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ducting at the time. In June, 1909, he sold 

 liis interest in the company and Charles K. 

 Parry & Co. was formed. This firm has a 

 mill at Selma, X. C, with a daily capacity of 

 40,000 feet; one at Bingham, S. C, with a 

 daily capacity of 25,000 feet, and one at 

 Pine Bloom, Ga., with a daily capacity of 

 50,000 feet. It has at the South Carolina mill 

 at the present time about four million feet of 

 oak, ash. cypress and gum. The concern has 

 been cutting considerable poplar at the Nortli 

 Carolina mill and the cut will soon be largely 

 oak and ash. The firm also handles the out- 

 put of one of its neighbors in South Carolina, 

 ivhich is cutting oak, ash, cypress, gum and 

 pine, with some cottonwood and elm. 

 John W. Coles 

 John W. Coles, 1109 Eeal Estate Trust 

 building, occupies a well-earned position of 

 prominence among the younger hardwood mer- 



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chants. AVhen but a boy he started in th^j 

 lumber business with the well-known C. B. 

 Coles & Sons Company of Camden, N. J., 

 where he acquired a thorough knowledge of 

 all kinds of lumber, grades, etc. A few years 

 ago he embarked in business for himself as 

 a wholesale lumber dealer, and by close atten- 

 tion to details, a scrutinous selection of stock 

 and a reputation of living strictly up to 

 promises his business has steadily increased. 

 He handles all kinds of hardwoods, spruce, 

 hemlock, pine, etc. A staff of experienced 

 hustlers are busy always in the field and 

 orders are generally forthcoming. 



H. S. Styron looks after Philadelphia and 

 surrounding territory; G. W. Wright covers 

 New Jersey, and Elwood Tate takes care of 

 New York state. 



Jerome H. Sheip 



Jerome H. Sheip, prominent manufacturer 

 and wholesaler of 2026 Land Title building, 

 although before the trade as an individual 

 dealer for only about a year, has been con- 

 spicuous in the lumber trade as senior part- 



ner in the firm of Sheip & Vandegrift for 

 twenty-nine years. During eight years of the 

 time he was connected also witli the Phila- 

 delphia Veneer & Lumber Company, and seven 

 years with the Stony Creek Lumber Company, 

 which latter cut 9,000 acres of timber. 



Mr. Sheip is interested in extensive lumber 

 operations in West Virginia and has also con- 

 tracted for stock with vai'ious mills in the 

 South. He handles cherry, chestnut, maple. 



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white and red oak, quartered oak, ash, bass- 

 wood, poplar, beech, birch, hickory and white 

 pine, H. S. Best, for five years with the Cen- 

 tral Pennsylvania Lumber Company, has 

 charge of the manufacturing and purchasing 

 end of the business; Harry E. Olsen, a well- 

 known hardwood salesman, covers Philadel- 

 phia and vicinity, and Stanley S. Sheip, Mr. 

 Sheip 's son, who has graduated from the 

 Forestrv School at Harvard, and who has 



•also had some experience with one of the larg- 

 est lumber concerns in the South, has entered 

 the selling department and will look after 

 eastern Pennsylvania. Mr. Sheip is an enthu- 

 siastic Hoo-Hoo and has again been appointed 

 vicegerent snark for eastern Pennsylvania. 

 C. E. Lloyd, Jr. 



C. E. Lloyd, Jr., 1430 Land Title budding, 

 since he started in business for himself as a 

 wholesaler, has met with no little success. He 

 has been connected with the lumber business 

 since 1892. In 1902 he was engaged as sales 

 manager by the Cherry River Boom & Lum- 

 ber Company, remaining until 1907, when he 

 became vice-president of the Boice Lumber 

 Company. He sold out his interest in that 

 company a short time ago and started for 

 himself. His principal line Ls hardwoods, 

 although he handles various other woods. 



Mr. Lloyd is a hunberman of wide experi- 



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I'uce and excellent qualifications. Through 

 :ictive buying during the last twenty years he 

 l<as gained a thorough knowledge of the lum- 

 ber business. He has had extensive inter- 

 course with western and southern manufac- 

 turers, which places him in excellent position 

 to serve the wants of a diversified trade. He 

 jiossesses keen judgment as to hardwood re- 

 quiremfints and is a man of pleasing person- 

 ality "^tei-i admirable character. 



Daniel B. Curll 



Daniel H. Curll, manufai-tiiror and whole- 

 saler at 1019 Eeal Kstate Trust building, 

 comes from a family of lumbermen. His 

 grandfather and father operated in Clarion, 

 Forrest and .Tefferson counties, Pennsylvania, 

 as far back as 1850, when white pine was in 

 its glory and black walnut was used as fence 

 rails. 



Although quite a young man, he is by no 

 means new to the lumber business, having 

 first become identified with his father, H. V. 

 Curll of the H. V. Curll Lumber Company, 

 Pittsburg, in 1S9S. In this connection he 



