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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Who's Who in the Philadelphia HardWood Trade 



Philadelphia is one of the leading hardwood 

 markets of the United States, and it seems 

 timely that a story be published telling who's 

 ■who in the hardwood trade of this big com- 

 munity of successful lumbermen. 



This market is notable for the wide variety 

 of woods that are handled there, the volume 

 of the city's lumber business, as well as the 

 high character of the concerns engaged in 

 manufacturing and marketing forest products. 

 The lumbermen of this community are not 

 merely jobbers, but located there are the gen- 

 eral oifices of a large number of manufactur- 

 ers having timberlands and sawmill plants at 

 various points in the country. Philadelphia capi- 

 tal is largely interested in hardwood production 

 in ilaryland. West Virginia, Virginia. North 



J. GIBSON' McILVAIX, J. GIBSON McILVAIN 

 & CO. 



Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, and 

 some of it is invested in the Middle West and 

 the Mississippi Valley country. 



Schofield Bros. 



Schofield Brothers, composed of John H. 

 and Robert W. Schofield, wholesalers of lumber 

 at 1020 Pennsylvania building, are among the 

 most progressive lumbermen of Philadelphia. 



John H. Schofield when a boy of thirteen 

 entered the emploj' of the Hon. A. C. Hopkins, 

 where he gained valuable experience in saw- 

 mill work and in timber estimating and cruis- 

 ing. He became superintendent of the Hop- 

 kins mills at Hopkins, Pa., in 1890, which 

 position he held until 1897. 



Robert W. Schofield also commenced his 

 business career in a practical way, working 

 in mill and Woods as log scaler, timber esti- 

 mator and timber cruiser. Later he was made 

 superintendent of mills for the Mountons 

 Coal & Lumber Company, Dunlo, Pa., after 

 which he rounded out his experience by acting 

 as "traveling salesman for a time.- For five 

 years he was superintendent of a white pine 



operation at Brookville, Pa. In 190U, Hender- 

 son, Schofield & Co., a copartnership, was 

 formed, purchasing the Howe tract of white 

 pine in Jefferson county-, near Brookville, Pa. 

 A mill was erected and the firm did well man- 

 ufacturing and wholesaling lumber. In 1903 

 the firm of Schofield Brothers was formed. 

 The business was continued as under the old 



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 & CO. 



J. GIBSON McILVAIN, JR., ,1. 

 ILVAIN & CO. 



GIBSON Mc- 



partnership, the offices being moved from 

 Brookville to Philadelphia. 



In 1904 the concern bought a large tract 

 of timber located near Ulmers, S. C, which 

 subsequently was named Schofield, and formed 

 the corporation known as the Saltkeatchie 

 Lumber Company. John H. Schofield is presi- 

 dent of this company and Robert W. Scho- 

 field treasurer and general manager. A large 



modern mill was built, which was later de- 

 stroyed by fire, but was reconstructed with 

 rajiidity and business resumed without delay. 

 In 1908, Schofield Brothers started a whole- 

 sale lumber yard at Reading, Pa., operating 

 there as the Schofield-Lance Company. Of 

 this concern Robert W. Schofield is president; 

 John H. Schofield, vice-president, and Prank E. 

 Schofield, secretary. In this yard only high- 

 grade hardwoods are carried, the total stock 

 on hand usually amounting to $60,000 or 

 $70,000. 



In addition to the daily output by the Salt- 

 keatchie Lumber Company, of 35,000 to 40,000 

 feet of lumber, Schofield Brothers handle the 

 hardwood output of the Honaker Lumber 

 Company, Honaker. Vn., which is running a 



■\\AI.TEi: B. MiILVAIN. J. GIBSON McILVAIN 

 & i.'O. 



large double band mill with a capacity of 

 aliout 70,000 feet per day; also the output 

 of the Perley & Crockett Lumber Company, 

 Jenningston, W. Va., with another band mill, 

 the daily capacity of which averages 50,000 

 feet ; also other stocks of lumber amounting 

 to 50,000,000 feet per annum, mostly oak, 

 chestnut, cypress, poplar, gum and white pine. 



Frank E. Schofield, a younger brother, is 

 manager of the hardwood department of this 

 firm, and is a stockholder and director in the 

 Saltkeatchie Lumber Company. Schofield 

 Brothers have a New York office at 74 Cort- 

 laudr street, which is in charge of James C. 

 Place. 



J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co. 



The widely known firm of J. Gibson M*^' 

 Ilvain & Co., wholesalers in the Crozer build,- 

 iug, has done business in Philadelphia for 

 one hundred and twelve years under the name 

 of Mcllvain. The business has been handed 

 down from father to son for nearly four 

 generations, with no diminution of success arid 

 prosperity during that long period of time. 



