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HARDWOOD RECORD 



1898 the operation of J. L. Eumbarger 

 Lumber Company, Dobbin, W. Va., was ac- 

 quired. This was followed by the acquisition 

 of a mill and a timber tract of 1,600 acres 

 in Tucker county, West Virginia. In 1904 

 further additions to the concern 's holdings 

 were made at Lanesville, W. Va., and at the 

 same time the company erected a pulp and 

 paper mill at Parsons, W. Va. Eecently the 

 company has acquired extensive timber tracts 

 in Virginia. 



The company conducts a wholesale lumber 

 yard at Philadelphia, handling principally 

 spruce, hemlock and a variet}' of hardwoods. 

 Robert F. "Whitmer, president of the com- 

 pany, is one of the best known men in the 

 lumber trade, hi.s experience in the field dating 

 from boyhood. He is a man of the strictest 

 integrity, progressive, and of excellent execu- 

 tive ability. 



iEN c. cuuitii;. ct:rrie & campbell. 



Ijewis Thompson & Co. 



Lewis H. Thompson & Co., Inc., manufac- 

 turers and wholesalers. Eighteenth and Indi- 

 ana avenue, handle all kinds of hardwoods, 

 but are best known as among the heaviest 

 importers of mahogany in the country. The 

 firm was founded by Lewis Thompson, who 

 came to the United States from England when 

 twenty years of age. In 1840 he put in the 

 first mahogany lumber and veneer plant in 

 Philadelphia. On the death of Lewis Thomp- 

 son, his son George succeeded to the business, 

 and at the time of his death in 1886 was the 

 sole owner. Charles H. Thompson, his sou, 

 and now president of the concern, who was, 

 at the death of his father, preparing for a 

 medical course, at necessity's call relin- 

 quished his desire for a professional training 

 and assumed full charge of the business which 

 had already reached a responsible magnitude. 

 During the twenty-two years of his manage- 

 ment of affairs the firm prospered until it 

 has not a rival as importers of the beautiful 

 Laguna mahogany. When Charles H. Thomp- 

 son took charge the firm was handling 250,000 



to 300,000 feet annually, the increase since 

 then has been very great. 



The ciircern has a mil! and yard.s at Astoria, 

 h. I., wl;ere Laguna mahogany is cut into 

 lumber ;md veneers, which covers about thirty 

 acres of ground. The mill has a capacity of 

 about 14,000,000 feet of lumber and 50,000,- 

 000 superficial feet of veneer annually. The 

 business includes the getting out of the logs 

 in the tropics, as well as 0]M'rafiiif> ;i htrge 



GEORGE 



'. CRAIG, I'RESIDENT 

 CRAIG & SONS. INC. 



GEORGE 



THOMAS E. COALE. THOMAS E. COALB 

 LT'MBER COMPANY. 



saw and veneer mill, enipkiying over one hun- 

 dred hands. The officers of Lewis Thompson 

 & Co., Inc., are Charles H. Thompson, presi- 

 dent and treasurer; Charles H. White, vice- 

 president; J. H. Vaughan, secretary;, Lewis 

 H. White, manager of sales, and C. Harry 

 White, superintendent of the yard and plant 

 at Astoria, L. I. 



Tomb Lumber Co. 



The Tomb Lumber Company, manufacturer 

 and wholesaler, with offices at 1605 Real Es- 

 tate Trust building, is a tlourishing concern. 

 It was incorporated in 1905, succeeding a firm 

 trading under the same corporate style. It is 

 compo.sed of H. B. Tomb, president, and W. 

 A. Tomb, treasurer. For a number of years 

 the company operated in eastern Pennsylvania, 

 but in February, 1909, it acquired a mill and 

 timber tract at Watoga, W. Va., with a ca- 

 pacity of 1,000,000 feet a month, mostly hard- 

 woods. 



Fleck & Dunwcody 



Fleck & Dunwoody, wholesalers, of the 

 Xorth American building, are young as a fii-m; 

 having been associated in this business only 

 since October, 1909, but the principals are 

 not young in experience. These men have 

 been favorably known in lunilier circles for a 



AUGUSTUS .1. CADWALLADER, SECRETARY 

 AND TREASURER GEORGE CRAIG 



& SONS, INC. 



number of years. Paul W. Fleck was formerly 

 of the Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company, and 

 Joseph P. Dunwoody of Joseph P. Dunwoody 

 & Co. and later Philadelphia representative 

 of the Forest Lumber Company of Pittsburg. 

 The firm has excellent southern mill connec- 

 tions and handles white pine, hemlock and 

 hardwoods. 



Charles K. Parry & Co. 

 Charles K. Parry of Charles K. Parry & 

 Co., wholesalers., of the Land Title building, 

 needs but little exploiting as a successful pur- 

 suant of the lumber business. His father be- 

 fore him was engaged in the lumber business 

 for twenty-five years, during which time his 

 son Charles picked up much valuable knowl- 

 edge of the lumber industry. Charles Parry 

 began business in one of the national banks 

 of Philadelphia, but heredity prevailed, and 

 he embarked in the lumber business for him- 

 self, continuing for five years. In July, 1904, 

 the Eighter-Parry Lumber Company was 

 formed, which company succeeded him and 

 took over the wholesale business he was eon- 



