HARDWOOD RECORD 



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XOUTII AM) SIICTII CAKOI.INA (W- 



EUATIONS MONTVAI.E I,I-MKEU 



COMrANV. 



pany and l:u:^i- for Hit* Montvah* Liimbi.'r Com- 

 pniiy. 



J. K. rAINTEK. 



.7. K. 1 ainti>r. si'i ivtary and treasiu-pr of tlio 

 Wood corporafions, was born in 1871 in Wytli ■ 

 county. Virginia. Here he grew to manhood, 

 aoijuiring tlie -sterling qualities so often devel- 

 ojjcd in men of that mountainous portion of the 

 old Diuuinion. 



In the spring of lSir.1 Mr. Painter accepted 

 a responsible position with the I'ittsburg l' at: 

 Glass Company at its plant at Ford City. la., 

 where he remained until forced by ill heaUh to 

 seek a change of climate. In the fall of liUXI h:' 

 entered upon the duties of bookkeep.'r and gen- 

 eral office man for I;. E. Wood while the head 

 quarters of his luis'ncss were still located in 

 West Virginia. In this work Jlr. Painter con- 

 tinued, proving by his character and business 

 integrity to be well deserving of the trust 

 reposed in him by the promotion to the offlc 

 of secretary and treasurer of the H. E. Wo;)d 

 I^umber Company at the time of its organizalion 

 and later to the same office in the .Montvale 

 l-aimber Compauy- 



E- L. \V.u:hi.;n-. 



E. I.,. Warren, purchasing agent for the Wood 

 companies, was born at Emory. Va., in 1.S74. 

 lie was educated at Emory and Henry Colleges, 

 and launched on his business career at an earl.v 

 age. He sought for and found a field for his 

 untiring energy in southern West Virginia, which 

 was Just then being opened by the building of 



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IKEI! It. E. WDOIi LIMBEU CO.MPAXY 



AXIl .MOXTVALI': I.rMKER 



CO.MPAXY. 



the Pocahontas division of the Xorfolk & West 

 ern Uailway. Here he received hs first train- 

 ing in the lumber indusvry. gaining rapidly by 

 dint of hard svork an exp.u-ience and knowledge 

 of the practical manufacture of lumber which 

 promptly recommended him to Mr. Wood, with 

 whom a warm pirsonal friendship had begun 

 during tile tirst months of their acquaintance. 



I'^arly in l!.»oy Mr. Warren was made purchas 

 iug agent for the Wood corporations, which de 

 partment he conducted ably, buying lumber and 

 stiperin'-endiug the shipping in the Tennessee 

 and Xorth Carolina territory, until the recent 

 addition of new plants required his attention. 

 He is not only energ.tic and hard working, but. 

 better still, is versatib^ and has greatly assisted 

 the general management in the many different 

 tields of the company's operations. 



Mr. Warren is a niemlier of the excdilive 

 board of the It. E. Wood Lumber t.'omijauy and 

 the Montvale Lumber Company. 

 .7. II. Yost.' 



Mr. Y'o<l was born in Wythe eonuty. Virginia, 

 in I.ST.'i. liis parents moving to Washingiim 

 coimty in th" same state when he was but two 

 years of age. He obtained his edmation at 

 Weaverville College. North Carolina. 



In l.snil hs entered the employ of R. E. Wood 

 at Sandy Huff. W. Va.. as clerk in the commis- 

 sary. I!y his strict attention to business and 

 his mastery of detail in that department, he 

 was soon promoted to the position of general 

 store manager. 



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 Wlllil) I.CMHER COMPAXY AXL) 

 -M(iX'l\-|l.LE I.r.MREE 

 COMI'AXV- 



In June. 100.'!, shortly after the organization 

 of the It. E. Wood Lumber Company, Mr. Yost 

 was appointed to the important post of general 

 accountant for the company and transferred from 

 West Virginia to Baltimore, to the general offices 

 of the company. 'Ibis position he still retains, 

 tilling it with the same d?gree of efficiency 

 which has characterized all his work for the 

 \A'ood interests. 



W. L. T.iii.or.. 



At the head of the legal department is one 

 of those earnest and energetic workers whose 

 habits of life were termed under the strenujus 

 londitions natural to development in the rural 

 mountainous regions of southwestern Virginia. 



At tli:> ag.> of twenty-four W. L. Ta.vlor began 

 the practice of law at Pe.'ryville. the county 

 seat of McUoweii count.v. West Virginia. Two 

 years later, when the court house was removed 

 to Welch, he followed this center of interest, be- 

 < oming therebj' a pioneer in the section in 

 which R. E. Wood began the moulding of the 

 great business which is the subie<'t of this story. 



Mr. Ta.vior has been legal adviser and gen- 

 eral attorney for R. E. Wood and the companies 

 un ler bis control since the beginning of opera- 

 tions in West A^irginia. Because of his thorough 

 familiarity with thai country and his excellent 

 attainments as a lawyer and man of business 

 h;s labors in the up building of these interests 

 have over been marked l:y most successful ac- 

 coniplishirrnt. 



WARREX, 1 UliCllASIXC At; 

 THE WOOD COMPANIES. 



L. TAYI.DU. ATTUKXEY FOR THE WOOD 

 COMPANIES. 



YOST. CIIIEE ACCOUNTANT 

 WOOD COMPANIES. 



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