F. Sanborn 

 Company, Ashland. Wis., and a di- 

 rector in the Michigan Lithograph 

 Company of Grand Rapids. Mich. 

 He is a member of the Peninsula 

 and Lake Side Clubs of Grand 

 Rapids, and served two years as 

 a member of the Board of Public 

 Works and five years as a mem- 

 ber of the Board of Police and 

 Fire Commissioners of Grand Rap- 

 ids. On July 6, 1904. Mr. Phelps was mar- 

 ried to Miss Roslyn Mack of Portland, Ore. 



While Mr. Phelps neglects none of the vari- 

 ous enterprises in which he is interested, he 

 gives special attention to working out the 

 great problems involved in the handling of 

 the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company's great 

 enterprises at Hackley. Wis. To him more 



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